Legality
Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)Controlled under national law. Narcotics in Aceh are prosecuted under national Law 35/2009 (Aceh's Qanun...
- AlbaniaNot applicable as a class status. Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label and not a molecule, so one status...
- Antigua and BarbudaThis is a class label and not one chemical entry, and no synthetic cannabinoid is named in the First...
- ArgentinaControlled through a named constituent or member, not as a label. The row itself is not an entry. The...
- ArmeniaNot applicable as a class status for Armenia. The applicability answer holds and the evidence the applied...
- AustraliaControlled as a class; the label covers many compounds, so the answer is given by constituent and the...
- AustriaNot applicable as a class status, and not because the annexes are empty. Synthetic cannabinoids is an open...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainControlled. The synthetic cannabinoids are placed in Group I Schedule 1 of the annex, by Decision 39 of 2016,...
- BangladeshSynthetic cannabinoids are caught as a class, named in Class 'kha' at serial 4 of the First Schedule, spelled...
- BarbadosNot controlled by any class clause in Barbados, and the answer turns on the constituent. Under the Drug Abuse...
- BelarusThe applicability answer holds for Belarus and the reasoning under it is corrected, because the annex does...
- BelgiumSynthetic cannabinoids is controlled in Belgium, but not by being named. It is reached by the generic...
- BelizeSynthetic cannabinoids is a family label covering hundreds of distinct compounds, and Belize's subsidiary...
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaNot applicable as a class status. This is a family label covering many unrelated structures. One named...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 80 of lista F2, psychotropic substances within lista F, the list...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на...
- CambodiaControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids fall under the Law on the Control of Drugs, whose schedules are updated to...
- CanadaControlled as a class. Synthetic cannabinoids ('Spice'/'K2' products) are caught by the item in Schedule II...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 1, the lista of substances capable of grave toxic effects or considerable...
- ChinaControlled class-wide, the headline. On 11 May 2021 China's National Narcotics Control Commission placed the...
- ColombiaSynthetic cannabinoids or cannabinoides sintéticos is a label, not a schedule entry. No entry anywhere in...
- Costa RicaControlled through named members rather than through one entry, so the exposure turns on which member is in...
- Côte d'IvoireControlled where the compound is named: twenty one synthetic cannabinoids are in Schedule II and two...
- CroatiaControlled in Croatia through a bounded entry rather than under its own name. Synthetic cannabinoids is not...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaControlled member by member rather than as a class. Seznam č. 4 carries „JWH-018“ in the second column of a...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation through structural group entries and through a long run...
- DominicaSynthetic cannabinoids is a market label covering many chemically distinct compounds, and the Act reaches a...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Synthetic cannabinoids are a label covering many unrelated chemical families, and none of them is...
- EgyptControlled as narcotic substances in Egypt's Table 1, mostly by chemical group in its first section. «الجدول...
- EstoniaSynthetic cannabinoids is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of...
- FinlandControlled through named members rather than as a class. The decree names no class term for this row. Section...
- FranceNot applicable as a class status, because France reaches these compounds partly by name and partly by family...
- GeorgiaThe label Synthetic cannabinoids covers a product category rather than a single molecule, and Georgia's...
- GermanyControlled compound by compound, not as a class. Synthetic cannabinoids is a class name covering many...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. The tables name them one compound at a time rather than as a class,...
- GrenadaSynthetic cannabinoid is a family label, and no member of the family and no generic clause capable of...
- GuatemalaIllegal through its constituents under the Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92), articles 38 and 39.
- GuyanaThis is a label rather than a substance, and that is the confirmed answer and not an unresolved one. The...
- HondurasControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids is reached through the substances it contains, and the entries read were...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong compound by compound, not as a class: Part I of the First Schedule to the...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland, and the route to that answer is not the printed name of this row. The class name is...
- IndiaControlled in India. The matched entry reads «110G JWH-018; 110H AM-2201; 110U MDMB-CHMICA; 110V 5F-APINACA;...
- IndonesiaNarkotika Golongan I under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika: Narkotika...
- IranSynthetic cannabinoids has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqControlled through the entries its members occupy. The class term it is not named in any Iraqi schedule;...
- IrelandNot applicable as a class status. The label covers a large and open set of compounds, and the placement...
- IsraelControlled as a named class at חלק א' סימן ב' פרט 13ט, plus at least ten generic scaffold entries
- ItalyNot applicable as a class status, because the class label is not the unit the Italian tables work in. The...
- JamaicaSynthetic cannabinoids is a label rather than a single scheduled molecule, and Jamaican law is applied to...
- JapanIn Japan, for a given compound the exposure is that of a narcotic where it is named in the Cabinet Order's...
- JordanSynthetic cannabinoids is an open class of changing compounds rather than a substance, so Law No. 23 of 2016...
- KazakhstanSynthetic cannabinoids is named in Kazakhstan's controlled list. The first of the three documents Government...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitControlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. Synthetic cannabinoids are listed at Group 2, table 2,...
- LatviaSynthetic cannabinoids is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry...
- LebanonControlled. The class name is not named in the four tables annexed to Law 673 of 16 March 1998, as those...
- LithuaniaSynthetic cannabinoids is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 does not name synthetic cannabinoids on its...
- MalaysiaControlled only where a compound is named in the lists of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 or the Poisons Act...
- MaldivesControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled under the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), whose schedules...
- MaltaSynthetic cannabinoids are controlled directly as a category by Chapter 101, the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance,...
- MexicoControlled as a printed category. The first group of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud prints...
- MoldovaSynthetic cannabinoids is a class label, not one substance, and that is the settled treatment of the row...
- MontenegroNot applicable as a class status. Montenegro's own reason on this row is that the label was stopped as a...
- MoroccoControlled only through a component, and the label itself resolves to no single answer. Synthetic cannabinoid...
- MyanmarSynthetic cannabinoids are controlled compound by compound, by specific chemical entries, and not by one...
- NetherlandsControlled twice over, by name for many members and as a group for the rest. The class name is not named in...
- New ZealandNot applicable as a class status, and in New Zealand the reason cuts both ways. A controlled drug is any...
- NigeriaControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled through NDLEA Act / NAFDAC scheduling, incorporating the...
- North MacedoniaNot applicable as a class status. The search ran on синтетички канабиноиди; JWH-018; AM-2201 in the...
- NorwayControlled in Norway, and resolved by structure rather than by any single row. Synthetic cannabinoids are not...
- PanamaControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids is reached by the Panamanian criminal definition of a drug, not by a...
- ParaguayNot a single substance. The corpus label covers a large family, and Paraguay's schedule names individual...
- PeruThis row is an open class label rather than a substance. It covers several hundred distinct compounds across...
- PhilippinesTreated by named compound, with no class rule. The Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled...
- PolandControlled, and by two different techniques at once. Poland names many of them individually on the narcotic...
- PortugalControlled, and the class is split across two regimes. Some synthetic cannabinoids sit in table II-A of...
- QatarControlled in Qatar at Table 1-A item 8, added by Decision 6 of 2024 of Law No. 9 of 1987. Article 2 of...
- RomaniaSynthetic cannabinoids is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «JWH-018 =...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- Saudi ArabiaControlled. Synthetic cannabinoids fall under Saudi Arabia's broad narcotics/psychotropics prohibition...
- SerbiaThis is a family label and not a molecule, and the family is what the cell resolves. The dossier ran a label...
- SingaporeControlled as a class. The First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 reaches synthetic cannabinoids...
- SlovakiaSynthetic cannabinoids is controlled in Slovakia. Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label and Annex 1 gives...
- SloveniaNot applicable as a class status. The name is a family label covering many different structures. The annex...
- South AfricaControlled in part: Schedule 2 Part III of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992 names ten synthetic...
- South KoreaControlled as a class. South Korea controls synthetic cannabinoids under the Act on the Control of Narcotics,...
- SpainControlled in Spain member by member, and only the members a list names. Counted from Anexo 1 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section...
- SurinameSynthetic cannabinoids is an open chemical class rather than a substance, and its members are not listed in...
- SwedenControlled. The synthetic cannabinoids are scheduled compound by compound in the Swedish...
- SwitzerlandNot applicable as a class status, because Switzerland controls these compounds one at a time and by defined...
- TaiwanCategory 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at 附表三, 56...
- TajikistanControlled compound by compound. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
- TanzaniaSynthetic cannabinoids is a class name, and the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints no class...
- ThailandNot applicable as a class status, and not because the notifications are silent. Synthetic cannabinoids is a...
- TongaSynthetic cannabinoids are a heterogeneous class of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists, JWH-018 and...
- Trinidad and TobagoSynthetic cannabinoids is a class name, and the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, prints no class entry for...
- TurkeySynthetic cannabinoids is a market label covering an open and changing class of compounds, not a single...
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled federally, by class and by name. Federal Schedule I under the...
- UkraineNot applicable as a class status, and the reason given is Ukraine's own. Applicability record UKR-83 stopped...
- United Arab EmiratesSynthetic cannabinoids is a chemical class label rather than the name of one substance in the schedules, and...
- United KingdomSynthetic cannabinoids is a label for many unrelated laboratory compounds sold as spice or similar, so the...
- United StatesControlled. Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, at 21 CFR 1308.11(g)(1). Reached by a class entry...
- UruguayThis is a class label and not one chemical entry, so it resolves only through the constituent actually...
- UzbekistanControlled in Uzbekistan compound by compound, not as a whole class. List I of Resolution 330 carries a block...
- VenezuelaLabel row, resolved only through named compounds. Twenty one individual synthetic cannabinoids are entries in...
- VietnamNot applicable as a class status. The synthetic-cannabinoids slug spans many individually listed compounds,...
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Not individually verified
For these 115 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Hungary
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe