Legal status in U.S. Virgin Islands (US)

2-FDCK

Legal status: 2-FDCK is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(h)(87), DEA code 7284, listed as '2-Fluorodeschloroketamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers (other name: 2-(2-fluorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)cyclohexan-1-one; also known as 2-FDCK)'. This is a temporary listing. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(h)(87), DEA code 7284. Paragraph 1308.11(h) is the temporary listing of substances subject to emergency scheduling, and the eCFR effective date note records that (h)(87) was added at 91 FR 30209 of 22 May 2026, 'effective May 22, 2026 through May 22, 2028'. A temporary listing lapses unless extended or made permanent, so the date matters. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: 25I-NBOMe is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(55), DEA code 7538, listed as '2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)-N-(2-methoxybenzyl)ethanamine (25I-NBOMe, 2C-I-NBOMe)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(55), DEA code 7538. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: 2C-B is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7392, listed as 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7392, listed as 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: 2C-E is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(38), DEA code 7509, listed as '2-(2,5-Dimethoxy-4-ethylphenyl)ethanamine (2C-E)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(38), DEA code 7509. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-I

Legal status: 2C-I is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(41), DEA code 7518, listed as '2-(4-Iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine (2C-I)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(41), DEA code 7518. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-T-7

Legal status: 2C-T-7 is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(6), DEA code 7348, listed as '2,5-dimethoxy-4-(n)-propylthiophenethylamine (other name: 2C-T-7)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(6), DEA code 7348. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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3-MMC

Legal status: 3-MMC is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(104), DEA code 1259, listed as '2-(methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-one (other names: 3-MMC; 3-methylmethcathinone)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(104), DEA code 1259. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: 5-MeO-DMT is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(15), DEA code 7431, listed as '5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(15), DEA code 7431. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Adderall

Legal status: Adderall is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(1), DEA code 1100, listed as 'Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers'. Adderall is a brand name that no schedule lists; it is controlled through that entry because it is sold as a product containing amphetamine salts, a composition this run did not read from a label or an instrument. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(1), DEA code 1100. Adderall is not listed by brand name. The entry covers 'any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of' amphetamine and its salts, so a product containing amphetamine salts is reached whatever it is called. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Amphetamine is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(1), DEA code 1100, listed as 'Amphetamine, its salts, optical isomers, and salts of its optical isomers'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(1), DEA code 1100. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Ayahuasca is controlled federally through its dimethyltryptamine. The brew is not listed by name. Its dimethyltryptamine content is background this run did not read from an instrument; dimethyltryptamine itself is in federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(19), DEA code 7435, listed as 'Dimethyltryptamine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. The brew is reached through what it contains. Paragraph 1308.11(d) covers 'any material, compound, mixture, or preparation, which contains any quantity of the following hallucinogenic substances', and dimethyltryptamine is entry (d)(19). Harmine and harmaline are in no entry of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as read in this run. Religious use exemptions recognised under federal law for particular churches were not examined here. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: The barbiturates are controlled federally, individually and by schedule rather than as one class. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act lists amobarbital, pentobarbital and secobarbital at 21 CFR 1308.12(e), DEA codes 2125, 2270 and 2315; Schedule III, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(3), covers 'Any substance which contains any quantity of a derivative of barbituric acid or any salt thereof', DEA code 2100; Schedule IV lists barbital, methylphenobarbital and phenobarbital at 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(3), (40) and (49), DEA codes 2145, 2250 and 2285. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. The schedule depends on the barbiturate and the preparation. Schedule III's barbituric acid entry operates 'Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule', so a barbiturate named in Schedule II or IV sits there instead. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. For a Schedule III substance section 841(b)(1)(E)(i) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years', and for a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: The benzodiazepines is controlled federally and locally. Scheduled federally by individual substance under the Controlled Substances Act, the benzodiazepines are scheduled individually rather than as a class, most in Schedule IV at 21 CFR 1308.14(c), for example alprazolam at DEA code 2882, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally, the benzodiazepines are scheduled individually rather than as a class, most in Schedule IV at 21 CFR 1308.14(c), for example alprazolam at DEA code 2882. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has authorised medicinal forms and is dispensed on prescription in the United States. A prescribed medicine carried with its prescription is lawful, subject to the federal controls on its schedule.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Buprenorphine is controlled federally. Federal Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.13(e)(2)(i), DEA code 9064, listed as 'Buprenorphine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule III controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.13(e)(2)(i), DEA code 9064. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule III substance section 841(b)(1)(E)(i) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years', or not more than 15 years if death or serious bodily injury results. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Cannabis is controlled federally and locally. Split federal status under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d) as Marihuana, DEA code 7360, with an FDA-approved product or a state or territorial medical licence in Schedule III, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Cannabis has a split federal status and neither half is the whole answer. Most marijuana remains Schedule I, 21 CFR 1308.11(d) as Marihuana, DEA code 7360, with an FDA-approved product or a state or territorial medical licence in Schedule III. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: An FDA-approved cannabis-derived medicine is prescribable. Whether any territorial medical cannabis programme operates here, and on what terms, was not established.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Cathinone

Legal status: Cathinone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(f)(4), DEA code 1235, listed as 'Cathinone'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(f)(4), DEA code 1235. The entry gives as other names '2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone, alpha-aminopropiophenone, 2-aminopropiophenone, and norephedrone'. Khat leaf is reached through this entry to the extent that it contains cathinone; that the leaf contains it is background this run did not read from an instrument. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Clonazepam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(13), DEA code 2737, listed as 'Clonazepam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(13), DEA code 2737. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Cocaine

Legal status: Cocaine is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b), DEA code 9041, within the coca leaves entry, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b), DEA code 9041, within the coca leaves entry. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: Medical use is narrow. There is an authorised medicinal form but it is not a form a traveller would ordinarily carry, and a foreign prescription does not authorise possession of the street substance.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Codeine

Legal status: Codeine is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(i), DEA code 9050, listed as 'Codeine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(i), DEA code 9050. Codeine in limited quantities combined with other active ingredients falls instead in Schedule III at 21 CFR 1308.13(e)(1) and in Schedule V at 21 CFR 1308.15(c), where the entry allows 'Not more than 200 milligrams of codeine per 100 milliliters or per 100 grams'. The penalty follows the schedule of the preparation actually held. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Crack cocaine is controlled federally. It is sold as a form of cocaine base, an identification this run did not read from an instrument, and cocaine in any form is reached by the coca leaves entry in federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(4), which lists 'Coca leaves (9040) and any salt, compound, derivative or preparation of coca leaves (including cocaine (9041) and ecgonine (9180)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is Schedule II, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(4), DEA code 9041 for cocaine. Cocaine base has its own weight thresholds in the supply section: 21 U.S.C. 841(b)(1)(A)(iii) reaches '280 grams or more of a mixture or substance described in clause (ii) which contains cocaine base', with 'a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 10 years or more than life', and 841(b)(1)(B)(iii) reaches '28 grams or more', with 'a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 5 years and not more than 40 years'. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route for cocaine base. Schedule II admits 'a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(2)(B), but no prescription authorises possession of a street preparation.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Delta-8-THC is controlled federally, subject to a contested hemp carve out. By its own name it is a tetrahydrocannabinol, which is why this cell places it in the class entry while THC-P, whose membership turns on the entry's similar structure clause, is not confirmed. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act lists 'Tetrahydrocannabinols' at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(31), DEA code 7370, a class entry defined by structure, which by (d)(31)(ii) 'does not include any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that falls within the definition of hemp set forth in 7 U.S.C. 1639o'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Entry (d)(31)(i) covers tetrahydrocannabinols naturally contained in the cannabis plant 'as well as synthetic equivalents' and 'synthetic substances, derivatives, and their isomers with similar chemical structure and pharmacological activity'. 7 U.S.C. 1639o as now in force defines hemp by 'a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis'. Whether delta-8-THC made from hemp falls inside that carve out is contested, and nothing here asserts an answer. Pub. L. 119-37, div. B, title VII, sec. 781, enacted on 12 November 2025, replaces that definition with effect 365 days after enactment, so from 12 November 2026 hemp is measured by 'total tetrahydrocannabinols concentration (including tetrahydrocannabinolic acid)' and excludes products containing cannabinoids that 'were synthesized or manufactured outside the plant'. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it. Dronabinol, delta-9-THC in an approved product, has its own entries in Schedule II at 21 CFR 1308.12(f)(2), as an oral solution, and in Schedule III at 21 CFR 1308.13(g)(1), as a capsule, and neither is delta-8-THC.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 7 U.S.C. 1639o · law.cornell.edu · Pub. L. 119-37, div. B, title VII, sec. 781 · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Diazepam

Legal status: Diazepam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(19), DEA code 2765, listed as 'Diazepam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(19), DEA code 2765. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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DMT

Legal status: DMT is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7435, listed as Dimethyltryptamine, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7435, listed as Dimethyltryptamine. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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DOM

Legal status: DOM is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(9), DEA code 7395, listed as '4-methyl-2,5-dimethoxy-amphetamine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(9), DEA code 7395. The entry gives as other names 'DOM' and 'STP'. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Etizolam

Legal status: Etizolam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(e)(3), DEA code 2780, listed as 'Etizolam (Other name: 4-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-ethyl-9-methyl-6H-thieno[3,2-f][1,2,4]triazolo[4,3-a][1,4]diazepine)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(e)(3), DEA code 2780. It sits in the depressants paragraph of Schedule I, not with the Schedule IV benzodiazepines at 21 CFR 1308.14(c). Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Fentanyl is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(c), DEA code 9801, listed as Fentanyl, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(c), DEA code 9801, listed as Fentanyl. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: This substance has authorised medicinal forms and is dispensed on prescription in the United States. A prescribed medicine carried with its prescription is lawful, subject to the federal controls on its schedule.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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GHB

Legal status: GHB is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(e), DEA code 2010, listed as Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(e), DEA code 2010, listed as Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: Gamma hydroxybutyric acid is Schedule I, while an FDA-approved sodium oxybate medicine is separately scheduled and dispensed under a restricted programme. A traveller cannot carry the Schedule I substance on a prescription.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Heroin

Legal status: Heroin is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(c), DEA code 9200, listed as Heroin, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(c), DEA code 9200, listed as Heroin. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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HHC

Legal status: HHC is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(115), DEA code 7220, listed as '6,6,9-trimethyl-3-pentyl-6a,7,8,9,10,10a-hexahydro-6H-benzo[c]chromen-1-ol (other names: hexahydrocannabinol, HHC)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(115), DEA code 7220. It is listed by name in its own entry. The hemp carve out at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(31)(ii) is written into the tetrahydrocannabinols entry only, and whether the hemp definition in 7 U.S.C. 1639o affects a named entry was not examined. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Hydrocodone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(vi), DEA code 9193, listed as 'Hydrocodone'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(vi), DEA code 9193. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ketamine

Legal status: Ketamine is controlled federally. Federal Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(7), DEA code 7285, listed as 'Ketamine, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule III controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(7), DEA code 7285. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule III substance section 841(b)(1)(E)(i) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years', or not more than 15 years if death or serious bodily injury results. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Khat is controlled federally through its alkaloids. The plant is not listed by name. Cathinone and cathine, which this cell takes to be the stimulant alkaloids of the khat leaf without having read a source for that in this run, are listed: cathinone is in federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(f)(4), DEA code 1235, and cathine is in Schedule IV, 21 CFR 1308.14(f)(1), DEA code 1230, listed as 'Cathine ((+)-norpseudoephedrine)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. The leaf is reached through what it contains. Paragraph 1308.11(f) covers 'any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of' the stimulants it lists, cathinone among them, so leaf that contains cathinone is Schedule I material, and material that contains cathine but no cathinone falls to Schedule IV under paragraph 1308.14(f), which uses the same words. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it. Cathine is in Schedule IV, but no khat preparation was identified in this run as an approved medicine.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Lorazepam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(34), DEA code 2885, listed as 'Lorazepam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(34), DEA code 2885. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: LSA is controlled federally. Federal Schedule III under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(9), DEA code 7310, listed as 'Lysergic acid amide'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule III controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(9), DEA code 7310. Lysergic acid itself is the entry before it, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(8), DEA code 7300. Paragraph 1308.13(c) covers 'any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of' the substances it lists. Whether that reaches seeds that contain the alkaloid naturally was not examined here. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule III substance section 841(b)(1)(E)(i) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years', or not more than 15 years if death or serious bodily injury results. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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LSD

Legal status: LSD is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7315, listed as Lysergic acid diethylamide, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7315, listed as Lysergic acid diethylamide. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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MDA

Legal status: MDA is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(10), DEA code 7400, listed as '3,4-methylenedioxy amphetamine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(10), DEA code 7400. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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MDMA

Legal status: MDMA is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7405, listed as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7405, listed as 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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MDPV

Legal status: MDPV is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(37), DEA code 7535, listed as '3,4-methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(37), DEA code 7535. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Mephedrone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(36), DEA code 1248, listed as '4-methylmethcathinone (Mephedrone)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(36), DEA code 1248. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Mescaline

Legal status: Mescaline is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7381, listed as Mescaline, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7381, listed as Mescaline. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Methadone

Legal status: Methadone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(c)(15), DEA code 9250, listed as 'Methadone'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(c)(15), DEA code 9250. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Methamphetamine is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(d), DEA code 1105, listed as Methamphetamine, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(d), DEA code 1105, listed as Methamphetamine. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: Medical use is narrow. There is an authorised medicinal form but it is not a form a traveller would ordinarily carry, and a foreign prescription does not authorise possession of the street substance.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Methaqualone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(e)(8), DEA code 2565, listed as 'Methaqualone'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(e)(8), DEA code 2565. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylone

Legal status: Methylone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(47), DEA code 7540, listed as '3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone (Methylone)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(47), DEA code 7540. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Methylphenidate is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(4), DEA code 1724, listed as 'Methylphenidate'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(d)(4), DEA code 1724. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Modafinil

Legal status: Modafinil is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(f)(7), DEA code 1680, listed as 'Modafinil'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(f)(7), DEA code 1680. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Morphine

Legal status: Morphine is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(ix), DEA code 9300, listed as 'Morphine'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(ix), DEA code 9300. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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MXE

Legal status: MXE is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(100), DEA code 7286, listed as '2-(ethylamino)-2-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexan-1-one (methoxetamine, MXE)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(100), DEA code 7286. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Nimetazepam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42), DEA code 2837, listed as 'Nimetazepam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42), DEA code 2837. No medicine containing nimetazepam was identified in this run as marketed in the United States, so the prescription exception is unlikely to be a practical route, although the schedule itself places it in Schedule IV. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

Nimetazepam in U.S. Virgin Islands (US), full detail →

Opium

Legal status: Opium is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(xvii), DEA code 9600, listed as 'Raw opium'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(xvii), DEA code 9600. Paragraph 1308.12(b)(1) opens 'Opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate', and lists raw opium, granulated opium, powdered opium and tincture of opium as separate entries. Schedule II is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States or a currently accepted medical use with severe restrictions', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(2)(B). Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Oxycodone is controlled federally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(xiv), DEA code 9143, listed as 'Oxycodone'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1)(xiv), DEA code 9143. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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PCP

Legal status: PCP is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule II under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.12(e), DEA code 7471, listed as Phencyclidine, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule II controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.12(e), DEA code 7471, listed as Phencyclidine. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Peyote

Legal status: Peyote is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(26), DEA code 7415, listed as 'Peyote'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(26), DEA code 7415. The entry reads 'Meaning all parts of the plant presently classified botanically as Lophophora williamsii Lemaire, whether growing or not, the seeds thereof, any extract from any part of such plant'. 21 CFR 1307.31 provides that 'The listing of peyote as a controlled substance in Schedule I does not apply to the nondrug use of peyote in bona fide religious ceremonies of the Native American Church'. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it. The Native American Church exemption at 21 CFR 1307.31 is a religious exemption, not a prescription route.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 21 CFR 1307.31 · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Pink cocaine is controlled federally through what it contains. It is a product name, not a substance, and is not scheduled as such in 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30 September 2026; it is prosecuted federally through whatever the sample contains. Of the components usually reported in it, which this run did not establish from any instrument, MDMA is federal Schedule I, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(11), DEA code 7405; ketamine is Schedule III, 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(7), DEA code 7285; and 2C-B is Schedule I, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(3), DEA code 7392. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. There is no entry for it. Exposure follows the most severely controlled component actually present: MDMA at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(11), listed as '3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)', ketamine at 21 CFR 1308.13(c)(7), and 2C-B at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(3), listed as '4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine'. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. For ketamine alone, a Schedule III substance, section 841(b)(1)(E)(i) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 10 years'. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route for a street mixture. Ketamine is in Schedule III, which admits 'a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(3)(B), but a powder sold under a product name is not a prescribed medicine.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Pregabalin is controlled federally. Federal Schedule V under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.15(e)(7), DEA code 2782, listed as 'Pregabalin [(S)-3-(aminomethyl)-5-methylhexanoic acid]'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule V controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.15(e)(7), DEA code 2782. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule V substance section 841(b)(3) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than one year'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

Pregabalin in U.S. Virgin Islands (US), full detail →

Psilocybin

Legal status: Psilocybin is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7437, listed as Psilocybin, and separately controlled under the Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule I controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.11(d), DEA code 7437, listed as Psilocybin. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both'. The Virgin Islands Controlled Substances Law, title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code, chapter 29, whose schedules are at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 applies as well. The penalty provisions of that chapter were not read here. No territorial penalty figure is stated for that reason. Two statutes reach the same conduct here, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure. Which prosecutor takes a given case, and on what criteria, was not established here.
If prescribed / medical: There is no traveller prescription route. This substance has no accepted medical use in the United States and no prescribable form, so a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · Virgin Islands Code, title 19, chapter 29, Controlled Substances · schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 · Updated September 15, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Synthetic cannabinoids are controlled federally, by class and by name. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act lists 'Cannabimimetic agents' at 21 CFR 1308.11(g)(1), DEA code 7000, and names many individually in paragraph 1308.11(d), among them JWH-018 at (d)(107), DEA code 7118, 5F-ADB at (d)(73), DEA code 7034, and MDMB-4en-PINACA at (d)(110), DEA code 7090. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Paragraph 1308.11(g) covers 'any material, compound, mixture, or preparation which contains any quantity of cannabimimetic agents', and defines a cannabimimetic agent as 'any substance that is a cannabinoid receptor type 1 (CB1 receptor) agonist as demonstrated by binding studies and functional assays' within five listed structural classes, so an unnamed compound is caught only if it meets both conditions. A product sold as a synthetic cannabinoid can contain a compound outside every entry, and that is settled by analysis of the sample, not by the label. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). Unless the quantity reaches subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 841(b)(1), which set weight thresholds for particular substances, section 841(b)(1)(C) provides for a Schedule I or II substance 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years', and 'not less than twenty years or more than life' if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of the substance. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: There is no prescription route. Schedule I is the federal schedule for a substance that 'has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States', 21 U.S.C. 812(b)(1)(B), so no prescription, domestic or foreign, authorises possession of it.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Tramadol

Legal status: Tramadol is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(b)(3), DEA code 9752, listed as '2-[(dimethylamino)methyl]-1-(3-methoxyphenyl)cyclohexanol, its salts, optical and geometric isomers and salts of these isomers (including tramadol)'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(b)(3), DEA code 9752. O-desmethyltramadol, listed with the other name desmetramadol, is separately and temporarily in Schedule I at 21 CFR 1308.11(h)(88), DEA code 9667. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

Tramadol in U.S. Virgin Islands (US), full detail →

Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Alprazolam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(2), DEA code 2882, listed as 'Alprazolam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(2), DEA code 2882. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Zolpidem is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(59), DEA code 2783, listed as 'Zolpidem'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught: The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(59), DEA code 2783. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical: 21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation: Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.

21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026

Zolpidem in U.S. Virgin Islands (US), full detail →

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. 1P-LSD is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. 4-AcO-DMT is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
6-APB	Not confirmed. 6-APB is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. 7-hydroxymitragynine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. Alcohol is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. Amanita muscaria is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. Amyl nitrite is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. Caffeine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. Cannabinol is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
CBD	Not confirmed. CBD is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30...
DXM	Not confirmed. Dextromethorphan is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in...
Ephedrine	Not confirmed, the U.S. Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. Gabapentin is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
GBL	Not confirmed, the U.S. Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law...
Kratom	Not confirmed. Kratom is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Memantine	Not confirmed. Memantine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. Mitragynine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. Nicotine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. Nitrous oxide is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. Phenibut is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Poppers	Not confirmed. The product sold as poppers is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. Quetiapine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
Salvia divinorum	Not confirmed. Salvia divinorum is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in...
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)	Not confirmed. Scopolamine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force...
THC-P	Not confirmed. THC-P is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. Tobacco is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. Xylazine is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on...

Legal status in U.S. Virgin Islands (US)

Confirmed legal status

2-FDCK

25I-NBOMe

2C-B

2C-E

2C-I

2C-T-7

3-MMC

5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Adderall

Amphetamine

Ayahuasca

Barbiturates

Benzodiazepines

Buprenorphine

Cannabis / THC

Cathinone

Clonazepam

Cocaine

Codeine

Crack Cocaine

Delta-8-THC

Diazepam

DMT

DOM

Etizolam

Fentanyl

GHB

Heroin

HHC

Hydrocodone

Ketamine

Khat

Lorazepam

LSA (Morning Glory)

LSD

MDA

MDMA

MDPV

Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Mescaline

Methadone

Methamphetamine

Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Methylone

Methylphenidate

Modafinil

Morphine

MXE

Nimetazepam

Opium

Oxycodone

PCP

Peyote

Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Pregabalin

Psilocybin

Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Tramadol

Xanax (Alprazolam)

Zolpidem

Not individually verified

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