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

Legal status

Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label covering hundreds of distinct compounds, and Belize's subsidiary volume prints no family entry for them. The nearest printed thing is the Schedule I entry Cannabinol derivatives, and the Act defines that narrowly at section 2(1)(f) as the tetrahydro derivatives of cannabinol and the 3-alkyl homologues of cannabinol or of its tetrahydro derivatives, except where contained in cannabis or cannabis resin. That definition is about cannabinol itself. It does not describe an indole or indazole carboxamide, which is what most compounds sold as synthetic cannabinoids are. No JWH, AM, XLR, AB-, MDMB- or cumyl name appears anywhere in the volume, and neither does the word cannabimimetic. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.

Consequences if caught

No penalty is stated for this row. The individual compounds are unnamed, the one possible route to them is a definition written about a different chemical family, and the Act's Second Schedule, which is where a national class list for such compounds would sit, was not in the material read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.

If prescribed or medical

No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.

Documentation

Nothing on this row identifies a single substance, so there is nothing to carry against it. If a prescribed medicine is involved, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. The Chapter 103 subsidiary volume was searched in full for this row on 22 September 2026 and the label itself appears nowhere in it.

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