Is Cathinone legal in Sweden?
- Legal status
- Controlled. Katinon is named in Förteckning I of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. The row reads «Katinon (-)-(S)-2-aminopropiofenon», and its international column reads P I, which is Schedule I of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Förteckning I is the tier for substances, plant material and fungi that normally have no medical use. Katin, the (+)-norpseudoephedrine metabolite, is a separate row in Förteckning II with international P III, and about fifteen substituted cathinone rows stand in Förteckning I. Catha edulis is a fourth, separate row in the biological material table.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live cell recorded that possession and trafficking of the isolated alkaloid are penalised, that small quantities historically drew fines, that large smuggling is prosecuted, and that there is no death penalty in Sweden.
- If prescribed or medical
- No accepted medical use and no lawful prescription route for the isolated alkaloid.
- Documentation
- There is no licit personal import route. The live cell recorded that cathinone is distinct from the khat plant, Catha edulis, separately classified a narcotic since 1989, and from the synthetic cathinones such as mephedrone that are separately scheduled, and that cathine is the milder metabolite. The föreskrift read here bears all three distinctions out on separate rows.
- Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026
- 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika
- Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name
- lakemedelsverket.se
- lakemedelsverket.se
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), 1 §, 2 §, 3 § and 8 §
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
- riksdagen.se
- the row read at line 1382 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text
- Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
- euda.europa.eu
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