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Legality · DXM

Is DXM legal in Estonia?

Confirmed against a primary sourceVerified September 18, 2026
Legal status
DXM is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the Medicinal Products Act, Ravimiseadus, which governs it as a medicine rather than as a scheduled narcotic. No entry for DXM was located in Lists I to VI of Annex 1. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act prohibition therefore does not attach to DXM by name. This rests on the compiler's statement that no entry appears in Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, and the source records no search terms for this row, so the absence is weaker evidence than a recorded query would be. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026, the day the instruments were read, and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that date and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital and life exposure. Estonia has no death penalty and none of the drug penalties reach DXM, because those penalties attach to the narcotic schedule and DXM is not on it. The Penal Code drug ceiling of life imprisonment under section 184(2) with a superscript one is therefore not assigned on this record, and neither is the large quantity test at section 3(1)(3) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. That is not a statement that DXM is unregulated. It is a statement that the narcotic offence scale is not the instrument that regulates it, and any penalty attaches under the regime that does.
If prescribed or medical
There is no narcotic prescription question for DXM in Estonia, because the narcotic schedule does not carry it. The governing regime is the Medicinal Products Act, Ravimiseadus, which governs it as a medicine rather than as a scheduled narcotic. Whether DXM is available on prescription, over the counter, or on general sale is a question for that regime, and this row did not audit it. The State Agency of Medicines is the body that answers it for a medicine. Treat the supply route for DXM as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry DXM as the governing regime allows and do not rely on this row for a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the narcotic schedule is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for DXM and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for DXM appears in what was read here, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73 was read on 18 September 2026 on Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette, and the source states that no entry appears in Lists I to VI. It records no search terms for this row, which is a limit on how strong that absence can be taken to be.
Primary sources
  • Estonia, DXM, provenance carried from the source compilation, which read Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette of the Republic of Estonia
  • stated as in force on 18 September 2026
  • the source states that Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, Lists I to VI, carries no entry for DXM, and records no search terms for this row
  • the governing regime recorded by the source is the Medicinal Products Act, Ravimiseadus, which governs it as a medicine rather than as a scheduled narcotic
  • this absence is stated as at the version of Annex 1 in force on 18 September 2026 and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024
  • links below are the source compilation's own source map rather than per-row provenance
  • riigiteataja.ee
  • riigiteataja.ee
  • ravimiamet.ee

Court records

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