Legal status in Trinidad and Tobago

Per-substance legal status for Trinidad and Tobago, 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.

53 confirmed substances35 not individually verifiedLast updated October 3, 2026

Confirmed legal status

2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 by Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, in operation from 18 November 2019. Clause 3(b) of that Order inserted a new table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», and the row it prints carries no international non-proprietary name, «2C-B» in the other names column and «4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine» as the chemical name. The substance was not in the Second Schedule of the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. The entries «25B-NBOMe» and «2C-B-NBOMe», added to the Schedule I table by the same Order, are a different N-benzyl compound and do not stand for 2C-B.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, 2C-B, a row of the Schedule II table, is within it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». The listing operates from 18 November 2019. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing in the instruments read provides a prescription, permit or traveller allowance for 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. The section 5(2) exemptions are general to all dangerous drugs, and the licence power in section 4(a) is the Minister's. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 5(9)(f) applies to a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» and counts «twenty tablets» as well as «five grammes», so the number of units carried matters as well as their mass. Section 15 separately punishes the possession, «without lawful or reasonable excuse», of «any device, article or apparatus designed, generally used or specifically altered for the purpose of the illegal use of dangerous drugs», upon summary conviction by a fine of ten thousand dollars and six months.

Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, clauses 2 and 3(b), page 1081, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, updated to 31 December 2016, sections 3, 4, 5 and 15, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · Act No. 24 of 2019, section 6, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, commenced 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Checked for later change: Legal Notices No. 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), No. 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and No. 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment), none affecting this row. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN» «SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC» Substances, 1971, by clause 3 of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2024, LN 131/2024. Clause 2 reads «This Order comes into operation on 29th July, 2024.» The row has no INN; the other names column prints «3-Methyl» «methcathinone» and the chemical name column «2-(methylamino)-1-(3-» «methylphenyl)propan-1-one». Before 29 July 2024 no row in the instruments read named it; the mephedrone row added in 2019 is the 4-methyl isomer. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. From 29 July 2024 the following apply to 3-MMC. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) reaches 3-MMC only from 29 July 2024, when LN 131/2024 put it in the Schedule II table. Section 21(1) deems the occupier or controller of a building, vehicle or vessel in which a dangerous drug is found to possess it unless he proves it was there without his knowledge and consent. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No medical use or product of 3-MMC appears in any instrument read, and the general exemptions in section 5(2) give no practical route.
Documentation: The date matters: conduct before 29 July 2024 is outside this row. Telling 3-MMC from mephedrone is a matter of analysis certified under section 22(1). Any claimed authority to hold 3-MMC would, under section 19, be for the accused to prove.

LN 131/2024, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2024, clauses 2 and 3, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · read into the Schedule II table inserted by LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 5, 19, 21, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 through the amphetamine it contains; the brand name itself is printed nowhere in the Act or the Orders read. Section 3 defines a dangerous drug to include «a psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule or a thing that contains such a substance». Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(b), in operation from 18 November 2019, lists «AMFETAMINE», «Amphetamine», «(±)-α-Methylphenethylamine» in the table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», and clause 3(c), in operation from 3 February 2020, closes the Schedule with «The salts of the substances listed in this Schedule whenever the existence of such salts is possible.» and a matching stereoisomers line. Adderall is a branded mixture of amphetamine salts, including dextroamphetamine salts. That composition is a fact about the product, not something the Act states; once it is accepted, the tablets are a thing containing a listed substance.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Adderall tablets count as a dangerous drug through their amphetamine, so the amphetamine provisions apply. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, amfetamine, a row of the Schedule II table, is within it. Whether one tablet of a mixed product counts as one of the «twenty tablets» is not addressed by the Act. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Adderall carried on a prescription is exempt from the possession offence only under section 5(2)(c), which covers a dangerous drug obtained «for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon». Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Under section 29A a traveller relying on the prescription exemption for Adderall must prove it, and the Act sets no form for that proof. Because the Act never names the product, it is the amphetamine content and the prescribing that the exemption turns on.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, section 3 definitions of dangerous drugs, medical practitioner and trafficking, sections 4, 5 and 29A, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 2 (commencement), clause 3(b) (row «AMFETAMINE», page 1081) and clause 3(c) (salts and stereoisomers lines, page 1083), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment. Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f) and 6(k)(iii), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. As the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Alcohol

Legal status: Alcohol is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Section 3 defines dangerous drugs as a substance that «means a narcotic drug listed in the First» Schedule or a «psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule», or a thing that contains one. Searches for alcohol, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, spirit, liquor and beverage returned no line in the 2016 consolidation, Act No. 24 of 2019, Act No. 10 of 2020 or any Schedule Order, so neither Schedule lists alcohol by name, chemical name, salt or class word. The only near text is Fourth Schedule item «12. Ethyl ether», a precursor chemical listed for Part IIA; it is a different substance, and the Fourth Schedule is not one of the two Schedules the definition names. The First Schedule chapeaux reach the preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts of their own groups, and for cannabis similar synthetic preparations, Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone, the First Schedule closes with clauses on isomers, esters and ethers, and salts of the drugs it lists, and the Second Schedule closes with salts and stereoisomers of the substances it lists. Ethanol is understood to be none of those things in relation to any listed entry, a chemical fact brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches it, and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through a listing. Whether liquor, excise or road traffic legislation governs alcohol was not read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Because neither the First nor the Second Schedule lists alcohol, no section 5 offence reaches it through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking, «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. The section 6A precursor offence attaches to Fourth Schedule substances such as ethyl ether, item 12, and not to alcohol. Offences in liquor, excise or road traffic legislation were not read. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because alcohol is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions and the prescription and pharmacist rules of Chap. 11:25 do not govern it, and that Act requires no prescription or licence for it. Other legislation was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for carrying alcohol. Any customs allowance, duty or licensing rule would be in legislation that was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First and Second Schedules, Fourth Schedule item 12 on page 44 with section 6A, and sections 3, 5 and 61. Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 343 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment), 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 346 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page, 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: alcohol, ethanol, ethyl alcohol, spirit, liquor and beverage. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentence. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 from 18 November 2019. Clause 3(b) of Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 inserted the Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», which prints the international non-proprietary name «AMFETAMINE», the other name «Amphetamine» and the chemical name «(±)-α-Methylphenethylamine». Dexamfetamine has no row of its own; it is reached as a stereoisomer under the closing line inserted by clause 3(c) on 3 February 2020, «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this Schedule», and the salts line beside it reaches amphetamine sulphate. Amphetamine was not in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, amfetamine, a row of the Schedule II table, is within it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Attempting, aiding or conspiring to commit any of these carries the same penalty as the principal offence (sections 26 and 27). Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read creates a route for amphetamine medicines in particular; a patient's possession is exempt only on the terms of section 5(2)(c), a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon. Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 29B(e) presumes that a person holding a document of title to a dangerous drug knew its nature, and section 29B(d) does the same for anyone with custody or control of anything containing one, so a container of amfetamine tablets is attributed to whoever controls it until the contrary is proven. Section 29A places the proof of a licence or prescription on the accused.

Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(b) row «AMFETAMINE», page 1081, and clause 3(c) closing lines, page 1083, with commencement in clause 2, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment. Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 3, 5, 26, 27, 29A and 29B. Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, sections 6(a), 6(f) and 6(k)(iii), in force 23 December 2019 (Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment). Read too: Legal Notices No. 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment), none affecting this row. Read 3 October 2026 as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Amyl nitrite is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Section 3 defines dangerous drugs as a substance that «means a narcotic drug listed in the First» Schedule or a «psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule», or a thing that contains one. Searches for nitrite, nitrous, amyl, pentyl nitr, poppers and alkyl found no nitrite under any name, chemical name, salt or class word in the First, Second or Fourth Schedule or any Order. The only hit, for amyl, is inside the printed chemical name of «(3) Cannabinol» in First Schedule item 3, where an n-amyl group is part of that cannabinoid. The First Schedule chapeaux reach the preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts of their own groups, and for cannabis similar synthetic preparations, Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone, the First Schedule closes with clauses on isomers, esters and ethers, and salts of the drugs it lists, and the Second Schedule closes with salts and stereoisomers of the substances it lists. Amyl nitrite is understood to be an ester of nitrous acid, not of any listed drug, and not a preparation, derivative, salt, ether, isomer or analogue of cannabinol or any other listed entry, chemical facts brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches it, and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through a listing. Whether other legislation governs amyl nitrite as a medicine or a poison was not read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Because neither Schedule lists amyl nitrite, no section 5 offence reaches it, or bottles sold as poppers, through a listing, and the cannabinol entry has nothing to do with it. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking, «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Any offence under medicines or poisons legislation was not read. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because amyl nitrite is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions and the prescription rules of Chap. 11:25 do not govern it, and that Act requires no prescription for it. Medicines and poisons legislation outside Chap. 11:25 was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for amyl nitrite. Any rule on its labelling, sale or import would be in legislation that was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule item 3(3) on page 38, the First, Second and Fourth Schedules, and sections 3, 5 and 61. Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 343 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment), 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 346 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page, 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: nitrite, nitrous, amyl, pentyl nitr, poppers and alkyl · the cannabinol entry read and rejected. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentence. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, names neither ayahuasca nor either plant used to make it, and searches of every instrument read for ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis, Psychotria and harmala returned nothing. What reaches the brew is the DMT row of the Second Schedule table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I», printed «DMT» in the other names column and «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine» as the chemical name, read with section 3, under which a dangerous drug includes a psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule or a «thing that contains such a substance». A brew that contains DMT is therefore a dangerous drug; one that does not is not reached by this route, and the Act prints no religious or ceremonial exception. That a given brew contains DMT is a fact about the brew, not one the Act states. The DMT row is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Holding a DMT brew is possession. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Serving it to others is within the definition of trafficking, which includes «giving, administering». Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. The DMT row is in the Schedule I table, which paragraph (f) names, but the paragraph does not say how its grammes or tablets apply to a liquid that contains DMT. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read provides any medical, religious or traditional use route for DMT or for a preparation containing it.
Documentation: Whether a particular brew contains DMT is a question of analysis, and section 22(1) makes the analyst's certificate prima facie proof of what it states. No document in the instruments read authorises carrying or serving a DMT preparation.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule, Schedule I table, DMT row, and sections 3, 5, 22 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 · and LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Caffeine

Legal status: Caffeine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Section 3 defines dangerous drugs as a substance that «means a narcotic drug listed in the First» Schedule or a «psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule», or a thing that contains one. Searches for caffein, methylxanthine, xanthine, xanth and theophylline found caffeine under no name, chemical name, salt or class word in either Schedule or any Order. The only near text is the Schedule II table row «FENETYLLINE», added by Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, whose chemical name ends «ethyl]theophylline»; the listed substance is fenetylline, and the theophylline part of its printed name does not list caffeine. The First Schedule chapeaux reach the preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts of their own groups, and for cannabis similar synthetic preparations, Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone, the First Schedule closes with clauses on isomers, esters and ethers, and salts of the drugs it lists, and the Second Schedule closes with salts and stereoisomers of the substances it lists. Caffeine is understood to be a different methylxanthine, neither a salt nor a stereoisomer of fenetylline and not a derivative, ester, ether, isomer or analogue of any First Schedule entry, chemical facts brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches it, and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through a listing. Food and medicines legislation was not read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Because neither Schedule lists caffeine, no section 5 offence reaches caffeine through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking, «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because caffeine is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions and the prescription rules of Chap. 11:25 do not govern it, and that Act requires no prescription for it. Food and medicines legislation was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for caffeine tablets or powder. Any labelling or import rule would be in food or medicines legislation, which was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First and Second Schedules, and sections 3, 5 and 61. Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 343 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment), 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 346 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page, 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: caffein, methylxanthine, xanthine, xanth and theophylline · the fenetylline row of the Schedule II table, Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, read and rejected. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentence. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cannabinol

Legal status: Cannabinol is entry (3) of item 3 of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS». Item 3 opens «Cannabis, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa L, their preparations,» «derivatives and similar synthetic preparations, as for example:», and the entry is printed «Cannabinol» with its chemical name in brackets. It is therefore a narcotic drug under the Act by name, listed apart from the tetrahydrocannabinol isomers, which sit in the Second Schedule. The entry is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016 and no later instrument read alters item 3. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Act No. 24 of 2019 also defines «cannabis» as the plant and «any compound, salt, mixture,» extraction, derivative, product, synthetic or other preparation of it, exempts possession of up to thirty grammes under a new section 5(2)(f), and replaces the section 5(1) penalties between thirty and one hundred grammes with summary fines of fifty thousand dollars under new section 5(2A) and seventy five thousand dollars under new section 5(2B). Whether a cannabinol product falls inside that definition, and so inside the allowance and the fine only tiers, is not settled by any instrument read, and this cell does not decide it. If it does not, section 5(1) applies as follows. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. The quantity presumptions in section 5(9) are expressed for cannabis and cannabis resin and for the Second Schedule's Schedule I and Schedule II tables, and cannabinol, a First Schedule entry, is named in neither. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medicinal cannabinol product or a route for importing one. Section 5(2) lifts the possession offence for a holder of a section 4 licence, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding for a medicinal purpose, a person who obtains the drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, and a person acting under the supervision of any of them. Each prescriber is defined by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act, and the Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad.
Documentation: Cannabinol is identified by analysis rather than by appearance, and an analyst's certificate under section 22(1) is prima facie proof of what it states. No document in the instruments read authorises a private person to hold cannabinol outside the section 5(2) cases.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 3(3) and sections 4, 5, 22 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 4 of that Act (the cannabis definition) and section 6 of that Act (the section 5 amendments, including new subsections 5(2)(f), 5(2A) and 5(2B)). Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 as a First Schedule narcotic. Item 3 of the «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS» reads «Cannabis, Cannabis sativa, Cannabis sativa L, their preparations, derivatives and similar synthetic preparations, as for example:», with the examples «(1) Cannabis resin», «(2) Cannabis (marihuana)» and «(3) Cannabinol», and the Second Schedule's Schedule I table separately prints «THC», «Tetrahydrocannabinols, the following isomers:». Those entries are in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act No. 24 of 2019), in operation from 23 December 2019, left the listing in place; it inserted a definition of «cannabis» as «the plant of the genus Cannabis, whether growing or not», excluding cannabis resin, stalk fibre, seed oil or cake and sterilised seeds, defined «cannabis resin» separately, and took small quantities out of the possession offence.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Since Act No. 24 of 2019, section 5(2)(f) and (g) take out of the section 5(1) offence a person holding not more than «thirty grammes of cannabis» or «five grammes of Cannabis resin», or cultivating or holding not more than «four growing plants of the genus Cannabis». More than thirty and not more than sixty grammes of cannabis, or more than five and not more than ten grammes of resin, is an offence under section 5(2A), liable on summary conviction to «a fine of fifty thousand dollars», and smoking or using cannabis or cannabis resin in a public place is an offence under section 5A(1) with the same fine. For both offences section 5B(2) requires a police officer to issue a fixed penalty notice, in the form Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019 prescribes; section 5B(16) sets the fixed penalty at «two thousand dollars or such other amount as the Minister may, by Order subject to negative resolution of Parliament, prescribe», and no such Order was among the instruments read; and under section 5B(11) and (14) a person who pays «shall not be liable to any sanction» and cannot then be convicted of the offence. More than sixty and not more than one hundred grammes, or more than ten and not more than fourteen grammes of resin, is an offence under section 5(2B) with a fine of «seventy-five thousand dollars». Above those bands the section 5(1) offence applies. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Section 5(9)(e), as amended, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «one kilogramme of cannabis» or «one hundred and sixty-five grammes of cannabis resin» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Cultivating, gathering or producing a plant of the genus Cannabis beyond the four plants exempted by the subsection (3A) that Act No. 24 of 2019 inserted is an offence under section 5(3): the consolidation printed paragraph (a) as «upon summary conviction to a fine of fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for ten years», in which section 6(d) substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for «fifty», and paragraph (b) as «upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or where there is evidence of the street value of the marijuana, ten times the street value of the marijuana, whichever is greater or to imprisonment for twenty-five years to life», in which section 6(d) substitutes «two million» for «one hundred thousand» and «plant» for «marijuana» and deletes «twenty-five years to». Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of a dangerous drug «on any school premises or within five hundred metres thereof» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; the consolidation makes the person «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of thirty-five years to life», and section 6(h) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred and fifty thousand» and «ten» for «three» and deletes «a term of thirty-five years to», while section 6(j) inserts «and section 5C» after «subsection (7)» in the section 5(8) definition of school premises and adds «nursery, kindergarten, day care centre, early childhood care and education centre, Children’s Home,» to the premises counted. Under section 5(7A) the Director of Public Prosecutions may, at the preliminary enquiry, «elect to proceed with the matter summarily», and if the accused consents section 5(7B) makes the person liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years, the fine being the figure section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in. Section 5(7) excludes «a person referred to in subsection (2)», and the holders of the small amounts in section 5(2)(f) and (g) are such persons, so on that reading, which is not printed text, section 5(7) reaches cannabis only above thirty grammes, five grammes of resin or four plants. Section 5C(b) separately makes it an offence to have any cannabis or resin on a school bus or on premises where children are present for education, sport or cultural activity, and section 5C(c) to operate a motor vehicle, aircraft or ship under its influence, each liable on summary conviction to a fine of «two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five years». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: The instruments read print no medical cannabis prescription scheme. Act No. 24 of 2019, section 5, widened the Minister's licence power in section 4(b) to cultivation of any «plant of the genus Cannabis», and section 6(d) lets a cultivation licence come from section 4 «or any other written law»; no such other law was among the instruments read. The general section 5(2)(c) exemption for a dangerous drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription applies to the cannabis entries as to any First Schedule drug. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: The exempt amounts are measured by weight and by plant count, so the quantity held is what decides whether any offence arises. Possession of cannabis or resin on a school bus or on premises where children are present for education, sport or cultural activity is a separate offence under section 5C(b), and the section 5A smoking offence turns on «public place», which Act No. 24 of 2019 defines to exclude premises in actual use as a dwelling that are not used for commercial purposes.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule item 3, page 38 · Second Schedule row «THC», page 43 · sections 4 and 5. Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 4 to 7 (definitions · sections 4(b), 5(2), 5(2A) to 5(2D), 5(3), 5(7), 5(7B), 5(8), 5(9)(e) · new sections 5A to 5E), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, commenced 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment · Act No. 10 of 2020, section 8, which corrects cross references in section 5B(1), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · read 3 October 2026. Sections 61 and 5(7) of the consolidation were read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON» Psychotropic Substances, 1971, added by clause 3(a) of LN 345/2019 with effect from 18 November 2019. The INN column reads «CATHINONE» and the chemical name column «(-)-(S)-2-» «Aminopropiophenone», which names the (S) enantiomer alone. From 3 February 2020 the clause LN 345/2019 placed at the end of the Schedule extends to «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this» «Schedule, whenever the existence of such stereoisomers is possible» «within the specific chemical designation.»; whether the (R) form is within the specific chemical designation of a row that names the (S) form is not settled by the text, and this cell does not decide it. A mixture containing the (S) form is reached as a thing that contains it. Methcathinone is a separate row already in the 2016 table. The Act names no plant; whether khat leaves contain cathinone is a botanical fact this cell brings to the text, and they are reached, if at all, only as a thing that contains it. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) reaches the cathinone row through its place in the Schedule I table, from 23 December 2019. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No medical use or product of cathinone is named in any instrument read; the general exemptions in section 5(2) are the only provisions that could apply.
Documentation: Whether plant material or powder contains cathinone, and in which form, is shown by analysis, and the analyst's certificate is prima facie proof under section 22(1). No document in the instruments read permits possession of cathinone outside the section 5(2) cases.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2(1), 2(2), 3(a) and 3(c), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule and sections 3, 5, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 because the First Schedule, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», lists it as a narcotic drug. Item 2.A of that list reads «Coca (Erythroxylon), its preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts, as for example:», and its second example is «(2) Cocaine (methyl ester of benzoyleogonine)», printed with that spelling, followed by «(3) Ecgonine, its esters and derivatives which are convertible to ecgonine and cocaine.» and, as item 2.B, «Synthetic cocaine.». The listing is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and no later Order read alters item 2. The closing lines of the First Schedule extend it to the salts of the listed drugs, which reaches cocaine hydrochloride, and «(1) Coca leaf» is listed as a separate example.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(b) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «ten grammes of cocaine» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless he proves otherwise, a figure Act No. 24 of 2019 left unchanged. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Cultivating, gathering or producing coca plant without a licence is a separate offence under the consolidation's subsection (3A), which makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of two hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, fifteen times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; Act No. 24 of 2019 does not amend that subsection, though it inserts a different subsection also numbered (3A) on cannabis plants. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read sets out a cocaine specific prescription or carriage scheme. The general exemptions of section 5(2) cover medicinal possession by a registered medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist and a patient's possession of a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription from one of the first three, and any licence to import coca products is the Minister's to issue under section 4(a). The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 29B(h) presumes that a dangerous drug concealed in a compartment of a vehicle was concealed with the knowledge of its owner and of the person in charge of it, and section 29B(f) makes the same presumption against the master of a ship or aircraft. On a ship, section 53B creates a separate indictable offence of possessing or carrying a dangerous drug intended to be imported contrary to section 5 or the law of another State.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule item 2, page 38, and the salts paragraph closing that Schedule on page 42 · sections 4, 5, 29B and 53B. Amendments from Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a) and 6(f), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, operative 23 December 2019 under Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. The only later First Schedule Order, Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, amends item 4 and not item 2. Read 3 October 2026, the Schedules taken as they stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is entry (2) of item 1 of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», printed «Codeine (3- methylmorphine)» under the opium poppy chapeau. Item 1 also names «Codeine-N-Oxide» within entry (23). The Schedule prints its exclusions with the words «but not including», and the excluded substances are apomorphine and poppy seed in item 1, ethoheptazine in item 5 and three morphinans in item 11; no codeine product, at any strength or in any combination, is excluded. Section 57(1)(f) lets the Minister make regulations exempting «preparations containing dangerous drugs» when suitably medicated with other drugs, and page 2 of the consolidation lists «Subsidiary Legislation saved in respect of the above repealed statutes», among them Dangerous Drugs Regulations of the 1950 Revised Edition and two sets of Narcotic Control Regulations of 1964. None of those regulations was among the instruments read, so an exemption for some codeine preparation is neither confirmed nor ruled out here. What is settled, as at 3 October 2026, is that codeine is printed in the Schedule of the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, with no codeine exclusion; the instruments read do not give the date it was first listed.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9) names no quantity of codeine. A person under twenty one may receive a lesser penalty than the section prescribes, under section 56A. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: Section 5(2)(c) exempts from the possession offence a person who obtains codeine for medicinal purposes «from or pursuant to» a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, each defined by registration in Trinidad and Tobago. Section 17(3) refers to any preparation «that the Regulations permit to be sold without a» prescription, so the Act contemplates such regulations; the saved regulations the consolidation names were not read, and this cell does not say whether any codeine product is sold that way. Importation is trafficking under section 3 unless done under a section 4 licence.
Documentation: Section 14 makes it an offence, punishable summarily by a fine of ten thousand dollars and six months, for a patient supplied with a dangerous drug by one practitioner to fail to disclose that he had already obtained it, or a prescription for it, from another. Section 19 puts proof of any licence or authority on the person who claims it. The instruments read say nothing about paperwork for codeine carried by a visitor.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 1(2), the Schedule's exclusions, and sections 3, 4, 5, 14, 17, 19, 56A, 57(1)(f) and 61, with the note on saved subsidiary legislation on page 2 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 · and LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, does not use the word crack. What reaches it is item 2 of the First Schedule, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», whose chapeau reads «A. Coca (Erythroxylon), its preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and» salts, and whose entry (2) is printed «(2) Cocaine (methyl ester of benzoyleogonine)», the misprint being the consolidation's own. The entry names the compound, not a form of it, and the salts clause adds the salts; that crack is cocaine in base form is a chemical fact this cell brings to the text, not one the text states. Item 2 also lists «B. Synthetic cocaine.». The placement is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. More than «ten grammes of cocaine;» is deemed by section 5(9)(b) to be held for trafficking unless the accused proves otherwise. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Below ten grammes section 5(9)(b) raises no presumption, though section 5(7) still deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with any quantity on school premises or within five hundred metres of them to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved; otherwise whether a holding is charged as possession under section 5(1) or as possession for trafficking under section 5(4) depends on what else is proved, since section 5(4) applies at any quantity. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Whether a given pipe is a «device, article or apparatus designed, generally used or specifically altered for the» purpose of the illegal use of dangerous drugs is a question of fact; if it is, possessing it without lawful or reasonable excuse falls under section 15, punishable on summary conviction by ten thousand dollars and six months, and being found without lawful or reasonable excuse where a dangerous drug is «being illegally used» is a separate offence under section 16 carrying the same. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read provides for any medical supply of cocaine in base form, and the section 5(2) exemptions, written for dangerous drugs generally, are the only medical provisions that could apply.
Documentation: Whether material is cocaine is proved by analysis, and section 22(1) makes an analyst's certificate «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate». Under section 54A, once a person is charged, photographic or video evidence of the drug exists, the analysis is complete and the defendant has had seven days notice of an application by the Director of Public Prosecutions, the court may order a seized substance destroyed «before the» «completion of legal proceedings against the defendant» if he fails to show reasonable cause why it should not be. No document in the instruments read authorises possession of crack.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 2 and the salts clause, and sections 5(1), 5(4), 5(5), 5(7), 5(9)(b), 15, 16, 22, 54A and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is named in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I» of the 1971 Convention. The row carries «THC» in the other names column and, in the chemical name column, «Tetrahydrocannabinols, the» «following isomers:» «∆6A(10a), ∆6A(7), ∆7,» «∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9(11)» «and their stereochemical variants.». The ∆8 isomer is printed by name, so no inference is needed. The row is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and LN 345/2019, which added rows to the same table, left it as printed. A product containing delta-8-THC is a dangerous drug as a «thing that contains such a substance» under section 3. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Act No. 24 of 2019 also defines «cannabis» as the plant and «any compound, salt, mixture,» extraction, derivative, product, synthetic or other preparation of it, exempts possession of up to thirty grammes under a new section 5(2)(f), and replaces the section 5(1) penalties between thirty and one hundred grammes with summary fines of fifty thousand dollars under new section 5(2A) and seventy five thousand dollars under new section 5(2B). No instrument read says whether a delta-8 product made from the plant is cannabis in that sense; this cell does not decide it, and if it is not, the following applies. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. The THC row is in the Schedule I table, which paragraph (f) names. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medicinal tetrahydrocannabinol product or a way to bring one in. Section 5(2) lifts the possession offence for a holder of a section 4 licence, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding for a medicinal purpose, a person who obtains the drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, and a person acting under the supervision of any of them.
Documentation: Which isomer a product contains is a matter for analysis, and an analyst's certificate is «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate» under section 22(1). The THC row makes no exception by source plant or by method of manufacture.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule, Schedule I table, THC row, and sections 3, 4, 5, 22 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, sections 4 and 6 of that Act · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment, checked for any change to the THC row. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT falls within the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as a dangerous drug. The Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:» prints it with no international non-proprietary name, under the other name «DMT» and the chemical name «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine», in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. In the consolidation's print, two rows above it, «DET», «N,N-Diethyltryptamine», is a different tryptamine with its own entry. No plant source is named; a brew or plant preparation containing dimethyltryptamine reaches the Act through the words «a thing that contains such a substance» in the section 3 definition of dangerous drugs. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 later added «DMA» to the same table in alphabetical sequence, so the rows printed between them as the Schedule now stands may differ from that print.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, DMT, a row of the Schedule I table, is within it. The Act prints no rule for measuring a liquid preparation against that figure. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read authorises dimethyltryptamine for treatment, and none sets out a permit for carrying it into Trinidad and Tobago. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. Section 4(a) gives the Minister the power to issue such licences at a stated place. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 21 deems whoever occupies or controls a building, room, vehicle, vessel or aircraft in which a dangerous drug is found to possess it unless he proves it was there without his knowledge and consent, which matters for a shared space or vehicle where a DMT preparation is kept. Section 16 separately makes it an offence, punishable summarily by a ten thousand dollar fine and six months, to be found «without lawful or reasonable excuse» where a dangerous drug is being illegally used.

Trinidad and Tobago, Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act), the version updated to 31 December 2016: rows «DMT» and «DET» on page 43, and sections 3, 4, 5, 16 and 21. Penalties read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Second Schedule amendments checked for this row: Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment · No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I» of the 1971 Convention. The row prints no INN; its other names column reads «STP, DOM», and its chemical name column names 2-Amino-1-(2, 5-dimethoxy-4-methyl) phenylpropane, given here with plain hyphens because the print uses dashes between the parts. The row is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. LN 345/2019 later added the neighbouring rows «BROLAMFETAMINE» (DOB) and «DOET» to the same table; those are separate entries and do not alter this one. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. The STP and DOM row sits in the Schedule I table that paragraph (f) names. Before sentence under section 5, section 6 allows the court to order the person admitted to a psychiatric hospital for examination for up to fourteen days. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: None of the instruments read assigns DOM any medical use or product. Section 5(2) lifts the possession offence for a holder of a section 4 licence, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding for a medicinal purpose, a person who obtains the drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, and a person acting under the supervision of any of them. For DOM no instrument read names a case in which any of those exemptions has been applied.
Documentation: A blotter or tablet sold as something else is identified by analysis, and the analyst's certificate is prima facie proof under section 22(1). Outside the section 5(2) cases the instruments read describe no document that would permit possession of DOM.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule, Schedule I table, STP and DOM row, and sections 4, 5, 6, 22 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 · and LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment, for the rows added to the same table. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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DXM

Legal status: Dextromethorphan is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: the First Schedule names it in order to except it. Item 11, «Morphinans, their preparations, derivatives and salts, as for example:», lists seven morphinans, among them Levomethorphan and Racemethorphan, and then prints «not including:» before «(8) Dextromethorphan», «(9) Dextrorphan» and «(10) Levallorphan». The clause at the end of that Schedule adds «The isomers unless specifically excepted, of the drugs in this Schedule», and dextromethorphan is specifically excepted, so the clause does not bring it back. The next two clauses, «The esters and ethers, unless appearing in another Schedule, of the drugs» in this Schedule and «The salts of the drugs listed in this Schedule, including the salts of esters,» ethers and isomers, reach esters, ethers and salts of the drugs the Schedule lists. Unlike the isomers clause, the esters and ethers clause carries no «unless specifically excepted» words, but the printed list closes that route without them. Dextromethorphan is understood to be the methyl ether of dextrorphan, a chemical fact brought from outside the text, and dextrorphan is printed in the same excepted list as «(9) Dextrorphan», so it is not one of «the drugs in this Schedule» and there is no listed parent for the ether route to work from; dextromethorphan itself is printed there as «(8) Dextromethorphan», so it is not a listed drug whose salts the salts clause could reach, including the hydrobromide in which it is understood to be usually sold, also a fact from outside the text. The racemic methyl ether is printed as its own entry, «(6) Racemethorphan», and the dextro ether is the one item 11 excepts by name; that pairing rests on the same outside chemistry. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019 amended only item 4 of the First Schedule, and dextromethorphan is not listed in any Second Schedule table, as those tables stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. As at 3 October 2026, the date the instruments were read, it therefore falls outside the section 3 definition of dangerous drugs, and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through a listing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Because the First Schedule excepts dextromethorphan and no Second Schedule table names it, no section 5 offence reaches dextromethorphan through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking, «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because dextromethorphan is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions and the pharmacist rules in section 8 do not govern it under Chap. 11:25, and that Act requires no prescription for it. Whether medicines legislation outside Chap. 11:25 regulates its sale or import was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for dextromethorphan itself. A preparation that also contains a listed drug is a different case: section 3 defines dangerous drugs to include a narcotic drug listed in the First Schedule «or a thing that contains such a drug», so a combined product containing, for example, «(2) Codeine» from First Schedule item 1 is reached through that constituent. Section 57(1)(f) allows Regulations exempting suitably medicated preparations, and none were among the instruments read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule item 11 on page 41, the isomers clause on page 42, item 1(2) on page 37, and sections 3, 5, 8, 57 and 61. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, read for its First Schedule changes, which are to item 4 only. Second Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentence. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Ephedrine is a precursor chemical under Chap. 11:25, not a dangerous drug. It is printed as «9. Ephedrine» in the Fourth Schedule, the list section 6A refers to, in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016; the same list prints «16. Norpseudo ephedrine» and «21. Pseudo ephedrine» as separate items, and Legal Notice No. 346 of 2019 added items 37 to 42 without touching item 9. Ephedrine is not listed in the First Schedule or the Second Schedule, as those Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, so it falls outside the section 3 definition of dangerous drugs and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through its listing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. The offence ephedrine attracts is section 6A: a person who manufactures or possesses a Fourth Schedule substance, or transports or supplies it to another, «knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect that the substance is to be used in or for the unlawful production of a dangerous drug» commits an offence and, as printed, «is liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty-five years». Act No. 24 of 2019 did not amend section 6A. Section 6C lets the Minister make Regulations on records, labelling and transport of Fourth Schedule substances, with an offence for breaching them in section 6C(4); no such Regulations were among the instruments read. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because ephedrine is not a dangerous drug, the prescription and licence exemptions in section 5(2) and the pharmacist rules in section 8 do not govern it under this Act. Whether medicines containing ephedrine are regulated by other legislation was not read.
Documentation: Section 6C(2) allows Regulations to require notice of a proposed export of a Fourth Schedule substance and proof that the notice was given. Those Regulations are not among the instruments read, so no document requirement for carrying ephedrine is stated here.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: Fourth Schedule items 9, 16 and 21, page 44 · sections 3, 5, 6A to 6D and 8. Legal Notice No. 346 of 2019, Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Fourth Schedule) Order, 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment. First and Second Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 343 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment), 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, read for section 6A, which it does not amend. Read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is listed as a narcotic in the First Schedule to Chap. 11:25 and is therefore a dangerous drug. Item 4 of the «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS» prints, under the heading «Phenylpiperidines, their preparations, derivatives and salts, as for example:», the example «(13) Fentanyl (1-phenethyl-4-N-propionylanilinopiperidine)», whose chemical name the consolidation sets with en dashes that appear here as hyphens. That entry is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2019, then inserted «, analogues» after «derivatives» in the item 4 heading and added fifteen named examples, paragraphs (30) to (44), among them «Carfentanil», «Remifentanil», «Cyclopropylfentanyl» and «Methoxyacetylfentanyl».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9) sets no quantity presumption for fentanyl, so whether possession was for the purpose of trafficking is proved on the evidence rather than presumed from quantity; section 5(7) is the exception, deeming a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession on any school premises or within five hundred metres of them to have it for the purpose of trafficking, whatever the quantity, unless the contrary is proved. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 5(10) lets a court that is not satisfied of the trafficking offence convict of possession instead. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Fentanyl stands where every First Schedule narcotic stands: possession is exempt under section 5(2)(c) for a person who obtains it «for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon». Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. Section 14 makes it an offence, summarily punishable by ten thousand dollars and six months, to obtain a dangerous drug or prescription from one practitioner without disclosing that another has already supplied it. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 17(1) makes it an indictable offence knowingly to enclose a dangerous drug in a letter or packet sent by post or courier, while section 17(3) lets a wholesale pharmacist send any dangerous drug by registered post. Section 17(1) opens «Except as otherwise specifically provided», and Regulations that might provide other routes for posting fentanyl were not read. Section 29A places the proof of an exemption on the person relying on it.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 4(13), page 39, sections 3, 4, 5, 14, 17 and 29A. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2019, pages 1075 to 1076, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment. Penalties as amended by Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a) and 6(f), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in force 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Read 3 October 2026 · stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Gabapentin is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Section 3 defines dangerous drugs as a substance that «means a narcotic drug listed in the First» Schedule or a «psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule», or a thing that contains one. Searches for gabapentin, pregabalin, gaba, neurontin and aminomethyl returned no line in the 2016 consolidation, Act No. 24 of 2019 or any Schedule Order, so no name, chemical name, salt or class word lists it. The First Schedule and the three Second Schedule tables were read row by row, the Schedule II table from «AB -CHMINACA» to «XLR-11» with the rows added since, and the «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:» table holds «KETAMINE» alone. The rows taken as structurally nearest, a judgement brought from outside the text, are tilidine in First Schedule item 13, printed as a «cyclohexene» carboxylate, and the Second Schedule rows whose printed names carry a cyclohexyl, cyclohexanone or cyclohexylmethyl group: eticyclidine, rolicyclidine, tenocyclidine, printed «cyclohoxyl», phencyclidine, ketamine, methoxetamine and «AB -CHMINACA», whose chemical name carries «(cyclohexylmethyl)». These are the rows found by searching for cyclohex and by reading every row, the misprinted tenocyclidine row by eye; the list is not offered as exhaustive beyond that search and reading. The First Schedule chapeaux reach the preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts of their own groups, and for cannabis similar synthetic preparations, Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone, the First Schedule closes with clauses on isomers, esters and ethers, and salts of the drugs it lists, and the Second Schedule closes with salts and stereoisomers of the substances it lists. Gabapentin is understood to be an amino acid with no aromatic ring, and not a derivative, salt, ester, ether, isomer, stereoisomer or analogue of any of those rows or of any other listed entry, chemical facts brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches it, and the section 5 possession and trafficking offences do not reach it through a listing. Medicines legislation outside Chap. 11:25 was not read.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Because neither Schedule lists gabapentin, possession of gabapentin is not an offence under section 5(1), and no section 5 offence reaches it through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking, «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Whether medicines legislation restricts its supply was not read. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because gabapentin is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions and the pharmacist rules in section 8 do not govern it under Chap. 11:25, and that Act requires no prescription for it. Whether medicines legislation outside Chap. 11:25 requires one for supply or import was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for gabapentin capsules. Any document required by medicines or customs legislation was not read.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule items 1 to 13 including item 13(5), and the Second Schedule, and sections 3, 5 and 61. Schedule Orders read for the absence: Legal Notices No. 343 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment), 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 346 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page, 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: gabapentin, pregabalin, gaba, neurontin, aminomethyl, tilidine and cyclohex · the cyclohexene and cyclohexyl rows read and rejected (tenocyclidine is printed cyclohoxyl, line 2296, and was read by eye). Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentence. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 as a narcotic drug in the First Schedule, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS». It is printed as «(16) Heroin» among the examples under item 1, «Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) its preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts, as for example:», in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and no later Order read alters that item. The Act names it a second time by its chemical name in section 5(9)(a), «diacetylmorphine (heroin)». The First Schedule's closing lines extend every entry to its isomers, esters, ethers and salts where those can exist.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. The heroin presumption is in section 5(9)(a), which deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «twenty grammes of diacetylmorphine (heroin)» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved, the burden being on the accused. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 6 lets the court send a person convicted under section 5 for psychiatric examination before sentence. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: The instruments read contain no provision specific to heroin as a medicine. Diacetylmorphine would fall under the same section 5(2) exemptions as every dangerous drug: possession by a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist «for any medicinal purpose», or by a patient who obtains it for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: No instrument read provides a route specific to heroin. The documents the Act recognises are general: a licence the Minister may issue under section 4(a) for the import of «any dangerous drug», which takes an importation out of the section 3 definition of trafficking, and the section 5(2) exemptions, including a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon; section 29A places their proof on the person relying on them. Section 29B(c) presumes, until the contrary is proven, that premises where a dangerous drug, or a device designed or generally used for administering or consuming one, is found are used for that purpose and that the occupier permits it. Section 15 separately punishes the possession, «without lawful or reasonable excuse», of «any device, article or apparatus designed, generally used or specifically altered for the purpose of the illegal use of dangerous drugs», upon summary conviction by a fine of ten thousand dollars and six months.

Chap. 11:25, Dangerous Drugs Act, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act): First Schedule item 1(16), page 37, closing paragraphs page 42, and sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 15, 29A and 29B. Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f) and 6(k), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, operative from 23 December 2019 under Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. First Schedule Order Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, read and found to amend item 4 only. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is placed in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, by name, by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2026, LN 293/2026, made by the Minister of Health under section 59, «Dated this 13th day of May, 2026.», published in the Legal Supplement of 14 May 2026, and stating no commencement date; this cell does not supply one. The Order inserts, after the 5F-PB-22 row of the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN» «SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC» Substances, a row reading «HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL» in the INN column, «HHC» as the other name, and «-6, 6, 9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-» «6a, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10a-» «hexahydrobenzo[c]chromen-l-ol» as the chemical name, stray leading hyphen and letter l as printed. First Schedule item 3, whose chapeau covers cannabis and its «derivatives and similar synthetic preparations, as for example:», was not relied on, and whether it reached HHC before LN 293/2026 is not decided here.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Once the Order is in operation, the following apply to HHC. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. The HHC row joins the Schedule II table, so paragraph (f) reaches it once the Order operates. Act No. 24 of 2019 also defines «cannabis» to include «any compound, salt, mixture,» extraction, derivative, product, synthetic or other preparation of the plant and exempts up to thirty grammes of it; no instrument read says whether an HHC product falls inside that definition, and this cell does not decide it. Because the Order states no commencement date, the instruments read do not fix the first day on which holding HHC became an offence. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medical use or product of hexahydrocannabinol, and no prescription route for it exists beyond the general words of section 5(2).
Documentation: The printed chemical name carries no stereochemical descriptor, and the clause LN 345/2019 placed at the end of the Schedule extends it to «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this» Schedule, so far as they are «within the specific chemical designation.» What a cartridge or edible actually contains is shown by analysis certified under section 22(1). Under section 19, any licence or authority for holding HHC would have to be proved by the person relying on it.

LN 293/2026, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2026, Legal Supplement Part B, Vol. 65, No. 84, 14 May 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · read into the Schedule II table inserted by LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 3 (read and not relied on) and sections 5, 19, 22, 59 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, sections 4 and 6 of that Act. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is a narcotic drug listed in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, under the heading «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS». It is entry (17) of item 1, the opium poppy item, whose chapeau reads «Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) its preparations, derivatives,», and the entry is printed «Hydrocodone (dihydrocodeinone)». The placement is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016 itself. The only later Order on the First Schedule among the instruments read, LN 343/2019, adds fentanyl entries to item 4 and leaves item 1 untouched. The Schedule closes with «The salts of the drugs listed in this Schedule, including the salts of esters,» and section 3 makes a dangerous drug of «a thing that contains such a drug», so a combination tablet in which hydrocodone is one active ingredient is reached through this entry. No exception for any hydrocodone preparation is printed. Position as at 3 October 2026 on the instruments named in the source field.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. The quantities in section 5(9) that deem possession to be for trafficking name heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine, cannabis and cannabis resin, ecstasy and the drugs in the Second Schedule's Schedule I and Schedule II tables, LSD and ketamine; none names hydrocodone, so for this drug the purpose of trafficking has to be proved unless the school premises presumption in section 5(7) applies. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: Section 5(2)(c) takes out of the possession offence «a person who obtains a dangerous drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a» prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon. The Act defines a «medical practitioner» as a person registered under the Medical Board Act, Ch. 29:50, and says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad. Section 5(2) disapplies subsection (1), and the school premises and quantity presumptions in sections 5(7) and 5(9) are each written for a person «other than a person referred to in» subsection (2), so a patient within section 5(2)(c) is outside them as well; nothing in section 5(2) disapplies the trafficking offence in section 5(4). Importation is part of the Act's definition of trafficking, and the only importer that definition carves out is the holder of a licence issued under section 4. None of the instruments read prints an allowance for a traveller arriving with a hydrocodone prescription.
Documentation: Section 19 puts proof of a licence or other authority on the accused, «the proof thereof lies upon him», so a person relying on section 5(2)(c) for hydrocodone carries the burden of showing the prescription. Section 8(1) allows a pharmacist to supply only on a written order or prescription «dated and signed» by a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 9 of Act No. 24 of 2019 extends its verification words to an order as well as a prescription. The instruments read prescribe no form for a foreign prescription or a prescriber's letter, and this cell adds none.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 1(17) and sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 19 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, sections 6 and 9 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the First Schedule) Order, 2019, LN 343/2019, checked for any change to item 1, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 from 3 February 2020. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, by clause 3(c), which its clause 2(2) brought into operation on that date, inserted a third table in the Second Schedule headed «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:», and its only row prints the international non-proprietary name «KETAMINE», the other names «KETALAR», «KETASET» and «KTMIN», and the chemical name «2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexan-1-one». The same clause closes the Schedule with lines extending it to «The salts of the substances listed in this Schedule» and to their stereoisomers, which reaches the hydrochloride. Ketamine was absent from the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Ketamine has a presumption of its own in section 5(9)(h), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019: a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes of ketamine» is deemed to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the accused proves otherwise. Section 5(9)(f) speaks of a drug listed in «Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule»; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, ketamine's «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:» table falls outside limb (f), and limb (h) is the one that names it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: The Schedule row itself names «KETALAR» and «KETASET», but no instrument read sets out how ketamine may be prescribed or carried. The exemption that covers a patient is section 5(2)(c), a dangerous drug obtained for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 5(2)(b) covers a veterinary surgeon holding it for a medicinal purpose. A pharmacist may supply only on a written order or prescription under section 8(1), which section 9 of Act No. 24 of 2019 amended. Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 11(1) makes it an offence for a medical practitioner to prescribe, administer, give, sell or furnish a dangerous drug, or sign a prescription or order for one, unless it is «required for medicinal purposes or is prescribed for the medical treatment of a person who is under professional treatment by a medical practitioner», and section 11(3) makes the offender liable «upon conviction on indictment» to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times that value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment «for a term which shall not be less than twenty-five years». Section 11(2) makes the same conduct an offence for a dentist or veterinary surgeon who acts otherwise than in accordance with the Regulations, and section 20 puts the proof of the medicinal purpose on the practitioner charged. For a person carrying ketamine the parallel rule is section 29A: whoever relies on an authorisation must prove it.

Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clauses 2(2) and 3(c), page 1083, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment, read with the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, sections 3, 5, 8, 11, 20 and 29A, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, and with Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f), 6(k)(iii) and 9, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation 23 December 2019 (Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment). The 2023, 2024 and 2026 Second Schedule Orders, Legal Notices No. 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment), amend only the Schedule II table. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 · read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Khat is not named in any instrument read, and searches for khat, catha, cathine, qat and miraa found nothing. What reaches it is the cathinone row that clause 3(a) of LN 345/2019 added, with effect from 18 November 2019, to the Second Schedule table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON» Psychotropic Substances, 1971, printed «CATHINONE» in the INN column with the chemical name «(-)-(S)-2-» «Aminopropiophenone», read with section 3, under which a dangerous drug includes a listed psychotropic substance or a «thing that contains such a substance». That leaves of Catha edulis contain cathinone is a botanical fact brought from outside the text, so leaf is a dangerous drug by this route only if it contains the substance the row names, which is a question for analysis. The row names the (S) form; whether the clause LN 345/2019 placed at the end of the Schedule from 3 February 2020, reaching «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this» Schedule within the specific chemical designation, covers any other form is not decided here. No row names cathine. The Fourth Schedule prints «Norpseudo ephedrine» as item 16, but that is a list of precursor chemicals for Part IIA, where section 6A punishes manufacturing, possessing, transporting or supplying such a substance «knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect that the» substance is to be used in or for the unlawful production of a dangerous drug; it is not a placement, and that norpseudoephedrine is cathine is chemistry from outside the text. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. For leaf found to contain cathinone, the following apply. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) speaks of «Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule», and the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, only tables headed for Schedules I and II of the 1971 Convention; reading the paragraph as naming those tables, which is a reading and not printed text, the cathinone row in the Schedule I table is within it. The paragraph does not say how its grammes are counted for plant material that contains a listed substance. Section 5(7A) applies «Notwithstanding subsections (3A), (5), (6) and (7),»: where a person is charged for a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions «may, at the preliminary enquiry, elect to proceed with the matter summarily and if the accused so consents, the Court may adjourn the matter to be dealt with accordingly». Section 5(7B), in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for fifty, makes a person who pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence so tried liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. Bringing such leaf into the country is «importation», which the section 3 definition of trafficking includes unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names any medical, cultural or customary use of khat or of cathinone, and section 5(2) offers only its general cases, none of which is written for a chewed leaf.
Documentation: Whether a given bundle contains cathinone decides the matter, and section 22(1) makes the analyst's certificate «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate». The instruments read describe no permit for carrying the leaf.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2(1), 2(2), 3(a) and 3(c), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule, Fourth Schedule item 16 and section 6A (read and not relied on), and sections 3, 5, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 of that Act. Searched for khat, catha, cathine, qat and miraa, with no hit. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25. The Second Schedule prints it in the table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:» as the row «(+)-LYSERGIDE» in the international non-proprietary name column, «LSD, LSD-25» in the other names column and «(+)-N,N-Diethyllysergamide (d-lysergic acid diethylamide)» in the chemical name column. The consolidation sets the joins in those three entries as en dashes, given here as hyphens, and breaks «diethylamide» across two lines. The row already stood in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and no later Order read for this pass removes or alters it. Section 3 makes a dangerous drug of a psychotropic substance listed in the Second Schedule «or a thing that contains such a substance», so a paper square carrying the drug is caught as well as the pure compound. Lysergic acid is a different entry: it is item 28 of the Fourth Schedule, the precursor list for section 6A, and not a dangerous drug.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. For LSD the Act carries its own presumption: section 5(9)(g), inserted by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019 (Act No. 24 of 2019), deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «ten grammes or one hundred and seventy squares of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved, the burden being on the accused. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of a dangerous drug «on any school premises or within five hundred metres thereof» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; the consolidation makes the person «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of thirty-five years to life», and section 6(h) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred and fifty thousand» and «ten» for «three» and deletes «a term of thirty-five years to», while section 6(j) inserts «and section 5C» after «subsection (7)» in the section 5(8) definition of school premises and adds «nursery, kindergarten, day care centre, early childhood care and education centre, Children’s Home,» to the premises counted. Under section 5(7A) the Director of Public Prosecutions may, at the preliminary enquiry, «elect to proceed with the matter summarily», and if the accused consents section 5(7B) makes the person liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years, the fine being the figure section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No prescription, permit or traveller route for LSD is printed in the instruments read. Section 5(2) exempts a licence holder under section 4, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding a dangerous drug «for any medicinal purpose», a person who obtains one for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a «medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon», and a person authorised under the Regulations; nothing read says whether any authorisation reaches lysergide. Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: The Act places the proof of any licence or authority on the person who relies on it (sections 19 and 29A), so for lysergide the paper is the defence and its absence is not something the prosecution must prove. Section 5(9)(g), which applies to a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)», counts LSD in «ten grammes» or in «squares», so the number of units carried, and not only their mass, is what the presumption reads. Section 17 makes it an indictable offence knowingly to enclose a dangerous drug in a letter or packet sent by post or courier.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: Second Schedule, Schedule I table, page 43 · Fourth Schedule item 28, page 44 · sections 3, 5, 17, 19 and 29A. Read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f), 6(h), 6(i), 6(j) and 6(k), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by the proclamation published as Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. The Second Schedule Orders, Legal Notices No. 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment), were read and none touches the lysergide row. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 · read 3 October 2026. Sections 61 and 5(7) of the consolidation were read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON» Psychotropic Substances, 1971. The row was added by clause 3(a) of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, LN 345/2019, in operation on 18 November 2019, and is printed «TENAMFETAMINE» in the INN column, «MDA» as the other name, and «α-Methyl-3,4-» «(methylenedioxy)phenethyla-» «mine» as the chemical name. The table as printed in the 2016 consolidation did not contain it. MDMA is a separate row added by the same clause. From 3 February 2020 clause 3(c) also extends the Schedule to the salts of its substances and to their stereoisomers «within the specific chemical designation.» Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. MDA is in the Schedule I table, which paragraph (f) names, and the presumption runs from 23 December 2019. Trafficking includes «giving, administering», so passing tablets to friends is within it. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read gives tenamfetamine a medical use or names a product containing it. Section 5(2) lifts the possession offence for a holder of a section 4 licence, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding for a medicinal purpose, a person who obtains the drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, and a person acting under the supervision of any of them.
Documentation: Whether a tablet is MDA rather than MDMA is settled by analysis; section 22(1) makes an analyst's certificate «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate». Section 19 leaves proof of any licence or authority for tenamfetamine to the person who claims it.

LN 345/2019, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, clauses 2 and 3(a) and 3(c), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 3, 4, 5, 19, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA has been a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 since 18 November 2019. Clause 3(a) of Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 added it to the existing Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», as a row with no international non-proprietary name, the other name «MDMA» and the chemical name «(±)-N,α-Dimethyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine». It was not in that table in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. The same Order added its relatives as separate rows, among them «TENAMFETAMINE» («MDA») and «MDE, N-Ethyl MDA», and the Act names the drug a second time, as «3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy)», in section 5(9)(f) as inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, names this drug expressly: a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy)» is deemed to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of a dangerous drug «on any school premises or within five hundred metres thereof» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; the consolidation makes the person «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of thirty-five years to life», and section 6(h) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred and fifty thousand» and «ten» for «three» and deletes «a term of thirty-five years to», while section 6(j) inserts «and section 5C» after «subsection (7)» in the section 5(8) definition of school premises and adds «nursery, kindergarten, day care centre, early childhood care and education centre, Children’s Home,» to the premises counted. Under section 5(7A) the Director of Public Prosecutions may, at the preliminary enquiry, «elect to proceed with the matter summarily», and if the accused consents section 5(7B) makes the person liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years, the fine being the figure section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: The instruments read print no prescription, medical or traveller route for methylenedioxymethamphetamine; the patient exemption in section 5(2)(c) speaks only of a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription of a «medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon». Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Because section 5(9)(f), which applies to a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)», counts «tablets» as well as grammes, twenty one pills can raise the trafficking presumption whatever their mass. Section 29B(j) lets the prosecution analyse a sample of not less than ten per cent of seized packages and presume the remainder match the sample.

Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(a), page 1080 (rows «MDMA», «TENAMFETAMINE», «MDE, N-Ethyl MDA»), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated to 31 December 2016, sections 3, 5 and 29B, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f), 6(h), 6(i), 6(j) and 6(k)(iii), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, commencement 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Later Orders read with no effect on this row: Legal Notice No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment · No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. As the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Sections 61 and 5(7) of the consolidation were read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE» 1971 Convention, inserted by clause 3(b) of LN 345/2019 from 18 November 2019. The left hand column prints «MDPV»; the other names column prints «3,4-» «Methylenedioxypyro-» «valerone»; the chemical name column prints «1-(1,3-Benzodioxol-5-yl)-2-» «(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-one». Alpha-PVP is a separate row in the same table, printed «α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone». Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Because the MDPV row is in the Schedule II table, paragraph (f) applies to it. Being found without lawful excuse in a place where a dangerous drug is being illegally used is itself an offence under section 16, a fine of ten thousand dollars and six months. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: The instruments read name no medical use or product for MDPV, so the section 5(2) exemptions do not offer a route in practice.
Documentation: Powders sold under other names are identified by analysis, and the analyst's certificate is prima facie proof under section 22(1). Section 19 places on the accused the proof of any licence or authority he relies on, and no form of authority for MDPV appears in the instruments read.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2(1) and 3(b), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 5, 16, 19, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Memantine

Legal status: Memantine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. The strings memantin and adamantan return no line in any Schedule or Order read, and no entry carries an adamantane name. That memantine is an aminoadamantane, and not a derivative, ester, ether, salt, isomer or stereoisomer of any listed entry, including the rows printed «PHENCYCLIDINE» and «KETAMINE», nor a phenylpiperidine or an analogue of one within First Schedule item 4, «Phenylpiperidines», whose chapeau LN 343/2019 extended to analogues, is a chemical fact brought from outside the text. The Second Schedule's closing lines reach only the salts and stereoisomers of a listed substance, so they do not bring memantine in.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to memantine tablets through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because memantine is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2)(c) prescription exemption is not needed for it under Chap. 11:25; whether medicines or pharmacy legislation governs carrying it was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 sets no document for a patient carrying memantine.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for memantin and adamantan · the phencyclidine and ketamine rows and the Second Schedule closing lines read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE» Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971, a table the Act did not have until clause 3(b) of LN 345/2019 inserted it with effect from 18 November 2019. The row reads «MEPHEDRONE» in the INN column, «4-» «methylmethcathinone» as the other name, and «(RS)-2-(Methylamino)-1-(4-» «methylphenyl)propan-1-one» as the chemical name, so the racemate is named directly. The 3-methyl isomer is a different row, added by LN 131/2024, and «4-MEC», 4-methylethcathinone, is its own row in the same table. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. The Schedule II table that LN 345/2019 created, which holds the mephedrone row, is one of the two tables paragraph (f) names. Section 17(1), which Act No. 24 of 2019 did not amend, separately punishes a person who knowingly «encloses a dangerous drug in or with any letter,» «packet or other matter sent by post or courier», and is liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty five years. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medical use of mephedrone, and no prescription route exists for it beyond the general words of section 5(2).
Documentation: Mephedrone and its 3-methyl isomer are separate rows with different dates, 18 November 2019 and 29 July 2024, so identifying which one was held, by analysis certified under section 22(1), decides which row applies. For mephedrone the instruments read describe no permit, certificate or other paper that would make possession lawful outside the section 5(2) cases.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2(1) and 3(b), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment, checked for the separate 3-methyl row · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 5, 17, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25. It appears in the Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», in lower case in the other names column as «mescaline», with no international non-proprietary name and the chemical name «3, 4, 5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine», which the consolidation prints with an en dash before Trimethoxy and breaks across two lines after «phene». That row is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. No cactus is named; peyote or San Pedro material is reached, if at all, as «a thing that contains such a substance» under section 3. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 later added «TMA», «(±)-3,4,5-Trimethoxy-α-methylphenethylamine», which is the amphetamine analogue and a separate entry.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, mescaline, a row of the Schedule I table, is within it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». The cultivation offences name only a plant of the genus Cannabis, in section 5(3) as amended in 2019, and opium poppy and coca plant, in the consolidation's own cultivation subsection; neither names a mescaline cactus. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: The instruments read print no medical or traveller authorisation for mescaline. Possession is exempt under section 5(2) only for a licence holder under section 4, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding it «for any medicinal purpose», a person who obtains it for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, or a person «acting for and under the supervision of» one of those. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 22 makes an analyst's certificate prima facie proof of what a seized substance is, and section 29B(j) lets the analyst test not less than ten per cent of the packages and presume the rest are the same, which is how a quantity of dried cactus or powder said to contain mescaline would be proved. The burden of proving any licence lies on the accused (section 29A).

Chap. 11:25, Dangerous Drugs Act, as updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · the «mescaline» row on page 43, cultivation limbs of section 5, and sections 3, 22, 29A and 29B. «TMA» from Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, page 1080, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment. Amended penalties from Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(d) and 6(f), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in force 23 December 2019 under Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Later Second Schedule Orders read with no change to this row: No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment · No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. As the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is listed in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», in item 6, whose chapeau reads «Amidones, their preparations, derivatives and salts, as for» example, as entry (3), printed «Methadone» followed by its chemical name in brackets. Entry (4), «Methadone-Intermediate», is a separate row. The Schedule extends every entry by «The isomers unless specifically excepted, of the drugs in this Schedule» and by a salts clause, and no exception for methadone or any of its forms is printed. The placement is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016; LN 343/2019, the later First Schedule Order read, changes item 4 only. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(7A) lets the Director of Public Prosecutions elect, with the accused's consent, to have a trafficking charge dealt with summarily, and section 5(7B) then makes the person liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, as Act No. 24 of 2019 amends it, or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. No quantity presumption in section 5(9) names methadone. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: The patient side is section 5(2)(c), which exempts from the possession offence a person who obtains a dangerous drug for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a «medical practitioner», a term the Act limits to practitioners registered under the Medical Board Act, Ch. 29:50. The prescriber side is section 11(1): a medical practitioner who prescribes or gives a dangerous drug commits an offence unless it is «required for medicinal purposes or is prescribed for the medical treatment of a» person who is under professional treatment by a medical practitioner, and section 11(3) sets a term of not less than twenty five years. The Act names no maintenance programme and no allowance for methadone brought in from abroad; importation outside a section 4 licence is within its definition of trafficking.
Documentation: Section 8(2) forbids a pharmacist to use an order or prescription for a dangerous drug on more than one occasion «unless the» prescription directs it and states the number of refills, which governs repeat dispensing of methadone. Under section 19 the person who claims a licence or other authority must prove it. Nothing in the instruments read describes a document that would cover a supply of methadone carried across the border.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 6(3) and sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 19 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 · and LN 343/2019, checked for changes to the First Schedule, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine became a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 on 18 November 2019. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(b), inserted the Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», which prints two rows for it: «METAMFETAMINE», «Methamphetamine», «(+)-(S)-N,α-Dimethylphenethylamine», and «METAMFETAMINE RACEMATE», «Methamphetamine racemate», «(±)-N,α-Dimethylphenethylamine». Both the dextro form and the racemate are therefore named. Neither row was in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. «Ephedrine» and «Pseudo ephedrine», which section 6A treats as precursor chemicals, are separate items 9 and 21 of the Fourth Schedule.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, methamphetamine, in both its rows of the Schedule II table, is within it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Under section 5(7A) the Director of Public Prosecutions may, with the accused's consent, proceed summarily, and section 5(7B) as printed makes the person «liable to a fine of fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years», in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for «fifty». Manufacture is itself trafficking under the section 3 definition, and supplying a Fourth Schedule substance «knowing or having reasonable grounds to suspect» that it is to be used in or for the unlawful production of a dangerous drug is a section 6A offence. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read lists a methamphetamine medicine or prescribes how one could be carried. The patient exemption in section 5(2)(c) depends on the drug being obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription from a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and the exemption for an authorised person in section 5(2)(d) depends on Regulations. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 15 punishes the possession, «without lawful or reasonable excuse», of «any device, article or apparatus designed, generally used or specifically altered for the purpose of the illegal use of dangerous drugs», and section 29B(i) treats the evidence of a police officer above the rank of Sergeant or a senior Customs Officer that an article is for consuming a dangerous drug as sufficient until the contrary is proven, which bears on pipes found with methamphetamine. Section 29A puts the proof of any authority on the person claiming it.

Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(b), page 1082, rows «METAMFETAMINE» and «METAMFETAMINE RACEMATE», https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment. Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 3, 5, 6A, 15 and 29A to 29B and the Fourth Schedule. Act No. 24 of 2019, section 6(a), 6(f) and 6(i), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment · proclaimed for 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Also read without effect on these rows: Legal Notice No. 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), No. 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment), No. 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment). Read on 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE» 1971 Convention, inserted by clause 3(b) of LN 345/2019 and in operation from 18 November 2019. The row reads «METHYLONE» in the INN column, «beta-keto-MDMA» as the other name, and «2-Methylamino-1-(3,4-» «methylenedioxyphenyl)-propan-» «1-one» as the chemical name. It is in the Schedule II table, not the Schedule I table where MDMA was placed by the same Order. The salts and stereoisomers clause added by clause 3(c) applies from 3 February 2020. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Under section 5(7) a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with a dangerous drug on school premises or within five hundred metres is deemed to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the 2016 words «imprisonment for a term of thirty-five years to life» lose «a term of thirty-five years to» under Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life; the same Act widened the school premises definition to include a nursery, kindergarten and day care centre. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Methylone is in the Schedule II table, which paragraph (f) names; the «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES» table, which holds ketamine, is not named in paragraph (f), and ketamine has its own paragraph (h). The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: Methylone has no medical use or product named in any instrument read, and the section 5(2) exemptions offer no practical route for it.
Documentation: Whether a sample is methylone or the MDMA listed in the Schedule I table is shown by analysis certified under section 22(1). Beyond the cases in section 5(2), the Act describes no authority for holding methylone, and under section 19 any such authority is for the person claiming it to prove.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2(1), 3(b) and 3(c), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, sections 4, 5(1), 5(2), 5(5), 5(7), 5(8), 5(9)(f) and (h), 19, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Modafinil is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for modafin, armodaf, benzhydryl, sulfinyl and sulphinyl found no line in any Schedule or Order read. Rows such as «AMFETAMINE» and «FENETYLLINE» are named compounds that reach only themselves with their salts and stereoisomers, and the First Schedule's class items are chemical families such as «Phenylpiperidines» and «Amidones». That modafinil, a benzhydrylsulfinyl acetamide, belongs to none of those families and is not a derivative, ester, ether, salt or isomer of any listed entry, and that armodafinil is an enantiomer of modafinil rather than of a listed drug, are chemical facts brought from outside the text.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to modafinil or armodafinil tablets through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Under Chap. 11:25 a prescription for modafinil is not what keeps a holder outside the section 5 possession offence, because that offence reaches only dangerous drugs and modafinil is not listed; other medicines law was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 contains no rule on what paper should accompany modafinil.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for modafin, armodaf, benzhydryl, sulfinyl and sulphinyl · the amfetamine and fenetylline rows and First Schedule items 4 and 6 read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 as a narcotic in the First Schedule, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS». It is printed as «(3) Morphine» under item 1, «Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) its preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts, as for example:», alongside «(1) Opium» and «(2) Codeine (3- methylmorphine)», in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and no later Order read amends item 1. Item 1 also lists morphine derivatives individually, among them «(13) Dihydromorphine» and «(24) Morphine-N-Oxide», and the closing lines of the Schedule extend every entry to its salts.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(d) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «thirty grammes of morphine» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless he proves otherwise, a figure Act No. 24 of 2019 did not change. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Cultivating opium poppy without a licence is a separate offence under the consolidation's subsection (3A), printed as «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of two hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, fifteen times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life», which Act No. 24 of 2019 does not amend. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: For morphine the section 5(2) exemptions do the work: a registered medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist may hold it for a medicinal purpose, and a patient may hold it when obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription from one of the first three. Section 8(1), as section 9 of Act No. 24 of 2019 amended it, lets a pharmacist supply only on a dated and signed written order or prescription whose signature is known or verified. Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession. No instrument read sets a quantity limit on carried morphine.
Documentation: Section 14 makes it an offence for a patient who, during treatment, obtains morphine or a prescription for it from a second medical practitioner not to disclose the first supply, with a summary penalty of ten thousand dollars and six months. As with every exemption in the Act, the person relying on a prescription bears the burden of proving it (section 29A).

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25 as updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: First Schedule item 1, entries (1), (2), (3), (13) and (24), page 37, closing paragraphs page 42 · sections 3, 5, 8, 14 and 29A. Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f) and 9, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment · in force 23 December 2019, Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, the only later First Schedule Order, does not touch item 1. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: Methoxetamine is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE» Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971, which clause 3(b) of LN 345/2019 inserted with effect from 18 November 2019. Its row prints «METHOXETAMINE» in the INN column, «MXE» as the other name and, as the chemical name, «2-(Ethylamino)-2-(3-» «methoxyphenyl)cyclohexanone», so the substance is named directly and no inference from a related compound is needed. From 3 February 2020 the closing lines clause 3(c) of the same Order added extend the Schedule to «The salts of the substances listed in this Schedule whenever the» existence of such salts is possible, and to stereoisomers within the specific chemical designation. Ketamine, the only row of the separate «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:» table, and «PHENCYCLIDINE», another row of the Schedule II table, are different compounds and are not relied on. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) speaks of «Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule», and the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, only tables headed for Schedules I and II of the 1971 Convention; reading the paragraph as naming those tables, which is a reading and not printed text, the methoxetamine row in the Schedule II table is within it. Paragraph (f) came into operation with Act No. 24 of 2019 on 23 December 2019, and it is paragraph (h), not (f), that deals with ketamine. Section 5(7A) applies «Notwithstanding subsections (3A), (5), (6) and (7),»: where a person is charged for a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions «may, at the preliminary enquiry, elect to proceed with the matter summarily and if the accused so consents, the Court may adjourn the matter to be dealt with accordingly». Section 5(7B), in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for fifty, makes a person who pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence so tried liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medicinal product of methoxetamine, and its row, unlike the ketamine row, prints no proprietary name. Section 5(2) keeps only its general cases, and a person not within them has no route to hold it lawfully.
Documentation: Whether a powder is methoxetamine or ketamine matters, because the two sit in different tables with different section 5(9) paragraphs, and that is shown by analysis: the analyst's certificate is «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate» under section 22(1). Under section 19, a person who relies on a licence or other authority to hold methoxetamine must prove it, since «the proof thereof lies upon him».

LN 345/2019, the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of the Second Schedule) Order, 2019, clauses 2, 3(b) and 3(c), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule and sections 5, 19, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 of that Act. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nicotine

Legal status: Nicotine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. No entry in the First, Second or Fourth Schedule of the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, or in LN 343/2019, 345/2019, 346/2019, 166/2023, 131/2024 or 293/2026, names it by name, chemical name, salt or class word. The search for nicotin found only «Nicocodine», «Nicodicodine» and «Nicomorphine» in First Schedule item 1, whose printed chemical names, such as «nicotinylcodeine», name derivatives of codeine, dihydrocodeine and morphine within the opium poppy item; read as nicotinyl esters, which is chemistry brought from outside the text, they are not nicotine. That nicotine is a pyridine alkaloid of tobacco, and not a derivative, ester, ether, salt, isomer or stereoisomer of any listed opium, coca or cannabis entry or of any other listed drug, nor a phenylpiperidine or an analogue of one within First Schedule item 4, whose chapeau LN 343/2019 extended with the «words “, analogues”», is a chemical fact brought from outside the text. Nicotine therefore falls outside the section 3 definition of dangerous drugs, and the section 5 offences do not reach it through a listing.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to nicotine, its pouches or its liquids through a listing, and the excise, customs and public health statutes on nicotine products were not read. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Because nicotine is not a dangerous drug, the section 5(2) exemptions do not govern replacement gums or patches under this Act; medicines legislation outside Chap. 11:25 was not read.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires no document for nicotine pouches or liquids; any import or excise paperwork lies in statutes that were not read.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for nicotin · First Schedule item 1 entries (27) to (29) read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Nitrous oxide is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for nitrous, laughing, gas and nitrite found it in no Schedule or Order read, and the only oxide entries are «Morphine-N-Oxide» and the «Codeine-N-Oxide» named under the morphine methobromide entry in First Schedule item 1, opium derivatives that are not the gas. No list read names any gas or inhalant. The First Schedule's item chapeaux reach the «preparations, derivatives,» alkaloids and salts of their own named groups, and for cannabis «similar synthetic preparations»; LN 343/2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone; the First Schedule closes with «The isomers unless specifically excepted, of the drugs in this Schedule», «The esters and ethers, unless appearing in another Schedule, of the drugs» in it and «The salts of the drugs listed in this Schedule, including the salts of esters,»; and the Second Schedule closes with salts and «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this» Schedule. Nitrous oxide is understood to be a simple inorganic gas, not a preparation, derivative, alkaloid, salt, ester, ether, isomer, stereoisomer or analogue of any listed entry, a chemical fact brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches it, and the gas falls outside the section 3 definition of dangerous drugs.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to the gas itself through a listing, and any law on the sale of canisters or cylinders was not read. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Medical and dental use of the gas is not regulated by Chap. 11:25, because the section 5(2) exemptions are written for dangerous drugs; other legislation was not read.
Documentation: The Act requires no paper for cream chargers or cylinders of nitrous oxide.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for nitrous, laughing, gas, nitrite and oxide · First Schedule item 1 entries (23) and (24) read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Opium

Legal status: Opium is entry (1) of item 1 of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», printed «Opium» beneath the chapeau «Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum) its preparations, derivatives,». Section 3 defines the word: «“opium” includes raw opium, powdered opium and opium» wholly or partially prepared for any use, whatever «its content of morphine may be», and it defines prepared or smoking opium to include dross and the residues left after smoking. Item 1 excludes «(37) Poppy seed.» by name. The placement is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, not altered by LN 343/2019. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Section 5(9)(c) deems a person found with more than «five hundred grammes of opium;» to hold it for trafficking unless he proves otherwise. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. A pipe or other device generally used for illegal drug use is caught by section 15, a fine of ten thousand dollars and six months. Cultivating the opium poppy without a licence is the subsection printed as (3A) in the 2016 consolidation, under which the person is liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of two hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, fifteen times the street value, whichever is greater, and to «imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; Act No. 24 of 2019 does not amend it but inserts a second subsection also numbered (3A), about cannabis plants, and the instruments read do not renumber the first. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: The Schedule as printed reaches opium in its preparations, because the chapeau covers the plant's «preparations, derivatives,» and salts, and it excludes none of them. The consolidation also lists the 1950 «Raw Opium and Ganja Regulations» as saved subsidiary legislation; they were not read, so any exemption they make is neither confirmed nor ruled out. Section 5(2) lifts the possession offence for a holder of a section 4 licence, a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist holding for a medicinal purpose, a person who obtains the drug for medicinal purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, a person authorised under the Regulations, and a person acting under the supervision of any of them. No instrument read names an opium medicine or any route by which a traveller may bring one in.
Documentation: Section 21(2) deems the person who occupies, controls or possesses premises, a vessel, a vehicle or an aircraft in which «any device, apparatus or» article mentioned in section 15 is found to possess it, unless he proves it was there without his knowledge and consent «or that he was lawfully entitled to the» possession of it. Apart from the section 5(2) cases, the instruments read describe no document that would make carrying opium lawful.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 1(1) and (37), section 3 definitions of opium and prepared opium, and sections 4, 5(1), 5(2), 5(3A), 5(5), 5(9)(c), 15, 21 and 61, with the note on saved subsidiary legislation on page 2 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 · and LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is a First Schedule narcotic and so a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25. Under item 1 of the «LIST OF NARCOTIC DRUGS», after the words «(6) Thebaine, and their preparations, derivatives and salts, as for example», the Schedule prints «(32) Oxycodone (14-hydroxydihydrocodeinone)», with an en dash in the printed chemical name rendered here as a hyphen. The entry is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and no later Order read alters it. Its neighbour «(33) Oxymorophone (14-hydroxydihydromorphinone)», so spelled and likewise printed with an en dash, is a different drug.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9) prints no quantity presumption for oxycodone, so the purpose of trafficking must be proved on the evidence; section 5(7) is the exception, deeming a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession on any school premises or within five hundred metres of them to have it for the purpose of trafficking, whatever the quantity, unless the contrary is proved. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, which the section 3 definition extends to selling or giving tablets to another person, falls under section 5(4). Section 5(5) as printed makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Oxycodone tablets are lawfully held under section 5(2)(c) when obtained for medicinal purposes on the prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon. Section 5(2)(c) speaks of a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 3 defines each by registration under a Trinidad and Tobago Act: a medical practitioner «means a person registered under the Medical Board Act», a dentist is registered under the Dental Profession Act and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons (Registration) Act. The Act says nothing about a prescriber registered abroad, and those three registration Acts were not read. Section 3 counts the importation of a dangerous drug as trafficking unless it is done by or for the holder of a licence under section 4, and the exceptions in that definition do not include a patient carrying a prescribed supply. Section 11(1) makes it an offence for a medical practitioner to prescribe, administer, give, sell or furnish a dangerous drug, or sign a prescription or order for one, unless it is «required for medicinal purposes or is prescribed for the medical treatment of a person who is under professional treatment by a medical practitioner», and section 11(3) makes the offender liable «upon conviction on indictment» to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times that value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment «for a term which shall not be less than twenty-five years». The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: The documents that matter for oxycodone are the prescription and the pharmacy supply resting on it: section 8(1) lets a pharmacist supply a dangerous drug only on a written order or prescription «dated and signed» by a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, and section 8(2) forbids using it more than once unless it states the number of refills. Section 29A puts the proof of the prescription on the person who relies on it.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act), consolidation updated to 31 December 2016: First Schedule item 1(32) and (33), page 38 · sections 3, 4, 5, 8, 11 and 29A. Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a) and 6(f), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into force on 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, read: it amends First Schedule item 4 only. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25 from 18 November 2019, when Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 came into operation. Its clause 3(b) inserted the Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:», which prints the international non-proprietary name «PHENCYCLIDINE», the other name «PCP» and the chemical name «1-(1-Phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine». Before that Order the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016 carried three of its analogues in the Schedule I table, «ETICYCLIDINE» («PCE»), «ROLICYCLIDINE» («PHP, PCPY») and «TENOCYCLIDINE» («TCP»), but not phencyclidine itself.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, phencyclidine, a row of the Schedule II table, is within it. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». A person under twenty one may receive a lesser penalty than the Act specifies (section 56A). Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read authorises phencyclidine for any medical use or for carriage. The section 5(2) exemptions are framed for every dangerous drug alike and turn on a licence, possession «for any medicinal purpose» by a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or pharmacist, a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription, or an authorisation under Regulations. The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 5(4) makes it an offence to traffic in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous drug», and section 5(6) fixes the penalty for that offence in the same terms as trafficking, as amended by section 6(g) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so a liquid or powder sold as PCP is caught whatever it turns out to contain. Section 17 makes it an indictable offence knowingly to enclose a dangerous drug in post or courier matter.

Second Schedule, Schedule II table, «PHENCYCLIDINE», inserted by Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(b), page 1082, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · earlier Schedule I rows «ETICYCLIDINE», «ROLICYCLIDINE» and «TENOCYCLIDINE» in the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated to 31 December 2016, page 43, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, with sections 5, 17 and 56A. Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f), 6(g) and 6(k), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in force 23 December 2019 per Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Also read: Legal Notices No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment, and No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment. Read 3 October 2026 · as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is not named in any instrument read, and searches for peyote, Lophophora and cactus found nothing. What reaches it is the mescaline row of the Second Schedule table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I», printed in lower case as «mescaline» in the other names column with no INN, and with the chemical name 3, 4, 5-Trimethoxyphenethylamine, which the consolidation prints with a dash after the 5 and breaks across two lines; read with section 3, under which a dangerous drug includes a «thing that contains such a substance». That the peyote cactus contains mescaline is a botanical fact brought from outside the text, so cactus material is a dangerous drug by this route only if it contains mescaline. The row is in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016, and the Act prints no religious or ceremonial exception. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. For cactus material found to contain mescaline, the following apply. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) speaks of «Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule», and the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, only tables headed for Schedules I and II of the 1971 Convention; reading the paragraph as naming those tables, which is a reading and not printed text, the mescaline row in the Schedule I table is within it. The paragraph does not say how grammes or tablets are counted for dried or fresh cactus. Section 5(7A) applies «Notwithstanding subsections (3A), (5), (6) and (7),»: where a person is charged for a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions «may, at the preliminary enquiry, elect to proceed with the matter summarily and if the accused so consents, the Court may adjourn the matter to be dealt with accordingly». Section 5(7B), in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for fifty, makes a person who pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence so tried liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. The cultivation offences in section 5 name cannabis, the opium poppy and the coca plant, and none names a cactus. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: No instrument read names a medical or sacramental use of peyote or of mescaline; section 5(2) gives only its general cases.
Documentation: Whether a button, powder or brew made from the cactus contains mescaline is shown by analysis, and the certificate is prima facie proof of what it states under section 22(1). No permit for the cactus is described in the instruments read.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, Second Schedule, Schedule I table, mescaline row, and sections 3, 5, 22 and 61 · read with the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, section 6 of that Act · and LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment, checked for any change to the row. Searched for peyote, Lophophora and cactus, with no hit. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Phenibut

Legal status: Phenibut is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for phenibut, aminobutyr and gaba returned no line in any Schedule or Order read, and no entry carries an aminobutyric acid name. That phenibut, a phenyl substituted aminobutyric acid, is not a salt or stereoisomer of any Second Schedule row, such as «AMFETAMINE», and belongs to none of the First Schedule families whose chapeaux reach derivatives or analogues, is a chemical fact brought from outside the text.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to phenibut powder or tablets through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Whether phenibut is a prescription medicine in Trinidad and Tobago depends on medicines law that was not read; Chap. 11:25 gives it no section 5(2) treatment because it does not list it.
Documentation: No instrument read describes paperwork for phenibut powder or tablets.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for phenibut, aminobutyr and gaba · the amfetamine row read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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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 and tusi found nothing. The Act reaches a sample through section 3, under which a dangerous drug includes a listed narcotic drug or «a thing that contains such a drug», and a listed psychotropic substance or a «thing that contains such a substance». Accounts from outside the text describe samples sold under this name as mixtures that may hold ketamine, MDMA, 2C-B, cocaine or other compounds; that is not law. As a reading only, the printed entries that would reach those constituents are the single row of the «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:» table, «KETAMINE», from 3 February 2020; the row printed «MDMA» in the Schedule I table and the row printed «2C-B» in the Schedule II table, both from 18 November 2019; and First Schedule item 2.A, «(2) Cocaine (methyl ester of benzoyleogonine)», in the 2016 text. A sample containing none of the listed substances is not a dangerous drug by this route. The cell turns on what analysis finds in the sample, not on its colour or name. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. Where analysis finds a listed substance, the sample is a dangerous drug and the following apply. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. The section 5(9) quantities that deem possession to be for trafficking, unless the contrary is proved, differ by constituent, and each applies to a person «other than a person referred to in» subsection (2): paragraph (b), more than «ten grammes of cocaine;»; paragraph (f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;», which names ecstasy and, on the reading that its two Schedules are the Second Schedule tables headed for Schedules I and II of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, reaches the 2C-B row in the Schedule II table; and paragraph (h), more than «five grammes of ketamine.», ketamine's table lying outside paragraph (f) on any reading. None of these paragraphs says whether a mixture is counted whole or by the listed drug it contains. Under section 5(7), a person «other than a person referred to in» subsection (2) found «on any school premises or within five hundred metres thereof» with a listed drug, or with a «substance other than a dangerous drug which he represents or holds» out to be one, is deemed to have it for trafficking at any quantity unless the contrary is proved, and is liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life, section 6(h) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substituting «three million» for one hundred and fifty thousand and «ten» for three, and deleting «a term of thirty-five years to»; section 6(j) of Act No. 24 of 2019 widens the section 5(8) definition of school premises to include the premises of a «nursery, kindergarten, day care centre, early» childhood care and education centre or Children's Home. Section 5(7A) applies «Notwithstanding subsections (3A), (5), (6) and (7),»: where a person is charged for a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions «may, at the preliminary enquiry, elect to proceed with the matter summarily and if the accused so consents, the Court may adjourn the matter to be dealt with accordingly». Section 5(7B), in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for fifty, makes a person who pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence so tried liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. Section 5(4) separately makes it an offence to traffic in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, and section 5(6), in which section 6(g) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for one hundred thousand and «ten» for three and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to», makes a person who trafficks in a substance other than a dangerous drug that he represents or holds out to be one liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life; whether selling a sample as pink cocaine holds it out to be a dangerous drug is a question of fact that this cell does not decide. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: The ketamine row names «KETALAR» and «KETASET», but no instrument read gives a medical route for a mixture sold under a street label, and section 5(2) helps only where its own cases are met for the particular drug that analysis identifies.
Documentation: The analyst's certificate is «prima facie proof of the facts stated in the certificate» under section 22(1), and it is the certificate, not the colour or the name on the bag, that shows which entry and which section 5(9) paragraph apply.

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Poppers

Legal status: Poppers, a product name for alkyl nitrite liquids, a description brought from outside the text, are not dangerous drugs under Chap. 11:25: alkyl nitrites are not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for popper, nitrite, isobutyl and amyl found only «n-amyl» inside the printed chemical name of cannabinol, First Schedule item 3(3), where an n-amyl group is part of that cannabinoid, and no row names amyl, butyl or isobutyl nitrite. The First Schedule's item chapeaux reach the «preparations, derivatives,» alkaloids and salts of their own named groups, and for cannabis «similar synthetic preparations»; LN 343/2019 inserted the «words “, analogues”» into item 4 alone; the First Schedule closes with «The isomers unless specifically excepted, of the drugs in this Schedule», «The esters and ethers, unless appearing in another Schedule, of the drugs» in it and «The salts of the drugs listed in this Schedule, including the salts of esters,»; and the Second Schedule closes with salts and «The stereoisomers, unless specifically excepted, of substances in this» Schedule. Alkyl nitrites are understood to be esters of nitrous acid, not of any listed drug, and not a preparation, derivative, salt, ether, isomer, stereoisomer or analogue of cannabinol or any other listed entry, chemical facts brought from outside the text, so no chapeau or closing clause reaches them.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to a bottle of alkyl nitrite through a listing; consumer product and customs law were not read. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: No medical nitrite product is named in the instruments read, and the section 5(2) exemptions do not arise for poppers.
Documentation: Chap. 11:25 requires nothing in writing for carrying poppers.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for popper, nitrite, amyl, butyl nitr, isobutyl and isopropyl nitr · First Schedule item 3(3) and the closing esters and ethers clause read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for pregabal, gabapent, Lyrica and gaba returned no line in any Schedule or Order read, so neither gabapentinoid is listed. That pregabalin, a substituted aminobutyric acid, is not a derivative, ester, ether, salt or isomer of any listed entry is a chemical fact brought from outside the text; no First Schedule class item names a family to which it belongs, and the Second Schedule reaches only named rows with their salts and stereoisomers.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to pregabalin capsules through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: A prescription for pregabalin plays no part under Chap. 11:25, which does not list it; medicines and pharmacy law, which may govern it, was not read.
Documentation: Nothing in the instruments read prescribes a letter or label for pregabalin.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for pregabal, gabapent, lyrica and gaba · no nearer text was found to read and reject. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is controlled as a dangerous drug by the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25. The Second Schedule prints it in the table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE I OF THE CONVENTION ON PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES, 1971, VIZ:» under the international non-proprietary name «PSILOCYBINE», with the chemical name «3-(2-Dimethylaminoethyl)-indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate», whose joins the consolidation sets as en dashes, given here as hyphens. The row stands in the consolidation updated to 31 December 2016. The row immediately above it, «psilocine, psilotsin», chemical name «3-(2-Dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole», lists psilocin separately, so both compounds are named. No fungus or mushroom is named anywhere in the Act; mushroom material reaches it through section 3, which makes a dangerous drug of «a thing that contains such a substance».
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. No section of Chap. 11:25, and nothing in Act No. 24 of 2019, prints death as a penalty. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2)» found in possession of more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act» to have it for the purpose of trafficking unless the contrary is proved; reading «Schedule I» and «Schedule II» there as the two Second Schedule tables headed by those Schedules of the 1971 Convention, which is a reading and not printed text, because the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, psilocybine, a row of the Schedule I table, is within it. The Act does not say how mushroom material is weighed or counted against that figure. Possession under section 5(1) is punishable upon summary conviction by a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years, and upon conviction on indictment by a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years, the figures section 6(a) of Act No. 24 of 2019 put in («two hundred and fifty» in paragraph (a); «one million dollars and to imprisonment for fifteen years» in paragraph (b)). Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is an offence under section 5(4), and section 5(5) as printed in the consolidation makes the offender «liable upon conviction on indictment to a fine of one hundred thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value of the dangerous drug, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life»; section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «three million» for «one hundred thousand» and «ten» for «three», and deletes «a term of twenty-five years to». Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to «the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act»; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Nothing in the instruments read creates a medical or traveller route specific to psilocybine; the general exemptions in section 5(2) apply to it as to any dangerous drug, including possession of a drug obtained for medicinal purposes on a prescription from a «medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon». The only Regulations under section 57 among the instruments read, the Dangerous Drugs (Fixed Penalty Notice) Regulations, 2019 (Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019), prescribe the form of a fixed penalty notice and say nothing on prescriptions or medicinal possession.
Documentation: Section 29B(d) presumes that a person with custody or control of «anything containing a dangerous drug» possessed the drug and knew its nature until the contrary is proven, which bears directly on dried mushrooms, chocolates or capsules said to carry psilocybine. The burden of showing a licence or other authority rests on the accused under section 29A.

Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated to 31 December 2016, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act: Second Schedule, page 43, rows «PSILOCYBINE» and «psilocine, psilotsin» · sections 3, 5, 29A and 29B. Read with Act No. 24 of 2019, sections 6(a), 6(f) and 6(k)(iii), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, proclaimed in force on 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, and with the Second Schedule Orders, Legal Notices No. 345 of 2019 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment), 166 of 2023 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment), 131 of 2024 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment) and 293 of 2026 (https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment), none of which alters these two rows. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 · read 3 October 2026. Section 61 of the consolidation was read for the penalty sentences. Also read: Legal Notice No. 395 of 2019, Regulations under section 57, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108754?type=amendment. Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026 prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Quetiapine is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. Searches for quetiap, Seroquel, thiazep and dibenzothiazepin returned nothing in any Schedule or Order read, and the «OTHER PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES:» table, the one Second Schedule table not tied to the 1971 Convention, has a single row, ketamine. That quetiapine, a dibenzothiazepine carrying a piperazine ring, is neither within First Schedule item 4, «Phenylpiperidines», whose chapeau LN 343/2019 extended to analogues, nor a derivative, ester, ether, salt or isomer of any other listed entry, including the row printed «N-BENZYLPIPERAZINE», is a chemical fact brought from outside the text.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to quetiapine through a listing. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Quetiapine's status as a prescription medicine, if any, lies in legislation that was not read; Chap. 11:25 does not reach it.
Documentation: No instrument read sets a paper rule for carrying quetiapine.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for quetiap, seroquel, thiazep and dibenzothiazepin · First Schedule item 4, the benzylpiperazine row and the LN 345/2019 table of other psychotropic substances read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids is a class name, and the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, prints no class entry for it; it prints named compounds, each as its own row. The table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES LISTED IN SCHEDULE II OF THE» Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971, which clause 3(b) of LN 345/2019 inserted into the Second Schedule from 18 November 2019, carries rows printed «AB -CHMINACA», «AB -PINACA», «AM -2201» with the other name «JWH-2201», «5F-ADB/5F-MDMB-PINACA», «5F-PB-22», «JWH -018» with the other name «AM-678», «UR-144» and «XLR-11», the printed page setting a space before the hyphen in four of them, and the XLR-11 row giving no chemical name. LN 131/2024, in operation from 29 July 2024, adds to the same table a row printed «ADB-BUTINACA», chemical name «N-[1-(aminocarbonyl)-2,2-» «dimethylpropyl]-1-butyl-» «1H-indazole-3-carboxamide». That these compounds are synthetic cannabinoids is a classification brought from outside the text. The Schedule I table of the Second Schedule, in the 2016 text, also prints a «THC» row, «Tetrahydrocannabinols, the» «following isomers:» «∆6A(10a), ∆6A(7), ∆7,» «∆8, ∆9, ∆10, ∆9(11)» «and their stereochemical variants.», and the row sets no limit by plant origin or method of manufacture, so a product containing a synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol of a listed isomer is reached by that row; synthetic ∆9 THC, sold as dronabinol, is an example brought from outside the text. A herbal blend, liquid or paper is a dangerous drug under section 3 as a «thing that contains such a substance» if it contains one of the named compounds or another listed substance. A compound with no row is not reached: First Schedule item 3, which covers cannabis and its «derivatives and similar synthetic preparations, as for example:», is a generic chapeau and is not relied on, and the word analogues that LN 343/2019 inserted applies only to First Schedule item 4, the phenylpiperidines. The Schedule I table also prints «DMHP» and, in the 2016 text, «paranexyl», beside which LN 345/2019 adds a «Parahexyl» row, and LN 293/2026, dated 13 May 2026 and stating no commencement date of its own, adds «HEXAHYDROCANNABINOL» to the Schedule II table; whether any of those counts as a synthetic cannabinoid is again an outside classification. LN 166/2023, the 2023 Order on the Schedule II table, «Dated this 31st day of May, 2023.» and printing no commencement clause, adds one row, read from its page image as EUTYLONE, a cathinone name on chemistry brought from outside the text, so it adds no cannabinoid. Position as at 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. For a product that contains one of the named compounds, the following apply. Possession without authority is an offence under section 5(1), which, with the words Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes, carries a fine of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and imprisonment for five years on summary conviction, and a fine of one million dollars and imprisonment for fifteen years on indictment. Trafficking, or possession for the purpose of trafficking, is punished under section 5(5), whose 2016 words «to imprisonment for a term of twenty-five years to life» lose «a term of twenty-five years to» under section 6(f) of Act No. 24 of 2019, so that, upon conviction on indictment, the person is liable to a fine of three million dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, ten times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for life. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell. Section 5(9)(f), inserted by Act No. 24 of 2019, deems a person, other than a person referred to in subsection (2), found with more than «five grammes or twenty tablets of 3, 4 methylene-» «dioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy) or any drug listed in Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule of the Act;» to hold it for trafficking unless the contrary is proved, and the paragraph does not say whether its tablet count applies to the listed drugs as well as to ecstasy. Paragraph (f) speaks of «Schedule I or Schedule II of the Second Schedule», and the Second Schedule has no parts of those names, only tables headed for Schedules I and II of the 1971 Convention; reading the paragraph as naming those tables, which is a reading and not printed text, each named row listed above, and the THC row, in the Schedule I or the Schedule II table is within it. The HHC row is within it only once its Order is in operation. Act No. 24 of 2019 also defines «cannabis» as the plant of the genus Cannabis including «any compound, salt, mixture,» extraction, derivative, product, «synthetic or other preparation of the plant»; it takes out of section 5(1), by new section 5(2)(f) and (g), a person holding not more than «thirty grammes of cannabis» or five grammes of cannabis resin, or not more than «four growing plants of the genus» Cannabis; it makes section 5(1) subject to «subsections (2), (2A) and (2B)»; and it creates two summary offences in closed bands: under section 5(2A), «Subject to section 5B(2)», more than thirty and not more than sixty grammes of cannabis, or more than five and not more than ten grammes of resin, a fine of fifty thousand dollars, for which section 5B(2) requires a police officer who «has reason to believe» that a person is committing or has committed the offence to issue a fixed penalty notice, and section 5B(16) sets the fixed penalty at «two thousand dollars or such other amount as» the Minister may prescribe by Order; and under section 5(2B), more than sixty and not more than one hundred grammes, or more than ten and not more than fourteen grammes of resin, a fine of seventy five thousand dollars. Above those bands section 5(1) applies. No instrument read says whether a compound made without the plant is a preparation of it, and this cell does not decide that; the figures above are stated on the reading that such a compound is not cannabis. Section 5(7A) applies «Notwithstanding subsections (3A), (5), (6) and (7),»: where a person is charged for a drug trafficking offence, the Director of Public Prosecutions «may, at the preliminary enquiry, elect to proceed with the matter summarily and if the accused so consents, the Court may adjourn the matter to be dealt with accordingly». Section 5(7B), in which section 6(i) of Act No. 24 of 2019 substitutes «seven hundred and fifty» for fifty, makes a person who pleads guilty to, or is found guilty of, an offence so tried liable to a fine of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars or, where there is evidence of the street value of the dangerous drug, three times the street value, whichever is greater, and to imprisonment for a term of ten years. The amended figures are this cell's reading of the 2016 text with Act No. 24 of 2019's substituted words applied; no consolidation after 2016 was available to check them against.
If prescribed / medical: None of these rows prints a proprietary name, and no instrument read names a medicine made from any of the compounds. Only the general cases in section 5(2) could apply.
Documentation: Which compound a smoking blend or liquid holds, if any, is a question for analysis certified under section 22(1), and a label that names none of the rows does not show that none is present. The dates differ by row: 18 November 2019 for the LN 345/2019 rows and 29 July 2024 for ADB-BUTINACA.

LN 345/2019, clauses 2 and 3(b), https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment, checked for the scope of its analogues insertion · read into the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First Schedule item 3 (read and not relied on), Second Schedule and sections 3, 5, 22 and 61 · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment, sections 4 and 6 of that Act. Read on 3 October 2026. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Tobacco

Legal status: Tobacco is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, read 3 October 2026. No Schedule or Order read names tobacco, Nicotiana or cigarettes; searches for tobacco, nicotiana and cigar returned nothing, and the only plants the First Schedule names are the «Opium Poppy (Papaver somniferum)», coca and cannabis. Leaf could be a dangerous drug under section 3 only as a «thing that contains such a substance», meaning a listed one, and nicotine, the constituent for which tobacco is used, is listed nowhere; that tobacco's active constituent is nicotine is a fact brought from outside the text. Act No. 24 of 2019 defines «smoke» and in section 5A punishes a «person who smokes or uses cannabis or» cannabis resin in a public place, an offence that does not reach tobacco.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Neither the 2016 consolidation nor Act No. 24 of 2019 prints a sentence of death for any offence. No section 5 possession or trafficking offence attaches to cigarettes, cigars or loose leaf through a listing, and the statutes on the sale, excise and import of tobacco were not read. Section 5(4) separately reaches trafficking in «any substance represented or held out by him to be a dangerous» drug, section 5(6) punishes that offence, and section 5(7) deems a person «other than a person referred to in subsection (2) found in possession of a dangerous drug or a» substance which he represents or holds out to be a dangerous drug, on school premises or within five hundred metres of them, to have it for the purpose of trafficking «unless the contrary is proved, the burden of proof being on the accused». Those limbs turn on what is said about a substance and not on its listing, and no penalty for them is set out here. Section 61 provides that section 68(2) and (3) of the Interpretation Act apply only to the penalties prescribed for possession of dangerous drugs under this Act; section 68 was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical: Under Chap. 11:25 no prescription question arises for tobacco products, since the section 5(2) exemptions are written for dangerous drugs.
Documentation: Duty free and import allowances for tobacco are not set by Chap. 11:25 or the Orders read, and this cell states none.

The Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act, First, Second and Fourth Schedules and sections 3, 5 and 61 · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, read from its page image · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · and the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, 2019, Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, brought into operation on 23 December 2019 by LN 397/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment. Searched for tobacco, nicotiana and cigar · Act No. 24 of 2019, section 4 (the smoke definition) and section 7 (new section 5A), read and not relied on. Read 3 October 2026. Stated as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026, which prints no commencement date of its own · nothing in this cell turns on the row it adds. · Updated October 3, 2026

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Not individually verified

35 substances are not individually verified for Trinidad and Tobago

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 Trinidad and Tobago’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. Searches of the 2016 consolidation and every Schedule Order since for 1p-lsd, 1p lsd, propionyl...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. Searches for fdck, deschloro, fluorodeschloro, fluorophenyl, ketamine and cyclohexan found no entry...
25I-NBOMe	Not confirmed. Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019, clause 3(a), added to the Second Schedule table headed «PSYCHOTROPIC...
2C-E	Not confirmed. Searches for 2c-e, 2ce, ethyl-2,5 and 4-ethyl-2, and for every name beginning 2C, found no entry for...
2C-I	Not confirmed. Searches for 2c-i, 2ci, 2c-1 and iodo, and for every name beginning 2C, found no entry for 2C-I. The...
2C-T-7	Not confirmed. Searches for 2c-t, 2ct, propylthio, methylthio and thiophenethyl found no entry for 2C-T-7. The...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. Searches for 4-aco, aco-dmt, acetoxy, psilocet, psilo and tryptamine found no entry for 4-AcO-DMT....
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. Searches for 4-ho, ho-met, metocin, ethyl-n-methyl, methylethyltryptamine, psilo and tryptamine found...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. Searches for 5-meo and for methoxy tryptamine names across the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and...
6-APB	Not confirmed. No entry for 6-APB was found in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. Searches for mitragyn, hydroxymitra, mitragyna and kratom returned no line in the 2016 consolidation...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. Searches for amanita, muscaria, muscimol, ibotenic, mushroom and fung returned no line in the...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. The class word was tested member by member. Searches for barbit, phenobarb, secobarb, amobarb...
Benzodiazepines	Not confirmed. The class word was tested member by member and no member was found. Searches for alprazolam...
Buprenorphine	Not confirmed. No printed entry for buprenorphine was found in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth...
CBD	Not confirmed. Searches for cannabidiol and cbd found no entry; the only cbd hit is the letters of «2C-B» run into...
Clonazepam	Not confirmed. Clonazepam was not found in the instruments read, Chap. 11:25 as updated to 31 December 2016 with...
Diazepam	Not confirmed. Diazepam does not appear in the instruments read, Chap. 11:25 as updated to 31 December 2016 and...
Etizolam	Not confirmed. Searches for etizolam, zolam, thieno and diazepine returned no line in the instruments read. Etizolam...
GBL	Not confirmed. Searches for gbl, butyrolactone, lactone, ghb and hydroxybut returned no line in the instruments...
GHB	Not confirmed. No entry for GHB was found in the instruments read: the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated...
Kratom	Not confirmed. Kratom is named nowhere in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders...
Lorazepam	Not confirmed. Lorazepam is absent from every instrument read for this pass, Chap. 11:25 updated to 31 December 2016...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. LSA is not named in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders LN...
Methaqualone (Quaaludes)	Not confirmed. Methaqualone is absent from the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the...
Methylphenidate	Not confirmed. Methylphenidate was not found in Chap. 11:25 as updated to 31 December 2016 or in Legal Notices No....
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. No row in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders LN 343/2019, LN...
Nimetazepam	Not confirmed. Nimetazepam does not appear in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. Salvia divinorum is not named in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. Neither scopolamine nor hyoscine is named in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth...
THC-P	Not confirmed. THC-P, tetrahydrocannabiphorol, is not named in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth...
Tramadol	Not confirmed. Tramadol is not named in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders...
Xanax (Alprazolam)	Not confirmed. No entry for alprazolam was found in the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, as updated to 31 December...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. Xylazine is not listed in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders...
Zolpidem	Not confirmed. A search for zolpidem across the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the...

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