Legal status in Tanzania

Per-substance legal status for Tanzania, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

52 confirmed substances36 not individually verifiedLast updated October 3, 2026

Confirmed legal status

25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled by name. Schedule I of the 1971 Convention list inside the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints the row «25I-NBOMe,» with the other name «2C-I-NBOMe» and the chemical name «2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-[(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]ethanamine», and the Schedule reaches its salts and stereoisomers, as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. So 25I-NBOMe is a psychotropic substance under the Act on the mainland.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to 25I-NBOMe is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives 25I-NBOMe a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach 25I-NBOMe. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: The row sits between «25C-NBOMe» and «Brolamfetamine» in that Schedule I list; the extracted text sets the name and the chemical name in separate columns, and they were paired by their printed order. The previous cell said no entry for 25I-NBOMe had been found in the First Schedule and treated section 15(2) as the only route; that was wrong, the row is printed in the Revised Edition 2023 itself. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to 25I-NBOMe row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, Revised Edition 2023 (first enacted as the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015), Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, https://elibrary.osg.go.tz/items/33046f4d-7792-42d7-bdc6-0122b112a200/full, PDF https://elibrary.osg.go.tz/server/api/core/bitstreams/1438371a-253b-4360-8c28-a9abed3572d0/content, sections 1, 2, 14, 15(2), 15(3), 16, 18 and 19 and the First and Second Schedules · Drug Control and Enforcement (Amendment of First and Second Schedule) Notice, 2024, GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024, https://media.tanzlii.org/media/legislation/319515/source_file/5d9a474c1c8745d4/tz-act-gn-2024-189-publication-document.pdf · Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, https://zanzibarassembly.go.tz/storage/documents/acts/english/all/1675064114.pdf, sections 2, 19 to 23 and the First Schedule, read by OCR. Stated as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024. · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017), trafficking (s.15) life imprisonment; cultivation (s.11) not less than 30 years; small-quantity possession (s.17) and use imprisonment (use ~5-10 years); the maximum penalty for drug offences is life imprisonment; the country's separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in Tanzania under the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017). In Tanzania, drugs fall under the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017). Trafficking (s.15) carries life imprisonment; cultivation (s.11) carries not less than 30 years; and small-quantity possession (s.17) and use carry imprisonment (use roughly 5-10 years). The maximum penalty for drug offences is life imprisonment; the country's separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tanzania, drugs fall under the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017). Trafficking (s.15) carries life imprisonment; cultivation (s.11) carries not less than 30 years; and small-quantity possession (s.17) and use carry imprisonment (use roughly 5-10 years). The maximum penalty for drug offences is life imprisonment; the country's separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act; cultivation, trafficking and possession are offences, with penalties up to life imprisonment. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (ss.11/15/17), as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017 · media.tanzlii.org · Updated June 27, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled through its amphetamine content. Adderall is a product name for mixed amphetamine salts, a description brought from outside the text, and no instrument read names the product. Schedule II of the 1971 Convention list in the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints «Amfetamine (±)-α-Methylphenethylamine» and «Dexamfetamine Dexamphetamine (+)-α-Methylphenethylamine» and closes with «The salts of the substances listed in this Schedule whenever the existence of such salts is possible.», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. Section 2 makes a psychotropic substance include any «salt or preparation of such substance», so the tablets are psychotropic substances on the mainland.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to Adderall is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes «selling or supplying or administering for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon or dentist, and supply by a registered pharmacist, so supply of Adderall by those persons for medical purposes in accordance with the Act falls outside trafficking. Section 21(1)(c) punishes selling, supplying or acquiring it «on presentation of prescription knowing or having reasons to believe that the prescription is forged, unlawfully obtained or acquired or was issued more than six months before presentation», with a fine of not less than fifty million shillings or imprisonment for not less than thirty years or both. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, and any traveller import permit rule were not read.
Documentation: Searches for adderall returned nothing; amfetamine and dexamfetamine returned the rows quoted, with «Levamfetamine» also printed in Schedule II. The previous cell answered only through the amphetamine entry and left the product unplaced; the salts clause and the section 2 definition of psychotropic substance close that gap. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to Adderall row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Amphetamine», so amphetamine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for amphetamine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Amphetamine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for amphetamine.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled through its DMT content. Ayahuasca is a brew, and no instrument read names it, Banisteriopsis, Psychotria or harmala alkaloids; the brew's DMT content is a description brought from outside the text and varies by preparation. Schedule I of the 1971 Convention list in the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints «DMT 3-[2-(Dimethylamino)ethyl]indole», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026, and section 2 defines a narcotic drug as «any substance specified in the First Schedule or anything that contains any substance specified in that First Schedule to this Act», and a psychotropic substance to include any «preparation» of a listed substance. A brew that contains DMT is therefore within the Act on the mainland, and so, by the same words, is plant material that contains DMT, as the peyote cell treats cactus material that contains mescaline.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. For a brew that contains DMT, the following apply. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to the brew is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives DMT or the brew a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach DMT or the brew. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: Searches for ayahuasca, banisteriopsis, harmine and harmaline returned nothing; dmt returned only the row quoted. The section 2 list of prohibited plants, «cannabis plant, khat plant, coca plant, papaver somniferum or opium poppy and papaver setigerum», names neither source plant, so the section 11 cultivation offence does not reach growing them as prohibited plants, though possessing or supplying DMT bearing material falls under the definition above. Whether a given brew or plant holds DMT is a question of analysis, which this cell cannot answer, and whether the whole brew or only its DMT is weighed against the 200 gram line is not settled by the text read. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to the brew row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled, member by member, for the six barbiturates the First Schedule names. The dossier row, citing the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, reads: 'The First Schedule names "Amobarbital", "Butalbital", "Cyclobarbital", "Pentobarbital", "Phenobarbital" and "Secbutabarbital".' Each named member is a scheduled substance in its own right, so the class answer is the range across those six, and a barbiturate outside them needs its own check against the First Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. For every one of the six named members the bands are the same: trafficking above 200 g attracts mandatory life imprisonment under section 15, and 200 g or below attracts at least 30 years under section 16. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for any of the six named barbiturates.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, and resolves the class member by member rather than from one entry. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for barbiturates.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled, member by member, for five of the six members checked. The dossier row, citing the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, reads: 'The First Schedule names "Alprazolam", "Clonazepam", "Diazepam", "Lorazepam" and "Nimetazepam".' Etizolam, the sixth member checked, was not established in the printed 2023 schedule, and the dossier leaves its own etizolam row open under the section 15(2) drug related effects route, so the range runs across the five named members and does not reach etizolam.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. For alprazolam, clonazepam, diazepam, lorazepam and nimetazepam, trafficking above 200 g attracts mandatory life imprisonment under section 15, and the dossier's penalty summary records that section 16 sets at least 30 years below that threshold. The class label alone does not settle etizolam, and no band is stated here for it. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for any of the five named benzodiazepines or for etizolam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, and resolves the class member by member rather than from one entry. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for benzodiazepines.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 (ss.11/17), as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, carried forward from the previous cell · media.tanzlii.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Buprenorphine», so buprenorphine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for buprenorphine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Buprenorphine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for buprenorphine.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Controlled as a cannabis extract, and not named as a compound. Cannabinol is not named in the First or Second Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026: the word occurs only inside tetrahydrocannabinol, in the section 2 definition of cannabis plant, «includes any part of that plant containing tetrahydro-cannabinol», in the Schedule I tetrahydrocannabinol isomers and in Schedule II's «Dronabinol» row. The Single Convention list prints «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis», so a CBN oil extracted from the plant is an extract of cannabis; CBN made by converting another cannabinoid or by synthesis is not named.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. For a CBN product that is an extract of the plant, the following apply, subject to the weight question in the documentation. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to a CBN extract is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives a CBN extract a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach a CBN extract. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read. Section 2 defines «medicinal cannabis» as «any extract or tincture of cannabis», and no regulations made for it were read.
Documentation: Searches for cannabinol and cbn found the word only inside tetrahydrocannabinol. The Schedule I tetrahydrocannabinol isomers are all tetrahydro or hexahydro compounds with a 3-pentyl chain, and cannabinol, which is aromatic, is none of them, a chemical fact brought from outside the text. CBN that is not an extract is not listed and is reached, if at all, by section 15(2). Section 15(3)(iii) and 16(2)(c) give cannabis its own weight line of 100 kilogram, and whether an extract is weighed on that line or on the 200 gram line is not settled by the text, as the CBD cell also says. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to a CBN extract row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis», so the plant, its resin and its extracts and tinctures are scheduled under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Under section 15 life imprisonment is mandatory for trafficking more than 100 kg of cannabis or khat, and section 16 sets at least 30 years below that threshold, as the dossier's penalty summary records. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here. The previous cell also recorded that Tanzania has no legal recreational regime for cannabis, and nothing in the dossier row contradicts that.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for cannabis.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for cannabis.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Cathinone», so cathinone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for cathinone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Cathinone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for cathinone.

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CBD

Legal status: Controlled as a cannabis extract, and not named as a compound. Cannabidiol is not named in the First or Second Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. The Single Convention list in the First Schedule prints «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis», section 2 defines cannabis as «any part of the plant of the genus cannabis, excluding the seeds, the mature stock, or fibre produce from the cannabis plant or cannabis resin», and defines medicinal cannabis as «any extract or tincture of cannabis». A CBD oil or isolate made from the plant is an extract of cannabis on that text; CBD made by synthesis is not named.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. For a CBD product that is an extract of the plant, the following apply, subject to the weight question in the documentation. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to a CBD extract is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives a CBD extract a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach a CBD extract. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read. Section 2 defines «medicinal cannabis» as «any extract or tincture of cannabis», and no regulations made for it were read.
Documentation: Searches for cannabidiol and cbd returned nothing. The Act prints no THC limit and no hemp exemption, so a CBD extract is not taken outside the entry by a low THC content. Synthetic CBD with no tetrahydrocannabinol is not listed and is reached, if at all, by section 15(2). Section 15(3)(iii) and 16(2)(c) give cannabis its own weight line of 100 kilogram, and whether an extract is weighed on that line or on the 200 gram line is not settled by the text. The previous cell quoted the full entry and still deferred, because section 15(2) needed proof it did not have; the section 2 definition of cannabis is what places a plant extract. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to a CBD extract row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Clonazepam», so clonazepam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for clonazepam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Clonazepam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for clonazepam.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Cocaine», so cocaine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for cocaine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Cocaine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for cocaine.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Codeine», so codeine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for codeine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Codeine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for codeine.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled through the First Schedule entry «Cocaine» of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, which makes the listed substance a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act; the dossier resolves the crack-cocaine row through that entry and quotes no separate entry for the crack form.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for crack cocaine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Cocaine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for crack cocaine.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled by its chemical name. Schedule I of the 1971 Convention list in the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints «Tetrahydrocannabinol, the following isomers and their stereochemical variants:» and among them «6a,7,10,10a-Tetrahydro-6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6H-dibenzo[b,d]pyran-1-ol», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. That chemical name is delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol, a chemical identification brought from outside the text, which names no isomer by its delta number.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to delta-8-THC is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives delta-8-THC a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach delta-8-THC. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: Searches for delta-8 and delta 8 found nothing; the row was found by its chemical name. The same Schedule I list prints five other tetrahydrocannabinol isomers by chemical name, and Schedule II prints «Dronabinol» as delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, which its footnote limits to «(-)-trans-delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol». A delta-8 product made from hemp is also within «Cannabis and cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis» only if it is an extract of the plant; synthesis was not considered. The previous cell named "Tetrahydrocannabinol" as a near match and rejected it, leaving section 15(2) as the only route; the chemical name shows the isomer is printed. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to delta-8-THC row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Diazepam», so diazepam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for diazepam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Diazepam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for diazepam.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)», so DMT is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for DMT.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Dimethyltryptamine (DMT)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for DMT.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «STP, DOM», so DOM is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for DOM.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «STP, DOM» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for DOM.

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DXM

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Dextromethorphan», so DXM is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for DXM.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Dextromethorphan» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for DXM.

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Ephedrine», so ephedrine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for ephedrine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Ephedrine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for ephedrine.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled by name. GN No. 189 of 2024, made under section 14(2) of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, adds to the list of substances in Schedule IV of the First Schedule the row «Etizolam 4-(2-Chlorophenyl)-2-ethyl-9-methyl-6H-thieno[3,2- f][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3a][1,4]diazepine», beside «Flualprazolam», «Clonazolam», «Diclazepam» and «Flubromazolam», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. So etizolam is a psychotropic substance under the Act on the mainland.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to etizolam is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes «selling or supplying or administering for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon or dentist, and supply by a registered pharmacist, so supply of etizolam by those persons for medical purposes in accordance with the Act falls outside trafficking. Section 21(1)(c) punishes selling, supplying or acquiring it «on presentation of prescription knowing or having reasons to believe that the prescription is forged, unlawfully obtained or acquired or was issued more than six months before presentation», with a fine of not less than fifty million shillings or imprisonment for not less than thirty years or both. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, and any traveller import permit rule were not read.
Documentation: Etizolam is not in the Revised Edition 2023 Schedule IV list, which runs from «Allobarbital» to «Zolpidem» without it; it entered by paragraph 2(g) of GN No. 189 of 2024. The previous cell said no entry had been found and named "Alprazolam" as a rejected near match, treating section 15(2) as the only route; the row it lacked is in GN No. 189 of 2024. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to etizolam row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Fentanyl», so fentanyl is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for fentanyl.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Fentanyl» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for fentanyl.

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)», so GHB is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for GHB.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for GHB.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Heroin», so heroin is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for heroin.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Heroin» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for heroin.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Hydrocodone», so hydrocodone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for hydrocodone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Hydrocodone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for hydrocodone.

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «khat plant», so khat is a scheduled substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Under section 15 life imprisonment is mandatory for trafficking more than 100 kg of cannabis or khat, and section 16 sets at least 30 years below that threshold, as the dossier's penalty summary records. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for khat.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «khat plant» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for khat.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Lorazepam», so lorazepam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for lorazepam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Lorazepam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for lorazepam.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «LSD, LSD-25», so LSD is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for LSD.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «LSD, LSD-25» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for LSD.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Tenamfetamine (MDA)», so MDA is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for MDA.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Tenamfetamine (MDA)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for MDA.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «MDMA», so MDMA is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for MDMA.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «MDMA» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for MDMA.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)», so MDPV is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for MDPV.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for MDPV.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Mephedrone (4-MMC)», so mephedrone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for mephedrone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Mephedrone (4-MMC)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for mephedrone.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Mescaline», so mescaline is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for mescaline.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Mescaline» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for mescaline.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methadone», so methadone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for methadone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methadone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for methadone.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methamphetamine», so methamphetamine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for methamphetamine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methamphetamine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for methamphetamine.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methaqualone», so methaqualone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for methaqualone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methaqualone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for methaqualone.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methylone», so methylone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for methylone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methylone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for methylone.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methylphenidate», so methylphenidate is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for methylphenidate.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methylphenidate» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for methylphenidate.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Morphine», so morphine is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for morphine.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Morphine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for morphine.

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Methoxetamine (MXE)», so MXE is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for MXE.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Methoxetamine (MXE)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for MXE.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Nimetazepam», so nimetazepam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for nimetazepam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Nimetazepam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for nimetazepam.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Opium», so opium is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for opium.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Opium» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for opium.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Oxycodone», so oxycodone is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for oxycodone.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Oxycodone» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for oxycodone.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Phencyclidine (PCP)», so PCP is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for PCP.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Phencyclidine (PCP)» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for PCP.

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled through its mescaline content. Peyote is a cactus, and no instrument read names it or Lophophora; its mescaline content is a description brought from outside the text. Schedule I of the 1971 Convention list in the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints «Mescaline 3,4,5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026, and section 2 defines a narcotic drug as «any substance specified in the First Schedule or anything that contains any substance specified in that First Schedule to this Act», and a psychotropic substance as «any substance, natural or synthetic, or any natural material» included in a list. Cactus material that contains mescaline is therefore within the Act on the mainland.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. For material that contains mescaline, the following apply. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to peyote is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives mescaline or peyote a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach mescaline or peyote. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: Searches for peyote, lophophora and cactus returned nothing; mescaline returned only the row quoted. The section 2 list of prohibited plants, «cannabis plant, khat plant, coca plant, papaver somniferum or opium poppy and papaver setigerum», does not name the cactus, so the section 11 cultivation offence, «not less than thirty years», does not reach growing it as a prohibited plant. Whether the whole cactus or only its mescaline is weighed against the 200 gram line is not settled by the text read. The previous cell left the cactus unplaced because the record it rested on quoted only the mescaline entry; the section 2 definition is the clause that reaches the plant. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to peyote row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Controlled only through what the sample contains. Pink cocaine is a street label, and no instrument read names it; searches for pink cocaine and tusi found nothing. Section 2 of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, reaches a sample through «anything that contains any substance specified in that First Schedule». Accounts from outside the text describe samples sold under this name as mixtures that may hold ketamine, MDMA, 2C-B or cocaine; that is not law. As the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026, the First Schedule prints «MDMA», «2C-B» and «Cocaine», and it does not print ketamine, so a sample holding only ketamine is not listed and is reached, if at all, by section 15(2).
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Where analysis finds a listed substance, the following apply. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to a sample containing a listed substance is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives a sample sold as pink cocaine a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach a sample sold as pink cocaine. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: The rows read are «MDMA (±)-N,α-Dimethyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy) phenethylamine» in Schedule I and «2C-B 4-Bromo-2,5- dimethoxyphenethylamine» in Schedule II of the 1971 Convention list, and «Cocaine Methyl ester of benzoylecgonine» in the Single Convention list. Searches for ketamine and ketamin returned nothing in either text; the nearest rows, «Methoxetamine, MXE», «Eticyclidine PCE», GN No. 189 of 2024's «3-Methoxyphencyclidine» and «PCP», are different compounds. Which entry applies to a sample is a question of analysis. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to a sample containing a listed substance row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Psilocybine», so psilocybin is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The previous cell, sourced to the Drug Control and Enforcement Act No. 5 of 2015 as amended by Act No. 15 of 2017, also recorded the Act's cultivation offence under section 11 at not less than 30 years, and small-quantity possession under section 17 and use as carrying imprisonment. Those two points are carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass against the 2023 Revised Edition. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for psilocybin.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Psilocybine» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for psilocybin.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is a class name, and the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints no class entry or generic clause for it; it prints named compounds, each as a row of Schedule II of the 1971 Convention list in its First Schedule, as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. The Revised Edition 2023 prints «JWH-018», «AM-2201» and «XLR-11». GN No. 189 of 2024 adds «AB-CHMINACA», «5F-ADB / 5F-MDMB-PINACA», «AB-PINACA», «5F-PB-22», «UR-144», «ADB-FUBINACA», «FUB-AMB (MMB-FUBINACA, AMB-FUBINACA)», «CUMYL-4CN-BINACA», «ADB-CHMINACA (MAB-CHMINACA)», «AB-FUBINACA», «5F-AMB-PINACA (5F-AMB, 5F-MMB-PINACA)», «5F-MDMB-PICA (5F-MDMB-2201)», «4-F-MDMB-BINACA», «CUMYL-PEGACLONE», «MDMB-4en-PINACA», «5F-APINACA, 5F-AKB-48» and «MDMB-CHMICA». A product holding one of those is a psychotropic substance on the mainland; a product holding only an unnamed compound is not listed and is reached, if at all, by section 15(2).
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to a product containing a named compound is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives any named synthetic cannabinoid a medical use or a prescription route. The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes supply «for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon, dentist or registered pharmacist, and that exclusion is not shown here to reach any named synthetic cannabinoid. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, was not read.
Documentation: Searches for synthetic cannabin returned nothing. GN No. 189 of 2024 prints most of these rows on its pages 3 and 4 with each name beside its chemical name, and a last group on page 5 where the names and the chemical names are printed apart, so only the names are quoted here. Section 15(2) sets life imprisonment for unlisted «drugs or substances not specified in the Schedule to this Act but have proved to have drug related effects», and that is the only route for a compound not on the list. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to a product containing a named compound row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Alprazolam», so alprazolam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical: The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for alprazolam.
Documentation: The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Alprazolam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for alprazolam.

Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled by name. Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention list inside the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act, Cap 95, prints «Zolpidem N,N,6-Trimethyl-2-p-tolylimidazo [1,2-a] pyridine-3-acetamide», and the Schedule closes with «The salts of the substances listed in this Schedule whenever the existence of such salts is possible.», as the Schedules stand after GN No. 189 of 2024, read on 3 October 2026. So zolpidem is a psychotropic substance under the Act on the mainland.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Cap 95 prints no sentence of death: its text, read in full on 3 October 2026, was searched for death and the word does not occur in it. Section 1(2) says «This Act shall apply to Mainland Tanzania.», and section 1(3) extends Parts III and IV to some conduct outside the mainland, including by «a citizen or a person who ordinarily resides in the United Republic». Zanzibar has its own Zanzibar Drugs Control and Enforcement Authority Act, No. 8 of 2021, whose English text is a scanned image that was read here by OCR; its sections 19, 21 and 22 set life imprisonment as the highest drug penalty and the search found no sentence of death in it. Section 2 defines trafficking to include «the importation, exportation, buying, sale, giving, supplying, storing, possession, production, manufacturing, conveyance, delivery or distribution». Section 15(1) punishes trafficking with life imprisonment where, by section 15(3)(i), a person trafficks «narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances weighing more than two hundred grams», and section 16(1) sets «imprisonment for a term of not less than thirty years» where, by section 16(2)(a), they weigh «200 grams or below». Small quantity possession proved to be for personal consumption, and consumption, fall under section 18(1): where the drug «is cocaine, morphine, diacetyl-morphine or any other narcotic drug or any psychotropic substance specified by the Minister by notice in the Gazette», a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of five years or both, and otherwise a fine of not less than five hundred thousand shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both. Section 18(2) puts on the possessor the burden of proving personal consumption, and section 18(3) leaves «small quantity» to the Minister's regulations, which were not read, nor was any notice under section 18(1)(a), so which paragraph applies to zolpidem is not settled here. Section 19 punishes a person who «smokes, inhales, sniffs, injects or otherwise uses» a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance with a fine of not less than one million shillings or imprisonment for a term of three years or both.
If prescribed / medical: The section 2 definition of trafficking excludes «selling or supplying or administering for medical purposes, and in accordance with the provisions of this Act» by a medical practitioner, veterinary surgeon or dentist, and supply by a registered pharmacist, so supply of zolpidem by those persons for medical purposes in accordance with the Act falls outside trafficking. Section 21(1)(c) punishes selling, supplying or acquiring it «on presentation of prescription knowing or having reasons to believe that the prescription is forged, unlawfully obtained or acquired or was issued more than six months before presentation», with a fine of not less than fifty million shillings or imprisonment for not less than thirty years or both. The Medicines and Medical Devices Act, Cap 219, and any traveller import permit rule were not read.
Documentation: Zolpidem is the last row of that Schedule IV list, after «Vinylbital». The previous cell said no entry for zolpidem had been found, naming "Nimetazepam" as a rejected near match, and treated section 15(2) as the only route; that was wrong, the row is printed in the Revised Edition 2023 itself. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First and Second Schedules «by notice published in the Gazette». The Revised Edition 2023 does not carry GN No. 189 of 2024, published 22 March 2024: its First Schedule subheadings still read «as at 18th May 2016» and «as at 13 November 2016», which that notice replaced with «as of the year 2022». This does not rule out a later notice than GN No. 189 of 2024; the TanzLII index of notices under the Act answered 403 and could not be listed. Zanzibar runs its own regime under Act No. 8 of 2021, and this cell does not apply it to zolpidem row by row. As read by OCR, that Act's First Schedule reproduces the INCB Yellow List of narcotic drugs and the Red List of precursors, and no list of psychotropic substances was found in it; its section 2 defines a «narcotic and psychotropic substance» by effect, as «a substance, which interact with central nervous system that affect and alter mental process»; section 20(2) treats «Any drugs or substances approved by the Government Analyst to have directly or indirectly connection with narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances which are not found under the First Schedule» as prohibited; section 21(1)(d) reaches unlisted substances with drug related effects only «in large quantity»; and section 23 sets a fine or imprisonment for a term of one year or both for small quantity personal possession.

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Not individually verified

36 substances are not individually verified for Tanzania

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Tanzania’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
2C-E	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
2C-I	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
6-APB	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns alcohol to the Intoxicating Liquors Act and licensing regime, but the row quotes...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns caffeine to the Food, Drugs and Cosmetics Act food-product regime, but the row...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
GBL	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
HHC	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Ketamine	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns ketamine to the Medicines and Medical Devices Act Cap 219 prescription-medicine...
Kratom	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Memantine	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns nicotine to the Tobacco Products (Regulation) Act 2003, but the row quotes no...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Poppers	Not confirmed. Poppers is a market or family label rather than one substance, and the dossier records the row as not...
Pregabalin	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
THC-P	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns tobacco to the Tobacco Products (Regulation) Act 2003, but the row quotes no...
Tramadol	Not confirmed. The dossier assigns tramadol to the Medicines and Medical Devices Act Cap 219 prescription-medicine...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for...

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