Is Ephedrine legal in Lithuania?

Legal status

Ephedrine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the list that Criminal Code article 269(1) adopts as the Code's drug definition, and no entry for ephedrine was found in it. The source records the Lithuanian language search run for this row and the terms used: efedrinas; ephedrine. Both Order No. 5 and Order V-239 were searched, and all four schedules of the order were covered. The search was run in Lithuanian rather than in English, which matters because the order is printed in Lithuanian and an English search returns a false absence. 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. 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. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.

Consequences if caught

Capital and life exposure. Lithuania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, and in any event none of the drug penalties reach ephedrine, because articles 259 and 260 attach to the substances in Order No. 5 and ephedrine is not one of them. The 15 year ceiling under Criminal Code article 260(3) is therefore not assigned on this record, and Order V-239 prints no small, large or very large amount for ephedrine. If a controlled constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent's own table row governs and this row does not.

If prescribed or medical

There is no controlled substance prescription question for ephedrine in Lithuania, because Order No. 5 does not carry it and the Control Law's licensing machinery follows that order. Whether ephedrine is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Lithuanian medicines regime, which this row did not audit. The State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route for ephedrine as unread rather than as open.

Documentation

Carry ephedrine as the Lithuanian medicines regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the controlled lists is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for ephedrine and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for ephedrine appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. Order No. 5 and Order V-239 were searched in Lithuanian on the official Register of Legal Acts on 18 September 2026 and no entry was found. The final rows of the quantity annex were read: Schedule IV ends at item 402, isopropyl nitrite, after the nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone and other alkyl nitrite entries, so the search reached the end of the instrument rather than stopping at the older Schedule III drug list.

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.