Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law — articles 1–100

For the purposes of implementing the provisions of this Decree by Law, the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings assigned to each of them, unless the context otherwise requires: Narcotics: Any natural o…

The provisions of this Decree by Law shall not apply to the parts and varieties of plants specified in Division Three of Schedule (4) annexed hereto.

Repealed by Federal Decree by Law No. (2) of 2025.

The amendment to the tables attached to the said Decree by Law shall be in accordance with the following: 1. Table Nos. (1, 2, 4, 5) may not be amended except by addition only, with such additions being permissible upon …

Federal health authorities and private health establishments may establish units dedicated to the treatment and rehabilitation of addicts to narcotics and psychotropic substances. The Cabinet shall, upon the proposal of …

All data and information related to the affairs of addicts and convicted persons who are placed in the Unit shall be considered secrets, and these secrets shall not be disclosed or broadcasted, in cases other than those …

Specialized centers shall be established to implement the imprisonment penalty in crimes of addiction and personal using of narcotics and psychotropic substances, and those convicted therein shall be subject to treatment…

The Minister of Justice, in agreement with the Competent Minister, may grant the status of Judicial Police officers to some employees of ministries, agencies and departments related to the implementation of the provision…

The Establishment shall inspect the authorities licensed under the provisions of this Law by Decree.

1. Any of the narcotics or psychotropic substances listed in Schedules Nos. (1, 2, 4/ Section (1), 5) attached thereto shall not be imported, exported, transferred, produced, manufactured, brought, possessed or acquired …

Any of the narcotics or psychotropic substances listed in Schedules Nos. (3,6,7,8) attached thereto shall not be imported, exported, transferred, produced, manufactured, brought, possessed or acquired and all other aspec…

Addiction of narcotics or psychotropic substances in any form, or to use them personally, except for treatment, and according to a medical prescription from the Treating Physician issued in accordance with the provisions…

In all cases in which possession or acquisition of narcotics or psychotropic substances shall be licensed, the percentages of weight differences may not exceed the percentages stipulated in the prescribed pharmacopoeia c…

In cases other than those authorized in accordance with the provisions of this Law by Decree, plants mentioned in Schedules No. 4, Section (2), or any other plant that produces narcotics or psychotropic substances shall …

The land owner shall inform the public authority of the plants that shall be planted on that land in Schedule No. 4, Section (2), as soon as he becomes aware of this.

The Minister of Climate Change and Environment shall issue the necessary licenses to government agencies and recognized scientific institutes for the cultivation of any plant whose cultivation shall be prohibited for sci…

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article (10) of this Law by Decree, narcotics and psychotropic substances may not be imported, exported or transported without a written permission from the Competent Administrative…

The authorization referred to in Article (17) of this Decree by Law may only be granted to the following entities: 1. Government authorities and recognized institutes. 2. Licensed health establishments. 3. Licensed chemi…

The permission stipulated in the previous Article may not be issued in the name of the Authority Manager or the person responsible for it in his capacity, unless he has been rehabilitated if he is one of the following ca…

Narcotics or psychotropic substances that arrive at customs shall not be delivered without a withdrawal permit signed by the Manager in charge of the Authority licensed to import on the form prepared by the Competent Adm…

No narcotics or psychotropic substances may be imported, exported, or transported in parcels containing other substances, and they shall be sent even if they are in a sample form within insured parcels. In addition to th…

The Competent Administrative Authority shall create a special electronic record in which the permits issued for the import or export of narcotics or psychotropic substances shall be entered. The record shall include in p…

An import or export permit shall be considered repealed if it has not been used within sixty days as of the date of its issuance.

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article (10) of this Law by Decree, trafficking in narcotics or psychotropic substances shall not be permitted without obtaining a licence to pratice it from the Competent Administr…

The Authority licensed to traffick in narcotics or psychotropic substances shall have a pharmacist responsible for these substances.

If the licence holder changes the location of his industrial or commercial activity or leaves the business for which the licence was granted, he shall inform the Competent Administrative Authority within fifteen days at …

Authorities licensed to traffic in narcotics or psychotropic substances may not sell or deliver these substances or assign them in any capacity whatsoever except to the following persons: 1. Managers of drug stores, phar…

The Authority Manager licensed to traffic in narcotics or psychotropic substances shall adhere to the electronic record approved by the Competent Administrative Authority to record what shall be received and dispensed fr…

The Authority Manager licensed to traffic in narcotics or psychotropic substances shall send to the Competent Administrative Authority in the first week of every month a list of the incoming and outgoing substances menti…

The Chairman of the Board shall issue a Resolution specifying the procedures and manner of selling, delivering and waiving narcotics or psychotropic substances, as well as the data that shall be recorded in the register …

by Decree shall be prohibited to produce or manufacture any of the substances listed in Schedules Nos. 3, 6, 7, 8. The Authorities mentioned in the aforementioned Clauses may not undertake any of the activities stipulate…

In pharmaceutical factories or pharmacies, manufacturing a preparation that contains a narcotics or psychotropic substance except shall be permitted after obtaining the license stipulated in Article (24) of this Law by D…

Pharmacies and medical preparation factories may not exceed the percentages mentioned in Schedules No. (9) attached thereto, subject to the conditions stipulated in the prescribed medicines constitutions.

A pharmacy may not dispense any narcotics or psychotropic substances except pursuant to a medical prescription issued by a treating physician licensed to practice human or vet-erinary medicine in the State, and which mee…

The Pharmacy may dispense narcotics or psychotropic substances under licence cards issued by the Competent Administrative Authority to the following persons: 1. Physicians licensed to practice human or veterinary medicin…

Without prejudice to the provisions of Article (34) of this Law by Decree, the Pharmacy Manager shall be bound by the electronic record approved by the Competent Administrative Authority to record the incoming narcotics …

1. The Pharmacy Manager shall keep the medical prescriptions containing narcotics and psychotropic substances, indicating the date of dispensing and the number of their entry in the register; 2. Repeated dispensing of me…

The Pharmacy Manager shall, within the first fifteen days of January and July of each year, send to the Competent Administrative Authority a registered letter containing a detailed statement signed by him of the incoming…

The Pharmacy Manager shall keep narcotics and psychotropic substances in a tightly closed cabinet in the pharmacy, and these substances shall be in his custody.

No medical prescription for any narcotic or psychotropic substance may be issued except by physicians licensed to practice human or veterinary medicine in the State, where such prescription is required for medical treatm…

1. A penalty of imprisonment for a period of no less than three months or a fine of no less than twenty thousand dirhams and not more than one hundred thousand dirhams shall be applied in the case of: A. Addicting in any…

1. Addicting in any way or personal using of narcotic substances as stipulated in item (29) of Schedule No. 1 shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of no less than three months or a fine of no less than ten thou…

1. In exception to the provisions delineated in Article (57) of this Decree by Law, an individual who is neither a citizen of the State nor a legal resident therein, upon entering the State via any land, sea, or air port…

1. Addicting in any way, or personal using in cases other than authorised, or a fine of no less than twenty thousand dirhams and not more than one hundred thousand dirhams, or a fine of not less than twenty thousand dirh…

1. Addicting in any way or personal using or possesses with intent to use any substance or plant other than the narcotics or psychotropic substances stipulated in the prescribed manner shall be punished by imprisonment f…

The Court may, in other than the case of recurrence, instead of ruling the penalties stipulated in Articles (41), (42), (43), (44) replace the penalty by placing the Convict in one of the treatment and rehabilitation uni…

The Court, after taking the Public Prosecution opinion, may order the removal of the Convicted person from the Unit in the following two cases: 1. If the report found that his health condition permits this. 2. At his req…

If the placing was found to be futile, or if the patient violated the duties imposed on him or committed any of the crimes stipulated in this Law by Decree during his placing, the Supervising Committee shall submit the m…

Any person who calls to or incites another person to commit any of the crimes stipulated in Articles (41), (42), (43), or (44), or facilitates the commission thereof in any manner, shall be punished by imprisonment for a…

If the Offender commits any of the crimes referred to in Article (48) of this Law by Decree with the intent of harming the one who committed the crime before him, and that results in injury or illness, the Offender shall…

Whoever puts any of the narcotics or psychotropic substances stipulated in any of the Schedules attached thereto in the drink or food of others, or causes him to use them without his knowledge of the truth, shall be puni…

Whoever forces another to use narcotics or psychotropic substances shall be punished with imprisonment for a period of no less than ten years. The penalty shall be life imprisonment or the death penalty if the use of for…

Anyone who intentionally transports narcotics or psychotropic substances stipulated in the Schedules attached thereto to the possession or acquisition of others without his knowledge of the truth shall be punished with i…

Anyone who manages, prepares or provides a place for the consumption of any of the narcotics or psychotropic substances stipulated in schedules Nos. (1, 2, 4, 5), attached thereto shall be punished by imprisonment for a …

Whoever is arrested in any of the places referred to in the previous Article with knowledge thereof shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of not less than six months and not more than a year and a fine of not le…

Whoever manufactures, imports, brings, sells or possesses with the intent of promoting goods or publications bearing images, drawings, writings or ideas that invite or entitle the commission of any of the crimes of narco…

In cases other than those authorised in accordance with the provisions of this Law by Decree, whoever possesses or acquires with the intent of trafficking or distributing any of the substances or plants subject to the pr…

Violation of the provisions of Clause (1) of Article (10) and Article (14) of this Law by Decree will be punished with the penalties stipulated in Schedule No. (10) attached thereto. The penalty shall be the death penalt…

Violation of the provision of Article (11) shall be punished with the penalties stipulated in Schedule No. (10) attached thereto. The penalty shall be the death penalty or life imprisonment if the crime is committed with…

Whoever shall be authorised to possess and acquires one of the substances mentioned in the schedules attached thereto, and violates the purpose for which he is authorised, shall be punished with imprisonment for a period…

Without prejudice to any more severe penalty prescribed by this Decree by Law or any other law: 1. Any person who violates any provision of Articles (13), (15), (25), (33), (35), (37) Clause (2), or (39) of this Decree b…

Whoever assaults or resists one of the officials responsible for the implementation of this Law by Decree shall be punished by imprisonment for a period of no less than five years and a fine of no less than one hundred t…

Anyone who intentionally kills a public official responsible for the implementation of this Law by Decree shall be punished with the death penalty while performing his job or because of it.

Anyone who has been authorised by the Public Prosecution to take the necessary examination sample to establish whether or not it contains narcotics or psychotropic substances and who unjustifiably refrains from giving it…

Without prejudice to any more severe penalty stipulated in any other Law, any person who deposits or transfers funds by himself or through a third party or before transferring them to him with the intent of committing an…

Whoever possesses, conceals or performs any operation of funds shall be punished by imprisonment and a fine of no less than one hundred thousand dirhams, whenever there is sufficient evidence or presumption that it was o…

An attempt to commit the misdemeanours stipulated in this Law by Decree shall be punished with half the penalty prescribed for the complete crime.

Except for the penalties prescribed for crimes of addiction and personal use when committed in the first and second instances stipulated in Articles (41), (42), (43), (44), as well as in crimes punishable by a fine only,…

The imposition of the penalties set forth in this Law by Decree shall not prejudice the right of the concerned parties to blood money or compensation in accordance with the provisions of the Law.

Whoever among the Offender hastens to inform the judicial or administrative authorities of what he knows about them before starting to commit the crime shall be exempted from the penalties prescribed for the crimes set f…

It shall be decided to confiscate narcotics, psychotropic substances, and plants that produce narcotics or psychotropic substances, which are the subject of one of the crimes punishable under this Law by Decree. It shall…

Every place prepared for the consumption of narcotics or psychotropic substances or for carrying out any related activity in cases other than those authorised in accordance with the provisions of this Law by Decree, and …

As a result of a ruling in the offence of addiction of narcotics or psychotropic substances more than once, the convicted person shall not be licensed to drive motor vehicles or the licence shall be revoked if it is issu…

Whoever has been sentenced to life or temporary imprisonment in one of the crimes stipulated hereby shall be placed under Police surveillance after the expiration of his sentence in accordance with the rules determined b…

Whoever has been convicted of any of the crimes punishable under the provisions of this Law by Decree shall be prohibited from transferring or depositing any funds to others, by himself or by a third party, except upon a…

1. The court shall order the deportation of a foreigner convicted of any of the crimes stipulated in this Decree by Law. 2. The deportation measure provided for in Clause (1) of this Article shall not apply in the follow…

Whoever has been previously sentenced more than once for one of the crimes stipulated hereby, the Court may, in addition to the prescribed penalty, sentence him to one of the following measures: 1. Determination of resid…

The period of the sentenced measure may not be less than one year and not more than five years. Whoever violates the provisions of any of the measures stipulated in the previous Article shall be punished by imprisonment …

The Public Prosecutor may order that the person against whom a penal order shall be issued in one of the crimes of addiction or personal using be obligated to take the measure stipulated in Clause (6) of Article (76) of …

A Convict or a court-ordered convict in the crime of addiction of narcotics or psychotropic substances, or the crime of refraining from giving the examination sample without justification, shall be subject to periodic ex…

The Competent Judicial control officers shall uproot any plant whose cultivation shall be prohibited by virtue of the provisions of this Law by Decree and shall collect its leaves, roots and parts at the expense of the O…

Narcotics and psychotropic substances, which is sentenced to be confiscated, shall be executed by a committee formed by a Resolution of the Public Prosecutor headed by a member of the Public Prosecution, provided that a …

The Federal Attorney General shall, by a decision issued in agreement with the Attorneys General of the local judicial authorities and in coordination with the Establishment and the Ministry of Climate Change and Environ…

The Public Prosecutor or his representative, if there is sufficient evidence that one of the crimes stipulated hereby has been committed with the intent of trafficking or promoting, may order temporarily preventing the a…

A person against whom a resolution was issued to freeze or prevent him from disposing of, managing or travelling in accordance with the previous Article may file a grievance against him before the Competent Court. If his…

Police officers who have the judicial control shall have the right to use force or weapons in order to implement the provisions of this Law by Decree, provided that this is necessary and proportional to the purpose of us…

As an exception to the provisions of Article (142) of the Criminal Procedure Code, the Court in which the addict was arrested within its territorial scope has jurisdiction to consider the crimes of addiction or personal …

A judicial authorization issued by the competent Public Prosecution located in the federal capital in respect of any of the crimes stipulated in Article (88) of this Decree by Law shall be effective throughout all Emirat…

The federal courts located in the federal capital shall have exclusive jurisdiction to adjudicate the following crimes: 1. Crimes committed with the intent of trafficking or promotion, and crimes inseparably connected th…

No criminal proceedings shall be instituted against a user of narcotics or psychotropic substances, or substances to which the provisions of Article (12) Paragraph (2) of this Decree by Law apply, if the user voluntarily…

The provision of the previous Article shall not apply to anyone who possesses a narcotics or a psychotropic substance and shall not handed it over to the Unit, the Public Prosecution Office, or the Police when he applies…

The Unit shall notify the Public Prosecution in the event that the patient fails to comply with the treatment or rehabilitation plan, or in violation of the regulations followed in the Unit. The Unit supervising committe…

The Public Prosecutor may refer to the Unit any person who commits addiction or personal using crimes stipulated in Articles (41), (42), (43), (44) of this Law by Decree, or in other crimes in which he may issue an order…

The crimes of addiction or personal using stipulated in Articles (41), (42), (43) and (44) shall not be considered a judicial precedent that requires rehabilitation when committed for the first time by citizens.

The rules of placement under electronic surveillance shall be applicable to the offences herein, in alignment with the specifications and processes established by a resolution of the Council of Ministers, as per the reco…

1. The purity degree of narcotics or psychotropic substances subject of the crime shall not be considered in determining their weight when their presence is proven according to the criminal evidence report, and the compo…

It is not considered bringing, importing, transporting, possessing or penalising acquisition of food, beverages, or any products that contain narcotics or psychotropic substances mentioned in Item No. (29) of Schedule No…

Without prejudice to the rights of the defence, the Court, when examining one of the crimes stipulated therein, may base its judgment on what witnesses have made in the investigations of the Public Prosecution, whenever …

The Establishment and the National Drug Enforcement Authority, through an electronic system, shall track and monitor the processes of production, manufacture, import, export, transport, storage, supply and distribution o…

The aforementioned Federal Law No. (14) of 1995 shall be repealed. The Regulations and Resolutions issued in implementation thereof shall remain in force until they are amended or repealed, to the extent that they shall …