Is 1P-LSD legal in Kuwait?

Legal status

Not a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. 1P-LSD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, as those schedules stand after Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026. Lysergide itself is Group 2, table 1, serial P1-4.

Consequences if caught

Conduct distinction. Articles 48 and 49 of Decree Law 159 of 2025 punish possession and personal use of a scheduled substance, up to ten years and up to five years respectively. 1P-LSD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so neither article reaches it as a scheduled substance. Lysergide itself is Group 2, table 1, serial P1-4. Capital and life exposure. None. Articles 42 and 43 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, which carry death or life imprisonment, bite only on المواد أو المستحضرات المخدرة أو المؤثرة عقلياً, narcotic or psychotropic substances and preparations, which article 1 defines by reference to the annexed schedules. 1P-LSD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so there is no scheduled substance for those articles to attach to. Articles 44 and 45, which make death mandatory, operate only on article 42 and 43 offences and so cannot attach either. That is the reason exposure is absent, not merely the fact of it. No quantity threshold arises, because no capital article is engaged.

If prescribed or medical

1P-LSD is not on a criminal schedule of this decree law, so the prescribing chapter of Decree Law 159 of 2025 does not govern it. A separate Ministry of Health prescribing or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule. Carry a certified prescription and a medical report for any medicine you bring in.

Documentation

The governing instrument is Decree Law 159 of 2025 on combating narcotics and psychotropic substances and regulating their use and trade, eighty four articles in thirteen chapters, gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm on 1 December 2025 and in force from 15 December 2025. Article 83 repealed Law 74 of 1983 and Decree Law 48 of 1987 and merged them. The schedules do not sit in the law. Article 40 reads يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل الجداول أو المجموعات المرفقة بهذا المرسوم بقانون، بالحذف، أو بالإضافة, so the Minister of Health amends them by decision. The last such amendment read for this cell is Decision 165 of 2026, made on 24 May 2026 and gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026, whose article five annexes the complete updated schedules. The schedules are arranged as Group 1, narcotic substances, tables 1 to 6, Group 2, psychotropic substances, tables 1 to 4, Group 3, chemical precursors, and a Group 4 list of the substances article 52 names. Group 3 was not reprinted in the annex and was not read for this cell. Foreign nationals are liable to deportation after sentence. Kuwait retains and imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking. Placement for 1P-LSD: in no table of Group 1 or Group 2. Lysergide itself is Group 2, table 1, serial P1-4. The absence was tested five ways before it was accepted: the international name, optical character recognition variants of it, the Arabic form, the chemical name, and independently by enumerating every Latin word in the schedules that begins with the same letter and reading that list. A measured zero from a scanned table is not a finding until it has been interrogated.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Kuwait’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.