Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) in Timor-Leste: not individually verified

Also known as: hyoscine

We have not confirmed that Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, 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 had not been independently verified against Timor-Leste's own tables before this session; a prior scopolamine finding for Cyprus used an entirely different instrument, and no finding for Timor-Leste should be assumed from it. A direct search of Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, for "escopolamina" and "hioscina" (the two Portuguese spellings for scopolamine and its synonym hyoscine) returned no match anywhere in Tables I to VI. The only tropane-alkaloid-family term found anywhere in the instrument is "atropina", which appears exclusively inside Table III, items 4 and 5, as a required minimum excipient quantity set as a percentage of the dose of difenoxina in two narrow preparation-exemption clauses (the same construction for difenoxilato), not as a controlled schedule entry; atropine is a different tropane alkaloid from scopolamine, and this is a match inside an exemption clause, not an entry, and does not reach scopolamine by any extension this instrument provides, so on this reading scopolamine is not a "droga" under article 2(d) and not a "precursor" under article 2(e). This table-absence is not treated here as a settled negative answer, because Lei n.º 2/2017 does not close itself: article 3(3) allows the tables to be altered by law or updated in line with changes to the international Conventions, and whether that updating clause self-executes without a further legislative act is not resolved on the text read. No amending law has been located this session, and no systematic search of the Jornal da República since 2017 was completed.

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