Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) in Kiribati: not individually verified

Also known as: hyoscine

We have not confirmed that Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) specifically is scheduled in Kiribati, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record

Not confirmed. Scopolamine is not named in Schedule 2 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Cap. 23, 1977 Revised Edition, as amended 1995 and 2001, and whether any order under section 13(2) was made after 1977 is not established. The plant datura metel is controlled by the 2001 Act amendments, but the compound scopolamine is not named in Schedule 2, and the text does not say that an extract of datura reaches Schedule 2. No conclusion that scopolamine is uncontrolled follows from this, since the Minister may add to Schedule 2 by order under section 13(2) and no order after 1977 was found or excluded. The Poisons List prints "Hyoscine." in Part I on page 28, and the cached NLM MeSH concept record M0553271 for scopolamine does not carry the word hyoscine, so the identity of hyoscine with scopolamine is not established from a cached source and is not relied on; whether that entry reaches scopolamine is open, and it is a sale restriction and not a drug control. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance was read as in force in the 1977 Revised Edition as amended to the Acts of 1995 and 2001, and this text does not rule out a later amendment or a later order under section 13(2).

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