Is Ayahuasca legal in Lithuania?

Legal status

Ayahuasca is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names ayahuasca. The entry relied on reads «DMT», and the source states that its spelling and chemistry were checked against the order rather than matched on an English name alone. The chain has four links and each one matters. The Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law, at article 4, delegates classification to the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Order No. 5 of 6 January 2000 is the resulting list and carries Schedules I to IV. Criminal Code article 269(1) makes those ministerial lists the Criminal Code's own drug definition. Criminal Code article 269(2) then sends the quantity question to ministerial recommendations, and Health Minister Order V-239 of 23 April 2003 supplies the figures. The list and the amount table are two different instruments, and a substance can be controlled by Order No. 5 while its cells in Order V-239 are blank. That is the single thing English accounts of Lithuanian law most often get wrong, and it is why control and quantity are stated separately on this row. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The current consolidation of Order No. 5 begins on 18 June 2025 and the current consolidation of Order V-239 begins on the same day; the Control Law edition read includes the changes effective 1 November 2025 and the Criminal Code edition read was effective 3 July 2026.

Consequences if caught

Capital and life exposure. Lithuania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available for ayahuasca. The ceiling is 15 years under Criminal Code article 260(3), which applies where the amount is very large. The scale is set by which amount band the quantity falls in. Article 259 covers possession without intent to distribute and its subsection (2) is the small-quantity misdemeanour. Article 260(1) punishes distribution-purpose conduct by 2 to 8 years. Article 260(2) applies to a large amount and carries 8 to 10 years. Article 260(3) applies to a very large amount and carries 10 to 15 years. Order V-239 prints three figures for this entry: a small amount of not more than 0,2 g, a large amount of more than 20 g, and a very large amount of more than 100 g. Those three columns are what select the offence.

If prescribed or medical

Whether there is a lawful route for ayahuasca depends on which of the four schedules of Order No. 5 carries the entry, and this row does not state the schedule number because the source records the list entry and the amount table rather than the schedule division. Schedule IV matters more than an English reader expects: it carries amyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone and the other alkyl nitrites, and it ends at item 402. Handling outside an authorisation is what the Criminal Code punishes, so a licensed medical or scientific use runs inside the Control Law rather than around it. Treat the detail of the route for ayahuasca as unread and put the question to the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania.

Documentation

Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for ayahuasca, and get the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for ayahuasca appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The instruments were read on the Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal, both official, on 18 September 2026: Health Minister Order No. 5, Health Minister Order V-239, the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law and the Criminal Code. The basis recorded for this row is a named list entry.

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