Legal status in Saint Lucia

1P-LSD

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms 1P-LSD, propionyl, 1-propionyl and prodrug all return zero across the whole act. The printed Part I entry is 'Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide'. 1P-LSD carries a propionyl group on the indole nitrogen, and a propionyl group is an acyl group and not an alkyl group, so it is outside the words 'other N-alkyl derivatives'. Part I paragraph 3 reaches esters and ethers, and an N acyl amide is neither. Part I paragraph 2 reaches stereoisomers, which this is not. The absence is narrow and sits beside a listed parent. Lysergide itself is printed and 'Lysergamide' is printed, so material shown on analysis to have converted to lysergide would be within Part I on the ordinary evidence. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. The printed Part I entry is 'Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide'. 1P-LSD carries a propionyl group on the indole nitrogen, and a propionyl group is an acyl group and not an alkyl group, so it is outside the words 'other N-alkyl derivatives'. Part I paragraph 3 reaches esters and ethers, and an N acyl amide is neither. Part I paragraph 2 reaches stereoisomers, which this is not. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms 2-FDCK, fluorodeschloroketamine, fluoroketamine and deschloro all return zero across the whole act. 2-FDCK is a ketamine analogue in which the chlorine is replaced by fluorine. Ketamine is itself absent from Schedule 2, so there is no parent entry for Part I paragraph 2, 3 or 4 to extend, and the four printed arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', are a closed list with no generic clause behind them. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. 2-FDCK is a ketamine analogue in which the chlorine is replaced by fluorine. Ketamine is itself absent from Schedule 2, so there is no parent entry for Part I paragraph 2, 3 or 4 to extend, and the four printed arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', are a closed list with no generic clause behind them. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. The Part I entry that looks like the 2C-B entry is misprinted and is quoted here exactly as the statute book sets it: '4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-methyphenethylamine'. Methyl is set as methy and the alpha has dropped out, so as printed the entry reads as 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-alpha-methylphenethylamine, which is DOB and not 2C-B. The identical corrupt string appears in the 31 December 2008 revision and in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, from two different producers, so it is the statute book's own typography. The printed text therefore cannot settle which compound that entry names, and this row does not rest on it. It rests on Part I paragraph 1(c), which catches 'any compound (not being methoxphenamine or a compound specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from phenethylamine... by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents'. 2C-B is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two alkoxy groups and one halide, squarely inside those words. The abbreviation 2C-B is not printed anywhere in the act. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to 2C-B: that subsection names diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only, and the act sets no threshold in dosage units, so a single pill and a bulk quantity attract the same possession offence under section 8(2) with the trafficking question left to section 25 and the ordinary evidence. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. 2C-E is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the act. The search terms 2C-E, dimethoxy-4-ethyl and ethylphenethylamine return no entry. It is caught by the generic in paragraph 1(c), being phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two alkoxy groups at the 2 and 5 positions and one alkyl group at the 4 position, and alkyl and alkoxy are both named substituent classes in that paragraph. The nearest printed entry read and rejected is '4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-methyphenethylamine', which is a different ring substitution pattern and in any event misprinted. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The result for this row rests wholly on a generic clause and not on a printed name, so a prosecution must establish the structural derivation rather than point to an entry. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. 2C-I is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the act. The search terms 2C-I, iodo and iodophenethylamine return no entry in Schedule 2. It is caught by the generic in paragraph 1(c), being phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two alkoxy groups and one halide, iodine, and halide is a named substituent class in that paragraph. Paragraph 1(c) is an exact counterpart of the United Kingdom phenethylamine generic and carries the same reach. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The result rests on the generic clause, so the halide substitution has to be proved rather than matched against a printed name. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. 2C-T-7 is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the act, and the search terms propylthio, thio and sulphur return no entry. It is caught by the generic in paragraph 1(c): it is phenethylamine substituted in the ring with two alkoxy groups, which brings it inside the opening words, and the 4-propylthio group is then within the closing words 'whether or not further substituted in the ring by one or more other univalent substituents'. An alkylthio group is not one of the four listed derivation substituents, so this row turns specifically on that closing clause rather than on the opening one. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The reading turns on the closing words of paragraph 1(c) rather than on a printed name, but those words answer the question in terms: the compound is brought inside the clause by its two alkoxy ring substituents, which are among the four listed derivation substituents, and the clause then expressly tolerates further univalent ring substitution, which is what the propylthio group is. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms 3-MMC, metaphedrone and methylmethcathinone all return zero across the whole act. 3-MMC is the meta isomer of mephedrone and fails Part I paragraph 1(c) for the same reason: the beta keto group is a side chain substituent and the clause permits further substitution only in the ring. Part I paragraph 2, which extends control to any stereoisomeric form of a listed substance, does not help either, since a positional ring isomer is not a stereoisomer. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. 3-MMC is the meta isomer of mephedrone and fails Part I paragraph 1(c) for the same reason: the beta keto group is a side chain substituent and the clause permits further substitution only in the ring. Part I paragraph 2, which extends control to any stereoisomeric form of a listed substance, does not help either, since a positional ring isomer is not a stereoisomer. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 3 of Schedule 2. 4-AcO-DMT is not printed anywhere in the act; the search terms acetoxy, psilacetin and 4-aco return zero. Paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, does not reach it, because that clause requires substitution at the side chain nitrogen 'but no other substituent' and the 4-acetoxy group is a further substituent. It is caught instead by paragraph 3, 'Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2': 4-AcO-DMT is the acetate ester of psilocin, and 'Psilocin' is printed in paragraph 1(a). This is the same route that carries psilocybin, which is the phosphate ester of the same printed entry. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Because the result rests on the ester relationship rather than on a printed name, a prosecution must establish that relationship or identify psilocin itself. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a), 1(b) and 3 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 2. 4-HO-MET is not printed by name or chemical name anywhere in the act; the search terms metocin, hydroxy-N-methyl and ethyltryptamine return zero. It is caught by the tryptamine generic in paragraph 1(b), which reaches 'any compound (not being a compound specified in (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ringhydroxy trptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side-chain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent'. 4-HO-MET is a 4 hydroxy tryptamine, that is a ring hydroxy tryptamine, bearing a methyl and an ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen and nothing else, which is exactly the described case. The nearest printed entry read is 'Psilocin', which is the same ring hydroxy tryptamine bearing two methyl groups. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The closing words of paragraph 1(b), 'but no other substituent', are what makes this row clean and several neighbouring tryptamines unclean, since a further ring substituent takes a compound outside the clause. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(b) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 3 of Schedule 2. 5-MeO-DMT is not printed anywhere in the act; the search terms methoxy-N,N, Bufo, alvarius and toad return zero in Schedule 2. Paragraph 1(b) does not reach it, because that clause requires side chain nitrogen substitution 'but no other substituent' and the 5-methoxy group is a further substituent. It is caught instead by paragraph 3, 'Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2': 5-MeO-DMT is the O-methyl ether of bufotenine, and 'Bufotenine' is printed in paragraph 1(a). Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The route matters in practice because the printed entry a prosecution must anchor to is 'Bufotenine' rather than anything naming a methoxy tryptamine, and the ether relationship must be established. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Toad secretion is reached, if at all, through paragraph 5 as a preparation or other product containing a paragraph 1 substance. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a), 1(b), 3 and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms 7-hydroxymitragynine, hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH and Mitragyna all return zero across the whole act. As with mitragynine, Part I paragraph 1(b) is the only clause that could reach an indole alkaloid and its closing words, 'but no other substituent', exclude a compound carrying a 7-hydroxy group, a 9-methoxy group and a methyl ester. Part I paragraph 3, which reaches esters and ethers of listed substances, is not engaged either, because mitragynine is not a listed substance. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. As with mitragynine, Part I paragraph 1(b) is the only clause that could reach an indole alkaloid and its closing words, 'but no other substituent', exclude a compound carrying a 7-hydroxy group, a 9-methoxy group and a methyl ester. Part I paragraph 3, which reaches esters and ethers of listed substances, is not engaged either, because mitragynine is not a listed substance. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled through its constituents. No brand name appears anywhere in the act and the search term Adderall returns zero. The mixed amphetamine salts product resolves through two separate Part II entries printed 'Amphetamine' and 'Dexamphetamine', each a Class B drug under section 4(1)(b), and then through Part II paragraph 3, 'Any salt of a substance specified in 1 or 2 of this Part of this Schedule', which is the paragraph that reaches the sulphate, saccharate and aspartate salts the product is composed of, and Part II paragraph 4, which reaches the preparation. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. A dispensed medicine is a preparation containing a Class B drug and is therefore itself a controlled drug under section 4(1)(a), so a traveller carrying it without the benefit of a regulation under section 10 is in possession of a controlled drug for the purposes of section 8(1). No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 10, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part II paragraphs 1, 3 and 4 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms alcohol, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, liquor and spirits all return zero across the whole act. Schedule 2 contains no entry for ethanol and no generic clause capable of reaching a simple alcohol. Section 4(1)(a) confines controlled drugs to what Schedule 2 specifies, so the trafficking and possession machinery of this act has no application to it. Licensing, excise and road traffic law govern alcohol in Saint Lucia and none of it was read here, so this cell is a finding about this act only. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 contains no entry for ethanol and no generic clause capable of reaching a simple alcohol. Section 4(1)(a) confines controlled drugs to what Schedule 2 specifies, so the trafficking and possession machinery of this act has no application to it. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms Amanita, muscaria, muscimol, ibotenic and fly agaric all return zero across the whole act. Muscimol and ibotenic acid are isoxazoles and are neither tryptamines nor phenethylamines, so neither generic clause in Part I paragraph 1(b) or 1(c) reaches them. The mushroom is not printed and neither is any fungus: the only fungal route into Schedule 2 in this act is through 'Psilocin' as a constituent, and Amanita muscaria contains no psilocin. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Muscimol and ibotenic acid are isoxazoles and are neither tryptamines nor phenethylamines, so neither generic clause in Part I paragraph 1(b) or 1(c) reaches them. The mushroom is not printed and neither is any fungus: the only fungal route into Schedule 2 in this act is through 'Psilocin' as a constituent, and Amanita muscaria contains no psilocin. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Class B drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part II of Schedule 2, not Class A. The entry as printed is 'Amphetamine', and Part II prints 'Dexamphetamine' as a separate entry and 'Methylamphetamine' as a third. Part II paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it, except a preparation falling within paragraph 6 of Part I. Part I paragraph 6 is the sting: any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance is a Class A drug. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. An injectable amphetamine preparation is Class A by Part I paragraph 6 while the same substance in tablet form is Class B, so the dosage form changes the class. In practice it changes nothing else, because the Class A and Class B columns of Schedule 3 carry identical figures in every row. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to amphetamine: that subsection names diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 6, Part II and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms amyl, nitrite, isobutyl and alkyl nitrite all return zero across the whole act. No nitrite ester of any kind appears in Schedule 2. Part I paragraph 3 extends control to any ester or ether of a listed substance, but the alcohol a nitrite ester is formed from is not listed, so the paragraph has nothing to extend. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. No nitrite ester of any kind appears in Schedule 2. Part I paragraph 3 extends control to any ester or ether of a listed substance, but the alcohol a nitrite ester is formed from is not listed, so the paragraph has nothing to extend. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled through its constituent. No botanical entry appears in Schedule 2: the search terms ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis, caapi, Psychotria, viridis, chacruna and brew all return nothing in the act. The preparation resolves only through the Part I entry printed 'N,N-Dimethyltryptamine', and then through Part I paragraph 5, 'Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4'. A decoction shown to contain dimethyltryptamine is therefore within Part I as a preparation; the vine alone, which carries harmala alkaloids and not dimethyltryptamine, is not, and no harmala alkaloid is printed in Schedule 2 either. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Liability turns on possession of a preparation containing dimethyltryptamine under section 8, and no section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Nothing in the act provides a religious, sacramental or traditional use exception: the only exceptions it contains are the section 10 regulation making power, the section 8(5) defences of taking possession to prevent an offence or to deliver the drug to a person lawfully entitled, and the section 8A cannabis exemption, which is confined to cannabis and cannabis resin. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 8A, 10, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a) and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled as a class. The member by member route that resolves a class elsewhere cannot be run here, because none of phenobarbital, secobarbital, amobarbital or butalbital is a row in this corpus. It does not need to be run, because the act supplies a class clause of its own: Part II of Schedule 2, paragraph 1(b), makes a Class B drug of 'any 5,5 distributed barbituric acid', which is the statute book's setting of any 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid. That single clause covers phenobarbital, secobarbital, amobarbital, pentobarbital and butalbital without naming any of them. Part II also prints 'Methylphenobarbitone' as a named entry in its own right. Part II paragraph 3 adds any salt, which carries the sodium salts these drugs are dispensed as. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Because the clause is structural rather than nominal, a preparation has to be shown to contain a 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acid rather than matched against a name. Thiopental, which is a thio barbiturate, sits at the edge of those words and was not resolved here. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, which is the ordinary form of thiopental and of several other barbiturates. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 6, Part II paragraph 1(b) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled in part, resolved member by member. The word benzodiazepine appears nowhere in the act and Part III of Schedule 2 contains no generic clause for the family, so the class result is the sum of the six members that are rows in this corpus and nothing else. Checked separately against Part III: 'Alprazolam' is printed, 'Clonazepam' is printed, 'Diazepam' is printed, 'Lorazepam' is printed, 'Nimetazepam' is printed, and etizolam is not printed at all. Those five are Class C drugs under section 4(1)(b). Etizolam is a thienodiazepine and, in the absence of any generic clause, is outside Schedule 2. Part III also prints about twenty five further benzodiazepines individually, including 'Bromazepam', 'Chlordiazepoxide', 'Clobazam', 'Estazolam', 'Flunitrazepam', 'Flurazepam', 'Nitrazepam', 'Oxazepam', 'Prazepam', 'Temazepam' and 'Triazolam', each by its own name. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. Because the family is controlled entry by entry, a benzodiazepine that is not printed carries no offence at all under this act, which is a sharper split than a generic clause would produce. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to any Class C drug. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms buprenorphine, Subutex, Suboxone and oripavine all return zero across the whole act. Part I prints the oripavine group as 'Etorphine' and 'Acetorphine' and prints 'Thebaine', from which buprenorphine is synthesised, but buprenorphine itself is absent. The Part I extension paragraphs reach only stereoisomers, esters and ethers, salts and preparations, and buprenorphine is none of those in relation to thebaine. This is a consequential absence rather than a technical one. Buprenorphine is the principal opioid substitution medicine in the region, and on the printed words it is neither a controlled drug nor a scheduled medicine under this act. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I prints the oripavine group as 'Etorphine' and 'Acetorphine' and prints 'Thebaine', from which buprenorphine is synthesised, but buprenorphine itself is absent. The Part I extension paragraphs reach only stereoisomers, esters and ethers, salts and preparations, and buprenorphine is none of those in relation to thebaine. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms caffeine, xanthine, theobromine and theophylline all return zero across the whole act; the only hit for the letter sequence theobrom is 'Oil of theobroma' in a British Pharmacopoeia preparation printed in the 1940 Regulations, which is cocoa butter used as a suppository base. Schedule 2 contains no xanthine of any kind and no generic clause capable of reaching one. Caffeine is not a controlled drug and no offence in this act attaches to it. Food, medicines and labelling law govern caffeine in Saint Lucia and none of it was read here. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 contains no xanthine of any kind and no generic clause capable of reaching one. Caffeine is not a controlled drug and no offence in this act attaches to it. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Cannabinol, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin', and a second entry reads 'Cannabinol derivatives'. Part IV defines the second: 'cannabinol derivatives means the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. The carve out matters: isolated cannabinol is Class A, while cannabinol inside plant material is not caught by this entry at all and is dealt with as cannabis. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The section 8A exemption does not reach this row. Section 8A exempts possession of 30 grammes or less only where 'the controlled drug is cannabis or cannabis resin', and isolated cannabinol is neither, so an isolate attracts the full Class A treatment with no quantity floor while the same molecule inside a bud is inside the cannabis regime. Section 8(4)(e) likewise sets its 30 gramme deeming threshold for 'cannabis or cannabis resin' only. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(e), 8A, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and IV and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled, and partly decriminalised by Act 13 of 2021. Cannabis is printed in two different Parts of Schedule 2 and the act does not reconcile them. Part I, Class A, prints 'Cannabis' and 'Cannabis resin' as separate entries. Part II, Class B, prints 'Cannabis and cannabis resin'. Both spellings are identical in the 31 December 2008 revision and in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, so this is the statute book's own text and not a transcription slip. On ordinary construction the specific Part II naming governs and cannabis is a Class B drug, but the Part I entries have never been repealed. Section 2 defines 'cannabis' as 'any plant of the genus cannabis or any part of any such plant (by whatever name designated)' and 'cannabis resin' as 'the separated resin, whether crude or purified obtained from any plant or any part of a plant of the genus cannabis'. Section 8A, inserted by Act 13 of 2021 and in force 27 September 2021, provides that 'a person who is in possession of 30 grammes or less of cannabis or cannabis resin is not guilty of an offence' and that prosecution and punishment under section 37 does not apply at or below that quantity. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Possession of 30 grammes or less is not an offence at all under section 8A. Above that figure, section 8(4)(e), as amended by Act 13 of 2021 from 15 grammes to 30 grammes, deems the possessor to hold the cannabis for supply or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused. So 30 grammes is both the floor of criminality and the trigger of the trafficking presumption, with no band of simple possession between them. Section 27A, also inserted in 2021, makes it an offence to smoke any part of the plant genus cannabis in a public place or, as owner or occupier, knowingly to permit another to do so, punishable on summary conviction by a fine not exceeding $1,500, and section 27A(3) provides that the penalty 'does not form part of the criminal record of the person'. Section 14A requires a child or young person found in possession of cannabis to participate in an approved drug counselling programme. Cultivation is governed separately: section 9 makes it unlawful to cultivate any plant of the genus Cannabis, punishable under Schedule 3 by 3 years and/or $100,000 summarily and 14 years and/or $200,000 on indictment, but the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Cannabis Cultivation) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 208/2021 in force 22 December 2021, permit a person to cultivate not more than 4 cannabis plants at a time at his or her dwelling-house, to possess that cannabis and to obtain dried cannabis, fresh cannabis, cannabis or cannabis seeds, with regulation 7 confining indoor cultivation to one room and regulation 8 prohibiting cultivation within a radius of 100 yards of school premises. Section 11(c) and (d) reach an occupier who permits cannabis to be prepared for smoking or smoked on the premises. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to secure by regulations that a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and section 10(1)(b) is the power the Cannabis Cultivation Regulations were made under. Those regulations are about home cultivation and say nothing about medical supply. No medicinal cannabis scheme appears anywhere in the act or in the subsidiary legislation printed with it, and the search terms medical cannabis, medicinal cannabis, dispensary and licence to cultivate for medical purposes return nothing. The Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations do reach 'any extract or tincture of Indian hemp' at regulation 3(a), so a cannabis extract or tincture falls inside the 1940 prescription conditions in regulation 6. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The 30 gramme exemption in section 8A is a substantive exemption and not a documentation allowance, and it does not touch importation. Section 5(1)(a) prohibits the importation of a controlled drug outright and section 8A is expressed as an exception to section 8 alone, so bringing cannabis into Saint Lucia remains an importation offence under section 5(3) whatever the quantity. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 5, 8(4)(e), 8A, 9, 11, 14A, 25, 27A and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I, II and IV and Schedule 3, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Cannabis Cultivation) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 208/2021, regulations 4 to 8 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms cathinone, cathine and norephedrine all return zero across the whole act. Part I paragraph 1(c) reaches a compound 'structurally derived from phenethylamine... by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents'. Cathinone's distinguishing feature is a beta keto group on the side chain and its ring is unsubstituted, so neither limb of that clause is engaged. The nearest printed entry read and rejected is the Part II entry 'Amphetamine', which is the same carbon skeleton without the ketone. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I paragraph 1(c) reaches a compound 'structurally derived from phenethylamine... by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents'. Cathinone's distinguishing feature is a beta keto group on the side chain and its ring is unsubstituted, so neither limb of that clause is engaged. The nearest printed entry read and rejected is the Part II entry 'Amphetamine', which is the same carbon skeleton without the ketone. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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CBD

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms CBD, cannabidiol and diol all return zero across the whole act. Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and it is not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, so it falls outside both limbs of the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which reads 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. The isolate is outside the schedule and the plant material is not. Section 2 defines 'cannabis' as 'any plant of the genus cannabis or any part of any such plant (by whatever name designated)', so CBD flower, trim and whole plant extract are cannabis whatever their cannabidiol content, and the act prints no tetrahydrocannabinol threshold and no hemp exception at all. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Cannabidiol is not cannabinol and it is not a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol, so it falls outside both limbs of the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which reads 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Clonazepam'. The other nitro substituted benzodiazepines printed in the same Part III list are 'Nitrazepam', 'Nimetazepam' and 'Flunitrazepam'. Part III carries no benzodiazepine generic clause, so each of those is controlled by its own name and not as a member of a family. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. Clonazepam is not among the five substances given a quantity presumption in section 8(4), which names diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Cocaine'. Part I prints two further cocaine related entries in its own right, 'Coca leaf' and 'Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine', and Part IV defines 'coca leaf' as 'the leaf of any plant of the genus erythroxylon from whose leaves cocaine can be extracted either directly or by chemical transformation'. Part I paragraph 4 adds any salt and paragraph 5 any preparation or other product containing it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cocaine carries the lowest deeming threshold in the act. Section 8(4)(b) makes a person found in possession of more than one gramme of cocaine a person in possession for the purpose of supplying it to another or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(b), 10, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and IV and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, regulations 3, 6, 8 and 11 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. Class B drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part II of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Codeine'. Part II prints the codeine family separately as 'Norcodeine', 'Nicocodine', 'Nicodicodine (6-nicotinoyldihydrocodeine)', 'Dihydrocodeine', 'Ethylmorphine (3-ethylomorphine)', 'Pholcodine' and 'Acetyldihdrocodeine', the last with the statute book's own misspelling. There is an unreconciled conflict on the face of the schedule. Codeine is the 3-methyl ether of morphine, and Part I paragraph 3 extends Part I to 'Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2' with no carve out for substances named in Part II, so the literal words of Part I paragraph 3 reach codeine as well. On ordinary construction the specific Part II naming governs and codeine is Class B, and that is the reading taken here, but the act is inconsistent as printed. The same shape appears with cannabis, which is printed in Part I and in Part II. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Part II paragraph 4 reaches any preparation or other product containing codeine 'not being a preparation falling within paragraph 6 of Part I', and Part I paragraph 6 makes an injectable preparation Class A. The act prints no low dose or compound preparation exemption at all. The search terms exempt, exempted preparation, milligram and per cent return nothing in the act itself, so a common codeine and paracetamol tablet is, on the printed words, a preparation containing a Class B drug and therefore a controlled drug under section 4(1)(a). Regulation 21 of the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations does disapply those regulations to preparations named in their own Schedule 4, but those regulations do not reach codeine in the first place. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 3 and 6, Part II and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b). No entry of this name is printed anywhere in Schedule 2, and the search terms crack, freebase and rock return nothing in the act. The dosage form resolves only through analytical identification as cocaine, whose Part I entry is printed 'Cocaine', and then through Part I paragraph 4, 'Any salt of a substance specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 3', and paragraph 5, 'Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4', which is what reaches a smokable base preparation. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Once identified as cocaine the section 8(4)(b) threshold of one gramme applies and deems possession above it to be for supply or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Nothing in the act or in Schedule 3 treats a base preparation differently from a salt, so the dosage form changes no figure. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(b), 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1, 4 and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), as a cannabinol derivative under Part I of Schedule 2. Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is not printed by that name and the search terms delta-8, delta 8 and tetrahydrocannabinol return zero. The entry that catches it is printed 'Cannabinol derivatives', which Part IV defines as 'the following substances, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin, namely tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. Delta-8-THC is a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol and falls inside the first limb. The words 'except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin' split this row in two: an isolate or a converted distillate is a Class A cannabinol derivative, while the same molecule inside plant material is dealt with as cannabis instead. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The section 8A exemption does not reach an isolate. Section 8A exempts 30 grammes or less only where 'the controlled drug is cannabis or cannabis resin', and a cannabinol derivative outside plant material is neither, so a delta-8 vape or edible attracts full Class A treatment with no quantity floor while 30 grammes of flower attracts none. Section 8(4)(e) sets its deeming threshold for cannabis and cannabis resin only, so no quantity presumption attaches to an isolate. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(e), 8A, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and IV and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Diazepam'. Its metabolites and close relatives are printed separately in the same list as 'Nordazepam', 'Oxazepam', 'Temazepam', 'Medazepam' and 'Delorazepam', each in its own right, which is the consequence of Part III having no generic clause. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'N,N-Dimethyltryptamine'. Part I prints 'N,N-Diethyltrptamine' immediately beside it, with the misspelling the statute book uses, and also prints 'Bufotenine' and 'Psilocin'. Part I paragraph 1(b) adds a tryptamine generic in these words: 'any compound (not being a compound specified in (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ringhydroxy trptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side-chain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to dimethyltryptamine. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a) and 1(b) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The printed entry is corrupt and is quoted here exactly as the statute book sets it: '2,5-Dimethozy-x4-dimethylphene-thylamine'. Dimethoxy is set with a z, a stray x precedes the 4, and phenethylamine is split. The corrected reading is 2,5-dimethoxy-4,alpha-dimethylphenethylamine, which is DOM, also called STP. The same corrupt string appears identically in the 31 December 2008 revision and in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, from two different producers eight years apart, so it is the statute book's own typography and not an extraction artefact. The abbreviations DOM and STP are not printed anywhere in the act. DOM is in any event within Part I paragraph 1(c), the phenethylamine generic. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Anyone searching the schedule for this entry by its correct chemical name will not find it, which is a practical hazard of this row rather than a legal one, since paragraph 1(c) catches the compound independently of the misprint. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a) and 1(c) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms dextromethorphan, DXM, robotripping and cough suppressant were run across the whole act, and dextromethorphan returns exactly one hit. Dextromethorphan is printed in the act, and it is printed only as an express exception. Part I paragraph 2 extends Part I to 'Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in paragraph 1 above not being dextromethorphan or dextrorphan'. Paragraph 1 prints 'Racemethorphan' and 'Levomethorphan' and also 'Levorphanol' and 'Racemorphan', so the racemate and the levo isomer are Class A drugs while the dextro isomer is carved out by name. So this is not a silence in the schedule but a decision recorded in it, which makes the finding stronger than an ordinary absence: an amendment would have to remove the exception rather than merely add an entry. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Dextromethorphan is printed in the act, and it is printed only as an express exception. Part I paragraph 2 extends Part I to 'Any stereoisomeric form of a substance specified in paragraph 1 above not being dextromethorphan or dextrorphan'. Paragraph 1 prints 'Racemethorphan' and 'Levomethorphan' and also 'Levorphanol' and 'Racemorphan', so the racemate and the levo isomer are Class A drugs while the dextro isomer is carved out by name. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, Ephedra and precursor all return zero across the whole act. Ephedrine is an alpha methyl phenethylamine carrying a beta hydroxy group and an unsubstituted ring, so Part I paragraph 1(c), which requires substitution in the ring with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide groups, does not reach it. The act contains no precursor control of any kind. It has no equivalent of a precursor schedule, no reporting duty for chemicals used in manufacture, and section 20 reaches only articles for administering or preparing a controlled drug rather than chemicals for making one. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Ephedrine is an alpha methyl phenethylamine carrying a beta hydroxy group and an unsubstituted ring, so Part I paragraph 1(c), which requires substitution in the ring with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide groups, does not reach it. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms etizolam, thienodiazepine and thieno all return zero across the whole act. Part III prints about thirty benzodiazepines individually, from 'Alprazolam' to 'Triazolam', and carries no generic clause for the family, so a thienodiazepine that is not itself printed is not reached by the entries that are. The nearest printed entries read and rejected are 'Estazolam' and 'Triazolam', which share the triazolo ring but not the thiophene. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part III prints about thirty benzodiazepines individually, from 'Alprazolam' to 'Triazolam', and carries no generic clause for the family, so a thienodiazepine that is not itself printed is not reached by the entries that are. The nearest printed entries read and rejected are 'Estazolam' and 'Triazolam', which share the triazolo ring but not the thiophene. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Fentanyl'. Part I prints two further members of the family in their own right, 'Alfentanil' and 'Sofentanil', the second being the statute book's spelling of sufentanil. There is no analogue or generic clause for fentanyls anywhere in Schedule 2. The only extensions Part I offers are paragraph 2 stereoisomers, paragraph 3 esters and ethers, paragraph 4 salts and paragraph 5 preparations, none of which reaches a novel fentanyl analogue such as carfentanil or acetylfentanyl, and the search terms carfentanil, acetylfentanyl, furanyl and analogue return nothing in the act. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to fentanyl: that subsection names diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only, so a milligram quantity and a gram quantity attract the same possession offence under section 8(2). Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1 to 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms gabapentin, Neurontin, cyclohexane and gabapentinoid all return zero across the whole act. Gabapentin is a cyclohexane substituted gamma amino acid and matches no entry and no generic clause in Schedule 2. As with pregabalin, the Part III sedatives are named individually, so absence from the list is decisive rather than merely indicative. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Gabapentin is a cyclohexane substituted gamma amino acid and matches no entry and no generic clause in Schedule 2. As with pregabalin, the Part III sedatives are named individually, so absence from the list is decisive rather than merely indicative. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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GBL

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms GBL, gamma-butyrolactone, butyrolactone and 1,4-butanediol all return zero across the whole act. Schedule 2 prints no lactone, no diol and no gamma hydroxy compound of any kind, and no generic clause in Part I, Part II or Part III is capable of reaching one, the three generics being the tryptamine clause in paragraph 1(b), the phenethylamine clause in paragraph 1(c) and the barbituric acid clause in Part II paragraph 1(b). Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 prints no lactone, no diol and no gamma hydroxy compound of any kind, and no generic clause in Part I, Part II or Part III is capable of reaching one, the three generics being the tryptamine clause in paragraph 1(b), the phenethylamine clause in paragraph 1(c) and the barbituric acid clause in Part II paragraph 1(b). This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms GHB, gamma-hydroxybutyrate, hydroxybutyric and sodium oxybate all return zero across the whole act. Schedule 2 has no entry for any gamma hydroxy acid or its salts and no generic clause reaches one. The three generic clauses in the schedule are confined to tryptamines, to ring substituted phenethylamines and to 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acids, and GHB is none of those. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 has no entry for any gamma hydroxy acid or its salts and no generic clause reaches one. The three generic clauses in the schedule are confined to tryptamines, to ring substituted phenethylamines and to 5,5 disubstituted barbituric acids, and GHB is none of those. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The act does not print the word heroin in the schedule. The printed Part I entry is 'Diamorphine'. The word heroin does appear in the act, but in section 8(4)(a), which prints '2 grammes of diacetylmorphine (heroin)', and in regulation 3(a) of the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, which prints 'diacetylmorphine (commonly known as diamorphine or heroin)'. Part I paragraph 3 extends Part I to any ester or ether of a Part I substance, which is the paragraph diamorphine itself answers to as the diacetyl ester of morphine. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 8(4)(a) sets the deeming threshold at more than 2 grammes of diacetylmorphine, above which possession is for supply or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused. That is the second lowest figure in section 8(4), below morphine at 3 grammes and above cocaine at one gramme. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(a), 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, regulations 3, 6 and 11 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms HHC, hexahydrocannabinol and hexahydro all return zero across the whole act. The Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives' reaches 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. Hexahydrocannabinol is a hexahydro derivative, carrying two more hydrogen atoms than a tetrahydro derivative, and it carries the ordinary pentyl chain at the 3 position, so it is outside both limbs. The line this draws is narrow and deliberate on the printed words. Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is inside the first limb and THC-P is inside the second, while HHC, made by hydrogenating either of them, falls outside both. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. The Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives' reaches 'tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. Hexahydrocannabinol is a hexahydro derivative, carrying two more hydrogen atoms than a tetrahydro derivative, and it carries the ordinary pentyl chain at the 3 position, so it is outside both limbs. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Hydrocodone'. Part I separately prints 'Dihydrocodeinone-O-carboxy - methyloxime', quoted here with the spacing the statute book uses. The Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations reach hydrocodone under its older name at regulation 3(b), which prints 'dihydrocodeinone'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to hydrocodone: that subsection names diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only. Note that hydrocodone sits in Part I as a Class A drug while dihydrocodeine and codeine sit in Part II as Class B drugs, so the two dihydro codeine compounds are split across classes. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and II and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, regulation 3(b) · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms ketamine, norketamine and arylcyclohexylamine all return zero across the whole act. Part I prints exactly four arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', and Schedule 2 carries no generic clause for the family, so the list is closed at those four. Ketamine is not among them. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I prints exactly four arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', and Schedule 2 carries no generic clause for the family, so the list is closed at those four. Ketamine is not among them. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms khat, qat, Catha, edulis and cathinone all return zero across the whole act. No plant entry of any kind other than the cannabis plant, the coca leaf, the opium poppy and the peyote constituent mescaline appears in Schedule 2, and the phenethylamine generic in Part I paragraph 1(c) does not reach cathinone or cathine, because those carry a beta keto or beta hydroxy group on the side chain rather than the ring substitution the clause requires. Section 9 restricts the cultivation only of 'any plant of the genus Cannabis', so growing Catha edulis is outside the cultivation offence as well. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. No plant entry of any kind other than the cannabis plant, the coca leaf, the opium poppy and the peyote constituent mescaline appears in Schedule 2, and the phenethylamine generic in Part I paragraph 1(c) does not reach cathinone or cathine, because those carry a beta keto or beta hydroxy group on the side chain rather than the ring substitution the clause requires. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Kratom

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms kratom, Mitragyna, speciosa, mitragynine and ketum all return zero across the whole act. No entry for the plant and none for its alkaloids appears in Schedule 2. Part I paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, reaches a compound derived from tryptamine by substitution at the side chain nitrogen with alkyl groups 'but no other substituent', and mitragynine carries a methoxy indole, an ester and a ring system well beyond that limit. Section 9 restricts cultivation of the cannabis plant only, so growing the tree is outside the cultivation offence. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. No entry for the plant and none for its alkaloids appears in Schedule 2. Part I paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, reaches a compound derived from tryptamine by substitution at the side chain nitrogen with alkyl groups 'but no other substituent', and mitragynine carries a methoxy indole, an ester and a ring system well beyond that limit. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Lorazepam'. The other hydroxy substituted benzodiazepines printed in the same list are 'Oxazepam', 'Temazepam' and 'Lormetazepam'. Part III carries no generic clause, so each is named. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The abbreviation LSA is not printed and neither is ergine. The entry that catches it is printed 'Lysergamide', standing as its own Part I entry immediately above 'Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide'. Lysergamide is ergine. The search terms ergine, ergometrine, ergotamine, Argyreia, nervosa, Ipomoea and morning glory all return nothing in the act, so no seed or plant entry supports this row and the result rests on the chemical name alone. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Because the schedule reaches the alkaloid and not the seed, liability for seeds turns on Part I paragraph 5, 'Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4', and therefore on analytical proof that the material contains lysergamide. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a) and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The act does not print the abbreviation LSD in the schedule. The entry as printed is 'Lysergide and other N-alkyl derivatives of lysergamide', which is the United Kingdom drafting convention this act follows throughout. Part I prints 'Lysergamide' as a separate entry immediately above it. Part I paragraph 2 adds any stereoisomeric form and paragraph 4 any salt, which reaches the tartrate. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to lysergide, and the act sets no threshold expressed in dosage units, so a blotter sheet and a single tab attract the same possession offence under section 8(2). Paragraph 5 of Part I reaches 'Any preparation or other product containing' a paragraph 1 substance, which is what carries impregnated paper. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a), 2, 4 and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. The abbreviation MDA is not printed anywhere in the act and neither is methylenedioxyamphetamine; both search terms return zero. It is caught by the generic in paragraph 1(c), which reaches a compound derived from 'methylphenethylamine', the statute book's setting of alpha-methylphenethylamine, 'by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents'. MDA is alpha-methylphenethylamine carrying a 3,4-methylenedioxy ring substituent, and alkylenedioxy is named in the clause. The nearest printed Part II entry read and rejected is 'Amphetamine', which is the unsubstituted parent and a Class B drug. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The ring substituent moves this row from Class B to Class A. Amphetamine itself sits in Part II, but the methylenedioxy substitution brings MDA inside Part I paragraph 1(c), and in Schedule 3 the Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row, so the class change alters the label and not the sentence. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches and the act sets no threshold in dosage units. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c), Part II and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. The abbreviation MDMA is not printed anywhere in the act, and neither is ecstasy or methylenedioxymethamphetamine; all three search terms return zero. It is caught by the generic in paragraph 1(c), which lists among its parent compounds 'an N-alkyl- -methylphenethylamine', the statute book's setting of N-alkyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine, derived 'by substitution in the ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy or halide substituents'. MDMA is N-methyl-alpha-methylphenethylamine carrying a 3,4-methylenedioxy ring substituent. The Part II entry 'Methylamphetamine' was read and rejected: it is the same N-methyl parent without the ring substituent and it is Class B. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The methylenedioxy ring substituent is what separates this row from methamphetamine: the same N-methyl parent is Class B under Part II, and adding the ring substituent brings the compound inside Part I paragraph 1(c) as Class A. Schedule 3 carries identical Class A and Class B figures in every row, so the sentence does not move. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches, and because there is no threshold in dosage units a pill count is evidence of intent under section 8(3) or section 25 rather than a statutory trigger. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(c), Part II and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms MDPV, pyrovalerone and methylenedioxypyrovalerone all return zero across the whole act. MDPV carries both a beta keto group and a pyrrolidine ring on the side chain nitrogen. Part I paragraph 1(c) requires derivation from phenethylamine or one of five named parents by ring substitution, and a pyrrolidinyl nitrogen is not an N-alkyl group within that list, so neither the opening nor the closing words of the clause are engaged. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. MDPV carries both a beta keto group and a pyrrolidine ring on the side chain nitrogen. Part I paragraph 1(c) requires derivation from phenethylamine or one of five named parents by ring substitution, and a pyrrolidinyl nitrogen is not an N-alkyl group within that list, so neither the opening nor the closing words of the clause are engaged. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms memantine, adamantane, amantadine and NMDA all return zero across the whole act. Memantine is an aminoadamantane. It is not an arylcyclohexylamine, so the closed Part I list of 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine' does not reach it, and it is neither a tryptamine nor a ring substituted phenethylamine. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Memantine is an aminoadamantane. It is not an arylcyclohexylamine, so the closed Part I list of 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine' does not reach it, and it is neither a tryptamine nor a ring substituted phenethylamine. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms mephedrone, methylmethcathinone, 4-MMC and cathinone all return zero across the whole act. Part I paragraph 1(c) reaches ring substituted phenethylamines. Mephedrone carries a 4-methyl ring substituent, which by itself would engage the clause, but it also carries a beta keto group on the side chain, and the clause permits further substitution only 'in the ring', not on the side chain, so the compound is outside its words. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I paragraph 1(c) reaches ring substituted phenethylamines. Mephedrone carries a 4-methyl ring substituent, which by itself would engage the clause, but it also carries a beta keto group on the side chain, and the clause permits further substitution only 'in the ring', not on the side chain, so the compound is outside its words. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Mescaline'. It is also independently within Part I paragraph 1(c), the phenethylamine generic, being phenethylamine substituted in the ring with three alkoxy groups. Part I paragraph 4 adds any salt and paragraph 5 any preparation or other product containing it, which is what reaches a mescaline extract. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to mescaline. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a), 1(c), 4 and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Methadone'. Part I prints a large methadone family separately, including 'Methadyl acetate', 'Isomethadone', 'Normethadone', 'Noracymethadol', 'Alphacetylmethadol', 'Betacetylmethadol', 'Alphamethadol', 'Betamethadol' and 'Dimepheptanol'. Part I paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form of a paragraph 1 substance other than dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, which carries levomethadone. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to methadone. Nothing in the act creates a substitution treatment exception: section 21(2)(h) and (i) empower regulations requiring a doctor to notify the prescribed authority about a person he or she suspects is addicted to controlled drugs and prohibiting a doctor from prescribing specified controlled drugs to such persons except under licence, and whether any such regulations exist was not established here. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 21(2)(h) and (i), 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Class B drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part II of Schedule 2, and this is the point on which Saint Lucia differs from many neighbouring reads. The entry as printed is 'Methylamphetamine', the United Kingdom drafting convention this act follows, and the word methamphetamine is not printed anywhere in the act. Part II paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, which is what carries the d isomer, and paragraph 3 to any salt, which carries the hydrochloride. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dosage form, not the substance, decides the class: crystalline methylamphetamine for smoking is Class B while an injectable preparation of it is Class A under Part I paragraph 6. The Class A and Class B columns of Schedule 3 are identical in every row, so the sentence does not move either way. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 6, Part II paragraphs 1 to 3 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled, and printed twice under two misspellings in two different classes. The correctly spelled word methaqualone appears nowhere in the act. Part II, Class B, prints 'Metahatoqualone', and Part III, Class C, prints 'Mathaqualone'. Both are corruptions of methaqualone and both appear identically in the 31 December 2008 revision and in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, so neither is an extraction artefact. Part II also prints 'Mecloqualone', which is a different compound and correctly spelled. On ordinary construction the Part II entry governs, because it is the closer rendering and because the United Kingdom act this schedule follows places methaqualone in Class B, so methaqualone is treated here as a Class B drug, but the point is not free from doubt and the Class C entry has never been removed. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The class question is close to academic on the sentence and not on the record. The Class A and Class B columns of Schedule 3 are identical, but the Class C column is lower: possession on indictment is 5 years or $100,000 as a Class C drug against 7 years or $200,000 as a Class B drug, and supply on indictment is 10 years against 14 years. Which entry a court applies therefore changes the maximum. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. For completeness the Class C figures are: possession under section 8(2), 2 years or $75,000 summarily and 5 years or $100,000 on indictment. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts II and III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms methylone, methylenedioxymethcathinone and bk-MDMA all return zero across the whole act. Methylone is the beta keto analogue of MDMA. MDMA itself is caught by Part I paragraph 1(c) because its methylenedioxy group is a ring substituent, but methylone's additional beta keto group sits on the side chain, and paragraph 1(c) tolerates further substitution only in the ring, so the same clause that catches MDMA does not catch methylone. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Methylone is the beta keto analogue of MDMA. MDMA itself is caught by Part I paragraph 1(c) because its methylenedioxy group is a ring substituent, but methylone's additional beta keto group sits on the side chain, and paragraph 1(c) tolerates further substitution only in the ring, so the same clause that catches MDMA does not catch methylone. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. Class B drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part II of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Methylphenidate'. Part II paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, which carries dexmethylphenidate, and paragraph 3 to any salt, which carries the hydrochloride. The search terms Ritalin, Concerta and dexmethylphenidate return nothing in the act, so no brand or isomer is named. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. A dispensed modified release preparation is a preparation containing a Class B drug within Part II paragraph 4 and is therefore itself a controlled drug under section 4(1)(a). No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to methylphenidate. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part II and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms mitragynine, Mitragyna, speciosa and corynanthe all return zero across the whole act. Mitragynine is an indole alkaloid, not a simple tryptamine. Part I paragraph 1(b) requires substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side chain with alkyl substituents 'but no other substituent', and mitragynine carries a 9-methoxy group, a methyl ester and a fused ring system, each of which is another substituent. The nearest printed entries read and rejected are 'Bufotenine' and 'Psilocin', both simple ring hydroxy tryptamines. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Mitragynine is an indole alkaloid, not a simple tryptamine. Part I paragraph 1(b) requires substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side chain with alkyl substituents 'but no other substituent', and mitragynine carries a 9-methoxy group, a methyl ester and a fused ring system, each of which is another substituent. The nearest printed entries read and rejected are 'Bufotenine' and 'Psilocin', both simple ring hydroxy tryptamines. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms modafinil, armodafinil, adrafinil and sulphinyl all return zero across the whole act. Modafinil is a benzhydryl sulphinyl acetamide and is not a phenethylamine, a tryptamine or a barbituric acid, so none of the three generic clauses in Schedule 2 reaches it. The nearest printed stimulant entries read and rejected are the Part III entries 'Pemoline', 'Mazindol' and 'Prolintane', each of which is controlled by its own name. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Modafinil is a benzhydryl sulphinyl acetamide and is not a phenethylamine, a tryptamine or a barbituric acid, so none of the three generic clauses in Schedule 2 reaches it. The nearest printed stimulant entries read and rejected are the Part III entries 'Pemoline', 'Mazindol' and 'Prolintane', each of which is controlled by its own name. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Morphine'. Part I prints a second morphine entry in its own right, 'Morphine methobromide, morphine N-oxide and other pentavalent nitrogen morphine derivatives', and separately lists 'Normorphine', 'Benzylmorphine (3-benzylmorphine)', 'Desomorphine', 'Dihydromorphine', 'Hydromorphone', 'Hydromorphinol', 'Methyldihydromorphine (6-methyldihydromorphine)' and 'Myrophine'. Part I paragraph 3 extends control to any ester or ether of a Part I substance, which is what carries the morphine esters. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 8(4)(d) sets the deeming threshold at more than 3 grammes of morphine, above which possession is for supply or for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(d), 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, regulations 3, 6 and 11 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms MXE, methoxetamine, methoxphenidine and arylcyclohexylamine all return zero across the whole act. Part I prints a closed list of four arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', and no generic clause for the family. Methoxetamine is a ketamine analogue and neither ketamine nor any of its analogues is printed. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I prints a closed list of four arylcyclohexylamines, 'Phencyclidine', 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', and no generic clause for the family. Methoxetamine is a ketamine analogue and neither ketamine nor any of its analogues is printed. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms nicotine, Nicotiana, vape and e-liquid all return zero across the whole act; the only hits for the letter sequence nicot are in the printed entries 'Nicocodine', 'Nicodicodine (6-nicotinoyldi-hydrocodeine)' and 'Nicomorphine (3,6-dinicothinoylmorphine)', which are nicotinoyl esters of opiates and not nicotine. That near miss is the trap on this row. A string search for nicot returns three Schedule 2 entries, all of them opiate esters named after nicotinic acid, and none of them is nicotine. Nicotine itself is a pyridine alkaloid and is not printed anywhere in Schedule 2, nor reached by any generic clause in it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. That near miss is the trap on this row. A string search for nicot returns three Schedule 2 entries, all of them opiate esters named after nicotinic acid, and none of them is nicotine. Nicotine itself is a pyridine alkaloid and is not printed anywhere in Schedule 2, nor reached by any generic clause in it. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Nimetazepam'. It sits in the Part III list beside 'Nitrazepam' and 'Nordazepam', and the three are distinguished here by their printed spellings rather than by any grouping in the act, since Part III has no generic clause. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Saint Lucia gives nimetazepam no special treatment of any kind and it takes the ordinary Class C figures. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms nitrous, oxide, laughing gas and whippit all return zero across the whole act. Schedule 2 prints no gas of any kind and no inorganic compound of any kind, every entry being an organic substance or a plant material. Section 20 prohibits supplying articles for administering or preparing a controlled drug, but that provision is keyed to a controlled drug and nitrous oxide is not one. This absence has a known shelf life elsewhere. The United Kingdom, whose act this schedule follows, brought nitrous oxide into Class C on 8 November 2023 by statutory instrument, so the possibility of a parallel order under section 4(2) or section 49 here is concrete rather than theoretical. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 prints no gas of any kind and no inorganic compound of any kind, every entry being an organic substance or a plant material. Section 20 prohibits supplying articles for administering or preparing a controlled drug, but that provision is keyed to a controlled drug and nitrous oxide is not one. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Opium, whether raw, prepared or medicinal', and Part I prints 'Poppy-straw and concentrate of poppy-straw' as a separate entry. Part IV defines 'medicinal opium' as 'raw opium which has undergone the process necessary to adapt it for medicinal use in accordance with the requirements of the British Pharmacopoeia', 'opium poppy' as 'the plant of the species papaver somniferum L', 'poppy-straw' as 'all parts, except the seeds, of the opium poppy after mowing', and 'raw opium' as including 'powdered or granulated opium but does not include medicinal opium'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 8(4)(c) sets the deeming threshold at more than 55 grammes of opium, the highest figure in section 8(4). Section 11(c) and (d) make it an offence for an occupier or manager of premises knowingly to permit 'preparing cannabis, cannabis resin or opium for smoking' or 'smoking cannabis, cannabis resin or prepared opium' there. Schedule 3 carries a row headed 'Section 19, Offences relating to opium' whose punishments are 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment, but section 19 of the act as revised is 'Master of ship may be considered authorised' and creates no opium offence, so that row of Schedule 3 refers to a provision this revision does not contain. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(c), 11, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and IV and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Raw Opium and Cocoa Leaves) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 36/1940 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Oxycodone'. The nearest Part I entries read and kept distinct are 'Oxymorphone' and 'Thebacon'. The Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations reach the same compound under its older name: regulation 3(b) prints 'dihydrohydroxycodeinone'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 8(4) sets a deeming threshold for diacetylmorphine, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis only, and oxycodone is not among them, so no quantity presumption attaches to it and the ordinary possession offence in section 8(2) applies whatever the amount. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 50 continues subsidiary legislation made under the repealed Dangerous Drugs Act, 1938 until regulations are made under this act, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, are printed with the revised edition. Regulation 3 fixes the drugs they apply to and this substance is inside that list. Regulation 6 requires a prescription to be in writing, dated and signed by the medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon with his or her usual signature and address, to specify the name and address of the person for whose use it is given and the total amount to be supplied, and it may not be given for the use of the prescriber. A dentist's prescription must be marked 'For local dental treatment only;' and a veterinary surgeon's 'For animal treatment only;'. Regulation 8(b) allows the drugs to be supplied once on the same prescription, or on up to three occasions if the prescription so directs. Regulation 23 requires prescriptions to be preserved for not less than 2 years. Section 10(3) of the act separately obliges the Minister to secure a practitioner exemption by regulations. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Saint Lucia was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. For this substance the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations add a trade record layer: regulation 11 and Schedule 1 to those regulations require a register of the drug purchased or otherwise obtained and of the drug sold or supplied, regulation 12 and Schedule 2 require an annual return, and regulation 10 governs the marking of packages or bottles. None of those duties falls on a private traveller. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller either: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern drugs in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I and Schedule 3, and the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations, Statutory Instrument 35/1940, regulation 3(b) · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part I of Schedule 2. The abbreviation PCP is not printed anywhere in the act. The entry as printed is 'Phencyclidine'. Part I prints three further arylcyclohexylamines in their own right, 'Eticyclidine', 'Rolicyclidine' and 'Tenocyclidine', and that closed list of four is the whole of the family the schedule reaches, since Schedule 2 carries no arylcyclohexylamine generic clause. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to phencyclidine. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled through its constituent. No botanical entry of any kind appears in Schedule 2: the search terms Lophophora, williamsii, peyote, cactus and mescal all return nothing in the act. The cactus resolves only through the Part I entry printed 'Mescaline', and then through Part I paragraph 5, 'Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4', which is the paragraph that reaches plant material carrying a scheduled constituent. Live plant material not shown to contain mescaline is outside Schedule 2 on the printed words. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 9 restricts the cultivation only of 'any plant of the genus Cannabis', so growing a cactus is outside the cultivation offence, and Schedule 3's section 9(2) cultivation row applies to the cannabis plant alone. Liability turns on possession of a preparation or product containing mescaline under section 8. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 9, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a) and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms phenibut, phenylbutyric, aminobutyric and GABA all return zero across the whole act. Phenibut is a beta phenyl derivative of gamma aminobutyric acid. It is not a phenethylamine, so Part I paragraph 1(c) does not reach it, and no amino acid derivative of any kind appears in Schedule 2. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Phenibut is a beta phenyl derivative of gamma aminobutyric acid. It is not a phenethylamine, so Part I paragraph 1(c) does not reach it, and no amino acid derivative of any kind appears in Schedule 2. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms pink cocaine, tusi, tucibi and 2C-B all return zero across the whole act. Pink cocaine is a street label for a powder of variable composition and is not a substance, so no entry could name it. Its status follows whatever it in fact contains, and the constituents most often reported under the label are reached by different routes in this act: 2C-B and MDMA by the phenethylamine generic in Part I paragraph 1(c), ketamine not at all since it is absent from Schedule 2, and caffeine not at all. Two of the commonest constituents sit on opposite sides of the line here. A powder containing 2C-B or MDMA is a Class A drug carrying a life ceiling under section 25(1)(b), while a powder whose only active constituent is ketamine is outside the act altogether, so analysis decides the outcome completely. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Pink cocaine is a street label for a powder of variable composition and is not a substance, so no entry could name it. Its status follows whatever it in fact contains, and the constituents most often reported under the label are reached by different routes in this act: 2C-B and MDMA by the phenethylamine generic in Part I paragraph 1(c), ketamine not at all since it is absent from Schedule 2, and caffeine not at all. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Poppers

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms poppers, nitrite, amyl and isobutyl all return zero across the whole act. Poppers is a street label for the alkyl nitrites and is not a substance. No nitrite of any kind is printed in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and no generic clause in the schedule is capable of reaching one. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Poppers is a street label for the alkyl nitrites and is not a substance. No nitrite of any kind is printed in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and no generic clause in the schedule is capable of reaching one. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms pregabalin, Lyrica, gabapentinoid and isobutyl all return zero across the whole act. Pregabalin is a gamma amino acid and matches no entry and no generic clause in Schedule 2. Part III prints a long list of sedatives and anxiolytics, including 'Meprobamate', 'Ethinamate' and 'Ethchlorvynol', each by name, which shows the schedule reaching that therapeutic territory by individual naming rather than by class. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Pregabalin is a gamma amino acid and matches no entry and no generic clause in Schedule 2. Part III prints a long list of sedatives and anxiolytics, including 'Meprobamate', 'Ethinamate' and 'Ethchlorvynol', each by name, which shows the schedule reaching that therapeutic territory by individual naming rather than by class. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled, but not by name. The word psilocybin is not printed anywhere in the act; the search terms psilocybin, psilocybine and psilocybin-containing all return zero. What Part I prints is 'Psilocin'. Psilocybin is the phosphate ester of psilocin, and Part I paragraph 3 provides 'Any ester or ether of a substance specified in paragraph 1 or 2', which is the route by which psilocybin is a Class A drug here. The mushroom itself is not printed either: the search terms Psilocybe, cubensis, mushroom and fungus return nothing, so fruiting bodies are reached only through Part I paragraph 5, 'Any preparation or other product containing a substance or product specified in any of paragraphs 1 to 4'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Because the result rests on paragraph 3 rather than on a printed name, a prosecution has to prove the ester relationship or else identify psilocin itself, which is printed. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Section 9 restricts cultivation of the cannabis plant only, so growing mushrooms is outside the cultivation offence and is dealt with, if at all, as production of a controlled drug under section 6(2). Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraphs 1(a), 3 and 5 and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms quetiapine, Seroquel, dibenzothiazepine and antipsychotic all return zero across the whole act. Quetiapine is a dibenzothiazepine antipsychotic. Schedule 2 prints no antipsychotic of any kind, which is consistent with an act built around drugs of misuse rather than around prescription control generally, and no generic clause reaches the structure. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Quetiapine is a dibenzothiazepine antipsychotic. Schedule 2 prints no antipsychotic of any kind, which is consistent with an act built around drugs of misuse rather than around prescription control generally, and no generic clause reaches the structure. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms Salvia, divinorum, salvinorin and diviner's sage all return zero across the whole act. Salvinorin A is a diterpene and carries no nitrogen at all, so neither the tryptamine clause in Part I paragraph 1(b) nor the phenethylamine clause in paragraph 1(c) can reach it, and no plant entry other than cannabis, the coca leaf and the opium poppy appears in Schedule 2. Section 9 restricts cultivation of the cannabis plant only, so growing the plant is outside the cultivation offence. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Salvinorin A is a diterpene and carries no nitrogen at all, so neither the tryptamine clause in Part I paragraph 1(b) nor the phenethylamine clause in paragraph 1(c) can reach it, and no plant entry other than cannabis, the coca leaf and the opium poppy appears in Schedule 2. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms scopolamine, hyoscine, Datura, Brugmansia, burundanga and tropane all return zero across the whole act. Scopolamine is a tropane alkaloid. The only tropane material in Schedule 2 is the cocaine group, printed as 'Cocaine', 'Coca leaf' and 'Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine', and scopolamine is not convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine, so that entry does not reach it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Scopolamine is a tropane alkaloid. The only tropane material in Schedule 2 is the cocaine group, printed as 'Cocaine', 'Coca leaf' and 'Ecgonine, and any derivative of ecgonine which is convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine', and scopolamine is not convertible to ecgonine or to cocaine, so that entry does not reach it. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms synthetic cannabinoid, JWH, AM-2201, AB-FUBINACA, spice, indazole and carboxamide all return zero across the whole act. Synthetic cannabinoid is a family label rather than a substance, and no member of the family is printed in Part I, Part II or Part III. The only cannabinoid clause in the schedule is the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which is confined to tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, and an indazole carboxamide or a naphthoylindole is structurally unrelated to cannabinol. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Synthetic cannabinoid is a family label rather than a substance, and no member of the family is printed in Part I, Part II or Part III. The only cannabinoid clause in the schedule is the Part IV definition of 'cannabinol derivatives', which is confined to tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, and an indazole carboxamide or a naphthoylindole is structurally unrelated to cannabinol. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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THC-P

Legal status: Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), as a cannabinol derivative under Part I of Schedule 2. THC-P is not printed by name or chemical name and the search terms tetrahydrocannabiphorol, phorol and heptyl return zero. The entry that catches it is printed 'Cannabinol derivatives', and Part IV's second limb is the operative one: '3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives'. THC-P differs from delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol only in carrying a heptyl chain in place of the pentyl chain at the 3 position, so it is a 3-alkyl homologue of a tetrahydro derivative of cannabinol and falls inside that limb. This is one of the few places where a 1970s drafting clause reaches a compound identified in 2019, and it does so because the clause was written around homology rather than around names. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The Part IV carve out 'except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin' applies here too, so a THC-P isolate or infused product is Class A while the trace amounts present in plant material are dealt with as cannabis. The section 8A 30 gramme exemption and the section 8(4)(e) deeming threshold are both confined to cannabis and cannabis resin and neither reaches an isolate. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8(4)(e), 8A, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Parts I and IV and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms tobacco, Nicotiana, cigarette and smoking were run across the whole act; tobacco and cigarette return zero and smoking appears only in relation to cannabis and opium. Schedule 2 contains no entry for tobacco or for any tobacco product. The only smoking provisions in the act are section 11(c) and (d), which reach an occupier who permits cannabis, cannabis resin or opium to be prepared for smoking or smoked, and section 27A, which prohibits smoking cannabis in a public place, neither of which touches tobacco. Tobacco control, excise and public health law govern tobacco in Saint Lucia and none of it was read here. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Schedule 2 contains no entry for tobacco or for any tobacco product. The only smoking provisions in the act are section 11(c) and (d), which reach an occupier who permits cannabis, cannabis resin or opium to be prepared for smoking or smoked, and section 27A, which prohibits smoking cannabis in a public place, neither of which touches tobacco. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms tramadol, tapentadol and O-desmethyltramadol all return zero across the whole act. Part I prints a long list of synthetic opioids including 'Pethidine', 'Methadone', 'Dextromoramide' and 'Phenazocine', and Part II prints 'Pentazocine', but the schedule has no opioid generic clause and reaches only what it names. The nearest printed entry read and rejected is 'Pentazocine', a Class B drug and a different chemical class. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Part I prints a long list of synthetic opioids including 'Pethidine', 'Methadone', 'Dextromoramide' and 'Phenazocine', and Part II prints 'Pentazocine', but the schedule has no opioid generic clause and reaches only what it names. The nearest printed entry read and rejected is 'Pentazocine', a Class B drug and a different chemical class. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Alprazolam', standing at the head of the Part III list. Part III names roughly thirty benzodiazepines individually and carries no benzodiazepine generic clause, so membership of the class is decided entry by entry. The triazolo ring members printed beside it are 'Estazolam' and 'Triazolam'. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Class C is the only class in Schedule 3 whose figures differ from the others. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches to any Class C drug. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
If prescribed / medical: Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation: Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 6, Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Xylazine

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms xylazine, tranq, thiazine and veterinary sedative all return zero across the whole act. Xylazine is a thiazine and an alpha 2 adrenergic agonist, structurally unrelated to every entry in Schedule 2 and to all three generic clauses. The veterinary route in this act is about who may handle a controlled drug, not about which drugs are controlled. Section 10(3) names a veterinary practitioner among those the Minister must protect by regulations, and regulation 6(d) of the Dangerous Drugs (Cocaine, Morphine, etc.) Regulations requires a veterinary prescription to be marked 'For animal treatment only;', but neither brings a veterinary medicine into Schedule 2. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Xylazine is a thiazine and an alpha 2 adrenergic agonist, structurally unrelated to every entry in Schedule 2 and to all three generic clauses. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Not a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II or Part III, as the act stands in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021. The search terms zolpidem, zopiclone, zaleplon, imidazopyridine and Z-drug all return zero across the whole act. Zolpidem is an imidazopyridine and not a benzodiazepine, and Part III names about thirty benzodiazepines individually without any generic clause, so a non benzodiazepine hypnotic that is not itself printed is outside the schedule. The nearest printed hypnotics read and rejected are 'Methyprylone', 'Ethchlorvynol' and 'Ethinamate'. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Section 4(1)(a) confines the expression controlled drugs to a substance or product specified in Part I, Part II or Part III of Schedule 2, and every offence in sections 5, 6, 8 and 12 and every punishment in Schedule 3 is keyed to a controlled drug. A substance outside Schedule 2 therefore attracts no offence and no penalty under this act, and no trafficking ceiling under section 25. Zolpidem is an imidazopyridine and not a benzodiazepine, and Part III names about thirty benzodiazepines individually without any generic clause, so a non benzodiazepine hypnotic that is not itself printed is outside the schedule. The nearest printed hypnotics read and rejected are 'Methyprylone', 'Ethchlorvynol' and 'Ethinamate'. This is an absence finding about Schedule 2 as printed in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, not a statement that the substance is unregulated by any other Saint Lucia law, and no other Saint Lucia law was read here.
If prescribed / medical: Not a controlled drug under this act, so the practitioner exemption route in section 10(3) and the prescription regulation power in section 21(2)(g) do not reach it. Whether it is an authorised or a prescription only medicine in Saint Lucia turns on medicines and pharmacy law that was not read here.
Documentation: The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller and none at all on a substance outside Schedule 2. Sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, and section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade in controlled drugs. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription as ordinary practice.

Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4 and 49 and Schedule 2 Parts I to IV · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026

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Substance	What we found
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. 25I-NBOMe is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse)...
6-APB	Not confirmed. 6-APB is not printed by name or by chemical name anywhere in the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act...