Legal status in Paraguay

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

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Confirmed legal status

2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry 2-fluorodescloroketamina, in the other common names column, printed without a registry number. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry 2-fluorodescloroketamina, in the other common names column, printed without a registry number. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry 2-fluorodescloroketamina, in the other common names column, printed without a registry number, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: 2-fluorodescloroketamina, in the other common names column, printed without a registry number, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Difenidina and Metoxetamina sit in the same list. The entry names the fluoro analogue expressly rather than reaching it through a ketamine entry. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, as 25I-NBOMe, entry PN 008 of the Green List, chemical name 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine. Article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates the lists annexed to the two Conventions directly, so this listing is Paraguayan law by force of the statute even though the published national workbook omits the entry.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed, and by the statute rather than by the published workbook. Article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 provides that this law treats as sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas Las incluidas en las listas anexas a la Convencion Unica sobre Estupefacientes y al Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotropicas, and only limbs b and c are left to be fixed by decree. 25I-NBOMe, entry PN 008 of the Green List, chemical name 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine is in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. This row is placed by the statute directly and not by the published workbook. Article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 makes the lists annexed to the two Conventions Paraguayan law by its own force, and only limbs b and c are left to a decree, so a Convention listing needs no national transcription to bite. The workbook omits this entry, and the omission is visible in its own ordering: it reproduces the Green List sequence faithfully through N-hidroxi MDA, 25B-NBOME and 25C-NBOME and then jumps to Parahexilo, skipping the one entry that sits between them. The same workbook drops Amitriptilina from the national list although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with it, so this is a transcription gap in a publisher consolidation rather than a Paraguayan decision to exclude the substance. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, as the entry 25I-NBOMe, entry PN 008 of the Green List, chemical name 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: 25I-NBOMe, entry PN 008 of the Green List, chemical name 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine, in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. This row is placed by the statute directly and not by the published workbook. Article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 makes the lists annexed to the two Conventions Paraguayan law by its own force, and only limbs b and c are left to a decree, so a Convention listing needs no national transcription to bite. The workbook omits this entry, and the omission is visible in its own ordering: it reproduces the Green List sequence faithfully through N-hidroxi MDA, 25B-NBOME and 25C-NBOME and then jumps to Parahexilo, skipping the one entry that sits between them. The same workbook drops Amitriptilina from the national list although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with it, so this is a transcription gap in a publisher consolidation rather than a Paraguayan decision to exclude the substance. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry 2C-B, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry 2C-B, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry 2C-B, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: 2C-B, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. This is the single member of the 2C family in the schedule. 2C-E, 2C-I and 2C-T-7 each returned nothing, which is a finding about this family rather than a silence about the list. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry 3-metilmetcatinona, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry 3-metilmetcatinona, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry 3-metilmetcatinona, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: 3-metilmetcatinona, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Printed separately from Mefedrona, which is the 4 methyl isomer, so the two positional isomers are each named. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Anfetamina and Dexanfetamina, both standalone entries. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Anfetamina and Dexanfetamina, both standalone entries. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Anfetamina and Dexanfetamina, both standalone entries. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Anfetamina and Dexanfetamina, both standalone entries, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The brand is not a listed name. The row resolves through its two constituents, each of which was read as its own entry. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Anfetamina. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Anfetamina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Anfetamina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Anfetamina, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The anchored match is the standalone Anfetamina. Brolanfetamina, Dexanfetamina, Levanfetamina, Metanfetamina, Levometanfetamina, Etilanfetamina and Tenanfetamina are all separate entries that an unanchored search for the string would have swept in, and none of them is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry DMT, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry DMT, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry DMT, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: DMT, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis and Harmina each returned nothing in the list. The row therefore resolves only through its proved constituent, and a preparation that does not contain a listed constituent is not reached by the entry. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled, member by member. The class word is not an entry. All six members this corpus carries are entries in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, which is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971 and reproduces Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed through its members. The class word is not an entry. The member by member check was run and all six members that this corpus carries were read as entries in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet: Alprazolam, Clonazepam, Diazepam, Etizolam, Lorazepam and Nimetazepam. Etizolam is the one the 2005 decree did not carry, so the 2021 update is what makes the class complete here. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in no list of the schedule. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Search result for this row. The class word is not an entry. The member by member check was run and all six members that this corpus carries were read as entries in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet: Alprazolam, Clonazepam, Diazepam, Etizolam, Lorazepam and Nimetazepam. Etizolam is the one the 2005 decree did not carry, so the 2021 update is what makes the class complete here. [Certain] that this is what the December 2025 schedule holds. Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista III of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Buprenorfina. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista III of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Buprenorfina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. This row is a semi synthetic made from an opium alkaloid, so whether it falls within otros opiaceos is arguable either way and was not established. [Guessing] on either reading, and no gram figure should be quoted for it.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista III of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Buprenorfina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Buprenorfina, in Lista III of the psicotropicos sheet. Pentazocina sits in the same list. Buprenorphine is scheduled as a psychotropic here rather than as an estupefaciente. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Caffeine

Legal status: Controlled under national control. Named on the Lista de Sustancias Psicoactivas de Control Nacional that Decreto 5.282/2021 substituted into article 1 of Decreto 5.213/2005, as the entry Cafeina. This row is not in a schedule of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and not in a schedule of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Its control is national only, which is why it appears in Paraguay and not in every country. The decree limits that control to the raw material and expressly excludes finished products.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Cafeina. Read the penalty recital that follows with care on this row. The decree's own proviso confines the control to the raw material and expressly excludes finished products, so an ordinary caffeinated food or drink is outside it altogether. What national control practically carries in the decree is registration, prior authorization, import and export control and dispensing control, under articles 43 and 67 of Decreto 5.213/2005. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] Whether the trafficking articles above are ever brought against a nationally controlled substance of this kind was not established from the text read, so those are Paraguay's published penalties and not a statement of this row's exposure.
If prescribed / medical: This row is not dispensed as a controlled medicine in Paraguay on the text read, so the quadruplicate prescription regime of article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 does not attach to it. A traveller carrying any controlled medicine should still hold its prescription.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Cafeina, in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet. Decreto 5.282/2021 closes its national list with a proviso in its own words: En el caso de cafeina solo estan bajo control la materia prima, no asi los productos terminados. So the control reaches caffeine as a raw material and expressly does not reach finished products. That proviso was read from the decree itself and is the reason this row is not written as an ordinary food ingredient outside the schedule. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Cannabis, with the observation Sumidades, floridas o con fruto, de la planta de cannabis (resina no extraida), and the separate entry Resina de Cannabis, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, with the observation Resina separada, en bruto o purificada, obtenida de la planta de cannabis. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Cannabis, with the observation Sumidades, floridas o con fruto, de la planta de cannabis (resina no extraida), and the separate entry Resina de Cannabis, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, with the observation Resina separada, en bruto o purificada, obtenida de la planta de cannabis. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's stated figure for this row is the marihuana figure, which the article puts at no more than 10 grams. [Certain] A medicinal route exists alongside that. Ley 6.007 of 2017 creates a national programme for the medical and scientific study of medicinal cannabis and its derivatives and provides free access to hemp oil and other derivatives for patients enrolled in it on strict medical indication. It does not make recreational sale or purchase lawful, and Ley 1.340/1988 continues to apply to those. [Certain] Paraguay is a large producer of cannabis for export, including the pressed brick trade known locally as ladrillo, and that is carried from the live cell rather than re-derived here. It does not make recreational supply lawful.
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Cannabis, with the observation Sumidades, floridas o con fruto, de la planta de cannabis (resina no extraida), and the separate entry Resina de Cannabis, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, with the observation Resina separada, en bruto o purificada, obtenida de la planta de cannabis, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Cannabis, with the observation Sumidades, floridas o con fruto, de la planta de cannabis (resina no extraida), and the separate entry Resina de Cannabis, Extractos y Tinturas de Cannabis, with the observation Resina separada, en bruto o purificada, obtenida de la planta de cannabis, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Two distinct entries were read, the plant tops and the separated resin with its extracts and tinctures. Tetrahidrocannabinol is a further, separate entry in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Medicinal cannabis route. Ley 6.007, promulgated 19 December 2017 and published 29 December 2017, creates a national programme for the medical and scientific study of the medicinal, therapeutic and palliative use of the cannabis plant and its derivatives, known as PROINCUMEC, and article 1 says the law will also regulate controlled production for that purpose. Article 2 obliges the programme to guarantee free access to hemp oil and other cannabis derivatives to anyone enrolled, on the conditions the regulation sets, and to admit patients voluntarily and only on strict medical indication. It is regulated by Decreto 9.303 and Decreto 7.761, and the applying authority is DINAVISA. The live cell dated this law to 2018 and called it a bill; it is a law of 2017, and it opens a research and access programme rather than a general medical market. [Certain] on the date and on what article 1 and article 2 say. Recreational sale and purchase remain illegal under Ley 1.340/1988. A self cultivation bill numbered 6602/2020 was rejected, and a DINAVISA resolution numbered 488/2025 is recorded as medical only: both are carried from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Catinona. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Catinona. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Catinona, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Catinona, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Catina, in Lista III, is cathine and is a different molecule. Metcatinona is a separate Lista I entry. The anchored match is the standalone Catinona. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Clonazepam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Clonazepam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Clonazepam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Clonazepam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Cocaina. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Cocaina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 names Cocaina expressly and puts the figure at 2 grams. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Cocaina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Cocaina, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Coca (hoja de) is a separate entry with the observation Hoja de arbusto de coca (materia de origen vegetal), salvo las hojas de las que se haya extraido toda la ecgonina, la cocaina y otros alcaloides de ecgonina, and Ecgonina is a third entry. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Codeina. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Codeina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. This row is an alkaloid of opium, so it is likely within otros opiaceos, [Likely], but the article names only cocaine and heroin and no ruling settling the term was read.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista II of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Codeina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Codeina, in Lista II of the estupefacientes sheet. Lista II holds Acetildihidrocodeina, Dihidrocodeina, Nicocodina, Nicodicodina and Norcodeina as separate entries. An unanchored search for the string would have matched all five. The anchored match is the standalone Codeina. Codeina also appears among the preparations exempted from some provisions and included in Lista III of the 1961 Convention. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Cocaina. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Cocaina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 names Cocaina expressly and puts the figure at 2 grams. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Cocaina, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Cocaina, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Crack is cocaine base rather than a separate molecule and the list holds no crack entry, so the row resolves on the Cocaina entry. The word crack, and the words base and pasta, returned nothing in the list. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry DELTA-8-THC, printed under the entry Tetrahidrocannabinol whose other name column reads THC. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry DELTA-8-THC, printed under the entry Tetrahidrocannabinol whose other name column reads THC. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry DELTA-8-THC, printed under the entry Tetrahidrocannabinol whose other name column reads THC, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: DELTA-8-THC, printed under the entry Tetrahidrocannabinol whose other name column reads THC, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. The entry Tetrahidrocannabinol is followed by named isomer rows for the 6a(10a), 6a(7), 7, 8, 10 and 9(11) positions, so the delta 8 isomer is named in its own right rather than inferred. The list closes with Los esteroisomeros de las sustancias de esta lista tambien estan sometidos a fiscalizacion. Lista II separately names Delta 9 tetrahidrocannabinol y sus variantes esteroquimicas. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Medicinal cannabis route. Ley 6.007, promulgated 19 December 2017 and published 29 December 2017, creates a national programme for the medical and scientific study of the medicinal, therapeutic and palliative use of the cannabis plant and its derivatives, known as PROINCUMEC, and article 1 says the law will also regulate controlled production for that purpose. Article 2 obliges the programme to guarantee free access to hemp oil and other cannabis derivatives to anyone enrolled, on the conditions the regulation sets, and to admit patients voluntarily and only on strict medical indication. It is regulated by Decreto 9.303 and Decreto 7.761, and the applying authority is DINAVISA. The live cell dated this law to 2018 and called it a bill; it is a law of 2017, and it opens a research and access programme rather than a general medical market. [Certain] on the date and on what article 1 and article 2 say. Recreational sale and purchase remain illegal under Ley 1.340/1988. A self cultivation bill numbered 6602/2020 was rejected, and a DINAVISA resolution numbered 488/2025 is recorded as medical only: both are carried from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Diazepam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Diazepam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Diazepam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Diazepam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry DMT, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry DMT, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry DMT, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: DMT, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. DET, DMA, DOET and Etriptamina are separate Lista I entries. The list carries no entry for any substituted tryptamine beyond those named. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry STP, DOM, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry STP, DOM, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry STP, DOM, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: STP, DOM, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Brolanfetamina, whose other common name is DOB, and DOET and DOC are separate entries in the same list and none of them is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled as a precursor. Named in Cuadro I of the precursors sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Efedrina, not as a scheduled narcotic or psychotropic. That sheet is headed Precursores y Productos Quimicos incluidos en la Convencion de 1988, so the table it reproduces is the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic precursor table.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Cuadro I of the precursors sheet as the entry Efedrina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] Because the placement is in the precursor table rather than in a narcotic or psychotropic list, the article that fits it most directly is article 22, which applies article 21's 5 to 10 years to any substance or product usable in making a controlled drug. [Likely]
If prescribed / medical: This row is not dispensed as a controlled medicine in Paraguay on the text read, so the quadruplicate prescription regime of article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 does not attach to it. A traveller carrying any controlled medicine should still hold its prescription.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Efedrina, in Cuadro I of the precursors sheet. Norefedrina and Pseudoefedrina are separate Cuadro I entries. Cuadro I is the precursor table of the 1988 Convention, so the placement is as a precursor chemical rather than as a scheduled narcotic or psychotropic. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Etizolam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Etizolam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Etizolam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Etizolam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Fentanilo. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Fentanilo. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. An opiaceo is a substance drawn from opium and this row is wholly synthetic, so on the ordinary meaning of the word the figure does not extend to it, [Likely], and its quantity falls to the case by case determination instead.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Fentanilo. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Fentanilo, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Lista I also names roughly twenty fentanyl analogues separately, among them Acetilfentanilo, Carfentanilo, Furanilfentanilo, Ocfentanilo, Remifentanilo and Sufentanilo. The anchored match is the standalone Fentanilo. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, with the other common names column reading GHB. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, with the other common names column reading GHB. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, with the other common names column reading GHB, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, with the other common names column reading GHB, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The salt and the acid are one entry. Gamma butyrolactone, the lactone precursor, returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I and Lista IV of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Heroina. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I and Lista IV of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Heroina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 names Heroina expressly and puts the figure at 2 grams, alongside Cocaina. It is one of only three terms the article states, the third being the open words otros opiaceos. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I and Lista IV of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Heroina, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Heroina, in Lista I and Lista IV of the estupefacientes sheet. The name appears twice, once in Lista I and again in Lista IV, which is the list of narcotics the 1961 Convention treats as especially liable to abuse. Diacetilmorfina, which the dossier offered as the entry name, is not printed in this list. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Hexahidrocannabinol (HHC). That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Hexahidrocannabinol (HHC). Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Hexahidrocannabinol (HHC), and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Hexahidrocannabinol (HHC), in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The entry carries two registry numbers, for the two epimers. It sits in Lista II beside the delta 9 tetrahidrocannabinol entry rather than under the Lista I tetrahidrocannabinol heading. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Medicinal cannabis route. Ley 6.007, promulgated 19 December 2017 and published 29 December 2017, creates a national programme for the medical and scientific study of the medicinal, therapeutic and palliative use of the cannabis plant and its derivatives, known as PROINCUMEC, and article 1 says the law will also regulate controlled production for that purpose. Article 2 obliges the programme to guarantee free access to hemp oil and other cannabis derivatives to anyone enrolled, on the conditions the regulation sets, and to admit patients voluntarily and only on strict medical indication. It is regulated by Decreto 9.303 and Decreto 7.761, and the applying authority is DINAVISA. The live cell dated this law to 2018 and called it a bill; it is a law of 2017, and it opens a research and access programme rather than a general medical market. [Certain] on the date and on what article 1 and article 2 say. Recreational sale and purchase remain illegal under Ley 1.340/1988. A self cultivation bill numbered 6602/2020 was rejected, and a DINAVISA resolution numbered 488/2025 is recorded as medical only: both are carried from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Hidrocodona. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Hidrocodona. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. This row is a semi synthetic made from an opium alkaloid, so whether it falls within otros opiaceos is arguable either way and was not established. [Guessing] on either reading, and no gram figure should be quoted for it.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Hidrocodona. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Hidrocodona, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Hidromorfona and Hidromorfinol are separate Lista I entries and neither is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled under national control. Named on the Lista de Sustancias Psicoactivas de Control Nacional that Decreto 5.282/2021 substituted into article 1 of Decreto 5.213/2005, as the entry Ketamina. This row is not in a schedule of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and not in a schedule of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Its control is national only, which is why it appears in Paraguay and not in every country.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Ketamina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Ketamina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Ketamina, in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet. The 2005 decree did not name ketamine. Decreto 5.282/2021 replaced article 1 of Decreto 5.213/2005 with a Lista de Sustancias Psicoactivas de Control Nacional and Ketamina is the last name printed on it. The analogues Metoxetamina and 2-fluorodescloroketamina sit in Lista II instead. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Lorazepam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Lorazepam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Lorazepam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Lorazepam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry (+)- Lisergida, with the other common names column reading LSD, LSD 25. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry (+)- Lisergida, with the other common names column reading LSD, LSD 25. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry (+)- Lisergida, with the other common names column reading LSD, LSD 25, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: (+)- Lisergida, with the other common names column reading LSD, LSD 25, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Acido lisergico is a separate entry, in Cuadro I of the precursors sheet, and is the precursor rather than this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Tenanfetamina, with the other common names column reading MDA. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Tenanfetamina, with the other common names column reading MDA. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Tenanfetamina, with the other common names column reading MDA, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Tenanfetamina, with the other common names column reading MDA, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. The international name is Tenanfetamina and the corpus name is the other common name printed beside it. An anchored search on Anfetamina would not have reached this entry. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry MDMA, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry MDMA, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry MDMA, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: MDMA, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. N-ETIL MDA, MDE and N-HIDROXI MDA are separate Lista I entries and neither is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry MDPV, 3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry MDPV, 3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry MDPV, 3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: MDPV, 3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Pirovalerona, in Lista IV, is the parent compound and a different molecule. Alfa-PVP, Alfa-PHP, Alfa-PiHP and N-etilhexedrona are separate Lista II entries. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Mefedrona, 4-metlmetcatinona, in the other common names column, printed with that spelling. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Mefedrona, 4-metlmetcatinona, in the other common names column, printed with that spelling. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Mefedrona, 4-metlmetcatinona, in the other common names column, printed with that spelling, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Mefedrona, 4-metlmetcatinona, in the other common names column, printed with that spelling, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The second name is printed with a missing letter in the official workbook and is reproduced here as printed. 4-metiletcatinona, 3-clorometcatinona and 4-CMC clefedrona are separate Lista II entries. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Mescalina, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. TMA, MMDA and the ring substituted amfetamines around it are separate entries. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metadona. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Metadona. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. An opiaceo is a substance drawn from opium and this row is wholly synthetic, so on the ordinary meaning of the word the figure does not extend to it, [Likely], and its quantity falls to the case by case determination instead.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Metadona. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metadona, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. The anchored search also reached Metadona Intermediario de la, which is the manufacturing intermediate and a separate entry, not this row. Isometadona, Normetadona, Acetilmetadol and Dimefeptanol are further separate entries. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metanfetamina. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Metanfetamina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Metanfetamina, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metanfetamina, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Racemato de Metanfetamina and Levometanfetamina are separate Lista II entries, so the racemate and the levo isomer are each named rather than left to the isomer rule. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Methamphetamine in Paraguay, full detail →

Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metacualona. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Metacualona. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Metacualona, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metacualona, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Meclocualona is a separate Lista II entry and is not this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes) in Paraguay, full detail →

Methylone

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metilona, beta-ceto-MDMA, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Metilona, beta-ceto-MDMA, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Metilona, beta-ceto-MDMA, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metilona, beta-ceto-MDMA, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Etilona, Eutilona, Dipentilona and N-etilnorpentilona are separate Lista II entries and none of them is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Methylone in Paraguay, full detail →

Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metilfenidato. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Metilfenidato. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Metilfenidato. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metilfenidato, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Etilfenidato is a separate Lista II entry and is not this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Morfina. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Morfina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. This row is an alkaloid of opium, so it is likely within otros opiaceos, [Likely], but the article names only cocaine and heroin and no ruling settling the term was read.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Morfina. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Morfina, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. The anchored search also reached Morfina, Bromometilato de, a separate entry carrying the observation Y otros derivados de la morfina con nitrogeno pentavalente. That is a different compound and is not this row's placement. Normorfina, Nicomorfina, Bencilmorfina, Desomorfina, Dihidromorfina, Etilmorfina and N-Oximorfina are all separate entries and none of them is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Metoxetamina, MXE, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Metoxetamina, MXE, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Metoxetamina, MXE, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Metoxetamina, MXE, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. The parent, ketamine, is on the national control list rather than in Lista II, so the analogue and the parent sit in different tiers of the same schedule. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Nimetazepam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Nimetazepam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Nimetazepam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Nimetazepam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Opio, printed with an asterisk. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Opio, printed with an asterisk. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. Opium is the material the opiates are drawn from, so this row is very likely within otros opiaceos, [Likely], but the article does not name it and no ruling settling the term was read. [Certain] that the article does not name it.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Opio, printed with an asterisk. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Opio, printed with an asterisk, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Concentrado de Paja de Adormidera is a separate entry. The preparations list also carries Pulvis ipecacuanhae et opii compositus and preparations of Cocaina, Opio o Morfina. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Oxicodona. That sheet is headed Estupefacientes incluidos en la Convencion de 1961, so the list it reproduces is the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet as the entry Oxicodona. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. This row is a semi synthetic made from an opium alkaloid, so whether it falls within otros opiaceos is arguable either way and was not established. [Guessing] on either reading, and no gram figure should be quoted for it.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet, as the entry Oxicodona. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Oxicodona, in Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet. Oximorfona is a separate Lista I entry and is not this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry PCP, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry PCP, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry PCP, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: PCP, in the other common names column, in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Eticiclidina, whose other name is PCE, Roliciclidina, whose other names are PHP and PCPY, and Tenociclidina, whose other name is TCP, are separate Lista I entries, and 3-metoxifenciclidina is a separate Lista II entry. None of them is this row. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Mescalina, in the other common names column, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Mescalina, in the other common names column, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Peyote and Lophophora williamsii each returned nothing in the list. The dossier offered Lophophora williamsii as a Paraguayan entry name and it is not in the December 2025 schedule, so the row resolves only through the alkaloid. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Not a single substance. The corpus label covers a street mixture whose contents vary, so it has no entry of its own and resolves only through whichever constituent is analytically proved.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This is a street mixture and not a scheduled molecule, so it has no placement of its own. Resolve it only through the constituents an analysis actually proves, each against its own row. Ketamine, MDMA, cocaine and 2C-B are all separately placed in Paraguay's schedule, in different tiers of it, so which of them is present changes the answer. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] The penalties set out above are Paraguay's published penalties under Ley 1.340/1988. They are not this row's exposure, because whether any of those offences reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in no list of the schedule, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Search result for this row. The corpus label does not name one molecule, so nothing in the schedule can be matched to it as a whole. [Certain] that this is what the December 2025 schedule holds. Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Psilocibina, and the separate entry Psilocina, Psilotsina. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Psilocibina, and the separate entry Psilocina, Psilotsina. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Psilocibina, and the separate entry Psilocina, Psilotsina, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Psilocibina, and the separate entry Psilocina, Psilotsina, in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet. Both the phosphate ester and the free alkaloid are named, so a mushroom row does not turn on which of the two is present. No fungus is named as such in the list. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Not a single substance. The corpus label covers a large family, and Paraguay's schedule names individual members of it rather than the class.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This is a class label rather than a scheduled molecule, but Paraguay's schedule names individual members of it in Lista II of the psicotropicos sheet. Twenty one synthetic cannabinoid entries were counted there, among them JWH-018 with the other name AM-678, then AM-2201, then UR-144, then XLR-11, then 5F-ADB, then AB-FUBINACA and finally MDMB-4en-PINACA. Resolve a sample against the member it is proved to contain. A member not on that list is not reached by it. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
If prescribed / medical: No lawful prescription route was found for this substance. It sits in no list of the schedule, and the prescription chapter of Ley 1.340/1988 and of Decreto 5.213/2005 governs medicines containing a controlled substance, which this row is not dispensed as. Article 30 recognises a doctor's prescription as an exemption for the quantity prescribed, but there is no prescribed form of this substance for that exemption to attach to.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Search result for this row. The label is not a molecule, but the schedule names many members individually. [Certain] that this is what the December 2025 schedule holds. Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled under national control. Named on the Lista de Sustancias Psicoactivas de Control Nacional that Decreto 5.282/2021 substituted into article 1 of Decreto 5.213/2005, as the entry Tramadol. This row is not in a schedule of the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and not in a schedule of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Its control is national only, which is why it appears in Paraguay and not in every country.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Tramadol. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30's second figure covers Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos at 2 grams. An opiaceo is a substance drawn from opium and this row is wholly synthetic, so on the ordinary meaning of the word the figure does not extend to it, [Likely], and its quantity falls to the case by case determination instead.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Tramadol. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Tramadol, in the national control list of the psicotropicos sheet. Tramadol is not scheduled under either drug convention. It is controlled in Paraguay only through the national list that Decreto 5.282/2021 substituted into article 1 of Decreto 5.213/2005, which is made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Alprazolam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Alprazolam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Alprazolam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Alprazolam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Zolpidem. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Zolpidem. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical: This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Zolpidem. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
Documentation: Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Zolpidem, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Zopiclona sits on the national control list rather than in Lista IV, so the two Z drugs are in different tiers. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.

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Not individually verified

35 substances are not individually verified for Paraguay

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Paraguay’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
2C-E	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
2C-I	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
6-APB	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. This substance is not named in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule and is governed in the...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. Deferred as a class: the class word is not an entry, eleven individual barbiturates are entries...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
CBD	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
DXM	Not confirmed. The observation column of Lista I of the estupefacientes sheet states that dextromethorphan and...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
GBL	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Khat	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Kratom	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Memantine	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. This substance is not named in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule and is governed in the...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Poppers	Not confirmed. The corpus label covers a family of alkyl nitrites sold as an inhalant, and no alkyl nitrite is named...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
THC-P	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. This substance is not named in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule and is governed in the...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the...

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