Is Amanita muscaria legal in Georgia?
- Legal status
- Amanita muscaria is not established as a scheduled substance in Georgia on this record, and it is not established as lawful either. The dossier's outcome is not verified and it holds an absence record against the annexes to Law No. 624: the search set was "amanita muscaria" and "AMANITA-MUSCARIA", run across the list headings, the salts and isomers limbs, the named plants and the amendments, and it returned no entry. The comparison the dossier inspected and put back down was «ფსილოციბინი». The dossier's rejected comparison here is the listed mushroom alkaloid, which this fungus does not contain, so the comparison is weak on chemistry and the rejection is right for a stronger reason than the one recorded. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so the placement is established at the level of the annexes and not of a numbered list. An absence record is a statement about one text on one date, so it is version specific. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. The ceiling is life imprisonment, under Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia for aggravated illegal circulation, and life is where the scale stops. That is the exposure a listed substance carries, and Article 260 operates through the annexed lists, so on this record there is no accepted entry for this substance for the offence to attach to. That is not a finding that the material is free of consequence. No entry covers the fungus, and the alkaloid entry the dossier compared it against is not present in it, so there is no route from that entry to this material. The official quantity table assigns a small, a large and an especially large quantity by substance, and the dossier records that the table is applied through the matched entry without reproducing any of its figures, so no weight is stated in this cell and none should be inferred from one. With no entry established there is no band in that table to read. There is no general lawful personal use allowance, and the absence of a small quantity figure for a substance is not permission to hold it.
- If prescribed or medical
- The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. There is also no placement here to attach a rule to, because this row is an absence record that establishes no entry. It has no medicinal preparation in the dossier.
- Documentation
- The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row fixes instead is an absence: the search set "amanita muscaria" and "AMANITA-MUSCARIA" and the date the text was read, which together are the only part of this row worth quoting. If this row is ever argued, argue it on the muscimol and ibotenic acid content rather than on the comparison the dossier recorded, which points at the wrong alkaloid. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
- Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling
- this row rests on absence record GEO-17 against those annexes, with the search set "amanita muscaria" and "AMANITA-MUSCARIA" and the rejected comparison «ფსილოციბინი». Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The rejected comparison cited here is an accepted entry elsewhere among these substances for an alkaloid this fungus does not contain, so the comparison is weak on chemistry even though the rejection is right. The set that produced this record used two genuinely different names for the substance rather than one name in two cases. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given
- none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is not verified.
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Georgia
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