Legal status in Samoa

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

45 confirmed substances43 not individually verifiedLast updated October 8, 2026

Confirmed legal status

4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic under the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) through First Schedule clause C. First Schedule item 33 names "PSILOCINE (3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole)" as a Class A narcotic, and clause C extends that entry to the esters and ethers of the substances it describes, whenever such esters or ethers are possible. 4-AcO-DMT (4-acetoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, also called psilacetin) is the acetate ester formed at psilocine's 4-hydroxyl group, the same phenolic oxygen that item 35, "PSILOCYBINE (3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate)", esterifies with phosphoric acid instead of acetic acid. Clause C's own wording covers this kind of ester directly. No order adding 4-AcO-DMT by its own name, and no later consolidation of the Act, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on reading clause C as printed in the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only where the contravention was not wilful or was a procedural breach.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of 4-AcO-DMT is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts a narcotic supplied by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such licence or authorisation naming 4-AcO-DMT or psilocine's esters was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Schedule narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import or traveller exemption for a Class A narcotic was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule items 33 and 35 and clause C, printed p23, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic. First Schedule item 21 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "5-METHOXYDIMETHYLTRYPTAMINE (5-methoxy-N, N-dimethyl-tryptamine)" directly, which is 5-MeO-DMT under its full chemical name, without need for a generic or analogue clause. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of 5-MeO-DMT is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation naming 5-MeO-DMT was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import or traveller exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 21, printed p22, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic through its active ingredients. Adderall is a mixed-salt amphetamine product (dextroamphetamine saccharate, amphetamine aspartate, dextroamphetamine sulfate and amphetamine sulfate). First Schedule item 2 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "AMPHETAMINE (2-amino-1-phenylpropane)" as a Class A narcotic, and clause D extends that entry to the salts of the substances the Schedule describes. Each of Adderall's four active ingredients is an amphetamine salt, so the product falls within item 2 read with clause D. This is a finding about the product's constituents only; that Adderall is marketed, registered or sold under that name in Samoa is not documented and is not claimed here.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a narcotic supplied for a person's use by, or on the prescription of, a licensee authorised under this Act to supply or prescribe narcotics for that purpose. On the text read, that exemption turns on the supplier or prescriber holding a Samoan licence under section 11; a prescription issued outside Samoa is not stated to satisfy section 7(2)(c) on its own, and no traveller or personal-import exemption regulation under section 7(2)(e) was located.
Documentation: Import of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11, and section 10(3) restricts such a licence to a person already licensed under section 11 to deal in that narcotic; nothing in the text read creates a simplified route for a traveller carrying a personal supply of amphetamine salts.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 2 and clause D, printed p22 and p23, and sections 7, 10 and 11, printed p6 to p10, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is not a narcotic under the Narcotics Act 1967; none of its Schedules name ethanol, beverage alcohol, or any alcoholic product, and the Narcotics Act was searched across all pages with zero hits for alcohol related terms. Separate legislation, the Alcohol Control Act 2020 (2020 No. 20), governs its sale, licensing, and age limits. Section 3 of that Act defines alcohol to include a beverage containing more than 1.15 percent ethanol by volume at 20 degrees Celsius, and any spirits, wine, ale, beer, stout, or cider containing more than two parts percent of proof spirit. The Act repeals the Liquor Act 2011 under section 75.
Consequences if caught: Section 14(1) of the Alcohol Control Act 2020 provides that a person must not sell alcohol except as authorised by a licence issued under the Act; a breach is an offence carrying a fine of up to 100 penalty units or imprisonment of up to six months, or both, under section 14(2). Section 16 separately makes it an offence to sell or supply alcohol to a person under 21 years, the Act's defined age for a minor, with the same penalty band. Section 15 makes selling adulterated alcohol an offence carrying a fine of up to 50 penalty units or imprisonment of up to three months, or both.
If prescribed / medical: The Alcohol Control Act 2020 does not provide a medical or prescription exemption; alcohol is not treated as a medicine under this Act. Alcohol used for a medicinal compounding purpose would instead fall to the Pharmacy Act 2007's dispensing framework, which was opened but does not supply a specific alcohol classification.
Documentation: A person wishing to sell, supply, or manufacture alcohol in Samoa must hold a licence under the Alcohol Control Act 2020; the classes of licence and the application process are set out in sections 21 to 29 of that Act. The Act does not set a personal, non commercial import allowance for travellers; anyone bringing alcohol into Samoa should confirm current customs duty free allowances with Samoa Customs or a Samoan diplomatic post before travel.

Alcohol Control Act 2020 (2020 No. 20), official version as at 31 December 2023, sections 3, 14, 15, 16, and 75, sha256 313091be4a5540b0f1933cdbf995498d81eaf7f6a4ff028b317bade5e82fdd1b, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Alcohol-Control-Act-2020.pdf · Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic. First Schedule item 2 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "AMPHETAMINE (2-amino-1-phenylpropane)" directly. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts amphetamine supplied for a person's use by, or on the prescription of, a licensee authorised under this Act to supply or prescribe narcotics for that purpose; that route depends on the supplier or prescriber holding a Samoan licence under section 11, and no traveller or personal-import exemption regulation was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11, restricted to a person already licensed under section 11; no personal-import or traveller exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 2, printed p22, and sections 7, 10 and 11, printed p6 to p10, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled through its constituent under the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023). Ayahuasca is a brewed plant preparation, typically combining a DMT-containing leaf with a harmala-alkaloid vine; neither the leaf species nor the vine species sits on the section 2 "prohibited plant" list, which names only cannabis, the opium poppy, coca-genus plants, Lophophora species and specified psilocybin-producing fungi. DMT itself, however, is named directly at First Schedule item 10, "DMT (N, N-dimethyltryptamine)", a Class A narcotic, and clause E of the First Schedule extends that entry to substances containing any proportion of a clause A to D substance. A brewed ayahuasca preparation containing DMT falls within clause E on that wording. Raw, unbrewed plant material from which DMT has not been extracted or concentrated is not separately addressed by the Act, since the source plants are absent from the section 2 list.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic, including a preparation containing any proportion of one, punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture of such a preparation.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of ayahuasca or DMT is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation was located, and the Act carries no religious, ceremonial or traditional-use exemption for a DMT-containing preparation.
Documentation: Import or export of a preparation containing a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no exemption for a traditional or ceremonial preparation was located.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 10 and clause E, printed p22 and p23, and section 2 prohibited plant definition, printed p4, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: The Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, does not use "barbiturate" as a class heading. Instead, the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, individually names thirteen barbituric acid derivatives by chemical name: item 16 "BARBITAL (5,5-diethylbarbituric acid)"; item 45 "METHYLPHENOBARBITAL (5-ethyl-1-methyl-5-phenylbarbituric acid)"; item 54 "PHENOBARBITAL (5-ethyl-5-phenylbarbituric acid)"; item 63 "ALLOBARBITAL (5,5-diallylbarbituric acid)"; item 64 "AMOBARBITAL (5-ethyl-5-(3-methylbutyl) barbituric acid)"; item 66 "BUTALBITAL (5-allyl-5-isobutylbarbituric acid)"; item 67 "BUTOBARBITONE (5-butyl-5-ethylbarbituric acid)"; item 68 "CYCLOBARBITAL (5-(1-cyclohexen-1-yl)-5-ethylbarbituric acid)"; item 70 "NEALBARBITONE (5-allyl-5-neopentylbarbituric acid)"; item 71 "PENTOBARBITAL (5-ethyl-5-(1-methylbutyl) barbituric acid)"; item 72 "SECBUTABARBITAL (5-sec-butyl-5-ethylbarbituric acid)"; item 73 "SECOBARBITAL (5-allyl-5-(1-methylbutyl) barbituric acid)"; and item 74 "VINYLBITAL (5-(1-methylbutyl)-5-vinylbarbituric acid)." Every one of these thirteen is Class C; none is Class A or Class B. A barbiturate not on this list of thirteen is not independently named and is not addressed here. Item 69 of the same block, GLUTETHIMIDE, is listed beside the barbiturates but is a distinct glutarimide sedative, not a barbituric acid derivative, and is not counted among the thirteen.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not. The band is uniform across all thirteen named barbiturates; none carries a different class or a different maximum from the others.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for a Class C barbiturate. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units. A licence to deal in any of the thirteen named barbiturates under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of a Class C barbiturate into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of a Class C barbiturate otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, items 16 and 45 and 54, printed page 31, and items 63, 64, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74, printed page 32 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: The Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, does not use "benzodiazepine" or "benzodiazepines" as a class heading. Instead, the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, individually names thirty four benzodiazepine (including triazolobenzodiazepine) compounds by chemical name and item number: item 13 ALPRAZOLAM, item 17 BROMAZEPAM, item 18 BROTIZOLAM, item 19 CAMAZEPAM, item 20 CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE, item 21 CLOBAZAM, item 22 CLONAZEPAM, item 23 CLORAZEPATE, item 24 CLOTIAZEPAM, item 25 CLOXAZOLAM, item 26 DELORAZEPAM, item 27 DIAZEPAM, item 29 ESTAZOLAM, item 32 ETHYL LOFLAZEPATE, item 33 FLUDIAZEPAM, item 34 FLUNITRAZEPAM, item 35 FLURAZEPAM, item 36 HALAZEPAM, item 37 HALOXAZOLAM, item 38 KETAZOLAM, item 39 LOPRAZOLAM, item 40 LORAZEPAM, item 41 LORMETAZEPAM, item 43 MEDAZEPAM, item 47 MIDAZOLAM, item 48 NIMETAZEPAM, item 49 NITRAZEPAM, item 50 NORDAZEPAM, item 51 OXAZEPAM, item 52 OXAZOLAM, item 56 PINAZEPAM, item 58 PRAZEPAM, item 61 TEMAZEPAM, and item 62 TRIAZOLAM. Every one of these thirty four is Class C; none is Class A or Class B, so the named benzodiazepine compounds share the same Schedule and Class placement found for barbiturates in this same Third Schedule, a match confirmed by reading the full item list rather than assumed from that other finding. The same Third Schedule also carries other, non benzodiazepine Class C sedatives and stimulants interleaved among these item numbers, such as item 28 EPHEDRINE, item 44 MEPROBAMATE and the barbiturates at items 16, 45, 54 and 63 to 74; these are not counted among the thirty four. A benzodiazepine not on this list is not independently named and is not addressed here.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The band is uniform across all thirty four named benzodiazepines; none carries a different class or a different maximum from the others.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Benzodiazepines are in widespread legitimate medical use as anxiolytics, sedatives and anticonvulsants; dispensing is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for a Class C benzodiazepine. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units. A licence to deal in any of the thirty four named benzodiazepines under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of a named Class C benzodiazepine into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of any of the thirty four otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule items 13, 17 to 27, 29, 32 to 41, 43, 47 and 48, printed page 31, and items 49, 50, 51, 52, 56, 58, 61 and 62, printed page 32 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is named by chemical formula as item 65 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "BUPRENORPHINE (17-cyclopropylmethyl-7,8-dihydro-7-(1-hydroxy-1,2, 2-trimethylpropyl) -6-0-methyl-6, 14-ethano-17-normorphine)."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in buprenorphine under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for buprenorphine. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units. Buprenorphine's opioid substitution use parallels the registered supply model the Act sets up for opium under section 8, but section 8 is drafted only for opium and registered opium addicts, so buprenorphine substitution supply rests on the general section 7(2)(c) and section 11 licensing route rather than a dedicated scheme.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of buprenorphine into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of buprenorphine otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 65, printed page 32 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, through three separate routes. First, section 2 defines a "prohibited plant" to include, at paragraph (a), "a plant of the genus cannabis", and "Narcotic" is defined to include a prohibited plant, so the live cannabis plant is a narcotic in its own right. Second, Second Schedule item 40, Class B narcotics, names "CANNABIS being any leaf, seed, stalk, root, fruit, blossom, or part thereof of any plant of the genus cannabis (Cannabis sativa L)", and item 41 separately names cannabis resin, printed in the source as "CAANABIS RESIN", an apparent typographical error for cannabis resin. Third, item 1 of the same Schedule, Class B, names "Cannabis preparations: that is, any preparation containing any tetrahydrocannabinols, including cannabis resin (commonly known as hashish) and cannabis oil (commonly known as hash oil), produced by subjecting cannabis plant material to any kind of processing", and item 6 separately names "Tetrahydrocannabinols, except when contained in a Class C Narcotic". So the growing or harvested plant, its resin, any tetrahydrocannabinol containing preparation of it, and isolated tetrahydrocannabinols are each independently caught, all at Class B except for the prohibited plant cultivation offence, which carries its own separate penalty under section 6.
Consequences if caught: Cultivating cannabis, or possessing cannabis seed, is an offence under section 6 as a prohibited plant, carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years, or, if the Court finds the offence was not wilful, a fine of up to 20 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years or both under section 6(2). Dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using the harvested plant, its resin, a cannabis preparation or isolated tetrahydrocannabinols is a Class B offence under section 18, carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years, with the same maximum for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(3)(a) provides a defence to the cultivation offence where the defendant cultivated the plant or possessed its seed under the conditions of a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Section 7(2)(c) separately exempts a person from the general possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. No Samoa specific medicinal cannabis programme or Pharmacy Act 2007 approval naming cannabis or a cannabis derived medicine was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Section 10(1) separately prohibits importing or exporting any prohibited plant, including cannabis, into or from Samoa outright; import or export of a Second Schedule narcotic such as cannabis resin, a cannabis preparation or isolated tetrahydrocannabinols otherwise requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2 paragraph (a) of the prohibited plant definition, printed page 3, Second Schedule items 1 and 6, printed page 24, item 40, printed page 25, and item 41, printed page 26, and sections 6, 7, 10, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled as a Class B narcotic. Second Schedule item 8 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "CATHINONE (2-amino-1-phenylpropan-1-one)" directly. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class B narcotic punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years; sections 17 and 18A carry the same 14-year maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of isolated cathinone is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class B narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule item 8, printed p24, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is named by chemical name as item 22 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "CLONAZEPAM." Clonazepam is addressed below only as this individually named Class C entry.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in clonazepam under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for clonazepam. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of clonazepam into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of clonazepam otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. First Schedule item 5, Class A narcotics, names "COCAINE (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine), except when contained in a Class C controlled drug". The exception refers forward to Third Schedule item 76, Class C narcotics, "Preparations of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 percent of cocaine base, being preparations compounded with one or more other pharmacologically active ingredients", so a dilute compounded cocaine preparation at or below that concentration is Class C rather than Class A. Coca leaf itself is separately named at Third Schedule item 2, Class C, defining it as the leaf of any plant of any species of the genus Erythroxylon, except a leaf from which all ecgonine, cocaine and any other ecgonine alkaloids have been removed, so the whole leaf carries the lower Class C band while isolated or extracted cocaine above the item 76 threshold carries the Class A band. Second Schedule item 57, Class B, separately names "EGGONINE, its esters and derivatives which are convertible to ecgonine and cocaine, except when contained in a Class C controlled drug" (printed in the source as EGGONINE, an apparent typographical error for ecgonine, cocaine's biosynthetic precursor).
Consequences if caught: Dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using cocaine above the item 76 threshold is a Class A offence under section 18, carrying imprisonment for life, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A. A dilute compounded preparation at or below 0.1 percent cocaine base, or the coca leaf itself, instead carries the Class C band under section 18, imprisonment of up to 7 years, with the same maximum for import or export under section 17; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both, at any class.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Cocaine has a recognised, though narrow, medical use as a topical anaesthetic; no Samoa specific Pharmacy Act 2007 approval naming cocaine was located in the sources searched. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of cocaine at any class requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 5, printed page 22, Second Schedule item 57, printed page 26, Third Schedule items 2 and 76, printed pages 30 and 33, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 18, 18A and 25B · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is named as item 3 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "CODEINE (3-methylmorphine); its isomers, esters, and ethers, if any; its salts, and the salts of its isomers, esters, or ethers, if any; and any substance, preparation or mixture containing any proportion of the said substance or of any such isomer, ester, ether, or salt." Item 75 of the same Schedule expressly narrows this: a preparation containing codeine (or acetyldihydrocodeine, dihydrocodeine, ethylmorphine or pholcodine) is not a Class C narcotic where it is compounded with one or more other pharmacologically active ingredients in a way the codeine cannot be recovered from by readily applicable means or in a yield that would risk health, and contains not more than 100 milligrams of codeine per dosage unit at a concentration not exceeding 2.5 percent in undivided preparations. The named Class C entry governs full strength codeine; item 75's exclusion applies only to compounded low dose preparations meeting that test.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not. A preparation meeting item 75's compounding and dosage limits falls outside the Class C definition entirely and so outside sections 17, 18 and 18A for that preparation specifically.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in codeine under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for codeine. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of codeine into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of codeine otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 3, printed page 30, and item 75, printed pages 32 to 33 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic through its constituent, cocaine. First Schedule item 5 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "COCAINE (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine), except when contained in a Class C controlled drug" directly. The only exception the Act names is Third Schedule item 76, "Preparations of cocaine containing not more than 0.1 percent of cocaine base, being preparations compounded with one or more other pharmacologically active ingredients", a dilute, compounded preparation. Crack cocaine is cocaine base itself, prepared at concentrations far above that 0.1 percent threshold and not compounded with another active ingredient in the sense item 76 describes, so it falls within item 5's Class A listing rather than item 76's Class C exemption; the named Class A entry governs and the narrow Class C carve-out does not apply. Second Schedule item 57 separately lists "EGGONINE, its esters and derivatives which are convertible to ecgonine and cocaine, except when contained in a Class C controlled drug" as a Class B narcotic; that entry addresses a cocaine precursor and does not change the Class A finding for crack cocaine itself.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of crack cocaine specifically is documented; cocaine salt has a limited historical anaesthetic use, but no Samoan authorisation naming a freebase or smokable preparation was located. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 5, printed p22, Second Schedule item 57, printed p26, and Third Schedule item 76, printed p33, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is caught by Second Schedule item 6 of the Narcotics Act 1967, 'Tetrahydrocannabinols, except when contained in a Class C Narcotic', read together with clause B of the same Schedule, 'The isomers of the substances mentioned or described in this Schedule whenever the existence of such isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation'. Delta-8-THC and delta-9-THC share the same molecular formula and differ only in the position of one double bond, so they are isomers of each other within the plain meaning of clause B, and delta-8-THC also falls within the unqualified plural term 'Tetrahydrocannabinols' in item 6 on its own terms, without needing the isomer clause at all. A cannabis derived preparation containing delta-8-THC is additionally a cannabis preparation under item 1, which asks only whether the preparation contains any tetrahydrocannabinols.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B narcotic under Second Schedule item 6, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying, or using delta-8-THC carries imprisonment of up to 14 years under section 18, and import or export carries the same 14 year maximum under section 17, unless the Judge finds the contravention was not wilful, in which case section 18's proviso reduces exposure to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession offence where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or pursuant to the prescription of a licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics for that purpose. No separate Samoa medicine approval naming delta-8-THC was located under the Pharmacy Act 2007.
Documentation: No traveller import allowance for delta-8-THC was located; as a Class B narcotic, section 10(2) of the Act requires a licence from the Chief Executive Officer to import or export it, and unlicensed import or export is an offence under section 17. A traveller should treat any delta-8-THC product as a controlled cannabis derived substance and confirm requirements with Samoa's Ministry of Health before travel.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule, section A items 1 and 6 and clause B, printed page 24, sections 7, 10, 17 and 18, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is named by chemical name as item 27 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "DIAZEPAM." Diazepam is addressed below only as this individually named Class C entry.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in diazepam under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for diazepam. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of diazepam into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of diazepam otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 27, printed page 31 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. First Schedule item 10, Class A narcotics, names "DMT (N, N-dimethyltryptamine)" directly, by its common abbreviation and its full chemical name together. 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, commonly known as 5-MeO-DMT, is separately named at First Schedule item 21, also Class A, and is a chemically distinct tryptamine from DMT itself. Bufotenine at item 3 and DET (N, N-diethyltryptamine) at item 7 are likewise separately named, related but chemically distinct tryptamines, also Class A.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using DMT carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. DMT, whether synthetic or present in an ayahuasca brew, has no recognised Samoa medical approval; no Pharmacy Act 2007 or Drugs Act 1967 approval naming DMT was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of DMT requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 10, printed page 22, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic. First Schedule item 36 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "STP,DOM (2-amino-1-(2,5-dimethoxy-4-methyl) phenylpropane)" directly, combining DOM's two common names in one entry. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of DOM is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 36, printed p23, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Dextromethorphan (DXM) is expressly excluded from the Narcotics Act 1967's Second Schedule item 71, LEVOMETHORPHAN entry, which reads in full, 'LEVOMETHORPHAN ((−)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan) but not including dextromethorphan ((+)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan) and dextrorphan ((+)-3-hydroxy-N-methylmorphinan)'. Dextromethorphan and dextrorphan are therefore not Class B narcotics under this entry, and no other item in any Schedule names dextromethorphan or dextrorphan. DXM is accordingly not controlled as a narcotic under this Act.
Consequences if caught: Because dextromethorphan is the subject of an express exclusion rather than a silent absence, no Narcotics Act offence attaches to its possession, sale, or use as an over the counter cough suppressant ingredient. Whether a concentrated or isolated DXM product attracts a separate poisons declaration under the Poisons Act 1968 is not established; the classification regulations under sections 3 and 5 of that Act were not located.
If prescribed / medical: DXM is an ingredient in registered cough and cold medicines; no specific Samoa medicine approval record for it was located under the Pharmacy Act 2007 beyond the general dispensing framework in section 28.
Documentation: No traveller documentation rule specific to dextromethorphan was located. A traveller carrying a labelled over the counter cough medicine containing DXM should expect ordinary medicines import treatment rather than narcotics control, given the express Schedule exclusion, but should confirm with Samoa Customs if carrying a concentrated or non retail form.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule, section A item 71, printed page 27, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is named twice in the Narcotics Act 1967, official version as at 31 December 2023: as item 28 of the Third Schedule, 'EPHEDRINE', making it a Class C narcotic, and as item 5 of the Fourth Schedule, 'ephedrine', making it a controlled precursor. The two listings carry separate regimes: the Class C narcotic listing governs ordinary dealing, possession, and use, while the controlled precursor listing governs import, export, sale, manufacture, and supply connected with producing a narcotic, under sections 10, 17A and 18B.
Consequences if caught: As a Class C narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying, or using ephedrine carries imprisonment of up to 7 years under section 18, and import or export carries the same 7 year maximum under section 17. As a controlled precursor, importing or exporting ephedrine without a licence carries imprisonment of up to 14 years or a fine of up to 500 penalty units, or both, under section 17A(1), rising to the narcotic's own class penalty where the import or export was for the purpose of manufacturing a narcotic under section 17A(2). Selling, manufacturing, supplying, or possessing ephedrine with the intention that it be used to manufacture a narcotic carries imprisonment of up to 14 years or a fine of up to 1,000 penalty units, or both, under section 18B(1), and section 18B(2) presumes that intention from the fact of sale, manufacture, or possession of a controlled quantity, placing the onus on the defendant to disprove it.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the narcotic possession offence where ephedrine was supplied for the person's use, or pursuant to the prescription of a licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics for that purpose. Selling a controlled quantity of ephedrine as a precursor to a person who is not licensed under the Act is a lesser offence under section 18B(3), carrying a fine of up to 10 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, unless the seller reasonably believed the buyer was licensed.
Documentation: Importing or exporting ephedrine requires a licence from the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) as a Class C narcotic and, where the quantity is a controlled quantity of the Fourth Schedule precursor, a further licence under section 10(3A); a person importing a controlled quantity under licence must keep accurate records of its sale, use, or disposal under section 20(2), and failing to keep or produce those records is itself an offence under section 20(3).

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule section A item 28, printed page 31, Fourth Schedule section A item 5, printed page 34, sections 7, 10, 17A, 18B and 20, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. Second Schedule item 61, Class B narcotics, names "FENTANYL (1-phenethyl-4-(N-propionylanilino)piperidine)" directly. The same Schedule separately names several fentanyl analogues as distinct Class B entries: item 62 p-fluorofentanyl, item 67 beta-hydroxyfentanyl, item 68 beta-hydroxy-3-methylfentanyl, item 82 alpha-methylfentanyl, item 83 alpha-methylthiofentanyl, item 84 3-methylfentanyl, item 85 3-methylthiofentanyl and item 126 thiofentanyl, each listed as its own numbered entry rather than under a generic fentanyl analogue clause.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using fentanyl carries imprisonment of up to 14 years under section 18, with the same maximum for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Fentanyl has a recognised medical use as a potent analgesic and anaesthetic agent; dispensing is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for fentanyl. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of fentanyl requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. First Schedule item 13, Class A narcotics, names "HEROIN (diacetylmorphine)" directly, pairing the common name with its chemical name.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using heroin carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Section 8 separately permits the Chief Executive Officer to maintain a register of persons who became addicted to the quasi-medical use of opium before the Act's commencement and to supply medicinal opium to them, a narrow historical provision that does not itself extend to heroin. No Pharmacy Act 2007 approval naming heroin was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of heroin requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 13, printed page 22, and sections 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is named by chemical formula as item 64 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "HYDROCODONE (dihydrocodeinone)."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in hydrocodone under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for hydrocodone. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of hydrocodone into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of hydrocodone otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule, item 64, printed page 27 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled as a Class C narcotic. Third Schedule item 1 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names «CATHA EDULIS PLANT» directly, by plant name, with no chemical formula needed. Catha edulis is not on the section 2 "prohibited plant" list (cannabis, opium poppy, coca-genus plants, Lophophora species and specified fungi only), so sections 6 and 10(1), which apply only to a section 2 prohibited plant, do not reach khat; its import, export, possession, supply and use are instead governed by the general narcotic provisions at sections 10(2), 17 and 18, at the Class C band fixed for the Third Schedule. The leaf naturally contains cathinone and cathine, separately named at Second Schedule items 8 and 21 ("NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE... including cathine") as Class B narcotics; the specifically named plant entry governs the whole leaf at Class C, while cathinone or cathine isolated or extracted from the leaf would carry the heavier Class B band under the Second Schedule. Section 18A(2) excludes the cultivation of a plant from the definition of manufacture, so growing khat is not itself unlawful manufacture under section 18A, but possessing, dealing in, supplying or using the growing or harvested plant remains caught by section 18.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using the Catha edulis plant, as a Class C narcotic, punishable by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years; section 17 carries the same 7-year maximum for unlicensed import or export at the Class C band. If cathinone or cathine is isolated from the leaf rather than possessed as the plant itself, sections 17 and 18 instead carry the Class B maximum of 14 years. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of khat is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class C narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10(2) and 11; because khat is not a section 2 prohibited plant, the absolute import ban at section 10(1) does not apply to it, but the general licensing requirement does.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule item 1, printed p30, Second Schedule items 8 and 21, printed p24 and p25, and sections 6, 10, 18 and 18A, printed p5 to p17, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is named by chemical name as item 40 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "LORAZEPAM." Lorazepam is addressed below only as this individually named Class C entry.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in lorazepam under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for lorazepam. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of lorazepam into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of lorazepam otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 40, printed page 31 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, though the Act does not use the abbreviation LSD as an entry heading. First Schedule item 17, Class A narcotics, names "LYSERGIDE (N, N-diethyllysergamide or lysergic acid diethylamide)", lysergic acid diethylamide being the full chemical name for which LSD is the standard abbreviation. The same Schedule separately names lysergic acid itself, the immediate precursor from which LSD is synthesised, at items 15 and 16, both reading "LYSERGIC ACID (essential precursor for manufacture of LSD)" in the cached text; lysergic acid is additionally named as a controlled precursor at Fourth Schedule item 11, so it carries a dual listing as both a Class A narcotic in its own right and a controlled precursor.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using LSD (lysergide) carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both. Lysergic acid itself carries the same Class A exposure as a narcotic, in addition to being a controlled precursor under section 17A, which separately penalises its unlicensed import or export by up to 14 years or a fine of up to 500 penalty units, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. LSD has no recognised Samoa medical approval; no Pharmacy Act 2007 or Drugs Act 1967 approval naming lysergide or LSD was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of LSD requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule items 15, 16 and 17, printed page 22, Fourth Schedule item 11, printed page 35, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 17A, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled as a Class A narcotic. First Schedule item 18 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "MDA (2-amino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl) propane)" directly. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 makes dealing in, possessing, supplying or using a Class A narcotic punishable by imprisonment for life; sections 17 and 18A carry the same life maximum for unlicensed import, export or manufacture. The section 18 proviso (a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both) applies only to a non-wilful or procedural contravention.
If prescribed / medical: No medical or prescription use of MDA is documented. Section 7(2)(c) exempts supply by, or on the prescription of, a Chief Executive Officer licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics; no such authorisation was located.
Documentation: Import or export of a Class A narcotic requires a Chief Executive Officer licence under sections 10 and 11; no personal-import exemption was located in the text read.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 18, printed p22, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. Second Schedule item 3, Class B narcotics, names "MDMA (2-methylamino-1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl) propane)" directly, as its own numbered entry distinct from the separately scheduled MDA entry at First Schedule item 18 and the N-ethyl MDA entry at Second Schedule item 18. MDMA is Class B while MDA, a chemically related but distinct substance, is Class A.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using MDMA carries imprisonment of up to 14 years under section 18, with the same maximum for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. MDMA has no established Samoa medical approval; no Pharmacy Act 2007 or Drugs Act 1967 approval naming MDMA was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of MDMA requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule item 3, printed page 24, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. First Schedule item 19, Class A narcotics, names "MESCALINE (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine)" directly, as the isolated chemical substance. Separately, section 2's definition of "prohibited plant" names, at paragraph (d), "a plant of the species lophophora williamsii or lophophora lewinii", the peyote cactus species from which mescaline is naturally derived; because a prohibited plant is itself within the definition of narcotic, the living or harvested peyote plant is independently reached through that definitional route. Mescaline itself, whether extracted from a plant or synthesised, is reached directly by the First Schedule item 19 listing regardless of its source.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using mescaline carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both. Growing a plant of the species Lophophora williamsii or Lophophora lewinii, or possessing its seed, is instead an offence under section 6 as a prohibited plant, carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years, or, if the Court finds the offence was not wilful, a fine of up to 20 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years or both under section 6(2), a lower band than the Class A exposure that applies to the isolated mescaline chemical.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(3)(a) provides a defence to the cultivation offence where the defendant cultivated the plant or possessed its seed under the conditions of a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Section 7(2)(c) separately exempts a person from the general possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Mescaline has no recognised Samoa medical approval; no Pharmacy Act 2007 or Drugs Act 1967 approval naming mescaline was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Section 10(1) separately prohibits importing or exporting any prohibited plant, including peyote, into or from Samoa outright; import or export of the isolated mescaline chemical as a First Schedule narcotic otherwise requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is named by chemical formula as item 77 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "METHADONE (6-dimethylamino-4,4-diphenyl-3-heptanone)." Item 78 of the same Schedule separately names "METHADONE-INTERMEDIATE" as its own Class B entry.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in methadone under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for methadone. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units. As with buprenorphine, opioid substitution supply of methadone rests on the general section 7(2)(c) prescription exemption and section 11 licence rather than on the registered addict scheme in section 8, which is drafted only for opium.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of methadone into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of methadone otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023. First Schedule item 20, Class A narcotics, names "METHAMPHETAMINE (2-methylamino-1-phenylpropane)" directly. Amphetamine itself is separately named at item 2 of the same Schedule, also Class A, as a chemically related but distinct substance.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using methamphetamine carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. Methamphetamine has a narrow recognised medical use elsewhere as a stimulant; no Pharmacy Act 2007 approval naming methamphetamine was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of methamphetamine requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule items 2 and 20, printed page 22, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is named by chemical formula as item 14 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "METHAQUALONE (2-methyl-3-(2-methylphenyl)-4(3H)-quinazolinone)."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in methaqualone under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for methaqualone. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of methaqualone into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of methaqualone otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is named as item 16 of the Second Schedule to the Narcotics Act 1967, 'METHYLPHENIDATE (α-phenyl-2-piperidineacetic acid methyl ester)', making it a Class B narcotic in the official version as at 31 December 2023.
Consequences if caught: As a Class B narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying, or using methylphenidate without authorisation carries imprisonment of up to 14 years under section 18, and import or export carries the same 14 year maximum under section 17. Unlawful manufacture carries the same 14 year maximum under section 18A. Where the Judge finds the contravention was not wilful and merely a breach of a procedural provision, section 18's proviso instead applies a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession offence where methylphenidate was supplied for the person's use, or pursuant to the prescription of a licensee authorised to supply or prescribe narcotics for that purpose, consistent with its ordinary use as a prescribed stimulant for attention disorders. A licensee under section 11 may lawfully deal in methylphenidate in the course of employment or commercial activity.
Documentation: Importing or exporting methylphenidate requires a licence from the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2), and dealing in it requires a licence under section 11. A traveller carrying a personal prescription supply should carry evidence of the prescribing licensee's authority and confirm current requirements with Samoa's Ministry of Health before travel, since the Act does not state a personal use import exemption.

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is named as item 4 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "Morphine." Section 2(3) directs that the percentage of morphine in a preparation is calculated as anhydrous morphine. Item 78 of the Third Schedule downgrades a dilute preparation of morphine from Class B to Class C, reading in full: "Preparations of opium or morphine containing not more than 0.2 percent of morphine, being preparations compounded with one or more other pharmacologically active ingredients (none of which are substances named or described in the First or Second Schedule to this Act." Full strength morphine and any stronger preparation remain Class B under item 4.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not. A preparation meeting item 78's 0.2 percent threshold and compounding test is reclassified to Class C, carrying the 7 year maxima under sections 17, 18 and 18A instead of the 14 year Class B maxima.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in morphine under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for morphine. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of morphine into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of morphine otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

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Nicotine

Legal status: Isolated nicotine is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967 and is not treated as a narcotic. Its regulation sits in the Tobacco Control Act 2008, whose section 2 defines a tobacco product to mean 'any product made or manufactured from tobacco and intended for use by smoking, inhalation, or mastication and includes electronic nicotine and non nicotine delivery systems and nasal and oral snuff but does not include any medicine that is sold or supplied wholly or principally for use as an aid in giving up smoking'. Nicotine delivered through an electronic cigarette or similar device therefore falls inside the tobacco product definition and the same regime as tobacco, while nicotine replacement medicines such as patches or gum sold principally to help a person stop smoking are expressly carved out of that definition and fall instead to ordinary medicines regulation.
Consequences if caught: Because an electronic nicotine delivery system is a tobacco product under the Tobacco Control Act 2008, its retail sale, advertising, and supply to a person under 21 are governed by the same offence provisions as tobacco, including the sale to a minor prohibition in section 23 and penalties of up to 1,000 penalty units. A standalone nicotine salt or e-liquid not falling within that definition was not separately addressed in the Act.
If prescribed / medical: A nicotine replacement medicine sold principally as a smoking cessation aid is excluded from the Tobacco Control Act 2008's tobacco product definition and would instead require assessment under the Pharmacy Act 2007's medicine approval framework; no specific Samoa approval record for a nicotine replacement product was located.
Documentation: No personal travel allowance specific to nicotine products was located. A traveller carrying electronic cigarettes or nicotine replacement products should confirm current treatment with Samoa Customs and the Ministry of Health, since the two product types fall to different regimes under the Tobacco Control Act 2008's own definition.

Tobacco Control Act 2008 (2008 No. 26), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2, printed page 7, sha256 ab6afcfb24775ac01796983a1cdaa337876709544695fb00a12b5b113dced0bd, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Tobacco-Control-Act-2008.pdf · Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is named by chemical name as item 48 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "NIMETAZEPAM."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in nimetazepam under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for nimetazepam. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of nimetazepam into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of nimetazepam otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 48, printed page 31 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is named as item 5 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "Opium." Section 2 defines "opium" as the coagulated juice of the opium poppy, "medicinal opium" as opium processed for medicinal use, and "prepared opium" as opium prepared for smoking, along with dross and other smoking residues. The opium poppy plant itself, Papaver somniferum, is separately a "prohibited plant" under section 2 limb (b), bringing its unlicensed cultivation within section 6 rather than the Class B possession offences. Third Schedule item 78 downgrades dilute opium preparations (not more than 0.2 percent morphine, compounded with other active ingredients not named in the First or Second Schedule) to Class C, and item 82 does the same for "Ipecacuanha and opium powder containing 10 percent of opium in powder and 10 percent of ipecacuanha root in powder intimately mixed with finely powdered lactose."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not. Section 10(1) separately makes it an offence, without a stated maximum of its own, to import into or export from Samoa any prepared opium at all. Section 13(c) makes it an offence, carrying imprisonment not exceeding 7 years or a fine not exceeding 200 penalty units, or both, to smoke or otherwise use prepared opium without lawful excuse or to be on premises used for opium smoking. Section 6 sets cultivation of the opium poppy at imprisonment not exceeding 14 years, or, where the Court is satisfied the offence was not wilful, a fine not exceeding 20 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. A preparation meeting the item 78 or item 82 threshold is reclassified to Class C, carrying the 7 year maxima under sections 17, 18 and 18A.
If prescribed / medical: Section 8 lets the Chief Executive Officer keep a register of persons who, before this Act's passage, had become addicted to the quasi medical use of opium and are unlikely to be safely cured of that addiction, and to supply reasonable quantities of medicinal opium to registered persons, who may then personally make quasi medical use of it without committing an offence. This is a closed, historically framed register and is not a general opioid substitution scheme; ordinary prescription supply of medicinal opium otherwise follows section 7(2)(c) and a section 11 licence to deal, as for other narcotics. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of opium into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of opium otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2 definitions, printed pages 3 to 4, Second Schedule item 5, printed page 24, and Third Schedule items 78 and 82, printed page 33 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is named by chemical formula as item 100 of the Second Schedule, Class B narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "OXYCODONE (14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone)."
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class B narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years. Section 18A sets the same 14 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class B narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 14 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class B narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in oxycodone under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for oxycodone. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of oxycodone into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of oxycodone otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule, item 100, printed page 28 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, though the Act does not use the street abbreviation PCP as an entry heading. First Schedule item 30, Class A narcotics, names "PHENCYCLIDINE (1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl) piperidine)" directly, phencyclidine being the chemical name for which PCP is the standard abbreviation. Several related arylcyclohexylamine analogues are separately named nearby in the same Schedule: item 26 PCE, items 27 and 28 PCPY and PHP (both given the identical chemical description "1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl) pyrrolidine)" in the cached text), item 29 PEPTP and item 37 TCP, each its own Class A entry distinct from phencyclidine itself.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using PCP carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. PCP has no recognised Samoa medical approval; no Pharmacy Act 2007 or Drugs Act 1967 approval naming phencyclidine was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Import or export of PCP requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11; no Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule item 30, printed page 23, and sections 7, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is reached by the Narcotics Act 1967 through its definition clause rather than through a schedule entry. Section 2 defines a prohibited plant to include, at paragraph (d), 'a plant of the species lophophora williamsii or lophophora lewinii', and separately defines 'Narcotic' to mean 'a plant, drug, substance, preparation, mixture or article specified or described in the First, Second and Third Schedules and includes a prohibited plant'. Because a prohibited plant is itself within the definition of narcotic, the Lophophora species named in paragraph (d), the botanical genus from which the peyote cactus and its mescaline content are obtained, is brought inside the Act's narcotic offences directly by this definitional route, without a separate schedule listing by the common name peyote. The primary text does not use the word peyote itself or separately verify which commercial or ceremonial product corresponds to the named species, and whether this clause has ever been applied to a peyote product in Samoan practice is not established from the sources searched.
Consequences if caught: As a prohibited plant falling within the definition of narcotic, cultivating Lophophora williamsii or Lophophora lewinii, or possessing its seed, is an offence under section 6, carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years, or, where the Court finds the offence was not wilful, a fine of up to 20 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both, under section 6(2). Because the plant and anything derived from it falls within the general definition of narcotic, possessing, using, or supplying material from the plant would also fall within sections 7 and 18, carrying imprisonment of up to 7 years as an unscheduled narcotic under section 18(c), since Lophophora is reached through the prohibited plant limb of the definition rather than through a First, Second, or Third Schedule class assignment.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(3)(a) provides a defence where the defendant cultivated the plant or possessed its seed under the conditions of a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer. No separate medicine approval for a peyote or mescaline derived product was located under the Pharmacy Act 2007.
Documentation: No traveller or ceremonial use exemption naming peyote was located in the Narcotics Act 1967, and section 10(1) separately prohibits importing or exporting any prohibited plant into or from Samoa. A traveller should treat peyote, mescaline containing cactus material, or seed of the named Lophophora species as controlled and confirm current treatment with Samoa's Ministry of Health before any attempt to bring it into or out of Samoa.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2 paragraph (d) of the prohibited plant definition, printed page 3, sections 6, 7, 10 and 18, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine, also sold under the names tusi and tucibi, is a street mixture rather than a single compound, and the Narcotics Act 1967 does not use any of the three product names. Its composition varies between markets and is often reported as a combination of ketamine and MDMA rather than containing cocaine itself, though batches containing actual cocaine are also reported. Of its possible constituents, cocaine is named as item 5 of the First Schedule, 'COCAINE (methyl ester of benzoylecgonine), except when contained in a Class C controlled drug', a Class A narcotic, and MDMA is named as item 3 of the Second Schedule, a Class B narcotic. Ketamine returned zero hits anywhere in the Act when searched this session, and 2C-B, sometimes historically associated with pink cocaine products elsewhere, is also not named; the Act names only DOB, a different, related compound, at First Schedule item 11. Because the product name does not fix a single composition, no single Schedule class can be stated for pink cocaine as a label; the class depends on which named constituent, if any, a given sample contains.
Consequences if caught: If a pink cocaine sample contains cocaine, it is a Class A narcotic and dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying, or using it carries life imprisonment under section 18(a), with the same exposure for import or export under section 17(a). If it contains MDMA without cocaine, it is a Class B narcotic carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years under sections 17(b) and 18(b). If it contains only ketamine, which is not named in any Schedule, no Narcotics Act offence attaches to that constituent on the wording examined. Because composition is not reliably known from the product name alone, the higher Class A exposure is the reasonable assumption for enforcement purposes unless a sample is tested and found free of cocaine.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription or medical supply route for a product sold as pink cocaine, tusi, or tucibi was located; this is a street mixture, not a registered medicine.
Documentation: No traveller documentation exists for a mixture sold under these names, since the Act does not recognise the product label and its composition cannot be assumed from the name alone. A traveller should treat any product sold as pink cocaine, tusi, or tucibi as presumptively containing a Class A or Class B narcotic and should not attempt to carry it into or out of Samoa.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule section A items 5 and 11, printed page 22, Second Schedule section A item 3, printed page 24, sections 17 and 18, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, under the spelling used in the Schedule rather than the more common modern spelling. First Schedule item 35, Class A narcotics, names "PSILOCYBINE (3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl) indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate)" directly. Psilocin, the dephosphorylated metabolite into which psilocybin converts in the body and a chemically distinct substance, is separately named at items 33 and 34, printed as "PSILOCINE" and "PSILOTSIN" respectively, both given the identical chemical description "3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole" in the cached text. Section 2's "prohibited plant" definition also names, at paragraph (e), "a fungus of the genera conocybe, panaeolus or psilocybe from which a narcotic can be produced or which contains a narcotic", so a living psilocybin producing mushroom of one of those three genera is independently reached as a prohibited plant, in addition to the isolated chemical's First Schedule listing.
Consequences if caught: As a Class A narcotic, dealing in, possessing, selling, supplying or using psilocybin carries imprisonment for life under section 18, with the same exposure for import or export under section 17 and for unlawful manufacture under section 18A; section 18's proviso reduces a non-wilful or procedural contravention to a fine of up to 5 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years, or both. Cultivating a psilocybin containing fungus of the genus conocybe, panaeolus or psilocybe, or possessing its spores as seed, is instead an offence under section 6 as a prohibited plant, carrying imprisonment of up to 14 years, or, if the Court finds the offence was not wilful, a fine of up to 20 penalty units or imprisonment of up to 2 years or both under section 6(2), a lower band than the Class A exposure for the isolated chemical.
If prescribed / medical: Section 6(3)(a) provides a defence to the cultivation offence where the defendant cultivated the fungus or possessed its spores under the conditions of a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Section 7(2)(c) separately exempts a person from the general possession and use prohibition where the narcotic was supplied, or prescribed, by a licensee authorised under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics. No Pharmacy Act 2007 approval naming psilocybin or psilocybine was located in the sources searched.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. Section 10(1) separately prohibits importing or exporting any prohibited plant, including a psilocybin containing fungus of the named genera, into or from Samoa outright; import or export of the isolated psilocybine chemical as a First Schedule narcotic otherwise requires a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under sections 10(2) and 11. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, First Schedule items 33, 34 and 35, printed page 23, section 2 paragraph (e) of the prohibited plant definition, printed page 3, and sections 6, 7, 10, 11, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is not a narcotic under the Narcotics Act 1967; that Act was searched across all pages for tobacco related terms and returned no hits, and tobacco is not a prohibited plant under section 2. Separate legislation, the Tobacco Control Act 2008 (2008 No. 26), governs tobacco products. Section 2 of that Act defines a tobacco product to mean 'any product made or manufactured from tobacco and intended for use by smoking, inhalation, or mastication and includes electronic nicotine and non nicotine delivery systems and nasal and oral snuff but does not include any medicine that is sold or supplied wholly or principally for use as an aid in giving up smoking'. The Drugs Act 1967 also addresses tobacco, cigars, and cigarettes within its own broader medicines framework.
Consequences if caught: Part 4 of the Tobacco Control Act 2008 prohibits smoking in a workplace, with a fine of up to 10 penalty units for the smoker under section 11(2) and up to 20 penalty units for an employer who fails to prevent it under section 12(2). Section 23 prohibits selling a tobacco product to a person under 21 years, carrying a fine of up to 1,000 penalty units under section 23(6), and section 23A separately prohibits a person below the age of 15 from selling any tobacco product, carrying a fine of up to 1,000 penalty units under section 23A(2). Sections 24 and 25 add further offences, each carrying fines of up to 1,000 penalty units, for selling cigarettes or loose tobacco in small quantities and for selling through vending machines or other unsupervised means.
If prescribed / medical: A smoking cessation medicine sold or supplied wholly or principally to help a person give up smoking is expressly excluded from the Tobacco Control Act 2008's tobacco product definition in section 2 and is instead assessed under the Pharmacy Act 2007's ordinary medicine approval framework.
Documentation: No personal travel allowance for tobacco products is stated in the Tobacco Control Act 2008; retail sale, packaging, and advertising are regulated under Parts 4 to 5A of that Act. A traveller bringing tobacco products into Samoa should confirm current customs duty and quantity limits with Samoa Customs before travel.

Tobacco Control Act 2008 (2008 No. 26), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2, printed page 7, sections 11, 12, 23, 23A, 24 and 25, sha256 ab6afcfb24775ac01796983a1cdaa337876709544695fb00a12b5b113dced0bd, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Tobacco-Control-Act-2008.pdf · Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Updated October 8, 2026

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is named by chemical name as item 13 of the Third Schedule, Class C narcotics, to the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023: "ALPRAZOLAM." Alprazolam is addressed below only as this individually named Class C entry.
Consequences if caught: Section 18 of the Act makes it an offence to deal in, possess, sell, give, supply, administer, procure, consume, smoke or otherwise use a Class C narcotic, with liability on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years. Section 18A sets the same 7 year maximum for unlawfully manufacturing a Class C narcotic, and section 17 sets the same 7 year maximum for illegally importing or exporting one. Where the Judge is satisfied the contravention was not wilful, or was merely a procedural breach relating to books, prescriptions or similar matters, section 18's proviso substitutes a fine not exceeding 5 penalty units or imprisonment not exceeding 2 years, or both. On conviction, articles connected with the offence are liable to forfeiture under section 25. The Act does not provide a death penalty for a Class C narcotics offence; life imprisonment under sections 17, 18 and 18A is reserved for Class A narcotics, which this substance is not.
If prescribed / medical: Section 7(2)(c) of the Act exempts a person from the possession and use prohibition in section 7(1) where the narcotic was supplied for the person's use, or prescribed, by a person licensed under section 11 to supply or prescribe narcotics; a licence to deal in alprazolam under section 11 is granted by the Chief Executive Officer. Dispensing by a pharmacist is separately governed by the Pharmacy Act 2007, and the Drugs Act 1967 supplies a general medicines framework rather than a substance by substance prescription list for alprazolam. Section 25B requires a medical practitioner, nurse, pharmacist, dentist or veterinarian who suspects illegal use of a narcotic to report it to a police officer, on pain of a fine not exceeding 10 penalty units.
Documentation: The Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), the official version as at 31 December 2023, is the authority for the position stated. Whether a later Gazette amendment or a Head of State Order under section 5 of the Act has varied it since that date could not be established from the sources searched this session, so the position given is as at the version read and is not asserted as current beyond it. A traveller carrying a prescribed quantity of alprazolam into or out of Samoa should carry the original packaging and the prescription; import and export of alprazolam otherwise require a licence granted by the Chief Executive Officer under section 10(2) of the Act. No Samoa specific traveller documentation requirement beyond this was located in the sources searched.

Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule, item 13, printed page 31 · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Updated October 8, 2026

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Not individually verified

43 substances are not individually verified for Samoa

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

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. 1P-LSD is not named by that name, by its chemical name (1-propanoyl-lysergic acid diethylamide), or...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. 2-FDCK (2-fluorodeschloroketamine) is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. 25I-NBOMe is not named, by that name or by its chemical name...
2C-B	Not confirmed. 2C-B (2-(4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine) is not named anywhere in the Narcotics Act 1967, the...
2C-E	Not confirmed. 2C-E is not named by that name or by its chemical name (2-(4-ethyl-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine)...
2C-I	Not confirmed. 2C-I is not named, by that name or by its chemical name (2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine)...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. 2C-T-7 is not named, by that name or by its chemical name...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. 3-MMC (3-methylmethcathinone) is not named by that name. Second Schedule item 2 names "Methcathinone"...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET (4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, metocin) is not named by that name. First Schedule...
6-APB	Not confirmed. 6-APB (1-benzofuran-6-ylpropan-2-amine) is not named, by that name or by a benzofuran chemical...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. 7-hydroxymitragynine is not named in the First, Second, or Third Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. Amanita muscaria (fly agaric) is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967. The Act's...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. Amyl nitrite is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967. Pentyl nitrite and isoamyl...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. Caffeine is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; searches for caffeine and for its...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. Cannabinol (CBN) is not named by that name anywhere in the Narcotics Act 1967. The Act's cannabis...
CBD	Not confirmed. Cannabidiol (CBD) is not named anywhere in the Narcotics Act 1967. CBD is chemically distinct from a...
Etizolam	Not confirmed. Etizolam is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively)...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. Gabapentin is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics...
GBL	Not confirmed. GBL (gamma-butyrolactone) is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C...
GHB	Not confirmed. GHB (gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, also marketed as sodium oxybate) is not named in the First, Second or...
HHC	Not confirmed. Hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) is not named anywhere in the Narcotics Act 1967. The Act's...
Ketamine	Not confirmed. Ketamine is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively)...
Kratom	Not confirmed. Kratom, the dried leaf preparation of Mitragyna speciosa, is not named in any Schedule of the...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. LSA (lysergic acid amide, ergine) is not named by that name in the Narcotics Act 1967 (official...
MDPV	Not confirmed. MDPV (methylenedioxypyrovalerone) is not named by that name. Second Schedule item 23 names...
Memantine	Not confirmed. Memantine is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; searches for memantine and for its...
Mephedrone (4-MMC)	Not confirmed. Mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone) is not named by that name. Second Schedule item 2 names...
Methylone	Not confirmed. Methylone (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone, also called bk-MDMA) is not named by that name....
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. Mitragynine, the principal alkaloid of Mitragyna speciosa (kratom), is not named in any Schedule of...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. Modafinil is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; searches for modafinil and for its...
MXE	Not confirmed. MXE (methoxetamine) is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. Nitrous oxide is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; the full text was searched for...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. Phenibut is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; searches for phenibut and for its...
Poppers	Not confirmed. Poppers is a retail name for products containing one or more alkyl nitrites, typically isopropyl...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. Pregabalin is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. Quetiapine is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. Salvia divinorum is a member of the mint family, genus Salvia, and is not covered by any limb of the...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. Scopolamine, also known as hyoscine, is not named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967; searches...
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)	Not confirmed. Synthetic cannabinoids are a chemically diverse category of compounds, including naphthoylindoles...
THC-P	Not confirmed. Tetrahydrocannabiphorol (THC-P) is a homolog of tetrahydrocannabinol in which the five carbon pentyl...
Tramadol	Not confirmed. Tramadol is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively)...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. Xylazine is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively)...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed. Zolpidem is not named in the First, Second or Third Schedule (Class A, B or C narcotics respectively)...

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary by country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with the destination’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.

Before you travel

Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authority and your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance →
Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.

If you’re detained or arrested abroad

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