Legality
DXM legal status by country
Also known as: robo, dextromethorphan
Countries where the legal status of DXM has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for DXM in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaDextromethorphan is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot controlled, and this is the one row in the set where the Act names the substance in order to exclude it....
- ArgentinaNot controlled as an estupefaciente. It is named in terms in the closing clause of Anexo I and expressly...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք rather than through the narcotics...
- AustraliaPharmacy medicine at low dose, prescription only above it; its Commonwealth criminal drug status is...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and the reason is a finding rather than a silence. Dextromethorphan is...
- BahamasNot controlled, and uniquely among the rows here it is excluded in terms. The 1994 Application Order's List...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Dextromethorphan is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BangladeshDextromethorphan is not named, and the Act carries no exclusion for it of the kind the 1961 Convention has....
- BarbadosNot in the First Schedule, and expressly named in order to be kept out of it. Under the Drug Abuse...
- BelarusDXM is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route is...
- BelgiumDXM (dextromethorphan) is not reached by the Belgian controlled drug lists on the text checked here. The...
- BelizeDextromethorphan is expressly excepted from Belize's list of controlled drugs. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. DXM is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaOver-the-counter, non-prescription drug. Single-ingredient dextromethorphan (DXM)/DXM hydrobromide...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 2, the lista of substances that do not produce those grave effects.
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for dextrometorfano or...
- Costa RicaNot under international control, and the instrument says so in terms rather than by silence. Article 1 of Ley...
- CroatiaDXM is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje...
- CzechiaNot listed. Dextromethorphan is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č....
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation. Named on liste C of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Dextromethorphan has no entry, and the instrument goes further than silence: acápite I of...
- EgyptNot a narcotic substance in Egypt, by the table's own words, as at 3 October 2026. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر...
- EstoniaDXM is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the Medicinal...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands. Dextromethorphan is named on liste C nr. 3 of bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26....
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland, and expressly excluded rather than merely unlisted. Dextromethorphan is not named...
- FranceDXM is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaDXM is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records a...
- GermanyDextromethorphan is absent from the German narcotics lists, and this row is the cleanest stereochemical...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. DXM is entry 15 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, the fourth table, an entry that opens...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. DXM, searched also as...
- Hong KongExpressly excluded from the dangerous drugs stereoisomer rule in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134),...
- HungaryNot listed. DXM is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or P4...
- IcelandNot printed in Iceland's narcotics list under its own name. Dextromethorphan is not named in Fylgiskjal I,...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranDextromethorphan has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. This row rests on an express exclusion rather than on silence. It is not...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; S.I....
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanDXM is not a controlled substance in Japan, and the reason is an express exclusion rather than a silence. The...
- JordanWhether DXM is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic...
- KazakhstanDXM appears in Kazakhstan's controlled list as a bracketed synonym rather than as an entry in its own right....
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. DXM is expressly excluded from the schedules...
- KyrgyzstanControlled in Kyrgyzstan. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 names dextromethorphan in...
- LatviaDXM is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaDXM is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the list...
- MacauNot listed in Macau, and excluded by name. DXM, dextromethorphan, is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law...
- MaltaDXM is dealt with by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the way it is dealt with is an express...
- MexicoDXM is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Dextromethorphan is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o ljekovima,...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. DXM was searched for across Notification...
- NetherlandsDextromethorphan is not controlled under the Opiumwet as a lijst I or lijst II substance: lijst I expressly...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. DXM, the morphinan...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for декстрометорфан, and the...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. DXM is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by the...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: dextromethorphan (DXM) is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list, and the exclusion is express rather than a silence. The 2025 amending...
- PortugalNot a controlled substance. Dextromethorphan is expressly excluded from table I-A of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 by...
- QatarExpressly excluded from Qatar's narcotics table, which is a stronger position than mere absence, and it is...
- RomaniaDXM is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The search...
- RussiaControlled in Russia. Decree 681 lists DXM at the entry «Декстрометорфан» (in English, dextromethorphan), and...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- SamoaDextromethorphan (DXM) is expressly excluded from the Narcotics Act 1967's Second Schedule item 71,...
- Saudi ArabiaDextromethorphan is expressly excluded from the narcotic drugs schedule in Saudi Arabia rather than merely...
- SerbiaDXM is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative check...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Dextromethorphan is in no Part of the First Schedule. First Schedule...
- SlovakiaDXM is excluded by name from the group that would otherwise control it in Slovakia, so it is not itself a...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaNot a drug under the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992: Schedule 2 Part II excludes dextromethorphan...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: DXM is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- SurinameNamed in the act, and named in order to be excluded. Lijst I onderdeel A closes with an isomer clause reading...
- SwedenControlled. Dextrometorfan is named in Förteckning V of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are...
- SwitzerlandNot controlled, and by an express exclusion rather than by silence. Annex 2, list a of BetmVV-EDI states...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- TanzaniaControlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the...
- ThailandDXM is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- Timor-LesteExpressly excluded, which is a stronger and more citable finding than ordinary absence. Table I-A's own...
- Trinidad and TobagoDextromethorphan is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: the First Schedule names it in order to except...
- TurkeyDextromethorphan is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search,...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-37 reports that Постанова...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug, and expressly excluded. Racemethorphan and levomethorphan are named Class A entries in...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục, and expressly excluded. Dextromethorphan is not merely absent: Decree 28 expressly...
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Not individually verified
For these 136 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that DXM specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe