Is Amanita muscaria legal in Jordan?

Also known as: fly agaric

Legal status

Whether Amanita muscaria is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ amanita-muscaria: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Amanita muscaria: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Amanita muscaria, muscimol and ibotenic acid, and the plant and psychotropic schedules were checked for each. The row is unresolved on both routes at once, because neither the mushroom nor its principal psychoactive constituents were recovered, and a species name cannot be given a scheduled-drug status on its own. Note that this species is not the psilocybin-bearing kind; psilocybin is expressly in Schedule 5, and that entry is about a different fungus. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: not established. The species, muscimol and ibotenic acid all returned nothing in the last searchable schedule, so neither the plant route nor the constituent route closes, and two branches follow. If the mushroom and its constituents are genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available, and article 14(a) is written to reach exactly this case, an unlisted material taken with intent to cause intoxication. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added the mushroom or a constituent to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.

If prescribed or medical

No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Amanita muscaria, because the control status that would drive it is not established. There is no medical route to describe in any case, and the practical Jordanian question for a dried mushroom product is more likely to be a food, supplement or import question than a narcotics one. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines, food and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.

Documentation

No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Amanita muscaria, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the material. Dried mushroom product crossing a border is examined as a foodstuff as well as a possible drug, and the species that this row is about is easily confused at inspection with the psilocybin-bearing mushrooms, which are on the scheduled branch. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

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