Legal status in Moldova

1P-LSD

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 1P-LSD is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 17, «1P-LSD (sugativă, timbru)», CAS 2349358-81-0 (gazette page 12). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-01, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 2-FDCK is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 50, «2-Fluorodescloroketamină», CAS 111982-50-4 (gazette page 13). Ketamine itself is in Table II, Lista nr. 3, item 15. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-02, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 25I-NBOMe is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 32, «25I-NBOMe», CAS 919797-19-6 (gazette page 13). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-03, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 2C-B is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 1, «2C-B», «4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina», CAS 66142-81-2 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-04, CAS 66142-81-2, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.05 g»; «0.05 to 0.1 g»; «>0.1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 2C-E is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 39, «2C-E», «2-(4-etil-2,5-dimetoxifenil)etanamină», CAS 71539-34-9 (gazette page 13). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-05, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 2C-I is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 41, «2C-I», «2,5-dimetoxi-4-iodofenetilamină», CAS 69587-11-7 (gazette page 13). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-06, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.001 g»; «0.001 to 0.01 g»; «>0.01 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 2C-T-7 is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 45, «2C-T-7», CAS 207740-26-9 (gazette page 13). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-07, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 3-MMC is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 96, «3-MMC», CAS 1246816-62-5 (gazette page 14). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-08, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 4-AcO-DMT is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 105, «4-AcO-DMT», CAS 92292-84-7 (gazette page 14). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-09, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 4-HO-MET is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 16, «Psilocină», «3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol-4-ol» (gazette page 11). 4-HO-MET is not printed; it is psilocin with one N-methyl replaced by an N-ethyl, a structural derivative of it, and the list's extension reaches «derivaților structurali». Against the reading, Lista nr. 3 prints close relatives one by one, «4-HO-DET», «4-HO-DPT», «4-HO-MIPT / Miprocină» and «4-AcO-MET / Metacetină» (gazette pages 14 to 15), and leaves 4-HO-MET out. The reading is stated as such. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-10, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 5-MeO-DMT is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 211, «5-MeO-DMT», CAS 1019-45-0 (gazette page 16). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-11, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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6-APB

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 6-APB is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 219, «6-APB», «6-(2-aminopropil)benzofuran», CAS 286834-85-3 (gazette page 16). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-12, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. 7-Hydroxymitragynine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 1, «7-hidroximitraginină», CAS 174418-82-7 (gazette page 28). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-13, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Adderall, mixed amphetamine salts, is controlled through its two active substances, in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 8, «Amfetamină», and item 10, «Dexamfetamină», CAS 51-64-9 (gazette page 27). Law 201/2025 Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-14, CAS 300-62-9, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Ethanol and alcoholic drinks are not printed; the only text hits for 'etanol' are inside the chemical names of other substances. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-15, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. The fly agaric and its active compounds are in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 258, «Amanita muscaria (L. Fr.) Lam», «Specie de ciupercă (Buretele de mesteacăn)» (gazette page 17), with «Acid ibotenic» at item 234 (gazette page 17) and «Muscimol» at item 474 (gazette page 22). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-17, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Amphetamine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 8, «Amfetamină», «Amphetamine», CAS 300-62-9 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-18, CAS 300-62-9, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.1 g»; «0.1 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Amyl nitrite is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 3, «Nitrit de amil», with the chemical name «Nitrit de izopentil», CAS 110-46-3 (gazette page 32). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-19, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Ayahuasca's ingredients are listed one by one. Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 273, «Banisteriopsis caapi» (gazette page 18), item 530, «Psychotria viridis», and item 516, «Peganum harmala» (gazette page 23), and item 463, «Mimosa tenuiflora» (gazette page 22), with «DMT» itself in Lista nr. 2 at item 5 (gazette page 11). The brew has no entry of its own; it is reached through the plants and DMT it is made from. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-20, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Barbiturates are listed member by member, mostly in Table III. Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule III: «Amobarbital» item 2, «Ciclobarbital» item 6, «Pentobarbital» item 11 and «Secobarbital» item 12 (gazette pages 29 to 30); and in its Schedule IV sub-list «Butobarbital» item 1, «Alobarbital» item 2, «Barbital» item 6, «Fenobarbital» item 28 and «Metilfenobarbital» item 47 (gazette pages 30 to 31); and in Table I, Lista nr. 3, «Aprobarbital» item 270 (gazette page 17) and «Brallobarbital» item 290 (gazette page 18). Others printed include «Butalbital» item 4 of the Schedule III sub-list, «Secbutabarbital» item 61 and «Vinilbital» item 65 of the Schedule IV sub-list, «Heptabarbital» at Table I, Lista nr. 3, item 376, and «Tiopental de sodiu» at Table III, Lista nr. 3, item 11. There is no class entry, so the answer is per member, and a barbiturate printed nowhere is not answered by this row. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. A barbiturate listed in Table I, such as aprobarbital, brallobarbital or heptabarbital, also falls in the Table I aggravation read above. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-21, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Benzodiazepines are listed member by member, across three tables. Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: among them «Alprazolam» item 3, «Bromazepam» item 8, «Clonazepam» item 13, «Diazepam» item 19, «Etizolam» item 24, «Lorazepam» item 40, «Midazolam» item 50, «Nimetazepam» item 51 and «Triazolam» item 64 (gazette pages 30 to 31); «Flunitrazepam» is in the Schedule III sub-list, item 8 (gazette page 29); and designer benzodiazepines are in Table I, Lista nr. 3, among them «Flualprazolam» item 363, «Flubromazepam» item 364 and «Flubromazolam» item 365 (gazette page 19). There is no class entry, so a benzodiazepine not printed is reached, if at all, as a structural derivative of a listed one, a reading. The table, and so the band, depends on the member; «Flualprazolam» is listed twice, at Table I item 363 and Table III item 31, and «Bromazolam» is in Table II, Lista nr. 3, item 2. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. A designer benzodiazepine listed in Table I, such as flualprazolam, flubromazepam or flubromazolam, also falls in the Table I aggravation read above. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-22, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Buprenorphine is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule III: item 3, «Buprenorfina», CAS 52485-79-7 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-23, CAS 52485-79-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.005 g»; «0.005 to 0.25 g»; «>0.25 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Caffeine, searched as 'cafeină', returns nothing in any list; the one xanthine printed is «Fenetilină», a theophylline joined to amphetamine, at Table II, Lista nr. 2, item 13, which is not caffeine. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-24, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Cannabinol is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and IV: item 45, «Tetrahidrocanabinol (izomeri ai Δ⁹-tetrahidrocanabinolului)» (gazette page 11). Cannabinol is THC with its third ring made aromatic, a structural derivative of it, and the list's extension reaches «derivaților structurali»; a cannabinol extract taken from the plant is also within Table II, Lista nr. 1, item 16, «extracte și tincturi de Cannabis» (gazette pages 24 to 25). It is not printed by name. Delta-9-THC is also listed in Table III, Lista nr. 2, Schedule III sub-list, item 7, «Dronabinol», «Delta-9-tetrahidrocanabinol și variantele ei stereochimice» (gazette page 29), and the related «Hexahidrocanabinol» is in Table II, Lista nr. 2, item 15; so which table a derivative falls in, and with it the Table I aggravation and any medical route, is unsettled. The reading is stated as such, and the two routes carry different tables. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Because the decision also lists it in a table usable in medicine, the aggravation is unsettled for it; see the legal status. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-25, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: The carriage rule depends on which table governs, and that is unsettled for this row (see the legal status): if it is a Table I substance, Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) leaves no medical route and the 30 day allowance of Article 37(2) cannot apply; if it sits in a table usable in medicine, Article 37(2) allows up to 30 days of treatment in personal baggage on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42).
Documentation: Because the governing table is unsettled, confirm in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel whether it may be carried at all. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Cannabis is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 16, «Canabis (planta de Cannabis», then «cânepă, inclusiv speciile și varietățile care conțin tetrahidrocanabinol (THC)), rășină de Cannabis (hașiș), extracte și tincturi de Cannabis, precum și preparate sau amestecuri obținute din aceasta, inclusiv inflorescențe, frunze, ulei de Cannabis și marijuana» (gazette pages 24 to 25). It is in the table usable in medicine under strict control, not in Table I. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 5 separates industrial or horticultural hemp, a plant of the genus with no more than 0.3 per cent THC. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-26, CAS 8063-14-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 2.0 g / 14.0 g»; «2.0 to 500 g / 14.0 to 1000 g»; «>500 g dry / >1000 g green»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Cathinone is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 22, «Catinonă», «(S)-2-aminopropiofenonă», CAS 71031-15-7 (gazette page 12). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-27, CAS 71031-15-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.0005 g»; «0.0005 to 0.002 g»; «>0.002 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Clonazepam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 13, «Clonazepam», CAS 1622-61-3 (gazette page 30). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-29, CAS 1622-61-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.056 g»; «0.056 to 2 g»; «>2 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Cocaine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 19, «Cocaina», «Esterul metilic al benzoilecgoninei», CAS 50-36-2, beside item 18, «Coca, frunze» (gazette page 25); medicines containing it are also in Table III, Lista nr. 1, item 2 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-30, CAS 50-36-2, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0,15 g»; «0,15 to 5 g»; «>5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Codeine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: in its sub-list of Single Convention Schedule II, item 2, «Codeină», «3-metilmorfină», CAS 76-57-3 (gazette page 26); medicines containing it are in Table III, Lista nr. 1, item 3 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-31, CAS 76-57-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0,1 g»; «0,1 to 5 g»; «>5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Crack is cocaine base and has no entry of its own; cocaine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 19, «Cocaina», CAS 50-36-2 (gazette page 25). The entry names the substance, so the form does not take it outside it. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-32, CAS 50-36-2, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Delta-8-THC is named by its chemical structure in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 18, «Tetrahidrocanabinol, izomerii următori și variantele lor stereochimice», whose list includes «(6aR,10aR)-6a,7,10,10a-tetrahidro-6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6H-dibenzo[b,d]piran-1-ol», the delta-8 isomer (gazette pages 11 to 12); Lista nr. 1 item 45 also lists «Tetrahidrocanabinol (izomeri ai Δ⁹-tetrahidrocanabinolului)» (gazette page 11). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-33, CAS 5957-75-5, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Diazepam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 19, «Diazepam», CAS 439-14-5 (gazette page 30). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-34, CAS 439-14-5, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.07 g»; «0.07 to 1 g»; «>1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. DMT is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 5, «DMT», «3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol», CAS 61-50-7 (gazette page 11). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-35, CAS 61-50-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.0005 g»; «0.0005 to 0.002 g»; «>0.002 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. DOM is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 17, «STP (DOM)», «2,5-dimetoxi-α,4-dimetilfenetilamină», CAS 15588-95-1 (gazette page 11). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-36, CAS 15588-95-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.0005 g»; «0.0005 to 0.002 g»; «>0.002 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Dextromethorphan is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 8, «DXM, Dextrometorfan», CAS 125-71-3 (gazette page 28). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-37, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.45 g»; «0.45 to 6 g»; «>6 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova as a precursor, not as a drug. Ephedrine is in Table IV, the precursors, Lista nr. 1, category 1, item 23, «Efedrină», CAS 299-42-3 (gazette page 33), and medicines containing it are in Lista nr. 4, «Medicamente care conțin efedrină sau săruri ale acesteia» (gazette page 34). It is not in Tables I to III, so the drug articles do not reach it as such. Table IV, the precursors, does not carry the drug lists' extension: its Lista nr. 1 extends to «Formele stereoizomerice ale substanțelor din această categorie, cu excepția cathinei» and to salts, Lista nr. 2 and Lista nr. 3 to salts, and Lista nr. 4 and Lista nr. 5 to nothing (gazette pages 33 to 34). Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. As a precursor, it is reached by Criminal Code Article 217^2, which punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering, distributing or selling precursors «în scopul producerii, fabricării sau prelucrării ilegale a drogurilor» by a fine of 1,500 to 2,000 conventional units or 2 to 5 years (217^2(1)), producing them for that purpose by a fine of 1,800 to 2,500 units or 4 to 6 years (217^2(2)), by 6 to 8 years where aggravated (217^2(3)) and by 8 to 12 years for an organised group (217^2(4)). Without that purpose the article does not reach it. Contravention Code Article 85(2) also names «precursorilor» kept in small quantities without intent to sell, a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; which quantity counts as small for a precursor was not found in what was read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-38, CAS 299-42-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Ephedrine is a Category 1 precursor, and Law 201/2025 Article 69(1) provides «Importul și exportul de medicamente care conțin substanțe clasificate în Categoria 1 de către persoane fizice se interzic»; Article 69(2) lets an individual carry such medicines in personal baggage for up to 30 days of treatment, for personal use or for another person, on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate». Article 70(3) prohibits dispensing Table IV medicines without a prescription, except those the state nomenclature releases without one (gazette page 47).
Documentation: Carry the prescription in the patient's name and no more than 30 days of treatment for an ephedrine medicine; that is the condition of Law 201/2025 Article 69(2). Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated, so confirm it before travel.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Etizolam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 24, «Etizolam», CAS 40054-69-1 (gazette page 30). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-39, CAS 40054-69-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Fentanyl is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 44, «Fentanil», CAS 437-38-7 (gazette page 25). Most of its analogues sit in Table I, Lista nr. 1 and Lista nr. 3. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-40, CAS 437-38-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.002 g»; «0.002 to 0.02 g»; «>0.02 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Gabapentin, searched as 'gabapentină', returns nothing, while pregabalin is listed in Table III, Lista nr. 3, item 6 (gazette page 32); whether gabapentin could be treated as used in place of it is not addressed by anything read. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-41, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova as a precursor, not as a drug. GBL is in Table IV, Lista nr. 5, «Substanțe neclasificate», item 11, «Gamma-butirolactona (GBL)», CAS 96-48-0, beside item 2, «1,4-Butandiol» (gazette page 34). GHB, which the body makes from it, is a drug in Table III, Lista nr. 2, item 1. Table IV, the precursors, does not carry the drug lists' extension: its Lista nr. 1 extends to «Formele stereoizomerice ale substanțelor din această categorie, cu excepția cathinei» and to salts, Lista nr. 2 and Lista nr. 3 to salts, and Lista nr. 4 and Lista nr. 5 to nothing (gazette pages 33 to 34). Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them. GBL is also open to the analogue route: Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) treats as an analogue any substance with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control, and GBL is taken in place of GHB, which Articles 217, 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 reach through «analogi»; whether a court applies it is not settled by anything read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. As a precursor, it is reached by Criminal Code Article 217^2, which punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering, distributing or selling precursors «în scopul producerii, fabricării sau prelucrării ilegale a drogurilor» by a fine of 1,500 to 2,000 conventional units or 2 to 5 years (217^2(1)), producing them for that purpose by a fine of 1,800 to 2,500 units or 4 to 6 years (217^2(2)), by 6 to 8 years where aggravated (217^2(3)) and by 8 to 12 years for an organised group (217^2(4)). Without that purpose the article does not reach it. Contravention Code Article 85(2) also names «precursorilor» kept in small quantities without intent to sell, a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; which quantity counts as small for a precursor was not found in what was read. If GBL is instead treated as an analogue of GHB, the drug articles apply: Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-42, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: GBL is a non classified precursor in Table IV, Lista nr. 5, not a medicine, and Law 201/2025's carriage rules for medicines, Articles 37 and 69, are not read as reaching it. Rules for it as an industrial chemical were not read.
Documentation: No carriage document for GBL is set by Law 201/2025. Because the analogue route is open, carrying it is not advised; customs and chemical rules were not read.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. GHB is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule III: item 1, «Acid gama-hidroxibutiric», «GHB», CAS 591-81-1 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-43, CAS 591-81-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 5.0 g»; «5.0 to 100 g»; «>100 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Heroin is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and IV: item 26, «Heroină», «Diacetilmorfină», CAS 561-27-3 (gazette page 10). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-44, CAS 561-27-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.01 g»; «0.01 to 2.5 g»; «>2.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. HHC is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 15, «Hexahidrocanabinol», «HHC», CAS 946512-74-9 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-45, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Hydrocodone is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 46, «Hidrocodonă», «Dihidrocodeinonă», CAS 125-29-1 (gazette page 25). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-46, CAS 125-29-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.005 g»; «0.005 to 0.05 g»; «>0.05 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Ketamine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 15, «Ketamină», CAS 6740-88-1 (gazette page 28). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-47, CAS 6740-88-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.7 g»; «0.7 to 50 g»; «>50 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Kratom is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 21, «Mitragyna speciosa Korth», «Planta Kratom» (gazette page 28), with «Mitraginină» at item 20 and «7-hidroximitraginină» at item 1. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-49, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Lorazepam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 40, «Lorazepam», CAS 846-49-1 (gazette page 31). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-50, CAS 846-49-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.0175 g»; «0.0175 to 10 g»; «>10 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. LSA is listed twice in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 263, «Amida acidului lisergic», «9,10-didehidro-6-metilergolin-8-carboxamidă», CAS 478-94-4 (gazette page 17), and item 348, «Ergină», the same CAS (gazette page 19); the seeds' plants are listed too, «Argyreia (toate speciile)» at item 272 (gazette page 18) and «Turbina corymbosa» at item 557 (gazette page 23). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-51, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. LSD is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 20, «(+)-Lisergidă», «LSD, LSD-25», CAS 50-37-3 (gazette page 12). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-52, CAS 50-37-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. MDA is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 27, «Tenamfetamină», «MDA», CAS 4764-17-4 (gazette page 12). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-53, CAS 4764-17-4, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.002 g»; «0.002 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. MDMA is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 7, «MDMA», «(±)-N, α-dimetil-3,4-(metilendioxi)fenetilamină» (gazette page 11). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-54, CAS 42542-10-9, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0,05 g»; «0,05 to 5,0 g»; «>5,0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. MDPV is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 20, «MDPV», CAS 687603-66-3 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-55, CAS 687603-66-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.03 g»; «0.03 to 0.3 g»; «>0.3 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Memantine, searched as 'memantină', returns nothing, and no adamantane amine of its kind is printed. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-56, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Mephedrone is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 22, «Mefedronă, 4-metilmetcatinonă», CAS 1189805-46-6 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-57, CAS 1189805-46-6, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.01 g»; «0.01 to 2.5 g»; «>2.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Mescaline is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 8, «Mescalină», «3,4,5-trimetoxifenetilamină», CAS 54-04-6 (gazette page 11). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-58, CAS 54-04-6, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0,05 g»; «0,05 to 5,0 g»; «>5,0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methadone is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 56, «Metadonă», CAS 76-99-3 (gazette page 25). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-59, CAS 76-99-3, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.05 g»; «0.05 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methamphetamine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 23, «Metamfetamină», CAS 537-46-2, and item 28, «Racemat de metamfetamină» (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-60, CAS 537-46-2, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.05 g»; «0.05 to 5.0 g»; «>5.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methaqualone, CAS 72-44-6, is listed in two tables. Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 18, «Metaqualon» (gazette page 28), and also Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV, item 46, «Metacvalonă», the same CAS (gazette page 31). Both tables list substances usable in medicine, so the Table I aggravation does not arise; the decision does not say which regime governs. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-61, CAS 72-44-6, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.2 g»; «0.2 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methylone is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 25, «Metilonă», «Methylone, β-keto-MDMA», CAS 186028-79-5 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-62, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.1 g»; «0.1 to 3 g»; «>3 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methylphenidate is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 24, «Metilfenidat», CAS 113-45-1 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-63, CAS 113-45-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.03 g»; «0.03 to 0.3 g»; «>0.3 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Mitragynine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 20, «Mitraginină», CAS 4098-40-2 (gazette page 28), beside the plant at item 21. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-64, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.3 g»; «0.3 to 1.5 g»; «>1.5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Modafinil is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 12, «Modafinil», «2-(difenilmetil)sulfinilacetamidă», CAS 68693-11-8 (gazette page 32). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-65, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Morphine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 65, «Morfină», CAS 57-27-2 (gazette page 26); medicines containing it are also in Table III, Lista nr. 1, item 8 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-66, CAS 57-27-2, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.1 g»; «0.1 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Methoxetamine is listed in two tables, and the decision does not say which governs. Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 457, «Metoxetamină», CAS 1239943-76-0 (gazette page 21), and also Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II, item 26, «Metoxetamină», «Methoxetamine, MXE», the same CAS (gazette page 27). Which listing governs decides whether the Table I aggravation applies. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Because the decision also lists it in a table usable in medicine, the aggravation is unsettled for it; see the legal status. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-67, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.2 g»; «0.2 to 1.0 g»; «>1.0 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: The carriage rule depends on which table governs, and that is unsettled for this row (see the legal status): if it is a Table I substance, Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) leaves no medical route and the 30 day allowance of Article 37(2) cannot apply; if it sits in a table usable in medicine, Article 37(2) allows up to 30 days of treatment in personal baggage on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42).
Documentation: Because the governing table is unsettled, confirm in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel whether it may be carried at all. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Nicotine, searched as 'nicotină', returns nothing; the only near matches are the codeine and morphine nicotinoyl esters, «Nicodicodină», «Nicocodină» and «Nicomorfină», which are opioid esters, and «Arecolină», «tetrahidronicotinat de metil», an areca alkaloid at Table I, Lista nr. 3, item 271. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-68, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Nimetazepam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 51, «Nimetazepam», CAS 2011-67-8 (gazette page 31). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-69, CAS 2011-67-8, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.035 g»; «0.035 to 1 g»; «>1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Nitrous oxide, searched as 'oxid de azot' and 'protoxid de azot', returns nothing; the only 'azot' hit is a morphine derivative described as having pentavalent nitrogen. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-70, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Opium and the opium poppy are in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 74, «Opiu (Opium, opiu brut)» (gazette page 26), and item 21, «Mac opiaceu», the plant with its straw and concentrate (gazette page 25); medicines containing opium are also in Table III, Lista nr. 1, item 12 (gazette page 29). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-71, CAS 8008-60-4, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.1 g»; «0.1 to 25 g»; «>25 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Oxycodone is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and II: item 75, «Oxicodonă», CAS 76-42-6 (gazette page 26). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-72, CAS 76-42-6, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.0002 g»; «0.0002 to 0.002 g»; «>0.002 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. PCP is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II: item 12, «Fenciclidină», «PCP», CAS 77-10-1 (gazette page 27). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-73, CAS 77-10-1, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.005 g»; «0.005 to 0.1 g»; «>0.1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Phenibut is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 18, «Fenibut», «acid 4-amino-3-fenilbutanoic», CAS 1078-21-3 (gazette page 32). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-75, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is a street label for a variable mixture, not one substance, and that is the settled treatment of the row here. Moldova's tables follow each constituent: ketamine is in Table II, Lista nr. 3, item 15, «Ketamină»; MDMA in Table I, Lista nr. 2, item 7; 2C-B in Table II, Lista nr. 2, item 1; methamphetamine in Table II, Lista nr. 2, item 23; and cocaine in Table II, Lista nr. 1, item 19 (gazette pages 11 to 28). The table, and so the band, follows what a sample contains. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. A sample containing MDMA, a Table I substance, also falls in the Table I aggravation read above. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-76, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: The carriage rule follows the constituent: a Table I constituent such as MDMA has no medical route under Law 201/2025 Article 6(2), and none of these mixtures is a prescribed medicine.
Documentation: There is no carriage route for a street mixture; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers is a product label covering several alkyl nitrites, not one substance, and that is the settled treatment of the row here. Moldova lists one of them: Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național», item 3, «Nitrit de amil», «Nitrit de izopentil», CAS 110-46-3 (gazette page 32). Isobutyl, isopropyl and other nitrites were not found in the tables; a bottle containing one of them is answered by that compound, and is reached, if at all, as an analogue under Criminal Code Article 134^1(6). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-77, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Pregabalin is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 6, «Pregabalină», CAS 148553-50-8 (gazette page 32). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-78, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Psilocybin, psilocin and the mushrooms that carry them are in Table I. Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 25, «Psilocibină», CAS 520-52-5, and item 16, «Psilocină», CAS 520-53-6 (gazette pages 11 to 12); and Lista nr. 3 item 529 lists the mushrooms themselves, «Psilocybe (toate speciile)», «Gen de ciuperci halucinogene» (gazette page 23). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-79, CAS 520-52-5, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.005 g»; «0.005 to 0.1 g»; «>0.1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Quetiapine, searched as 'quetiapină', returns nothing in any spelling searched. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-80, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Salvia divinorum is listed in two tables, and the decision does not say which governs. Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 541, «Salvia divinorum Epling & Játiva», «Specie de plantă (Salvia divinorum)» (gazette page 23), and also Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național», item 25, the plant again, and item 26, «Salvinorin A-F» (gazette page 28). Which listing governs decides whether the Table I aggravation applies. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Because the decision also lists it in a table usable in medicine, the aggravation is unsettled for it; see the legal status. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. Growing it is reached too: Criminal Code Articles 217(1) and 217^1(1) punish sowing, cultivating or processing plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances, 200 to 240 hours of community work or 2 to 6 years where for sale, with Contravention Code Article 87 below the criminal threshold. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-81, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 1 g / 10 g»; «1 to 300 g / 10 to 500 g»; «>300 g dry / >500 g green»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: The carriage rule depends on which table governs, and that is unsettled for this row (see the legal status): if it is a Table I substance, Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) leaves no medical route and the 30 day allowance of Article 37(2) cannot apply; if it sits in a table usable in medicine, Article 37(2) allows up to 30 days of treatment in personal baggage on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42).
Documentation: Because the governing table is unsettled, confirm in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel whether it may be carried at all. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Scopolamine is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 16, «Scopolamină», CAS 114-49-8 (gazette page 32). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-82, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is a class label, not one substance, and that is the settled treatment of the row here. Moldova lists them compound by compound. Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: hundreds of entries, among them «AB-FUBINACA izomer 2-fluorobenzil» item 232, «ADB-PINACA» item 239 (gazette page 17), «MDMB-CHMCZCA» item 440 and «MDMB-FUBICA» item 441 (gazette page 21); and a smaller number sit in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule II, «AM-2201» item 7, «JWH-018» item 16 and «MDMB-FUBINACA» item 19 (gazette page 27). A product is answered by the compound it contains; one printed in neither place is reached, if at all, as a structural derivative or as an analogue under Criminal Code Article 134^1(6). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-83, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
Documentation: There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. THC-P is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 1, narcotic substances of Single Convention Schedules I and IV: item 45, «Tetrahidrocanabinol (izomeri ai Δ⁹-tetrahidrocanabinolului)» (gazette page 11). THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, is THC with a seven carbon side chain in place of five; it is not an isomer of THC, but it is a structural derivative of it, and the list's extension reaches «derivaților structurali». It is not printed by name anywhere in the tables. Delta-9-THC is also listed in Table III, Lista nr. 2, Schedule III sub-list, item 7, «Dronabinol», «Delta-9-tetrahidrocanabinol și variantele ei stereochimice» (gazette page 29), and the related «Hexahidrocanabinol» is in Table II, Lista nr. 2, item 15; so which table a derivative falls in, and with it the Table I aggravation and any medical route, is unsettled. The reading is stated as such. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Because the decision also lists it in a table usable in medicine, the aggravation is unsettled for it; see the legal status. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-84, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: The carriage rule depends on which table governs, and that is unsettled for this row (see the legal status): if it is a Table I substance, Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) leaves no medical route and the 30 day allowance of Article 37(2) cannot apply; if it sits in a table usable in medicine, Article 37(2) allows up to 30 days of treatment in personal baggage on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42).
Documentation: Because the governing table is unsettled, confirm in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel whether it may be carried at all. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Tobacco, Nicotiana, is not among the plants that Table I, Lista nr. 3 names one by one, and nicotine is not printed. Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-85, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova as a substance, with its preparations outside the entry. Tramadol is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse unui control strict», Lista nr. 3, «Substanțe și plante aflate sub control național»: item 30, «Tramadol», CAS 27203-92-5, whose chemical name ends «(cu excepția preparatelor)» (gazette page 28). Preparations of tramadol are excluded from that entry, and no other entry for them was found in the tables. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-86, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.50 g»; «0.50 to 10 g»; «>10 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Tramadol preparations are excluded from Table II, Lista nr. 3, item 30, «(cu excepția preparatelor)», and no other entry for them was found, so whether Law 201/2025 Article 37 and Article 7(1) reach a tramadol medicine is unresolved by the texts read. If they do, Article 37(2) allows up to 30 days of treatment in personal baggage on «dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42).
Documentation: Carry the prescription in the patient's name and no more than 30 days of treatment; because the regime of tramadol preparations is unresolved, confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Alprazolam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 3, «Alprazolam», CAS 28981-97-7 (gazette page 30). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-16, CAS 28981-97-7, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.007 g»; «0.007 to 5 g»; «>5 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Xylazine, searched as 'xilazină', returns nothing; «Clonidină», a different alpha-2 agonist, is in Table III, Lista nr. 3, item 9 (gazette page 32). Searched in the born-digital text of all four tables of Decision 479/2026 and read on the page images where a related entry sits. Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines an analogue by use, and nothing read applies it to this row. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. It is not in the national tables, so Criminal Code Articles 217 and 217^1 and Contravention Code Article 85 do not reach it as a drug. They also reach «analogi ai substanțelor stupefiante sau psihotrope», which Criminal Code Article 134^1(6) defines by use, as any substance, plant or mushroom with psychoactive capacity that «este ori poate fi folosită în locul unei substanțe» under control; nothing read applies that definition to this row. Law 201/2025 Article 19, as amended by Law 173/2026, provides that an unlisted psychoactive substance under evaluation «sunt» subject to a temporary restriction of up to 12 months, and Criminal Code Article 216^1 punishes breaching such a restriction; no restriction naming this row was found. Law 201/2025 Article 2 point 43 defines a drug substitute, and Article 19(11) treats one designated as controlled until listed; no designation naming this row was found. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-87, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37 governs medicines containing substances in the national tables, and this row is not in them, so it does not apply to it as such. Rules for it as a medicine or a product under other laws were not read.
Documentation: Law 201/2025 sets no carriage document for a substance outside its tables. Customs, medicines and product rules for it were not read; the earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled in Moldova. Zolpidem is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 66, «Zolpidem», CAS 82626-48-0 (gazette page 31). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-88, CAS 82626-48-0, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.07 g»; «0.07 to 1 g»; «>1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
If prescribed / medical: Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
Documentation: Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.

Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026

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