Legal status in Peru

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1P-LSD

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 8 as "1P-LSD", whose chemical name column opens "1-PROPIONIL-LSD". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 1P-LSD, 1-propionil lisergida and propionil-LSD. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 8, "1P-LSD", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of the Ministerio del Interior approving the Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP), in El Peruano at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2526706-1 and on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/mininter/normas-legales/8278257-0804-2026-in, resolution https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174756/8278257-0804-2026-in.pdf and annex https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174757/8278257-anexo-0804-2026-in.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1241 as consolidated by the Congreso, with article 14 as replaced by Decreto Legislativo 1592, at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/DEEDF5BA81015EF805258AB40052BA3C/$FILE/dec_leg_1241.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 3 on Codigo Penal articles 296, 298 and 299, at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2244234-2 · Ley 32250 on Codigo Penal articles 297 and 298 at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2363369-3 · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas of the Congreso at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, read in the capture https://web.archive.org/web/20260309092330/https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf · the Reglamento itself on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/normas-legales/255646-023-2001-sa · Decreto Ley 22095 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · the Constitution, articles 55 and 140, at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2026/2510307E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/65th_Edition/YL_65th_EN_unedited.pdf, with the editions the previous cell read, the Green List 35th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the Yellow List 64th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf, fetched as well · all fetched on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 4, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PF 013, printed 2-fluorodeschloroketamine, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 2-FDCK, 2-fluorodesclorocetamina, fluorodesclorocetamina and 2-fluorodeschloroketamina. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PF 013 printed 2-fluorodeschloroketamine, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PF 013 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PF 013 in the 1971 Convention Schedule II, printed 2-fluorodeschloroketamine, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule II code PF 013, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PN 008, printed 25I-NBOMe, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 25I-NBOMe, 25I, NBOMe and 2C-I-NBOMe. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule I code PN 008 printed 25I-NBOMe, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule I code PN 008 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PN 008 in the 1971 Convention Schedule I, printed 25I-NBOMe, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule I code PN 008, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 2, which prints 2-CB, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 2C-B, 2-CB, 4-bromo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina and bromodimetoxifenetilamina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PB 008, printed 2C-B, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The near miss read and rejected in that list was Brolamfetamine, DOB, at 1971 Schedule I code PD 009, which is an amphetamine and not this substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 2, which prints 2-CB. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 2, which prints 2-CB, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 2, which prints 2-CB in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 2, which prints 2-CB. · Updated October 4, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 47 as "2C-E", with the chemical name 4-etil-2,5-dimetoxifeniletilamina. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 2C-E, 2-CE and 4-etil-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 names this substance. Each of them prints its éxtasis figure for éxtasis containing MDA, MDMA, metanfetamina "o sustancias análogas", and whether a court would treat this substance as such an analogue is not settled by anything read in this run; if it did, the 2 g attenuated band of article 298, the 250 milligram non punishable figure of article 299 and the 15 g aggravation of article 297 would be the figures in play. Otherwise the three articles have no stated quantity to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 47, "2C-E", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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2C-I

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 50 as "2C-I", with the chemical name 4-iodo-2,5-dimetoxifeniletilamina. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 2C-I, 2-CI and 4-yodo-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 names this substance. Each of them prints its éxtasis figure for éxtasis containing MDA, MDMA, metanfetamina "o sustancias análogas", and whether a court would treat this substance as such an analogue is not settled by anything read in this run; if it did, the 2 g attenuated band of article 298, the 250 milligram non punishable figure of article 299 and the 15 g aggravation of article 297 would be the figures in play. Otherwise the three articles have no stated quantity to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 50, "2C-I", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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2C-T-7

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 53 as "2C-T-7", with the chemical name 2,5-dimetoxi-4-propiltiofeniletilamina. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 2C-T-7 and 4-propiltio-2,5-dimetoxifenetilamina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 names this substance. Each of them prints its éxtasis figure for éxtasis containing MDA, MDMA, metanfetamina "o sustancias análogas", and whether a court would treat this substance as such an analogue is not settled by anything read in this run; if it did, the 2 g attenuated band of article 298, the 250 milligram non punishable figure of article 299 and the 15 g aggravation of article 297 would be the figures in play. Otherwise the three articles have no stated quantity to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 53, "2C-T-7", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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3-MMC

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it twice: at item 114 as "3-METILMETCATINONA", with the chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, and at item 118 as "3-MMC", whose chemical name column opens metafedrona, 3-metilmetcatinona. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. It is also reached through the convention limb, which the previous cell said it was not: the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, read in this run, carries it in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention at code PM 032 as "3-MMC", with the chemical name 1-(3-methylphenyl)-2-(methylamino)propane-1-one, and the 35th edition the previous cell read carries the same code with the name printed across two lines as "3-Methyl methcathinone", which is how a line by line search missed it. The near miss the previous cell read, 3-chloromethcathinone at Schedule II code PC 017, is a different substance and is not relied on. It is not named in the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026 in this run. Article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de drogas tóxicas, sean estas estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, se encuentran establecidas en los cuadros anexos de las convenciones supranacionales y en el ámbito local, en las Listas Anexas al Decreto Ley Nº 22095, Ley de represión del tráfico ilícito de drogas, y al Reglamento de estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalización sanitaria, aprobado por Decreto Supremo Nº 023-2001-SA", and that "No se encuentra permitida la posesión de las citadas drogas tóxicas, sin autorización legal". Article 55 of the Constitution, read in this run, provides that "Los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional". Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 3-MMC, 3-metilmetcatinona and metilmetcatinona. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 names this substance. Each of them prints its éxtasis figure for éxtasis containing MDA, MDMA, metanfetamina "o sustancias análogas", and whether a court would treat this substance as such an analogue is not settled by anything read in this run; if it did, the 2 g attenuated band of article 298, the 250 milligram non punishable figure of article 299 and the 15 g aggravation of article 297 would be the figures in play. Otherwise the three articles have no stated quantity to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is items 114 and 118 of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, "3-METILMETCATINONA" and "3-MMC", and 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 032 in the INCB Green List 36th edition. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 124 as "4-AcO-DMT", with the chemical name 4-acetoxi-N,N-dimetiltriptamina. Item 125, "4-AcO-MET", is a different compound and is not relied on. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 4-AcO-DMT, 4-acetoxi-DMT, acetilpsilocina and O-acetilpsilocina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 124, "4-AcO-DMT", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 251 as "5-MeO-DMT", with the chemical name 5-metoxi-N,N-dimetiltriptamina. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 5-MeO-DMT, 5-metoxi-DMT and 5-metoxidimetiltriptamina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 251, "5-MeO-DMT", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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6-APB

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 257 as "6-APB", with the chemical name 1-(1-benzofuran-6-il)propan-2-amina. Item 258, "6-APDB", is the dihydro relative and is not relied on. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 6-APB, 6-(2-aminopropil)benzofurano and benzofurano. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 names this substance. Each of them prints its éxtasis figure for éxtasis containing MDA, MDMA, metanfetamina "o sustancias análogas", and whether a court would treat this substance as such an analogue is not settled by anything read in this run; if it did, the 2 g attenuated band of article 298, the 250 milligram non punishable figure of article 299 and the 15 g aggravation of article 297 would be the figures in play. Otherwise the three articles have no stated quantity to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. This row carries the analogue risk more than most: its chemical name, 1-(1-benzofuran-6-il)propan-2-amina, puts a benzofuran ring where MDA has its methylenedioxy ring, and the annex itself glosses item 258, 6-APDB, the dihydro relative of this substance, as 4-desoxi-MDA. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 257, "6-APB", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 262 as "7-HIDROXIMITRAGININA". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Its source plant is listed too, in the annex's closing group of plant species as "Mitragyna speciosa (kratom)", and the parent alkaloid at item 616 as "MITRAGININA", so the plant and both alkaloids sit on the same list and the same article 296 offence reaches each. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 7-hidroximitraginina, hidroximitraginina and mitraginina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 262, "7-HIDROXIMITRAGININA", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Adderall

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule in both of its components. This row is a branded mixture rather than a single substance, and Peru's schedule answers it component by component. Anexo N. 2 carries Dexanfetamina at Lista III A item 4, which is the dextro component. It carries no entry for plain anfetamina at all: the search under anfetamina and amfetamina reached Brolanfetamina, Metanfetamina, Dexanfetamina, Etilanfetamina and Levometanfetamina as substrings only, and an anchored read of each showed none of them is racemic amphetamine. The levo component of the mixture therefore has no entry of its own, and the amphetamine row in this set records the same absence. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 does carry ANFETAMINA at its Lista III A item 1, so the position for the mixture as a whole is the same divided one that row records. Anexo N. 2 places one named component of this product and does not place the other. The amphetamine component is not left unplaced: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries it at code PA 003, printed AMFETAMINE, and Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The penalties set out above are available against the component Anexo N. 2 does carry, Dexanfetamina at Lista III A item 4. They are stated as Peru's penalties and not as this row's whole exposure, because the product is a mixture and the catalogue places only one of its two amphetamine components. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. Lista III A sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: Dexanfetamina sits at Lista III A item 4, a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route for that component and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The racemic and levo amphetamine components have no entry in Anexo N. 2, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read for them.
Documentation: Provenance: the component placement relied on is Dexanfetamina at Lista III A item 4 of Anexo N. 2, and the negative finding for plain anfetamina was taken across all 244 entries, both read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo. The older placement of ANFETAMINA is in Lista III A item 1 of the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. One component of this mixture is carried by Anexo N. 2 and the other is not. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule, on two independent footings, and it is the published catalogue rather than the law that omits it. First, the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, the Ley de Represion del Trafico Ilicito de Drogas, carries ANFETAMINA at Lista III A item 1. Second, Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PA 003, printed AMFETAMINE, read in the INCB list this pass. The current Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA does not carry it: none of the 244 numbered entries is this substance. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under anfetamina and amfetamina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Brolanfetamina, Metanfetamina, Dexanfetamina, Etilanfetamina and Levometanfetamina. Anexo N. 2 and the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 are not the same list and they disagree. The 1978 annex was read in full alongside the current catalogue, and the divergence is recorded rather than resolved, because nothing read in this pass repeals either. Article 2 of the Reglamento states that it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095 together with the connected lists of international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2, which is what makes the divergence matter rather than being a drafting curiosity. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. The penalties set out above are available on the Decreto Ley 22095 annex placement of ANFETAMINA at Lista III A item 1, which is a domestic statute and not a convention reference, so this row does not rest on the convention limb alone. They are not asserted on the Anexo N. 2 placement, because there is none. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits in Lista III A of the 1978 annex and so outside both of the lists that definition names, which is a further reason the figures are stated here as Peru's penalties rather than as this row's settled exposure.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the substance is carried by Lista III A item 1 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095 and by no entry in the current Anexo N. 2, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller carrying it should treat it as controlled and carry the prescription, because the older listing has not been shown to have been repealed.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is ANFETAMINA at Lista III A item 1 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, read at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf. The negative finding against the current Anexo N. 2 was taken from the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo, both of which were read to the final numbered item of every list. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement for this row is ANFETAMINA at Lista III A item 1 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, and there is none in the current Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex's closing group reads "Nitrito de Alquilo", glossed as popper, and names "Nitritos de amilo, Nitrito de isobutilo, Nitrito de isopropilo"; heading g of section I of the annex, "Nitritos de alquilo", says the group comprises "nitrito de amilo, nitrito de isobutilo, nitrito isopropilo y sus análogos". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under nitrito de amilo, nitrito de isoamilo and nitrito. No nitrite of any kind is among the 244 entries. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. Article 298 numeral 3 reaches the trade in pegamentos sinteticos que expelen gases con propiedades psicoactivas conditioned for inhalation; that names synthetic glues, it is not applied to a nitrite here, and nothing in this row rests on it. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is the closing group "Nitrito de Alquilo" of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, which names "Nitritos de amilo", with heading g of the annex's section I. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled, member by member: every benzodiazepine row this corpus carries is placed in Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries five of the six in Lista IV B, at Alprazolam item 2, Clonazepam item 15, Diazepam item 23, Lorazepam item 44 and Nimetazepam item 54, each classed in the catalogue's own column as a psicotropico. The sixth, etizolam, is the member the previous cell gave as its reason for deferring the class, and it is carried twice over: the 1971 Convention carries it in Schedule IV at code PE 009, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 in this run, and the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN prints it at item 475 as "ETIZOLAM". Article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de drogas tóxicas, sean estas estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, se encuentran establecidas en los cuadros anexos de las convenciones supranacionales y en el ámbito local, en las Listas Anexas al Decreto Ley Nº 22095, Ley de represión del tráfico ilícito de drogas, y al Reglamento de estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalización sanitaria, aprobado por Decreto Supremo Nº 023-2001-SA", and that "No se encuentra permitida la posesión de las citadas drogas tóxicas, sin autorización legal". Article 55 of the Constitution, read in this run, provides that "Los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. The same annex also prints four of the five Lista IV B members by name, alprazolam at item 316, clonazepam at item 390, diazepam at item 426 and lorazepam at item 550, but not nimetazepam, which has no entry between item 647, nifoxipam, and item 648, nitrazolam; it prints a long run of benzodiazepines this corpus does not carry, and heading e of its section I describes the benzodiazepines as a group in eight structural subgroups. The 1971 Convention carries all five Lista IV B members in Schedule IV as well, alprazolam at PA 004, clonazepam at PC 005, diazepam at PD 006, lorazepam at PL 004 and nimetazepam at PN 001, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 in this run. Matching against Anexo N. 2 was anchored at the start of the entry name, which is what separates Diazepam from Fludiazepam at item 31 and Lorazepam from Delorazepam at item 21. Lista IV B is a dispensable band and not one of the two article 2 puts beyond use. This row places the six members the corpus carries; it does not claim that every benzodiazepine that exists is listed, and a benzodiazepine outside Anexo N. 2, the 1971 schedules and the annex's numbered items is not placed by it. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas"; the five Lista IV B members are psicotropicos in the catalogue's own classification and 1971 Convention Schedule IV substances, four of them and etizolam are also numbered items on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas, and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 places both the convention annexes and the lists annexed to the Reglamento among the drogas tóxicas. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for any benzodiazepine, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". Lista IV B is neither of those, so that 1978 definition does not carry these members, and the offence set out above rests instead on article 296's own words and on article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run, and an unauthorised supply of a Lista IV B medicine should be treated as within article 296.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this row: the five Lista IV B members, alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam and nimetazepam, sit in a band article 27 lets a doctor prescribe on an ordinary medical prescription that meets that article's requirements, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. Etizolam has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives it no prescribing route, and the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, a criminal law list, creates none. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not examined in this run.
Documentation: Provenance: the placements relied on are Lista IV B items 2, 15, 23, 44 and 54 of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 through its 9 March 2026 Wayback capture, with 1971 Convention Schedule IV codes PA 004, PC 005, PD 006, PL 004 and PN 001 and annex items 316, 390, 426 and 550; and for etizolam 1971 Convention Schedule IV code PE 009 and item 475 of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, every annex item checked against the page image. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista III B item 5, which prints Buprenorfina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under buprenorfina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule III carries this substance at code PB 006, printed BUPRENORPHINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista III B item 5, which prints Buprenorfina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista III B item 5, which prints Buprenorfina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista III B item 5, which prints Buprenorfina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista III B item 5, which prints Buprenorfina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17, each of which prints Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cannabis, canabis, marihuana, cannabis sativa and tetrahidrocannabinoles. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NC 001, printed CANNABIS, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The band has moved. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried Cannabis in Lista I A, the band article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond use altogether, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista II A, a dispensable band, which is consistent with Ley 30681 of 2017 and its Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA. The later published listing is taken as governing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17, each of which prints Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly: the figure is eight grams, 8 g, of marihuana, or two grams, 2 g, of its derivatives. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The band has moved. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried Cannabis in Lista I A, the band article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond use altogether, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista II A, a dispensable band, which is consistent with Ley 30681 of 2017 and its Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA. The later published listing is taken as governing. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17, each of which prints Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17, each of which prints Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 12 and Lista IV A item 17, each of which prints Cannabis, resinas y aceites esenciales. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 3, which prints Catinona, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under catinona and catinona. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Metcatinona. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PC 010, printed CATHINONE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 3, which prints Catinona. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 3, which prints Catinona, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 3, which prints Catinona in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 3, which prints Catinona. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 15, which prints Clonazepam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under clonazepam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PC 005, printed CLONAZEPAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 15, which prints Clonazepam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 15, which prints Clonazepam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 15, which prints Clonazepam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 15, which prints Clonazepam. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, each of which prints Cocaina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cocaina and clorhidrato de cocaina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NC 004, printed COCAINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, each of which prints Cocaina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly: the figure is two grams, 2 g, of clorhidrato de cocaina, with a separate five gram figure, 5 g, for pasta basica de cocaina. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, each of which prints Cocaina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, each of which prints Cocaina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, each of which prints Cocaina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II B item 1 and Lista IV A item 2, each of which prints Codeina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under codeina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Acetildihidrocodeina, Dihidrocodeina, Nicocodina, Nicodicodina and Norcodeina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code NC 005, printed CODEINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II B item 1 and Lista IV A item 2, each of which prints Codeina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 does not print codeine by name. The nearest limb is two hundred milligrams of the derivatives of latex de opio, and codeine is an opium alkaloid, so that limb is the one that would have to be argued rather than one the article states. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II B item 1 and Lista IV A item 2, each of which prints Codeina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II B item 1 and Lista IV A item 2, each of which prints Codeina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II B item 1 and Lista IV A item 2, each of which prints Codeina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 1, which prints Cocaina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cocaina, crack and pasta basica de cocaina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NC 004, printed COCAINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 1, which prints Cocaina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names the cocaine products by form rather than by street name: five grams, 5 g, for pasta basica de cocaina, the smokable base product, and two grams, 2 g, for clorhidrato de cocaina. Which figure a given rock answers is a question about what the material is, and article 299 prints no entry under a street name. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 1, which prints Cocaina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 1, which prints Cocaina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 1, which prints Cocaina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through a class entry rather than by its own name. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13, and the substance on this row is an isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol, which the entry names expressly. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under delta-8-tetrahidrocannabinol, delta-8-THC, tetrahidrocannabinoles and tetrahidrocannabinol. No entry anywhere in the 244 prints this substance by its own name, so what is relied on is the class wording and not a named designation. On the face of that wording the capture is plain. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PT 002, printed TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 13, which prints Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The penalties set out above attach to the class entry at Lista II A item 13. They reach this row because the substance is an isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol and the entry names isomers expressly.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the only placement is the class entry Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13, which the catalogue footnotes to Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA, the Reglamento of Ley 30681 on medicinal and therapeutic cannabis. A prescribing route therefore exists for cannabis derived medicines under that law, and whether this particular substance is within it is not something the schedule states.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is the class entry Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13 of Anexo N. 2, read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the 2021 publication, which prints the same entry at the same item number. No named entry for this substance exists. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row has no named entry · it is reached, if at all, by the class entry Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13, and the capture is plain. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 23, which prints Diazepam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under diazepam. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Fludiazepam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PD 006, printed DIAZEPAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 23, which prints Diazepam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 23, which prints Diazepam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 23, which prints Diazepam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 23, which prints Diazepam. · Updated October 4, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 7, which prints DMT, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under DMT, dimetiltriptamina and N,N-dimetiltriptamina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PD 004, printed DMT, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 7, which prints DMT. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 7, which prints DMT, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 7, which prints DMT in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 7, which prints DMT. · Updated October 4, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 35, which prints STP, DOM, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under DOM, STP and 2,5-dimetoxi-4-metilanfetamina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PS 002, printed STP, DOM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 35, which prints STP, DOM. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 35, which prints STP, DOM, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 35, which prints STP, DOM in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 35, which prints STP, DOM. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 26, which prints Efedrina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under efedrina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Norefedrina and Pseudoefedrina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 was run for this row as well and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List of 2025 and the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 26, which prints Efedrina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 26, which prints Efedrina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 26, which prints Efedrina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 26, which prints Efedrina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PE 009, printed ETIZOLAM, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under etizolam. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule IV code PE 009 printed ETIZOLAM, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule IV code PE 009 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PE 009 in the 1971 Convention Schedule IV, printed ETIZOLAM, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule IV code PE 009, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 3, which prints Fentanilo, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under fentanilo and fentanil. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Tiofentanilo, Remifentanilo, Sufentanilo, Acetil-alfa metil fentanil, Alfa-metil fentanil and Parafluorofentanil. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NF 001, printed FENTANYL, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 3, which prints Fentanilo. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 3, which prints Fentanilo, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 3, which prints Fentanilo in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 3, which prints Fentanilo. · Updated October 4, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 1, which prints Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, GHB, oxibato de sodio and gamma-hidroxibutirico. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PG 002, printed gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 1, which prints Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 1, which prints Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 1, which prints Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 1, which prints Acido gamma-hidroxibutirico. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I A item 12, which prints Heroina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under heroina, diacetilmorfina and diamorfina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedules I and IV carries this substance at code NH 001, printed HEROIN, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I A item 12, which prints Heroina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 does not print heroin by name. It prints one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, and heroin is a derivative of opium in the ordinary chemical sense, so the two hundred milligram limb is the one that would have to be argued. The article does not say so in terms and no figure is asserted for this row on the face of the text. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I A item 12, which prints Heroina, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I A item 12, which prints Heroina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I A item 12, which prints Heroina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II B item 12 and Lista IV A item 6, each of which prints Hidrocodona, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under hidrocodona. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NH 002, printed HYDROCODONE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II B item 12 and Lista IV A item 6, each of which prints Hidrocodona. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II B item 12 and Lista IV A item 6, each of which prints Hidrocodona, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II B item 12 and Lista IV A item 6, each of which prints Hidrocodona in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II B item 12 and Lista IV A item 6, each of which prints Hidrocodona. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 544 as "KETAMINA", with the chemical name 2-(2-clorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under ketamina and cetamina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Article 296's possession limb punishes possession para usos ilegales. Whether ketamine products hold a sanitary registration in Peru, on what terms they are dispensed, and what authorisation clinical stocks need, are medicines registration questions that were not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 544, "KETAMINA", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Khat

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex's closing group of plant species reads "Especies vegetales: Catha edulis (khat), Mitragyna speciosa (kratom), Salvia divinorum.", and the same three species are named under heading i of section I of the annex, "Especies Vegetales". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. The family is closed at both ends, and through three instruments: the same annex prints the leaf's two alkaloids at item 377 as "CATINA" and item 378 as "CATINONA"; Anexo N. 2 carries the principal alkaloid at Lista I B item 3 as Catinona and the related alkaloid cathine at Lista III A item 3 as Catina; and the 1971 Convention carries cathinone in Schedule I at code PC 010 and cathine in Schedule III at code PC 009, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 in this run, which article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 counts among the lists of drogas tóxicas. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so cathinone has no lawful civilian route at all. The leaf and both alkaloids are each reached, and article 296 reaches each. The annex's extension clause reaches mezclas of what it lists with other substances, so on its words fresh or dried leaf and any preparation of it are within the listing. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for the leaf as such: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under khat, qat, catha edulis, catinona and catina. The plant itself has no entry of its own among the 244; its alkaloids do, as set out above. Lista I A item 11 of Anexo N. 2 reads Plantas y extractos vegetales susceptibles de uso indebido; it names no plant and is not what places this row. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". Those words name the lists annexed to the Decreto Ley in 1978, and the 1978 annex, read in this run, names no cathinone. The leaf is named in no list of either date; each date has an open entry for plant extracts, Lista I A item 3 of 1978, Extractos vegetales diversos susceptibles de uso indebido, and Lista I A item 11 of Anexo N. 2, Plantas y extractos vegetales susceptibles de uso indebido, neither of which names a plant, and neither is applied here. Its principal alkaloid is in Lista I B of Anexo N. 2 of 2001, a band within the Lista I designation, and whether the 1978 definition is read as naming the bands of Anexo N. 2 that replaced the 1978 annex is not settled by anything read in this run. If it is, the definition reaches cathinone and not cathine, which sits in Lista III A. The offence for the leaf as such does not depend on that definition: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this row: the leaf has no Anexo N. 2 placement and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, a criminal law list, provides no prescribing route, so there is none for the leaf. Its principal alkaloid, cathinone, sits in Lista I B, one of the two bands article 2 puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so no prescription can attach to it. Cathine sits in Lista III A, for which article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms, so a medicine containing cathine is dispensable only on that form. No carriage route exists for the leaf.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is the closing group of plant species of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, "Catha edulis (khat)", with cathine and cathinone at annex items 377 and 378, and Catinona at Lista I B item 3 and Catina at Lista III A item 3 of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento in the DIGEMID catalogue. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Kratom

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex's closing group of plant species reads "Especies vegetales: Catha edulis (khat), Mitragyna speciosa (kratom), Salvia divinorum.", and the same three species are named under heading i of section I of the annex, "Especies Vegetales". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. The family is closed at both ends: the leaf is listed as a plant, its principal alkaloid is listed at item 616 as "MITRAGININA", and its oxidised alkaloid at item 262 as "7-HIDROXIMITRAGININA", so the plant and both alkaloids sit on the same list and the same article 296 offence reaches each. The annex's extension clause reaches mezclas of what it lists with other substances, so on its words a powder, extract or preparation of the listed plant is within the listing. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under kratom, mitragyna speciosa and mitraginina. Lista I A item 11 of Anexo N. 2 reads Plantas y extractos vegetales susceptibles de uso indebido; it names no plant and is not what places this row. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is the closing group of plant species of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, "Mitragyna speciosa (kratom)", with its alkaloids at annex items 616 and 262. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 44, which prints Lorazepam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under lorazepam. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Delorazepam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PL 004, printed LORAZEPAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 44, which prints Lorazepam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 44, which prints Lorazepam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 44, which prints Lorazepam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 44, which prints Lorazepam. · Updated October 4, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 463 under the name ergina, glossed in the same cell as amida del ácido D-lisérgico and as LA-111, and its chemical name column closes with LSA, again glossed as amida del ácido D-lisérgico. The seeds in which it occurs naturally, of morning glory and Hawaiian baby woodrose, are not named anywhere in the annex. The annex's extension clause reaches mezclas of what it lists with other substances, and whether seed material containing ergine is such a mixture is not settled by anything read in this run, so the seeds are not to be treated as outside the list. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under LSA, ergina, amida del acido lisergico and argirea nervosa. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 463, ergina, amida del ácido D-lisérgico, LSA, of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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LSD

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 15, which prints Lisergida, LSD, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under lisergida, LSD and dietilamida del acido lisergico. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PL 002, printed (+)-LYSERGIDE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 15, which prints Lisergida, LSD. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 15, which prints Lisergida, LSD, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 15, which prints Lisergida, LSD in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 15, which prints Lisergida, LSD. · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 18, which prints MDA, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under MDA, metilendioxianfetamina and tenanfetamina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from MMDA, N-etil MDA and N-hidroxi MDA. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PM 014, printed TENAMFETAMINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 18, which prints MDA. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly, inside the extasis limb: two hundred and fifty milligrams, 250 mg, of extasis conteniendo Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina o sustancias analogas. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 18, which prints MDA, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 18, which prints MDA in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 18, which prints MDA. · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 19, which prints MDMA, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under MDMA, metilendioximetanfetamina and extasis. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PM 011, printed MDMA, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 19, which prints MDMA. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly, inside the extasis limb: two hundred and fifty milligrams, 250 mg, of extasis conteniendo Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina o sustancias analogas. The previous cell for this row stated the personal use figure as 250 mg and added beside it a parenthetical gram figure for the active ingredient. That parenthetical is removed here as unsupported, and the reason is set out in full in this cell because no automated check can carry it: a quantity check compares a number and a unit, it does not know which substance a figure belongs to, so it cannot tell this removal from a figure that survived. Article 299 states the extasis limb as doscientos cincuenta miligramos, 250 mg, and it states no gram figure for this substance anywhere. Article 299 does contain gram figures, five of them, at cinco gramos of pasta basica de cocaina, dos gramos of clorhidrato de cocaina, ocho gramos of marihuana, dos gramos of the derivatives of marihuana, and un gramo of latex de opio. Exactly one of those five is a figure of one gram, and it is the latex de opio limb, 1 g, which governs opium on a different row and has never applied to extasis. So the parenthetical had no basis in the article, it contradicted the 250 mg figure standing next to it, and it overstated the quantity that escapes punishment fourfold, which is the direction that exposes a traveller rather than protecting one. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 19, which prints MDMA, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 19, which prints MDMA in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 19, which prints MDMA. · Updated October 4, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 021, printed MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under MDPV, metilendioxipirovalerona and pirovalerona. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 021 printed MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 021 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PM 021 in the 1971 Convention Schedule II, printed MDPV, 3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 021, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 022, printed mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under mefedrona, 4-MMC and 4-metilmetcatinona. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 022 printed mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 022 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PM 022 in the 1971 Convention Schedule II, printed mephedrone, 4-methylmethcathinone, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 022, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 21, which prints Mescalina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under mescalina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PM 004, printed mescaline, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 21, which prints Mescalina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 21, which prints Mescalina, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 21, which prints Mescalina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 21, which prints Mescalina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 5, which prints Metadona, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metadona. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NM 002, printed METHADONE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 5, which prints Metadona. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 5, which prints Metadona, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 5, which prints Metadona in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 5, which prints Metadona. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 23, which prints Metanfetamina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metanfetamina and metilanfetamina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Levometanfetamina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 005, printed METAMFETAMINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The band has moved the other way. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried METANFETAMINA in Lista III A, a dispensable band, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista I B, which article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, import, commerce and use altogether. The later published listing is taken as governing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 23, which prints Metanfetamina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly, inside the extasis limb: two hundred and fifty milligrams, 250 mg, of extasis conteniendo Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina o sustancias analogas. The previous cell for this row stated the personal use figure as 250 mg and added beside it a parenthetical gram figure for the active ingredient. That parenthetical is removed here as unsupported, and the reason is set out in full in this cell because no automated check can carry it: a quantity check compares a number and a unit, it does not know which substance a figure belongs to, so it cannot tell this removal from a figure that survived. Article 299 states the extasis limb as doscientos cincuenta miligramos, 250 mg, and it states no gram figure for this substance anywhere. Article 299 does contain gram figures, five of them, at cinco gramos of pasta basica de cocaina, dos gramos of clorhidrato de cocaina, ocho gramos of marihuana, dos gramos of the derivatives of marihuana, and un gramo of latex de opio. Exactly one of those five is a figure of one gram, and it is the latex de opio limb, 1 g, which governs opium on a different row and has never applied to extasis. So the parenthetical had no basis in the article, it contradicted the 250 mg figure standing next to it, and it overstated the quantity that escapes punishment fourfold, which is the direction that exposes a traveller rather than protecting one. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The band has moved the other way. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried METANFETAMINA in Lista III A, a dispensable band, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista I B, which article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, import, commerce and use altogether. The later published listing is taken as governing. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 23, which prints Metanfetamina, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 23, which prints Metanfetamina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 23, which prints Metanfetamina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 22, which prints Metacualona, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metacualona. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Meclocualona. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 006, printed METHAQUALONE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The band has moved the other way. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried METACUALONA in Lista III C, a dispensable band, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista I B, which article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, import, commerce and use altogether. The later published listing is taken as governing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 22, which prints Metacualona. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The band has moved the other way. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried METACUALONA in Lista III C, a dispensable band, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista I B, which article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, import, commerce and use altogether. The later published listing is taken as governing. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 22, which prints Metacualona, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 22, which prints Metacualona in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 22, which prints Metacualona. · Updated October 4, 2026

Methaqualone (Quaaludes) in Peru, full detail →

Methylone

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 023, printed methylone, beta-keto-MDMA, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metilona, bk-MDMA and beta-ceto-MDMA. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 023 printed methylone, beta-keto-MDMA, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 023 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PM 023 in the 1971 Convention Schedule II, printed methylone, beta-keto-MDMA, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 023, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

Methylone in Peru, full detail →

Methylphenidate

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista III A item 13, which prints Metilfenidato, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metilfenidato. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 007, printed METHYLPHENIDATE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista III A item 13, which prints Metilfenidato. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista III A item 13, which prints Metilfenidato, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista III A item 13, which prints Metilfenidato in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista III A item 13, which prints Metilfenidato. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex prints it at item 616 as "MITRAGININA". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Its source plant is listed too, in the annex's closing group of plant species as "Mitragyna speciosa (kratom)", and its oxidised relative at item 262 as "7-HIDROXIMITRAGININA", so the plant and both alkaloids sit on the same list and the same article 296 offence reaches each. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under mitraginina. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is item 616, "MITRAGININA", of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Morphine

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 6, which prints Morfina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under morfina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Desomorfina, Etilmorfina and Apomorfina. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NM 009, printed MORPHINE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 6, which prints Morfina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 does not print morphine by name. It prints one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, and morphine is the principal alkaloid of opium, so the two hundred milligram limb is the one that would have to be argued. The article does not say so in terms. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 6, which prints Morfina, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 6, which prints Morfina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 6, which prints Morfina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the second limb of article 2 rather than by the published catalogue. Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PM 024, printed methoxetamine, MXE, and that entry was read in the INCB list in this pass rather than assumed. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under metoxetamina and MXE. No entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is this substance, and none in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 is either. On article 2's own words that omission is a gap in the presentation and not a de-control, because article 2 names the convention lists as one of the three limbs it comprises and then says only that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. That qualification bites harder on this row than on most, because this row's placement rests on the convention limb alone, at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 024 printed methoxetamine, MXE, and no published Peruvian list names the substance at all.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the placement is at 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 024 and there is no Anexo N. 2 entry, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller should treat the substance as controlled and carry any prescription, because the convention limb reaches it even though the catalogue does not name it.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is code PM 024 in the 1971 Convention Schedule II, printed methoxetamine, MXE, read in the INCB list whose address is in the source field. The negative findings against Anexo N. 2 and against the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 were taken across all 244 entries and the whole annex respectively. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is placed by 1971 Convention Schedule II code PM 024, the convention limb of article 2, and by no entry in the published Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under nimetazepam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PN 001, printed NIMETAZEPAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 7, which prints Opio, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under opio and latex de opio. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from Bupropion, in which the letters of opio happen to fall together. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NO 001, printed OPIUM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 7, which prints Opio. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 names this substance directly: the figure is one gram, 1 g, of latex de opio, with two hundred milligrams, 200 mg, for its derivatives. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 7, which prints Opio, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 7, which prints Opio in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 7, which prints Opio. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista II A item 8, which prints Oxicodona, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under oxicodona. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1961 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code NO 002, printed OXYCODONE, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone. The band has moved. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried OXICODONA in Lista I A, the band article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond use altogether, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista II A, a dispensable band, which is consistent with oxycodone being a dispensed medicine. The later published listing is taken as governing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista II A item 8, which prints Oxicodona. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The band has moved. The 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 carried OXICODONA in Lista I A, the band article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond use altogether, and Anexo N. 2 now carries it in Lista II A, a dispensable band, which is consistent with oxycodone being a dispensed medicine. The later published listing is taken as governing. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista II A item 8, which prints Oxicodona, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista II A item 8, which prints Oxicodona in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista II A item 8, which prints Oxicodona. · Updated October 4, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule, on two independent footings, and it is the published catalogue rather than the law that omits it. First, the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, the Ley de Represion del Trafico Ilicito de Drogas, carries FENCICLIDINA at Lista III A item 4. Second, Article 2 of the Reglamento has a second limb alongside the Decreto Ley 22095 lists, the Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno, and article 55 of the Constitution provides that los tratados celebrados por el Estado y en vigor forman parte del derecho nacional, so a convention Peru is party to is part of national law rather than a external reference. The 1971 Convention Schedule II carries this substance at code PP 005, printed PHENCYCLIDINE, read in the INCB list this pass. The current Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA does not carry it: none of the 244 numbered entries is this substance. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under fenciclidina, PCP and feniciclidina. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name rather than run as a free substring, which is what separates this entry from PHP, PCPY at Lista I B item 30, which is rolicyclidine and not phencyclidine. Anexo N. 2 and the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 are not the same list and they disagree. The 1978 annex was read in full alongside the current catalogue, and the divergence is recorded rather than resolved, because nothing read in this pass repeals either. Article 2 of the Reglamento states that it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095 together with the connected lists of international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2, which is what makes the divergence matter rather than being a drafting curiosity. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. One qualification belongs with these figures. Article 2 numeral 24 letter d of the Constitution provides that nadie sera procesado ni condenado por acto u omision que al tiempo de cometerse no este previamente calificado en la ley, de manera expresa e inequivoca, como infraccion punible. Whether a substance named in a convention schedule but not in the published Anexo N. 2 meets that standard of express and unequivocal prior definition for a criminal penalty was not settled by anything read in this pass, and it is a question for a Peruvian court rather than one this row can answer. The penalties set out above are available on the Decreto Ley 22095 annex placement of FENCICLIDINA at Lista III A item 4, which is a domestic statute and not a convention reference, so this row does not rest on the convention limb alone. They are not asserted on the Anexo N. 2 placement, because there is none. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits in Lista III A of the 1978 annex and so outside both of the lists that definition names, which is a further reason the figures are stated here as Peru's penalties rather than as this row's settled exposure.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: the substance is carried by Lista III A item 4 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095 and by no entry in the current Anexo N. 2, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read. A traveller carrying it should treat it as controlled and carry the prescription, because the older listing has not been shown to have been repealed.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is FENCICLIDINA at Lista III A item 4 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, read at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf. The negative finding against the current Anexo N. 2 was taken from the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo, both of which were read to the final numbered item of every list. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement for this row is FENCICLIDINA at Lista III A item 4 of the annex to Decreto Ley 22095, and there is none in the current Anexo N. 2. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: This row is a street label rather than a substance. What is sold under it in the region is typically a mixture whose usual principal component is ketamine, often with caffeine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, methamphetamine or a synthetic cathinone alongside it, and the name says nothing about what is in a given sample. Peru's schedule resolves constituents, not labels: Anexo N. 2 carries MDMA at Lista I B item 19 and Metanfetamina at Lista I B item 23, carries no ketamine entry at all under either ketamina or cetamina, carries no caffeine entry, and carries Catinona at Lista I B item 3 and Metcatinona at item 24 as individual designations with no cathinone group rule. So one sample can be prohibited outright and another can contain nothing the schedule reaches, on the same name. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cocaina rosada and tucibi. The convention limb of article 2 was run for this row as well and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List of 2025 and the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. A single answer for the label would therefore be wrong whichever way it was given, so this row is resolved as a label and routed to its constituents rather than given a placement. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The penalties set out above are Peru's penalties and they are not this row's exposure. What a given sample attracts depends entirely on which constituent it contains and whether Anexo N. 2 carries that constituent, which is the question the label cannot answer. On this row the constituent position is that it is a street label rather than a substance. What is sold under it in the region is typically a mixture whose usual principal component is ketamine, often with caffeine, methylenedioxymethamphetamine, methamphetamine or a synthetic cathinone alongside it, and the name says nothing about what is in a given sample. Peru's schedule resolves constituents, not labels: Anexo N. 2 carries MDMA at Lista I B item 19 and Metanfetamina at Lista I B item 23, carries no ketamine entry at all under either ketamina or cetamina, carries no caffeine entry, and carries Catinona at Lista I B item 3 and Metcatinona at item 24 as individual designations with no cathinone group rule. So one sample can be prohibited outright and another can contain nothing the schedule reaches, on the same name.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: there is no placement to attach, because the row is a label and not a substance. No prescribing route exists for it and none is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the constituent checks behind this row were run against all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, whose address is given in full in the source field, and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo, together with the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is resolved as a label and routed to constituent analysis rather than to an entry. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: This row is a product label rather than a substance. What is sold under it is an alkyl nitrite, usually amyl, isobutyl, isopropyl or isopentyl nitrite, and the name does not fix which. No nitrite of any kind appears among the 244 entries of Anexo N. 2, under nitrito, nitrito de amilo or nitrito de isobutilo, and none appears in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 either. The nearest inhalant provision in Peruvian criminal law is article 298 paragraph c of the Codigo Penal, which reaches pegamentos sinteticos que expelen gases con propiedades psicoactivas conditioned for human consumption by inhalation, and that names glues rather than nitrites. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under nitrito de amilo, nitrito de isobutilo and poppers. The convention limb of article 2 was run for this row as well and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List of 2025 and the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. A single answer for the label would therefore be wrong whichever way it was given, so this row is resolved as a label and routed to its constituents rather than given a placement. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The penalties set out above are Peru's penalties and they are not this row's exposure. What a given sample attracts depends entirely on which constituent it contains and whether Anexo N. 2 carries that constituent, which is the question the label cannot answer. On this row the constituent position is that it is a product label rather than a substance. What is sold under it is an alkyl nitrite, usually amyl, isobutyl, isopropyl or isopentyl nitrite, and the name does not fix which. No nitrite of any kind appears among the 244 entries of Anexo N. 2, under nitrito, nitrito de amilo or nitrito de isobutilo, and none appears in the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095 either. The nearest inhalant provision in Peruvian criminal law is article 298 paragraph c of the Codigo Penal, which reaches pegamentos sinteticos que expelen gases con propiedades psicoactivas conditioned for human consumption by inhalation, and that names glues rather than nitrites.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: there is no placement to attach, because the row is a label and not a substance. No prescribing route exists for it and none is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the constituent checks behind this row were run against all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, whose address is given in full in the source field, and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo, together with the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is resolved as a label and routed to constituent analysis rather than to an entry. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista I B item 32, which prints Psilocibina and Lista I B item 33, which prints Psilocina, Psilotsina, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under psilocibina, psilocina and psilotsina. Article 2 of the Reglamento prohibits outright the production, manufacture, export, import, commerce and use of the substances in Lista I A and Lista I B, so this placement carries no lawful civilian route at all. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule I carries this substance at code PP 012, printed psilocine, psilotsin, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista I B item 32, which prints Psilocibina and Lista I B item 33, which prints Psilocina, Psilotsina. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits inside those lists.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista I B item 32, which prints Psilocibina and Lista I B item 33, which prints Psilocina, Psilotsina, and Lista I A and Lista I B are the two bands article 2 of the Reglamento puts beyond production, manufacture, import, export, commerce and use altogether, so there is no prescribing route to attach and no traveller carriage document that could create one.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista I B item 32, which prints Psilocibina and Lista I B item 33, which prints Psilocina, Psilotsina in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista I B item 32, which prints Psilocibina and Lista I B item 33, which prints Psilocina, Psilotsina. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, rather than by Anexo N. 2. The annex's closing group of plant species reads "Especies vegetales: Catha edulis (khat), Mitragyna speciosa (kratom), Salvia divinorum.", and the same three species are named under heading i of section I of the annex, "Especies Vegetales". Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. The family is closed at both ends: the plant is listed as a species, and its active diterpene is listed at item 698 as "SALVINORINA A", so the plant and its active principle sit on the same list and the same article 296 offence reaches each. The annex's extension clause reaches mezclas of what it lists with other substances, so on its words a dried leaf, extract or preparation of the listed plant is within the listing. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI and carries no entry for this substance: the search was run over Anexo N. 2 under salvia divinorum and salvinorina. Lista I A item 11 of Anexo N. 2 reads Plantas y extractos vegetales susceptibles de uso indebido; it names no plant and is not what places this row. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. Article 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in this run, comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the "Listas conexas de Convenios Internacionales sobre la materia incorporados al derecho interno", and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and says that "Los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N° 2". The Anexo N. 2 listing read is the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1. DIGEMID refused this run's direct requests with a 403, so it was read in the Wayback Machine capture of 9 March 2026, whose sha256 matches the copy the previous cell was settled against on 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 says the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is updated by the same procedure that approved it, so reading both lists as at 3 October 2026 does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. The offence that reaches this row is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas", so a substance on the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas is inside the trafficking offence by the article's own words. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". None of articles 297, 298 and 299 prints a quantity for this substance, so the aggravated quantity, the attenuated band and the non punishable figure have nothing to offer this row, and holding it together with any other drug is outside the article 299 protection in any case. The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A". This substance is in neither of those lists, so that 1978 definition does not carry it, and the offence set out above does not depend on it: article 296 as worded in 2023 names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas itself, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 declares the illegal activities connected with the listed substances sanctioned. How a court reconciles the 1978 definition with the 2023 wording is not settled by anything read in this run.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: it has no Anexo N. 2 placement, so the Reglamento gives no list from which the form of the receta could be read, and the list approved by Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN is a criminal law list issued by the Ministerio del Interior that provides no prescribing or carriage route of its own. Whether any product containing it holds a sanitary registration in Peru is a medicines registration question that was not examined in this run, so no carriage rule is stated for it, and a traveller should treat it as controlled.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is the closing group of plant species of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, "Salvia divinorum", with salvinorin A at annex item 698. The annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN was read on 3 October 2026 in the gob.pe publication the resolution's article 2 orders, with every annex entry relied on checked against the page image rather than against extracted text. The offence articles are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection, and that paragraph now names nuevas sustancias psicoactivas among the kinds. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: This row is an open class label rather than a substance. It covers several hundred distinct compounds across chemically unrelated families, and Peru's schedule reaches none of them: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 names a synthetic cannabinoid, and the only cannabinoid wording in the whole listing is Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13, which describes the tetrahydrocannabinols and does not amount to a group rule for synthetic agonists of a different chemistry. There is no analogue clause and no generic definition in Anexo N. 2 that would take the class as a class. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under cannabinoide sintetico, JWH and sintetico. The convention limb of article 2 was run for this row as well and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List of 2025 and the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. A single answer for the label would therefore be wrong whichever way it was given, so this row is resolved as a label and routed to its constituents rather than given a placement. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. The penalties set out above are Peru's penalties and they are not this row's exposure. What a given sample attracts depends entirely on which constituent it contains and whether Anexo N. 2 carries that constituent, which is the question the label cannot answer. On this row the constituent position is that it is an open class label rather than a substance. It covers several hundred distinct compounds across chemically unrelated families, and Peru's schedule reaches none of them: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 names a synthetic cannabinoid, and the only cannabinoid wording in the whole listing is Tetrahidrocannabinoles, isomeros y variantes estereoquimicas at Lista II A item 13, which describes the tetrahydrocannabinols and does not amount to a group rule for synthetic agonists of a different chemistry. There is no analogue clause and no generic definition in Anexo N. 2 that would take the class as a class.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: there is no placement to attach, because the row is a label and not a substance. No prescribing route exists for it and none is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the constituent checks behind this row were run against all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID catalogue marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, whose address is given in full in the source field, and cross read against the 2021 publication of the same Anexo, together with the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. This row is resolved as a label and routed to constituent analysis rather than to an entry. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 78, which prints Tramadol, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under tramadol. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 was run for this row as well and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List of 2025 and the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 78, which prints Tramadol. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 78, which prints Tramadol, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 78, which prints Tramadol in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 78, which prints Tramadol. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 2, which prints Alprazolam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under alprazolam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PA 004, printed ALPRAZOLAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 2, which prints Alprazolam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 2, which prints Alprazolam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 2, which prints Alprazolam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 2, which prints Alprazolam. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 89, which prints Zolpidem, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under zolpidem. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PZ 002, printed ZOLPIDEM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 89, which prints Zolpidem. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
If prescribed / medical: The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 89, which prints Zolpidem, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation: Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 89, which prints Zolpidem in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.

Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 89, which prints Zolpidem. · Updated October 4, 2026

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Not individually verified

24 substances are not individually verified for Peru

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 Peru’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Ayahuasca	Not confirmed. Peru's controlling schedule does not name this preparation. It reaches it, if at all, through a...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. This row is a class label and the class cannot be resolved member by member here, because the member...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
CBD	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
DXM	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
GBL	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
HHC	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Memantine	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Peyote	Not confirmed. Peru's controlling schedule does not name this preparation. It reaches it, if at all, through a...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
THC-P	Not confirmed. Whether this substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule was not established. It has no entry...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo...

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