Is Ayahuasca legal in Spain?
- Legal status
- Controlled in Spain through its active constituent rather than as a plant. DMT IS named in Anexo 1 Lista I as «DMT DIMETILTRIPTAMINA / N, N-dimetiltriptamina». Neither plant is named, so the brew is reached as a preparation containing a listed substance under artículo primero, not as a listed plant. Searched in Spanish as ayahuasca, Banisteriopsis and Psychotria.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking offences sit in the Código Penal articles 368 to 378. Article 368 distinguishes substances that cause grave harm to health from those that do not, and that classification is applied by the court to the substance rather than read off a list. No custodial figure is asserted in this cell: the instruments read here establish what is controlled, not the sentencing range.
- If prescribed or medical
- Spain runs two medicine regimes side by side. A narcotic medicine is handled under Ley 17/1967 and its implementing rules, and a psychotropic medicine under Real Decreto 2829/1977, which requires a special prescription and a pharmacy register for the stricter lists.
- Documentation
- Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Spain's personal import allowance for a traveller was not read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.
- Spain, Real Decreto 2829/1977, de 6 de octubre, Anexo 1, read as the BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 21/04/2026»
- empowering provision quoted: «Artículo primero. Uno. Las sustancias psicotrópicas a que se refieren las Listas I, II, III y IV del anexo uno y la «Relación de sustancias no incluidas en dichas Listas» del anexo dos, a que se refiere el artículo quinto, o bien que en futuro puedan ser incorporadas a las Listas o la Relación, así como los preparados (especialidades farmacéuticas o fórmulas magistrales) que las contengan, quedan sometidos a cuanto se previene en la presente disposición.»
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- offences in the Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995) articles 368 to 378
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Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Spain
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