Is Opium legal in Spain?
- Legal status
- Controlled in Spain as an estupefaciente, and by incorporation rather than by a Spanish list. Ley 17/1967 artículo segundo provides: «A los efectos de la presente Ley, se consideran estupefacientes las sustancias naturales o sintéticas incluidas en las listas I y II de las anexas al Convenio Único de mil novecientos sesenta y uno». Opium is in those lists, appearing in the INCB Yellow List publication of them.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking offences sit in the Código Penal articles 368 to 378. Article 368 distinguishes substances that cause grave harm to health from those that do not, and that classification is applied by the court to the substance rather than read off a list. No custodial figure is asserted in this cell: the instruments read here establish what is controlled, not the sentencing range.
- If prescribed or medical
- Spain runs two medicine regimes side by side. A narcotic medicine is handled under Ley 17/1967 and its implementing rules, and a psychotropic medicine under Real Decreto 2829/1977, which requires a special prescription and a pharmacy register for the stricter lists.
- Documentation
- Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Spain's personal import allowance for a traveller was not read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.
- Spain, Ley 17/1967, de 8 de abril, artículo segundo, read as the BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 13/12/2001»
- empowering provision quoted: «Artículo segundo. Uno. A los efectos de la presente Ley, se consideran estupefacientes las sustancias naturales o sintéticas incluidas en las listas I y II de las anexas al Convenio Único de mil novecientos sesenta y uno de las Naciones Unidas, sobre estupefacientes y las demás que adquieran tal consideración en el ámbito internacional, con arreglo a dicho Convenio y en el ámbito nacional por el procedimiento que reglamentariamente se establezca.»
- boe.es
- the incorporated lists are the 1961 Single Convention Lists I and II as published by the INCB Yellow List, cached at research/statute-cache/incb-yellow.txt
- offences in the Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995) articles 368 to 378
- boe.es
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Spain
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