Is GBL legal in Sweden?
Also known as: blue nitro
- Legal status
- Not named in 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. I searched that text for butyrolakton, GBL, Gammabutyro and butandiol. No entry for Gamma butyrolactone was found. The föreskrift says of itself that the names of substances, plant material and fungi are not exhaustively given and that other designations may occur, so this is an absence of the names searched for rather than a finding that nothing at all reaches the substance.
- 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 unauthorised handling, import or supply is an offence under the hazardous goods law, and that recreational misuse as a GHB prodrug is prosecuted through that regime rather than under the narcotics act.
- If prescribed or medical
- Not a medicine. The live cell recorded an industrial solvent used for degreasing, cleaning and paint stripping, with a permit and exemption structure that preserves legitimate industrial and scientific use.
- Documentation
- The live cell recorded that licensed industry handles it lawfully but that importing or possessing it without a permit for ingestion is punishable. It recorded scheduling as a hälsofarlig vara under lagen (1999:42) and förordningen (1999:58), and that GBL and 1,4-butanediol were added there because classifying them as narcotics was rejected given their extensive industrial use. Those two instruments are carried forward and were not re-derived here.
- 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
- 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
- riksdagen.se
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