Legal status in Uruguay

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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled, and the decreto places it in two different schedules. The entry read for this row is "2-fluorodescloroketamina" at CAS 111982-50-4, in the Sicotropicos table of Anexo II of Decreto 198/025, carilla 12, at Lista Verde, Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of the same decreto includes the substance, under the name fluorodescloroketamina and the chemical name 2-(2-fluorofenil)-2-(metilamino)ciclohexan-1-ona, in Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention, not Lista I. The operative article and the annex of one instrument disagree about the tier, and the instrument does not resolve it [Certain that both texts read as quoted]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The disagreement is not confined to this entry: five of the eight substances article 2 puts in Lista II are printed in the annex inside the Lista I block, alfa-PiHP, ADB-BUTINACA, 3-clorometacatinona, 3-metilmetcatinona and this row, while dipentilona and hexahidrocannabinol are printed at Lista II as article 2 says, so the annex is inconsistent with its own decreto rather than simply later than it. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a change of penalty route and not a change of outcome. The b176 cell read the tier off article 2 alone and recorded Lista II, which points at article 35 of Decreto-Ley 14.294, two to six years. The annex tier is Lista I, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names in terms and which points at article 31, two to twelve years, and which brings numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 back inside scope. Which prevails I could not settle and do not guess [Guessing]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Read the two ranges below together and take the higher one as the working assumption, because the replacement annex has moved this row and the lower range is no longer the safer reading: the instrument now supports a Lista I placement, which carries article 31 and two to twelve years, alongside the Lista II placement the earlier cell worked from, which carries article 35 and two to six. Which governs is set out at the end of this field and is not settled here. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain]. The b176 cell reasoned from Lista II and therefore from article 35, two to six years, with article 31 arguable. The annex of the same decreto prints this row at Lista I, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names, so on the annex reading article 31 applies directly and numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 reach the row. Both readings are set out here because the instrument supports both and the exposure differs by six years at the top of the range.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "25i-nbome" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The entry was inserted by article 1 of Decreto 310/015 of 24 November 2015, which also added 25b-nbome and 25c-nbome to the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled, and now on two footings rather than one. The entry read for this row is printed "2C -B" at CAS 66142-81-2, in the Sicotropicos table of Anexo II of Decreto 198/025, carilla 13, at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The printed spelling has changed and the earlier cell's note about it is now wrong: the 2020 annex printed the space after the digit, and the replacement annex prints it before the hyphen instead, so the name is neither the unspaced form nor the form the b176 cell recorded [Certain]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. It is still a different entry from brolanfetamina, which sits at Lista Verde, Lista I at carilla 12 and is the 4-bromo amphetamine, and an anchored search that ignores spaces and hyphens is what reaches this entry at all. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] The substance is also caught by the generic group Feniletilaminas at carilla 20, which is classed Sicotropicos Lista I: this row carries two alcoxi substituents and one haluro on the aromatic ring, all of them named in the group's substituent table [Certain that the printed definition covers it]. So the same decreto places this substance at Lista II by name and inside a Lista I generic group by structure, and it does not say which governs. That matters because the two carry different offence routes: Lista II of the 1971 Convention is outside article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 and points at article 35, two to six years, while Lista I is named in article 1 and points at article 31, two to twelve years. The official text does not resolve the conflict and neither do I [Certain that both placements are printed, Guessing which prevails]. The international schedule was changed and 2c-b is understood to have moved to Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention in 2016; that is carried and was not re-derived from any text I fetched [Likely, carried], and the replacement annex still prints the named entry at Lista II. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Read the two ranges below together and take the higher one as the working assumption, because the replacement annex has moved this row and the lower range is no longer the safer reading: the instrument now supports a Lista I placement, which carries article 31 and two to twelve years, alongside the Lista II placement the earlier cell worked from, which carries article 35 and two to six. Which governs is set out at the end of this field and is not settled here. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain]. The b176 cell reasoned on the footing that this row sits at Lista II and is therefore outside article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294, so that article 35 was the specific provision and article 31 was arguable. That footing is now contested by the same decreto, which also catches this substance inside a generic group classed Sicotropicos Lista I. If the group governs, article 31 applies directly and numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 reach the row rather than falling outside it. Both readings are set out here because the instrument supports both.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled by generic group. The substance is still not named in the replacement list, and it does not need to be. Article 8 of Decreto 198/025 provides that "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", and the generic group Feniletilaminas, classed Sicotropicos Lista I, is printed at carilla 20 with a drawn nucleus and a substituent table. 2,5-dimethoxy-4-ethylphenethylamine carries two alcoxi substituents and one alquilo substituent on the aromatic ring, hydrogen at R1 and hydrogen at R2, and every one of those is named in the group's own substituent table [Certain that the printed definition covers this substance]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The anchored search of the whole 526 entry name column returned no entry for this substance under either its spaced or its unspaced spelling, and the only anchored hit on the 2C string is the entry printed "2C -B" at Lista Verde, Lista II, carilla 13, which is a different substance and is also inside this same generic group. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This reverses the b176 cell, which deferred this row because the chemical definitions of the generic groups created by article 1 of Decreto 361/018 of 29 October 2018 sat in an annex published only as an image and could not be read. They have been read. The group's only further structural feature is "Dioxolanos fusionados al anillo aromatico", which this row does not need [Certain]. The group is classed Sicotropicos Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names in terms, so the article 31 route rather than the article 35 route is the one that governs, and the aggravations in numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 reach it [Certain as to the wording]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list and that the penalties recited were the country's and not this row's. It is now placed, by generic group rather than by name, inside Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names. So the article 31 range of two to twelve years, three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved, is this row's route, and numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 are no longer outside its scope.
If prescribed / medical: The earlier cell attached no controlled medicine route to this row because no placement had been established. A placement now exists, by generic group, in a convention schedule. Decreto 454/976 governs the dispensing of controlled psychopharmaceuticals through the official prescription form, the authorised pharmacy, the prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry, and its article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. Nothing in the reachable official text allows a traveller to carry a personal supply of a Lista I substance, and this substance has no medicinal form in Uruguay.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled by generic group. The substance is still not named in the replacement list, and it does not need to be. Article 8 of Decreto 198/025 provides that "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", and the generic group Feniletilaminas, classed Sicotropicos Lista I, is printed at carilla 20 with a drawn nucleus and a substituent table. 2,5-dimethoxy-4-iodophenethylamine carries two alcoxi substituents and one haluro on the aromatic ring, hydrogen at R1 and hydrogen at R2, and haluros is named in terms in the group's substituent table [Certain that the printed definition covers this substance]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The anchored search of the whole 526 entry name column returned no entry for this substance under either its spaced or its unspaced spelling, and the only anchored hit on the 2C string is the entry printed "2C -B" at Lista Verde, Lista II, carilla 13, which is a different substance and is also inside this same generic group. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This reverses the b176 cell, which deferred this row because the chemical definitions of the generic groups created by article 1 of Decreto 361/018 of 29 October 2018 sat in an annex published only as an image and could not be read. They have been read. The group's only further structural feature is "Dioxolanos fusionados al anillo aromatico", which this row does not need [Certain]. The group is classed Sicotropicos Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names in terms, so the article 31 route rather than the article 35 route is the one that governs, and the aggravations in numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 reach it [Certain as to the wording]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list and that the penalties recited were the country's and not this row's. It is now placed, by generic group rather than by name, inside Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names. So the article 31 range of two to twelve years, three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved, is this row's route, and numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 are no longer outside its scope.
If prescribed / medical: The earlier cell attached no controlled medicine route to this row because no placement had been established. A placement now exists, by generic group, in a convention schedule. Decreto 454/976 governs the dispensing of controlled psychopharmaceuticals through the official prescription form, the authorised pharmacy, the prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry, and its article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. Nothing in the reachable official text allows a traveller to carry a personal supply of a Lista I substance, and this substance has no medicinal form in Uruguay.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · Updated September 21, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled by generic group. The substance is still not named in the replacement list, and it does not need to be. Article 8 of Decreto 198/025 provides that "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", and the generic group Feniletilaminas, classed Sicotropicos Lista I, is printed at carilla 20 with a drawn nucleus and a substituent table. 2,5-dimethoxy-4-propylthiophenethylamine carries two alcoxi substituents and one thioalkyl substituent on the aromatic ring, and tioalquilos is the last word of the group's ring substituent list, so this row is caught by a term written for it [Certain that the printed definition covers this substance]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The anchored search of the whole 526 entry name column returned no entry for this substance under either its spaced or its unspaced spelling, and the only anchored hit on the 2C string is the entry printed "2C -B" at Lista Verde, Lista II, carilla 13, which is a different substance and is also inside this same generic group. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This reverses the b176 cell, which deferred this row because the chemical definitions of the generic groups created by article 1 of Decreto 361/018 of 29 October 2018 sat in an annex published only as an image and could not be read. They have been read. The group's only further structural feature is "Dioxolanos fusionados al anillo aromatico", which this row does not need [Certain]. The group is classed Sicotropicos Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names in terms, so the article 31 route rather than the article 35 route is the one that governs, and the aggravations in numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 reach it [Certain as to the wording]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list and that the penalties recited were the country's and not this row's. It is now placed, by generic group rather than by name, inside Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names. So the article 31 range of two to twelve years, three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved, is this row's route, and numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 are no longer outside its scope.
If prescribed / medical: The earlier cell attached no controlled medicine route to this row because no placement had been established. A placement now exists, by generic group, in a convention schedule. Decreto 454/976 governs the dispensing of controlled psychopharmaceuticals through the official prescription form, the authorised pharmacy, the prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry, and its article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. Nothing in the reachable official text allows a traveller to carry a personal supply of a Lista I substance, and this substance has no medicinal form in Uruguay.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · impo.com.uy · Updated September 21, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled, and the decreto places it in two different schedules. The entry read for this row is "3-metilmetcatinona" at CAS 1246816-62-5, in the Sicotropicos table of Anexo II of Decreto 198/025, carilla 12, at Lista Verde, Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of the same decreto includes 3-metilmetcatinona, with the chemical name 2-(metilamino)-1-(3-metilfenil)propan-1-ona, in Lista II of that Convention. Annex and operative article disagree about the tier [Certain that both texts read as quoted]. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. An anchored search on 3-mmc returns nothing, because the annex prints only the full chemical style name and no abbreviation, while the sibling entries mefedrona, which is the 4-methyl homologue at Lista Verde Lista II at carilla 14, and 4-CMC are each printed with their abbreviations. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This row is independently caught by the generic group Catinonas sinteticas at carilla 21, classed Sicotropicos Lista I, whose nucleus is a benzene ring carrying R5 joined through a carbonyl to a carbon carrying R3 and R4 and then to a nitrogen carrying R1 and R2; this substance is a ring methylated methcathinone and alquilo is named at R5 [Certain that the printed definition covers it]. So two of the three texts put it at Lista I and one at Lista II. That changes the offence route: Lista I is named in article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 and points at article 31, two to twelve years, and brings numerals 1 and 6 of article 36 inside scope, while Lista II points at article 35, two to six years. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Read the two ranges below together and take the higher one as the working assumption, because the replacement annex has moved this row and the lower range is no longer the safer reading: the instrument now supports a Lista I placement, which carries article 31 and two to twelve years, alongside the Lista II placement the earlier cell worked from, which carries article 35 and two to six. Which governs is set out at the end of this field and is not settled here. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain]. The b176 cell reasoned from Lista II and therefore from article 35. The annex and the generic group both put this row at Lista I, which article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names, so on that reading article 31 applies directly and the article 36 aggravations reach it. Both readings are set out here because the instrument supports both.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. 7-hydroxymitragynine is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on 7-hidroxi, on mitragin and on mitrag across all 526 entries of the three annexes returned no entry, and the parent alkaloid and the plant are absent too. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being an oxidised indole alkaloid, outside the phenethylamine, cathinone and 4-anilidopiperidine nuclei. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: 7-hydroxymitragynine is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being an oxidised indole alkaloid, outside the phenethylamine, cathinone and 4-anilidopiperidine nuclei. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Adderall

Legal status: A brand mixture, resolved through its constituents, which are listed in the national annex. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries relevant here are "anfetamina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention and "dexanfetamina" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Levanfetamina and racemato de metanfetamina carry their own entries at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex has happened, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex relied on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question stays open: the entry for this substance sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this substance also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and nothing here should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Alcohol

Legal status: Not a controlled drug. Alcohol appears in the national list only as industrial ethanol in the precursor table, and the entry does not reach a drinkable product. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "etanol" in the Precursores y Productos Químicos section at Tabla 2, the national chemicals table. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The entry carries three asterisks, and the note for that mark reads se considera controlado mientras se trate de la sustancia pura o formando parte de una mezcla en un porcentaje de masa mayor o igual al 90%, controlled while it is the pure substance or part of a mixture at ninety per cent by mass or more. No drinkable product reaches that threshold, so the entry is about industrial ethanol as a solvent and not about drinking [Certain]. The words alcohol and bebida appear nowhere in the annex. The precursor and chemical tables are named in article 30 alongside the lists, so a controlled form of the chemical is inside the offence articles even though the substance is in no narcotics or psychotropics list. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. Alcoholic drink is not in any list of Decreto-Ley 14.294 and is governed by the ordinary licensing, driving and public health law, which is outside this instrument and was not read for this row.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Amanita muscaria is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on amanita, on muscar, on muscimol and on acido ibotenico across all 526 entries returned no entry; the only fungus named anywhere in the three annexes is claviceps, hongos del genero, a national control at carilla 17, which is the ergot genus and not this one. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a mushroom and its isoxazole constituents, which no structural group in Anexo II describes. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Amanita muscaria is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a mushroom and its isoxazole constituents, which no structural group in Anexo II describes. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "anfetamina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. amyl nitrite is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on nitrito and on amilo across all 526 entries returned no entry; the only anchored hit on nitrato is nitrato de etilo, ethyl nitrate, a national chemical at Tabla 2 of Anexo III, carilla 24, which is a nitrate ester and not a nitrite, and no alkyl nitrite of any chain length is named. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being an alkyl nitrite with no aromatic ring at all. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: amyl nitrite is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being an alkyl nitrite with no aromatic ring at all. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: The brew is not named and resolves only through its proved constituent. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "dmt" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Neither ayahuasca nor Banisteriopsis caapi nor Psychotria viridis appears anywhere in the annex. The placement is of the alkaloid, not of the plant or the preparation. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: A class, resolved member by member against the annex, and every member checked is listed in it, all at the same list. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries relevant here are "alprazolam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention, "clonazepam" at the same place, "diazepam" at the same place, "lorazepam" at the same place, "etizolam" at the same place and "nimetazepam" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. All six members of the class examined were checked one by one. The annex carries about forty further benzodiazepine entries at that list, and flunitrazepam one tier higher at Lista Verde, Lista III. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex has happened, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex relied on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "buprenorfina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista III of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Pentazocina sits at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Caffeine

Legal status: Not a controlled drug. Caffeine appears in the national list only as a bulk chemical in the precursor table, and the entry does not reach a consumer product. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "cafeína" in the Precursores y Productos Químicos section at Tabla 1, the national chemicals table. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The entry carries two asterisks, and the note for that mark reads se consideran controlados mientras se trate de materias primas y estándares, controlled while they are raw materials and standards. Caffeine is controlled as a bulk chemical because it is used to cut stimulants. Coffee, tea and a caffeinated drink are not within the entry, and caffeine is in no narcotics or psychotropics list [Certain]. The precursor and chemical tables are named in article 30 alongside the lists, so a controlled form of the chemical is inside the offence articles even though the substance is in no narcotics or psychotropics list. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. Nothing in Decreto-Ley 14.294 criminalises consuming or carrying an ordinary caffeinated product. The precursor limb of article 30 bites on the controlled form described in the note, not on the consumer product.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Legal and regulated, not merely decriminalised, and the regime is closed to visitors. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 3 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 and article 3 now permits, with prior authorisation from the Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis and under its direct control, domestic cultivation for personal or shared use in the home, cultivation by membership clubs, pharmacy dispensing under licence, medicinal patient associations added by Ley 19.847, and non psychoactive hemp under the agriculture ministry. Cannabis psicoactivo is defined in article 3 as the flowering tops of the female plant with natural tetrahydrocannabinol at or above one per cent by volume, and hemp as material not above one per cent. The plant nevertheless remains listed: the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, carries "cannabis" and "resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, and "cannabis" and "resina de cannabis" again at Lista Amarilla, Lista IV. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. Note also that the annex read here is dated before the international removal of cannabis from Schedule IV, understood to have been decided in December 2020, which is carried here and was not re-derived from any text I fetched [Likely, carried]. So the legality of cannabis in Uruguay is not the absence of a schedule entry; it is a set of exemptions written into the statute itself [Certain]. Two amending Laws carry this row and both are named because the articles are theirs: article 1 of Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 gave article 3 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording that article 5 of Ley 19.172 then replaced, article 2 of Ley 17.016 gave article 15 the wording under which the annex was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30 to 35 the wording they descend from [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Every one of the three adult use channels is closed to a visitor. Article 8 of Ley 19.172 provides that registration of the cultivation is "requisito indispensable para poder ampararse en las disposiciones de la presente ley", an indispensable requirement in order to shelter under the law. Decreto 120/014 confines domestic cultivation to capable adults of Uruguayan natural or legal citizenship or accredited permanent residence, registered in the cannabis register (article 15), membership of a club to the same class of person (article 25), and purchase to capable persons over eighteen of Uruguayan citizenship or duly accredited permanent residence who are entered in the register (article 34), who must attend the pharmacy in person (article 35). A tourist cannot register, cannot buy, cannot grow and cannot join a club [Certain]. The limits, for those who qualify: up to six psychoactive female plants per dwelling with the harvest not exceeding 480 grams a year; clubs of not fewer than fifteen and not more than forty five members, up to ninety nine plants, and not more than 480 grams a year per member; and pharmacy purchase of up to 10 grams a week to a maximum of 40 grams a month. Article 39 of Decreto 120/014 authorises possession for personal use and deems up to 40 grams of marijuana to be that quantity, and article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 says the same and adds the harvest of up to six plants and a club member’s share. Outside those exemptions the ordinary offences apply: article 30 punishes unauthorised production of psychoactive cannabis with twenty months of prisión to ten years of penitenciaría, and article 31 punishes unauthorised trafficking conduct with two to twelve years, three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Both of those bands are Ley 19.172's work: its article 6 wrote the cannabis production band into article 30 and its article 7 wrote the personal use exemption into article 31, each later replaced, article 31 finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, and both articles descend from article 3 of Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 [Certain]. Article 40 of Decreto 120/014 forbids smoking it in enclosed public places, workplaces including public transport, and health and teaching premises, and article 11 of Ley 19.172 forbids every form of advertising, promotion and sponsorship. Marijuana from the home grow, research and patient association routes may not be pressed [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that pharmacy cannabis is sold at a government set price and from strains controlled by the institute; that is carried forward and was not re-derived from the decree text [carried]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
If prescribed / medical: Two separate routes exist and neither is open to a visitor. Non medicinal pharmacy dispensing needs registration under article 8 of Ley 19.172 and the citizenship or permanent residence condition of Decreto 120/014 article 34; medicinal supply needs a doctor’s prescription, and article 3 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 as amended adds patient associations of fifteen to one hundred members with a treating doctor and a pharmaceutical chemist. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying cannabis, medicinal or otherwise, into or out of Uruguay was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: A visitor cannot lawfully obtain cannabis in Uruguay through any channel, so there is no document that makes it lawful for one. A resident or citizen using a legal channel must be entered in the cannabis register kept by the Instituto de Regulación y Control del Cannabis, and a pharmacy purchaser must attend in person. Registration is done at Correo Uruguayo branches on an original Uruguayan identity card showing natural or legal citizenship or permanent residence. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "catinona" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Metcatinona sits at the same list, and catina, the other khat alkaloid, sits at Lista Verde, Lista III. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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CBD

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Cannabidiol is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on cannabidiol and on cbd across all 526 entries returned no entry; the cannabis entries that exist are cannabis and resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis at Lista Amarilla in Anexo I, and the six THC isomers, dronabinol and hexahidrocannabinol in Anexo II. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a non-intoxicating cannabinoid, and no cannabinoid group exists in Anexo II. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Cannabidiol carries no entry in the national list, so no offence article of Decreto-Ley 14.294 attaches to it by name. The line that does matter is the tetrahydrocannabinol content: a preparation at or above one per cent is cannabis psicoactivo under article 3 and falls inside the cannabis regime and its offences, while one below one per cent is hemp. A cannabidiol product that is over the line, or one that is an extract or tincture of cannabis rather than a registered hemp medicine, is reached by the entry "resina de cannabis y extractos y tinturas de cannabis" at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, and then by article 31, which punishes unauthorised import, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption and offering for sale with two to twelve years of penitenciaría [Likely]. Uruguay’s published penalties are set out at the cannabis row. They are the country’s penalties for psychoactive cannabis and they are not this row’s exposure where the product is a registered hemp medicine below the threshold. Article 36 follows the same split: its numerals 1 and 6 are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", so they reach an over threshold preparation through the cannabis entry and do not reach a compliant hemp medicine, while numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain as to the wording]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Cannabidiol is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a non-intoxicating cannabinoid, and no cannabinoid group exists in Anexo II. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: This is the one row in this set with a positive prescription answer in the primary text. Decreto 298/017 article 1 puts registered cannabidiol specialties made from hemp below one per cent tetrahydrocannabinol on sale under professional prescription, and article 2 confines dispensing to first and second category pharmacies under Decreto-Ley 15.703 against that prescription [Certain]. The product must be registered and authorised by the medicines department of the health ministry, so a foreign cannabidiol product is not automatically within the authorisation. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad. No traveller allowance for carrying a personal supply was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred.
Documentation: Carry the product in its original packaging with the professional prescription and declare it. The tetrahydrocannabinol content is the fact that decides this row, so documentation showing the product is a hemp derived preparation below one per cent is the material thing to hold. Legal psychoactive cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "clonazepam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The name has a trap in it. A search truncated at clon matches clonitaceno, an entry in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, which is a nitazene opioid and has nothing to do with this row; it was read and rejected. Fenazepam and pinazepam share this entry's ending and are different substances, as are clorazepato, clotiazepam, clobazam and clordiazepóxido, all of them separate entries at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "cocaína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "coca (hoja de)" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. Article 35 BIS sets a floor of three years of penitenciaría where the object of any of articles 30 to 35 is cocaine in its free base or smokable form, pasta base included [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "codeína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista II, that is Schedule II of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Lista II of the 1961 Convention is inside article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294, so codeine runs on the article 31 route and not on article 35. Preparations of codeine sit in Lista III of that Convention, which is the article 35 tier, so a low dose compound preparation is treated more lightly than the pure alkaloid. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "cocaína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Crack is the free base or smokable form of cocaine and has no separate entry; the annex note provides that the isomers and salts of a listed substance and the products containing it are controlled too. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. Article 35 BIS sets a floor of three years of penitenciaría where the object of any of articles 30 to 35 is cocaine in its free base or smokable form, pasta base included [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Cocaine has at most a narrow controlled medical use and the free base has no medicinal preparation, so there is no prescription route to this row [carried from the cell this replaces]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled, by an express entry rather than by inference. The replacement annex prints "Delta-8-THC" as an entry in its own right, one of six delta isomers listed immediately under "tetrahidrocannabinol; THC" at CAS 1972-08-3 in the Sicotropicos table of Anexo II, carilla 13, all of them at Lista Verde, Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The six are printed Delta-6a(10a)-THC, Delta-6a(7)-THC, Delta-7-THC, Delta-8-THC, Delta-10-THC and Delta-9(11)-THC, and unlike the rest of the table they are set in italic with the CAS cell left blank. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The anchored search on the Delta string returns exactly those six entries and nothing else, and dronabinol, which is the delta-9 material, is a separate entry at Lista Verde, Lista II at carilla 14 under the same CAS number. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This replaces the b176 reasoning rather than contradicting its outcome. That cell placed this row by inference, through the generic thc entry and the annex note that the isomers and salts of a listed substance are controlled too. The inference is no longer needed: the isomer is named [Certain]. The oddity the earlier cell recorded is still in the text and is now sharper, because delta-9 reaches Lista I through the generic thc entry and its own delta-9(11) line while dronabinol, which is delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol and its stereochemical variants, is printed one tier lower at Lista II [Certain as to what is printed]. Lista I of the 1971 Convention is named in article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294, so article 31 governs and the article 36 aggravations reach this row. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. The b176 cell placed this row at Lista I by inference from the isomers note under a generic entry. The express isomer entry removes the inference, so the article 31 route and the article 36 aggravations now rest on a named entry rather than on a reading of a note, and nothing in the penalty ranges themselves changes.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "diazepam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Two entries sit next to this one and neither is it. Fludiazepam is a separate entry at the same list and differs by a single fluorine. More useful to a reader: nordazepam, which is this substance's own active metabolite, carries its own entry at the same list, so here the metabolite is named in its own right rather than being left to be inferred from the parent. That is the opposite of the position on the mitragynine rows, where neither parent nor metabolite is named at all. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "dmt" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The list column for this entry reads Listo Verde in the published annex, which is a typographical slip for Lista Verde. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "dom" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The related entries doet and brolanfetamina sit at the same list and are different substances. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "efedrina" in the Precursores y Productos Químicos section at Lista Roja, Cuadro 1, the 1988 Convention precursor table. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Decreto 21/012 of 21 January 2012 additionally classifies every pharmaceutical specialty containing ephedrine or pseudoephedrine as a psychopharmaceutical or narcotic medicine, requires the official psychopharmaceutical prescription form whatever the concentration, and confines import and export to firms holding a current medicine registration [Certain]. One routing point has to be conceded rather than glossed: article 30 reaches precursors "contenidos en las Tablas 1 y 2 de la presente ley", the law’s own tables, and this entry sits at Lista Roja, Cuadro 1, which is the 1988 Convention table and is neither of those. That inference works for the caffeine and alcohol rows, whose entries are in Tabla 1 and Tabla 2, and it does not work here. What reaches this row instead is Decreto 21/012, made under the same article 15 power, which puts ephedrine-containing medicines into the psychopharmaceutical regime; whether that carries it into articles 30 and 31 is the same unsettled question as on the nationally controlled rows [Likely, not settled]. The precursor and chemical tables are named in article 30 alongside the lists, so a controlled form of the chemical is inside the offence articles even though the substance is in no narcotics or psychotropics list. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "etizolam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 4 of Decreto 265/020 of 24 September 2020 inserted it, together with flualprazolam. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "fentanilo" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Twenty three further fentanyl analogues carry their own entries at the same list, and Decreto 338/019 added generic groups of substances with structural cores derived from fentanyl. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Gabapentin is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: an anchored search on gabapent across all 526 entries returned no entry, and the structurally related pregabalin is absent from the replacement list as well. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a cyclohexane gabapentinoid with no aromatic ring. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Gabapentin is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a cyclohexane gabapentinoid with no aromatic ring. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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GBL

Legal status: Controlled. Gamma butyrolactone is named in its own right in the replacement national list, which the earlier cell could not reach. The entry read for this row is "gamma butirolactona (GBL)" at CAS 96-48-0, in the Sicotropicos table of Anexo II of Decreto 198/025, carilla 18, with the Alcance de Control column reading Nacional and the Listas column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. The search that found it ran on gamma butirolactona and on butirolact, and the anchored match is the entry itself; a search on the bare string gbl matches only inside the parenthesis of the same entry and is not an anchored match, which is why the earlier pass on a different list returned nothing. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This reverses the b176 cell, which deferred this row on the ground that the lactone was not named and was neither an isomer nor a salt of ghb. It is now named. Its product ghb sits separately at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention at carilla 13, so the two are distinct entries at different tiers and this row rests on its own [Certain]. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row still cannot settle: article 30 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 reaches "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo segun la facultad contenida en el articulo 15", and this entry was determined under that power, but whether a nationally controlled substance with an empty list column is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976 the official text does not say [Likely that article 30 reaches it]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list. That is no longer so: it is named in the replacement national list as a national control with an empty Listas column, so the national penalties above are reachable in principle while the route through articles 30 and 31 remains the open question stated in the status field.
If prescribed / medical: The earlier cell attached no controlled medicine route to this row because no placement had been established. A placement now exists. The entry is a national control, so Decreto 454/976 is the regime that governs it: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry, and article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. This substance is an industrial solvent and not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form, so no prescription route attaches to it in practice.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "ghb" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto 439/016 of 29 December 2016 transferred gamma hydroxybutyric acid from Lista IV to Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention, so the tier moved but the article 35 route did not [Certain]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "heroína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "heroína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista IV of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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HHC

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "hexahidrocannabinol" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025 added the entry with its chemical name, 6,6,9-trimetil-3-pentil-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahidro-6H-benzo[c]cromen-1-ol, to Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention as incorporated by Decreto-Ley 14.369 [Certain]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "hidrocodona" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The printed neighbourhood is the opposite of the one on the oxycodone row and the difference is worth stating rather than letting the two cells read alike. This entry is printed between heroína and hidromorfinol, and seven entries in the whole 503 open with the letters hidro: this one, hidromorfinol, hidromorfona, hidroxipetidina, hidroxicina and the hydroxides of potassium and sodium. A search truncated there crosses three different sections, because hidroxicina is a nationally controlled antihistamine and the two hydroxides are chemicals in Tabla 2. Three of the seven are opioids at this same list and each was read and rejected [Certain, read from the annex in its printed order]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "ketamina" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty, "esketamina" at the same place and "tiletamina" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Ketamine is not in any schedule of the 1961 Convention or the 1971 Vienna Convention and Uruguay has not put it in one. Article 4 of Decreto 198/025 added esketamine to the national psychotropics list in September 2025. The fluoro deschloro analogue, at the 2-fdck row, is by contrast in Lista Verde, Lista II. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Khat

Legal status: The plant is not named and resolves only through its proved constituents. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "catinona" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention and "catina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista III of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Neither khat nor Catha edulis appears anywhere in the annex. The two alkaloids are placed in different tiers, catinona on the article 31 route and catina on the article 35 route, so material that carries only catina is not on the heavier route. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Kratom

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. kratom is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on kratom, on mitragyna and on mitrag across all 526 entries returned no entry, and neither the plant, the genus nor either of its two alkaloids is named anywhere in the three annexes. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a plant, and Anexo II describes chemical nuclei rather than botanical material. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: kratom is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a plant, and Anexo II describes chemical nuclei rather than botanical material. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "lorazepam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. This row and the nimetazepam row take the same treatment, because both are named in their own right at the same list, and the honest cell for each really is the same answer; what differs is the sibling risk, which is measured rather than asserted. This entry is printed between loprazolam and lormetazepam, and only two entries in the whole 503 open with the letters lor: this one and lormetazepam. Both neighbours are separate benzodiazepines at this same list and both were read and rejected, so every near miss on this row stays inside one section [Certain, read from the annex in its printed order]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "lisergida" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "mda" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, "n-hidroxi mda" at the same place and "n-etil mda" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "mdma" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "3,4-metilendioxipirovalerona (mdpv)" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of Decreto 310/015 inserted it. Pirovalerona sits separately at Lista Verde, Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Memantine

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. memantine is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: an anchored search on memant across all 526 entries returned no entry; the dissociatives that are listed are ketamina and esketamina as national controls at carilla 18 and the phencyclidines at Lista Verde, and none of them is this molecule. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being an adamantane amine, outside every nucleus drawn in Anexo II. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: memantine is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being an adamantane amine, outside every nucleus drawn in Anexo II. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "mefedrona" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of Decreto 310/015 inserted it as mefedrona, 4-metilmetcatinona. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "mescalina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "metadona" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "metadona, intermediario de la" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "metanfetamina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention, "racemato de metanfetamina" at the same place and "levometanfetamina" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "metacualona" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Meclocualona has its own entry at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "metilona" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of Decreto 310/015 inserted it as methylone, beta-keto-MDMA. Etilona and pentedrona carry their own entries at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "metilfenidato" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The entry carries four asterisks in the annex, and the note for that mark reads condición de venta con receta triplicada de estupefaciente, sale on a triplicate narcotic prescription. Etilfenidato has its own entry at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Mitragynine

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Mitragynine is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on mitragin and on mitrag across all 526 entries returned no entry, and the hydroxylated metabolite is absent from the replacement list as well. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a corynanthe indole alkaloid, not a phenethylamine, a cathinone or a fentanyl derivative. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Mitragynine is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a corynanthe indole alkaloid, not a phenethylamine, a cathinone or a fentanyl derivative. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Modafinil

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "modafinilo" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "morfina" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "morfina, bromometilato de" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "metoxetamina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 2 of Decreto 320/016 of 3 October 2016 inserted it. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Nicotine

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. nicotine is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on nicotina and on nicot across all 526 entries returned no entry; the near misses in the name column are nicomorfina, nicocodina and nicodicodina, which are opioids in Anexo I and share only the first three letters. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a pyridyl pyrrolidine, outside every nucleus drawn in Anexo II. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: nicotine is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a pyridyl pyrrolidine, outside every nucleus drawn in Anexo II. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "nimetazepam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. This row takes the same treatment as the lorazepam row, both being named in their own right at the same list, and the cells say the same thing because the answer is the same; the sibling risk is not. This entry is printed between midazolam and nitrazepam, and six entries in the whole 503 open with the letters ni: this one, nitrazepam, nitrato de etilo and the three 1961 narcotics nicomorfina, nicocodina and nicodicodina. A search truncated there crosses three sections, where the equivalent search on lorazepam stays inside one. All six were read and rejected [Certain, read from the annex in its printed order]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. nitrous oxide is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on oxido nitroso, on nitroso and on oxido across all 526 entries returned no entry; the only anchored oxido hits are the two hydroxides in Tabla 2 of Anexo III and clordiazepoxido matches only inside its name. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being an inorganic gas, which no structural group in Anexo II describes. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: nitrous oxide is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being an inorganic gas, which no structural group in Anexo II describes. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "opio" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "concentrado de paja de adormidera" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "oxicodona" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The printed neighbourhood matters on this row because the corpus also carries hydrocodone, and the two are easy to cross. This entry is printed between orto-fluorofentanilo and oximorfona, and only two entries in the whole 503 open with the letters oxi: this one and oximorfona, which is oxymorphone and a different substance at the same list. So the sibling risk here is a single near miss, and it is inside the same section [Certain, read from the annex in its printed order]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "fenciclidina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The related entries eticiclidina, roliciclidina and tcp sit at Lista Verde, Lista I and are different substances. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. This row’s entry is in the 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself, so it did not arrive by a later Executive decreto: it was in the ratified annex from 1975. Those annexed lists carry ten entries at Lista I, six at Lista II, five at Lista III and eleven at Lista IV. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Lista I of that Convention and not Listas II to IV [Certain]. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Peyote

Legal status: The cactus is not named and resolves only through its proved constituent. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "mescalina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Neither peyote nor Lophophora williamsii appears anywhere in the annex. The placement is of the alkaloid, not of the plant. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Phenibut

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Phenibut is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on fenibut and on fenil across all 526 entries returned no entry for this substance; every anchored fenil hit is a 1988 Convention precursor in Anexo III, acido fenilacetico, 1-fenil-2-propanona and the phenylacetoacetate family. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a beta-phenyl gamma-amino acid, and the Feniletilaminas nucleus leaves the benzylic carbon unsubstituted while this molecule carries its acetic acid arm there, so the group does not describe it [Likely]. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Phenibut is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a beta-phenyl gamma-amino acid, and the Feniletilaminas nucleus leaves the benzylic carbon unsubstituted while this molecule carries its acetic acid arm there, so the group does not describe it [Likely]. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: This is a street label and not one chemical entry, so it resolves only through the constituent actually proved. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "cocaína" in the Estupefacientes section at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1961 Single Convention and "2 c-b" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Neither cocaína rosa nor tusi appears in the annex. The two substances most often sold under the label are placed differently: cocaine sits at the heavier article 31 tier and 2 c-b at the article 35 tier, so the exposure depends on which constituent is proved. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print]. One question this reading opens and does not close: the entry for this row sits below Lista I, and the generic groups of Anexo II are classed Lista I, so whether this row also falls inside a group, and is therefore reached at the higher tier, is not settled here and no cell should be read as having settled it.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain]. Because the label covers more than one substance, the tier and the range follow the constituent proved in the particular case, not the name.
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Poppers

Legal status: This is a product label and not one chemical entry, and no alkyl nitrite is named in the national list. This cell is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral: the whole list was searched with the probes recorded below and the substance is named nowhere in it, and no listed substance stands in a salt, isomer, derivative or preparation relation to it that could carry it in. The list read is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The whole 526 entry name column of the replacement annex was swept for the same nine probes, poppers, nitrito, nitrite, amilo, amyl, isobutil, isopentil, butil and ciclohexil. Seven return nothing. Two return entries that are not alkyl nitrites and do not reach this row: isobutil and butil match the butyl and isobutyl esters of the glycidic acids in the precursor tables. So the label still resolves to no listed constituent [Certain that the names are absent]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Pregabalin is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: an anchored search on pregabal across all 526 entries returned no entry, and gabapentin is absent from the replacement list as well. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a branched aliphatic gabapentinoid with no aromatic ring. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Pregabalin is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a branched aliphatic gabapentinoid with no aromatic ring. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "psilocibina" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista I, that is Schedule I of the 1971 Vienna Convention and "psilocina" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The mushroom itself is not named in the annex; both active alkaloids are. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention the substances of the offence articles, so this row runs on articles 30 and 31. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 provides four to fifteen years for its listed aggravations and five to twenty years where the victim dies. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is one of those substances, so both reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically [Certain]. Article 31 exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, which the judge assesses under the rules of "sana crítica". The consolidated text in force fixes no figure for this substance, and it uses neither the word reasonable nor the word exclusively; the forty gram figure in the same article is written for marijuana alone [Certain]. The cell this replaces recorded that the 1974 text required a "mínima" quantity and that Ley 17.016 of 1998 replaced that with a "razonable" quantity; that drafting history is carried forward, not re-derived, and neither word survives in the text in force [carried]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 makes import and export of the Lista I and Lista II substances of the 1961 Convention and the Lista I substances of the Vienna Convention a state monopoly, and Decreto 454/976 confines trade to permit holders and dispensing to prescription through authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. For this row supply runs through Ministerio de Salud Pública authorised laboratories, drug wholesalers and pharmacies under Decreto 454/976, and there is no ordinary traveller route. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents, see the cannabis row.

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Quetiapine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "quetiapina" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The national section of the annex is a roll of prescription psychopharmaceuticals and it carries most antipsychotics and antidepressants, so the entry marks a prescription control and not a narcotics schedule. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Salvia divinorum is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on salvia and on salvinorin across all 526 entries returned no entry, and neither the plant nor its diterpene is named anywhere in the three annexes. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a neoclerodane diterpene and the plant that carries it, neither of them an amine at all. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: Salvia divinorum is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a neoclerodane diterpene and the plant that carries it, neither of them an amine at all. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "escopolamina" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Article 1 of Decreto 66/018 of 19 March 2018 widened the roll of substances with psychopharmacological action to include escopolamina o hioscina y sus sales, invoking article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in terms. Article 2 confines import and export to pharmaceutical firms holding a current registration for a medicine containing it [Certain]. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: This is a class label and not one chemical entry, so it resolves only through the constituent actually proved. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entries read for this row are "jwh-018" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista II of the 1971 Vienna Convention, "am-2201" at the same place, "ur-144" at the same place, "xlr-11" at the same place, "ab-chminaca" at the same place, "ab-fubinaca" at the same place, "ab-pinaca" at the same place, "adb-chminaca" at the same place, "adb-fubinaca" at the same place, "adb-butinaca" at the same place, "5f-adb" at the same place, "5f-apinaca" at the same place, "5f-amb-pinaca" at the same place, "5f-mdmb-pica" at the same place, "5f-pb-22" at the same place, "4-f-mdmb-binaca" at the same place, "mdmb-chmica" at the same place, "cumil-4cn-binaca" at the same place and "amb-fubinaca" at the same place. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Nineteen named members carry their own entries. EIGHTEEN of them are at Lista Verde, Lista II, and ONE IS NOT: the replacement annex prints ADB-BUTINACA at Lista Verde, Lista I, at carilla 12. The earlier cell put all nineteen at Lista II, which was true of the annex it read and is not true of the one in force [Certain, read off the page image]. A member that is not one of those nineteen is not placed by this reading. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The eighteen Lista II members are outside that set, so article 35 is the specific provision for them. ADB-BUTINACA is INSIDE it, so for that member the offence articles are 30 and 31 and not article 35. A traveller carrying a product that proves to be ADB-BUTINACA is therefore on a different and heavier route from one carrying any of the other eighteen, and this row cannot say which without the constituent being proved [Certain as to the two routes, which follow from article 1 on its face]. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain]. Because the label covers more than one substance, the tier and the range follow the constituent proved in the particular case, not the name.
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Tobacco

Legal status: Not placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. tobacco is not named in the national list enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025: anchored searches on tabaco and on nicotiana across all 526 entries returned no entry, and the alkaloid the plant carries is absent from the replacement list as well. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row was tested against each of the three generic groups in turn and is caught by none of them, being a plant, and Anexo II describes chemical nuclei rather than botanical material. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] This is a bounded, dated finding of absence and not an epistemic failure, which is why it opens positively. The b176 cell reached the same outcome but rested it on the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020, a list the same decreto has since replaced, and disclosed that the generic groups had never been read. That disclosure is discharged here. One question is not closed by it: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends control to the listed substances' derivatives "segun las definiciones de estos", and no such definitions are printed in any of the three annexes, whose own notes reach only isomers, salts and the products containing them [Certain as to both wordings]. Nothing listed stands close enough to this substance for that limb to bite [Likely]. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that this substance could not be placed in any list, and disclosed that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read. Both annexes have now been read: tobacco is absent from the 526 entry name column of the list in force and is caught by none of the three generic groups, being a plant, and Anexo II describes chemical nuclei rather than botanical material. So the ranges above remain the country's published penalties and are still not this row's exposure, and that conclusion now rests on the list in force rather than on the one it replaced.
If prescribed / medical: No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "tramadol" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Tramadol is in no convention schedule. Nalbufina, nalorfina, naloxona and naltrexona sit in the same national section. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "alprazolam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Flualprazolam, added by article 4 of Decreto 265/020, is a separate entry at the same list. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Xylazine

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "xilacina" in the Sicofármacos section with the control column reading Nacional and the list column empty. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. The Spanish spelling in the annex is xilacina with a c, which is why a search on xilazina returns nothing. The entry is a national control and not a convention schedule, so the offence route is the one question this row cannot settle. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Article 31 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 punishes unauthorised import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the article 30 substances with two to twelve years of penitenciaría, and three to twelve years where an organised criminal group commits them. Article 30 punishes unauthorised production with two to ten years. Article 32 punishes organising or financing with four to twenty years, article 33 punishes organising an illegal shipment abroad with three to ten years, and article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years. Article 37 punishes an attempt with the penalty of the completed offence [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. Article 30 reaches, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, and article 15 is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables. Decreto 66/018 used that power in terms when it widened the national roll of substances with psychopharmacological action [Certain]. Whether a substance controlled only nationally, with an empty list column in the annex, is inside articles 30 and 31 or only inside the administrative regime of Decreto 454/976, whose article 110 provides ministerial sanctions up to closure of the establishment, I could not settle from the official text [Likely]. The ranges above are the country’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294. They are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s proven exposure. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 then rewrote both offence articles used here: its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31, and it is that article 7 that put the personal consumption exemption and the forty gram marijuana figure into article 31. Article 30 was rewritten again by article 12 of Ley 19.513 of 2017, and article 31 by article 13 of that Ley and finally by article 68 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020, which is the text in force [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "zolpidem" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. Zopiclona and eszopiclona are controlled nationally only and sit in the annex with an empty list column. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical: Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.

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Not individually verified

10 substances are not individually verified for Uruguay

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 Uruguay’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 1p-lsd, on 1-propionil and on lisergida across all 526 entries of the...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 4-aco and on acetoxi across all 526 entries and returned no entry. The...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 4-ho and on hidroxi across all 526 entries. The hidroxi anchor returns...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 5-meo and on metoxi across all 526 entries. The metoxi anchor returns only...
6-APB	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 6-apb, on apb and on benzofur across all 526 entries and returned no...
Barbiturates	Not confirmed. The class was re-checked member by member against the replacement list. Anexo II carries...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on cannabinol across all 526 entries and returned no entry. The three entries...
DXM	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on dextrometorfano and on dextrometorf across all 526 entries and returned no...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on lsa and on ergina across all 526 entries and returned no entry. The ergot...
THC-P	Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on thc-p, on tetrahidrocannabif and on tetrahidrocann across all 526 entries....

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