Legality · Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) in Timor-Leste: not individually verified
Not individually verified
We have not confirmed that Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, 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. This is a class slug, not one compound, and one member's listing cannot answer for the class. The only synthetic-cannabinoid-type entries anywhere in Lei n.º 2/2017's Anexo II are Tabela II-A items 11 and 28: "DMHP - 3-(1,2-dimetil-heptil)-1-hiroxi-7,8,9,10-tetraidro-6,6,9-trimetil-6H-dibenzo-(b,d) pirano" and "Para-hexilo - 3-hexilo-1-hidroxi-7,8,9,10-tetraidro-6,6,9-trimetil-6H-dibenzo (b,d) pirano". Both are early-generation, pre-2017, dibenzopyran-type synthetic cannabinoids structurally unlike the indole, indazole and other scaffold JWH, 5F and ADB-type compounds sold as synthetic cannabinoid products today; neither this table nor any other table names a modern synthetic cannabinoid by that structure. Table II-A's closing clause reaches isomers and salts of its own listed entries, which would extend only to isomers of DMHP and Para-hexilo themselves, not to a structurally different modern synthetic cannabinoid. Article 5(2)(d), the hallucinogen criterion ("qualquer substância natural ou sintética que possa provocar alucinações ou distorções sensoriais graves"), is drafting criteria describing how Table II-A was compiled, not an operative clause that independently controls a substance never printed in the table; treating it as a live, self-executing catch-all is not supported by the article's own heading, "Critérios específicos para a elaboração das tabelas" (specific criteria for the preparation of the tables), and the operative control provisions, articles 2(d) and 3(1), key to table membership rather than to the criteria. The class as a live street-market phenomenon is essentially unaddressed by name in this instrument on the schedule as printed, and that absence is not treated here as a settled negative answer, because Lei n.º 2/2017 does not close itself: article 3(3) allows the tables to be altered by law or updated in line with changes to the international Conventions, and whether that updating clause self-executes without a further legislative act is not resolved on the text read.
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What Timor-Leste HAS confirmed for related substances
These are related compounds, not Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice). Their status may or may not reflect Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)’s. Confirm Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) directly with Timor-Leste's national drug authority or your embassy.
Named. Tabela I-C of Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, lists four cannabis entries: item 1, "Cannabis - folhas e sumidades floridas ou frutificadas da planta Cannabis sativa L. da qual não se tenha extraído a resina, qualquer que seja a designação que se lhe dê" (Cannabis, the flowering or fruiting tops and leaves of the Cannabis sativa L. plant from which the resin has not been extracted, whatever name is given to it); item 2, "Cannabis, resina de - resina separada, em bruto ou purificada, obtida a partir da planta Cannabis" (Cannabis resin, resin separated, crude or purified, obtained from the Cannabis plant); item 3, "Cannabis, óleo de - óleo separado, em bruto ou purificado, obtido a partir da planta Cannabis" (Cannabis oil, oil separated, crude or purified, obtained from the Cannabis plant); and item 4, "Cannabis - sementes não destinadas a sementeira da planta Cannabis sativa L." (Cannabis seeds not intended for sowing, of the Cannabis sativa L. plant). A closing clause subjects the salts of these to the same table, where such salts can exist. Article 2(d) defines "droga" as the plants, substances or preparations covered by tables I to IV, and article 3(1) subjects table I to IV substances to the law's regime.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, preamble and Anexo II, Tabela I-C items 1-4, Anexo I notes 3-(3) to 3-(5), and articles 2(d), 3(1), 6, 7, 9, 11, 26 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pp. 60-82 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6, fetched 2026-10-07, read 2026-10-07) · Verified October 8, 2026
Named. Tabela II-B, item 14, of Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro ("Lei de Combate ao Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas"), reads: "Tetraidrocanabinol - os seguintes isómeros: (Delta) 6a (10a), (Delta) 6a (7), (Delta) 7, (Delta) 8, (Delta) 9, (Delta) 10, (Delta) (11)." (Tetrahydrocannabinol, the following isomers: Delta 6a(10a), Delta 6a(7), Delta 7, Delta 8, Delta 9, Delta 10, Delta 11.) Delta 8 is named directly among the listed double bond isomers, so delta-8-thc is caught by the table entry itself, not by any generic clause. Article 2(d) defines "droga" as the plants, substances or preparations covered by tables I to IV, and article 3(1) subjects table I to IV substances to the law's regime; both operate on table membership, which item 14 supplies directly for this isomer.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, Anexo II, Tabela II-B item 14, and articles 2(d), 3(1), 7, 9, 11, 26 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pp. 60-82 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6, fetched 2026-10-07, read 2026-10-07) · Verified October 8, 2026
Not named anywhere in Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, and not an isomer of tetrahydrocannabinol. Table II-B, item 14, names tetrahydrocannabinol by its double bond position isomers only: "os seguintes isómeros: (Delta) 6a(10a), (Delta) 6a(7), (Delta) 7, (Delta) 8, (Delta) 9, (Delta) 10, (Delta) (11)". Hexahydrocannabinol (hhc) is produced by hydrogenating tetrahydrocannabinol, adding hydrogen across the carbon-carbon double bond that gives THC its "tetrahydro" (and its Delta-numbered) structure; it has no such double bond left to be positioned, so it cannot be one of item 14's listed isomers, which is a chemically distinct finding from delta-8-thc's (see that cell), where the named entry reaches delta-8 directly as a listed double bond position. The stronger question is Table II-B's closing "derivados" clause: "Os derivados e sais das substâncias inscritas nesta tabela, sempre que a sua existência seja possível" (the derivatives and salts of the substances listed in this table, wherever their existence is possible). Hhc is produced synthetically from tetrahydrocannabinol by hydrogenation, which is a textually defensible reading of "derivado" of item 14's entry, on the same reasoning applied to cannabinol (THC's oxidation product, see that cell). "Derivado" is undefined in article 2, and no instrument or guidance confirming this reading for hhc specifically has been found this session. This absence from a named isomer entry is stated as in force on 25 January 2017, Lei n.º 2/2017's own enactment date, and does not rule out a later amendment this session did not find.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, Anexo II, Tabela II-B item 14 and closing clause, and articles 2(d), 3(1), 6, 7, 9, 26 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pp. 60-82 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6, fetched 2026-10-07, read 2026-10-07) · Verified October 8, 2026
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