Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) in Ghana: not individually verified
We have not confirmed that Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) specifically is scheduled in Ghana, 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. Synthetic cannabinoids is a family label, not one substance. No synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist is named in the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019); the search, in English, for JWH-018, for AM-2201, for MDMB-CHMICA and for the stems pinaca and naphthoylindole returned no entry, and the only cannabinoid entries are Sixth Schedule items 3 to 8, which are plant cannabinoids and two classical analogues, nabilone and DMHP. Sixth Schedule A names «Cannabis, its preparations, derivatives and similar synthetic preparations», and whether a structurally unrelated receptor agonist is a «similar synthetic preparation» of cannabis is a question of construction that no instrument or decision found answers. The Green List 2024 carries many of them, among them JWH-018, AM-2201 and MDMB-CHMICA, in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention, which brings those within the FDA guideline's definition of a psychotropic substance for medical supply only. This is stated as the Schedules stand after the Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100), which the judy.legal consolidation records as the Act's only amendment and whose Bill substitutes section 43 alone; the enacted text of Act 1100 was not itself read. The power to move the lists is in section 112: its subsection (1) gave a power to revise the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Schedules within twelve months of commencement, and its subsection (2)(b) gives a continuing power to make Regulations specifying «the classification of drugs and the appropriate penalties». The only Regulations found under the Act, L.I. 2475 of 2023 on cannabis cultivation, revise no Schedule on their table of contents, and this does not rule out a later instrument that was not found.
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What Ghana HAS confirmed for related substances
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