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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) in Samoa: not individually verified

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) specifically is scheduled in Samoa, 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 are a chemically diverse category of compounds, including naphthoylindoles such as JWH-018 and AM-2201 and indazole carboxamides such as AB-FUBINACA, that act on the same cannabinoid receptors as tetrahydrocannabinol but do not share its core ring structure. None of these three probe compounds, nor the general term synthetic cannabinoids, are named in any Schedule of the Narcotics Act 1967. Because the Act's cannabinoid entries, Second Schedule items 1 and 6, are built on the specific chemical designation 'tetrahydrocannabinols' and extend only to its isomers, esters, ethers, and salts under clauses B to D, and because a naphthoylindole or an indazole carboxamide shares no such designation with a tetrahydrocannabinol, those extension clauses do not reach synthetic cannabinoids on structural grounds, regardless of shared receptor activity. The Act contains no separate generic clause covering cannabinoid receptor agonists as a functional class, unlike the named analogue regimes used in some other jurisdictions' drug laws.

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What Samoa HAS confirmed for related substances

Cannabis / THCa related compound, not Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)
Cannabis is controlled under the Narcotics Act 1967, the official version as at 31 December 2023, through three separate routes. First, section 2 defines a "prohibited plant" to include, at paragraph (a), "a plant of the genus cannabis", and "Narcotic" is defined to include a prohibited plant, so the live cannabis plant is a narcotic in its own right. Second, Second Schedule item 40, Class B narcotics, names "CANNABIS being any leaf, seed, stalk, root, fruit, blossom, or part thereof of any plant of the genus cannabis (Cannabis sativa L)", and item 41 separately names cannabis resin, printed in the source as "CAANABIS RESIN", an apparent typographical error for cannabis resin. Third, item 1 of the same Schedule, Class B, names "Cannabis preparations: that is, any preparation containing any tetrahydrocannabinols, including cannabis resin (commonly known as hashish) and cannabis oil (commonly known as hash oil), produced by subjecting cannabis plant material to any kind of processing", and item 6 separately names "Tetrahydrocannabinols, except when contained in a Class C Narcotic". So the growing or harvested plant, its resin, any tetrahydrocannabinol containing preparation of it, and isolated tetrahydrocannabinols are each independently caught, all at Class B except for the prohibited plant cultivation offence, which carries its own separate penalty under section 6.
Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, section 2 paragraph (a) of the prohibited plant definition, printed page 3, Second Schedule items 1 and 6, printed page 24, item 40, printed page 25, and item 41, printed page 26, and sections 6, 7, 10, 17, 18 and 18A · sha256 75813ab45e1d52e938668948db0bc499c2726cfb73644b2dd6c38bd6ef3a962f · ag.gov.ws · read 2026-10-07 · Verified October 8, 2026
Delta-8-THCa related compound, not Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)
Delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol is caught by Second Schedule item 6 of the Narcotics Act 1967, 'Tetrahydrocannabinols, except when contained in a Class C Narcotic', read together with clause B of the same Schedule, 'The isomers of the substances mentioned or described in this Schedule whenever the existence of such isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation'. Delta-8-THC and delta-9-THC share the same molecular formula and differ only in the position of one double bond, so they are isomers of each other within the plain meaning of clause B, and delta-8-THC also falls within the unqualified plural term 'Tetrahydrocannabinols' in item 6 on its own terms, without needing the isomer clause at all. A cannabis derived preparation containing delta-8-THC is additionally a cannabis preparation under item 1, which asks only whether the preparation contains any tetrahydrocannabinols.
Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No. 3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule, section A items 1 and 6 and clause B, printed page 24, sections 7, 10, 17 and 18, read 2026-10-07, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf · Verified October 8, 2026

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