Are Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) legal in Belarus?

Legal status

The applicability answer holds for Belarus and the reasoning under it is corrected, because the annex does print this family under its own name. The республиканский перечень annexed to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. carries, inside Список 1, a group heading at 1.2.ПК reading «Синтетические каннабиноиды», with structurally defined subgroups under it, the first of which gathers the 3-carbonylindoles and states a base structure for them. The applied cell said there is no printed entry a label of this kind can be matched to and that the list names members rather than families. The heading and the stated base structure are both against that. The applied cell also reported that a search under one named compound found nothing: «JWH-018» is printed at serial 1.2.ПК1.22 against the chemical description (нафталин-1-ил)(1-пентил-1H-индол-3-ил)метанон, between 1.2.ПК1.21 EAM-2201 and 1.2.ПК1.23 JWH-019. What survives is the operative point and it is narrow: the group heading organises an enumeration, the rows under it are individually numbered compounds, and a compound made after the last amendment has no row. The amendment of 10 March 2026 read here adds further rows to subgroup 1.2.ПК2, which is how that enumeration keeps pace. An identified molecule is still required before a row can be matched. Read on 21 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale. The figure is disputed inside this set, this repair reading Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling where the cell it replaced read twelve to twenty five years, and nothing read here settles that, so treat both the article range and the figure as open. The scale is applied to whichever listed compound is actually present rather than to the label. The correction to make here is that the annex gathers this family under a printed group heading and numbers its members, so identifying the compound gives a serial as well as a name, and the compounds sit in Список 1, whose heading says its substances are not used for medical purposes. Belarus sets no lawful personal use allowance, and a mixture is not made safer by being unnameable.

If prescribed or medical

The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes. The placement follows each identified constituent rather than the label, so there is no single placement for this row and no single prescription answer either. Where a constituent is identified it will usually be found under the group heading 1.2.ПК «Синтетические каннабиноиды» in Список 1, and that list is the one for substances not used for medical purposes, so no medicinal route runs through it. For a compound made after the last amendment there may be no row to match at all.

Documentation

Carry nothing on the strength of a label that names no single substance. Identify what is actually in the product and take the carriage question to that compound's own numbered row in the республиканский перечень, because that is the level at which Belarus answers. Ask about the compound by name and give its serial under 1.2.ПК if you have it, and note that the annex prints no registry numbers, so a registry number is not what will match. The annexes are amended often, the 10 March 2026 amendment read here having added further rows to this very group, so recheck before travel. Read on 21 September 2026.

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