Is 1P-LSD legal in Canada?
- Legal status
- 1P-LSD occupies a legal gray zone in Canada: LSD is listed in Schedule III of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act as 'lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), its salts, isomers and salts of isomers', but 1P-LSD is a ring-substituted derivative — not a salt or isomer — is not individually named, and the CDSA contains no general controlled-substance-analogue offence.
- Consequences if caught
- Because 1P-LSD is not scheduled, possession and (absent misbranding) sale are not CDSA offences; conduct could still draw enforcement if the product is treated as containing or convertible to LSD, or as an unapproved drug under the Food and Drugs Act.
- If prescribed or medical
- No Health Canada authorisation; handling of scheduled LSD requires a section 56 CDSA exemption, but 1P-LSD itself is unscheduled.
- Documentation
- Confirmed via the CDSA Schedule III LSD entry (salts and isomers only, with no 'derivatives' or analogue clause); federal scheduling orders through late 2025 (e.g. SOR/2025-243) did not add lysergamide derivatives.
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