Is 1P-LSD legal in Netherlands?
- Legal status
- 1P-LSD is unscheduled in the Netherlands and sits in a legal gray zone: LSD is a List I hard drug under the Opium Act, but 1P-LSD is neither individually listed nor within the substance groups added by the generic designer-drug amendment in force 1 July 2025, which covers only synthetic cannabinoids, fentanyl derivatives and the phenethylamine group (including cathinones) — not lysergamides.
- Consequences if caught
- As an unscheduled substance, personal possession and use of 1P-LSD are not offences under the Opium Act; sale can still be restricted by medicines and food-safety law, and marketing it as a legal LSD carries commercial-law risk.
- If prescribed or medical
- No marketing authorisation or prescription use; historically sold as a 'research chemical' labelled not for human consumption.
- Documentation
- Confirmed via the 1 July 2025 Opium Act designer-drug ban, whose three new substance groups (as reported by the U.S. Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor) do not include lysergic-acid derivatives, leaving 1P-LSD uncontrolled.
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