Controlled in Cuba, and it is the second and last substance the Código Penal names. Article 236(b) gives it its own lighter tier: «con privación de libertad de seis meses a dos años o multa de doscientas a quinientas cuotas o ambas, cuando se trate de Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». Cultivation is separately an article 235.1(d) offence: «cultive la planta Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, u otras de propiedades similares o, a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», and article 235.5 adds confiscation of the land. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Verified September 21, 2026
Prohibited in Cuba when it is cannabis plant material, and [Likely] prohibited at the border and in the post when it is an extract. Resolución 23/2020 of the Ministerio de Salud Pública, resuelvo primero, declares «para los viajeros, la paquetería y el tránsito de mercancías nacionales e internacionales, la prohibición de importar, tener, transportar y exportar con fines terapéuticos o recreativos la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», and the plant itself carries no qualifier, «aun cuando se porten certificados médicos que justifiquen su consumo». The same resuelvo reaches «flores, semillas, productos o sustancias, componentes derivados de estos que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas», and whether a non intoxicating cannabidiol extract is a derivative «que produzcan efectos similares a las drogas» the text does not say. Two further routes make the extract [Likely] inadmissible. First, the INCB Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, places «RESINA DE CANNABIS y EXTRACTOS y TINTURAS DE CANNABIS» in Lista I of the 1961 Convention; a whole plant or full spectrum cannabidiol oil extracted from the plant is such an extract on its face, while an isolate or a synthetic cannabidiol is named nowhere in the List and whether it counts as an extract is not established. Resolución 104/2022 resuelvo decimoquinto prohibits «la modalidad de envíos para los estupefacientes de la Lista I», and no cannabis product is among the 1961 Lista I products its Anexo I lets a traveller bring. Second, the same resolution's recital describes the 2020 measure as «la prohibición de entrada al territorio nacional de los preparados farmacéuticos que contienen marihuana o sus derivados», which reaches a cannabidiol medicine entering Cuba; that is a recital, and it does not repeal Resolución 23/2020. Resuelvo segundo of Resolución 23/2020 separately bars goods «que incite, estimule o propague el uso de la planta Cannabis (marihuana)», «aunque estos no contengan en sí los principios activos de la droga o sustancia que represente o haga alusión, pero que la incitación, el estímulo o la propaganda en su conjunto se consideren nocivos para la salud humana». Inside Cuba, article 235.1(d) of the Código Penal punishes whoever, «sin estar autorizado», «a sabiendas, posea semillas o partes de dichas plantas», with no test of effect, so hemp flower sold for its cannabidiol is caught whatever its THC content. For an extract, the live Cuba rows for cannabinol, delta 8 THC, HHC and THC P read «o sus derivados» in article 236(b) as reaching any cannabis constituent, and on that reading cannabidiol is caught too; but article 236 opens «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», and whether a non intoxicating constituent is one no text read settles. The Code sets no THC threshold and distinguishes no cannabinoid from another, and cannabidiol is not one of the 26 entries of Resolución 25/2022. The Código Penal names only two drugs: across all 470,392 characters of the gazette text (pdftotext layout extraction, measured on 3 October 2026) cocaína appears once, at article 236(a), and Cannabis twice, at articles 235.1(d) and 236(b), and the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times. The lists sit with the Ministerio de Salud Pública: Resolución 25/2022 resuelvo segundo approves a «LISTA DE SUSTANCIAS CONSIDERADAS DE EFECTO SIMILAR A LAS DROGAS, ESTUPEFACIENTES Y PSICOTRÓPICAS SOMETIDAS A CONTROL NACIONAL» of 26 entries, and Resolución 104/2022 governs the medicines of the 1961 and 1971 Convention Lists a traveller may bring, List by List.
Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 23/2020, dated 5 February 2020, Gaceta Oficial No. 36 Extraordinaria de 9 de julio de 2020, GOC-2020-484-EX36, pages 332 to 334, resuelvos primero to sexto, in force on publication under resuelvo sexto, 366,812 bytes, sha256 beginning 4092fa57c11ea4e9 · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 104/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 28 Extraordinaria de 12 de abril de 2022, GOC-2022-337-EX28, recitals, resuelvos primero to vigesimoprimero and Anexos I and II, 982,320 bytes, sha256 beginning 8fcdc4e6cec73bcf · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · International Narcotics Control Board, Lista Amarilla, 64th edition, July 2025, the 1961 Convention Lists in force, 1,540,645 bytes, sha256 beginning fdeb6a55569fc4d9 · incb.org · Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022, in force «a partir de los noventa días de su publicación» under its disposición final segunda (the date 1 December 2022 carried by the earlier entry is not re-derived here), articles 33, 34 and 235 to 238, read from the gazette PDF fetched on 3 October 2026, 907,882 bytes, sha256 beginning eff887708aa188d9, byte identical to the copy the Fiscalía General de la República publishes · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · fgr.gob.cu · Ministerio de Salud Pública, Resolución 25/2022, Gaceta Oficial No. 22 Extraordinaria de 24 de marzo de 2022, GOC-2022-295-EX22, resuelvos primero to décimo, read from the gazette pages as published by CECMED, the Cuban medicines regulator, 246,808 bytes, sha256 beginning 7f9bb2f922eb0fcc · cecmed.cu · all read on 3 October 2026 · no dossier was used · Verified October 3, 2026
Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». Delta-8-THC is a tetrahydrocannabinol isomer and therefore a cannabis derivative within «o sus derivados» in article 236(b). The Code draws no distinction between isomers because it draws no chemical distinctions at all. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». HHC is a hydrogenated cannabis derivative and falls within «o sus derivados» in article 236(b). Where it is synthesised rather than extracted, the residual limb in article 236(c) reaches it instead. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled in Cuba as a cannabis derivative. Article 236(b) covers «Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, o sus derivados». THC-P is a tetrahydrocannabinol homologue and therefore a cannabis derivative within «o sus derivados». Its longer side chain matters in a country with a chemical schedule and Cuba has none. Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Verified September 21, 2026
