Is LSD legal in United Arab Emirates?

Legal status

Lysergide is placed in Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025 at the printed entry «ثنائي إيثيل أميد حمض الليسرجيك؛ LSD», which prints the Arabic form of lysergic acid diethylamide together with the abbreviation. The entry is the diethylamide specifically, and the dossier's searches on two neighbouring rows confirm how narrowly that reads: the amide form and the propionyl analogue were both searched against this schedule and neither was found, while this entry was. Schedule 5 is the first psychotropic schedule in the instrument, which puts the row in the Article 57 group rather than the Schedule 6 to 8 group that carries Article 58. The row runs through Articles 10, 41 and 57, with Schedule 10 carrying the quantity bands. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Schedule 5 is one of the four schedule groups Article 57 names, and the lysergide entry is in Schedule 5. The dossier records Article 57 as stating mandatory death for its trafficking or promotion trigger and as stating no quantity for it, so on a substance dosed in micrograms and carried on paper there is no weight at which the capital route becomes available or ceases to be. It records separately that the Schedule 10 bands do not gate that route. The absence of a quantity is the single most important thing on this cell, because the physical form invites a quantity based intuition that the article does not support. Article 41 carries the personal use route for this branch, with its tariff unstated in the dossier.

If prescribed or medical

The dossier records at the modafinil row that a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: lysergide is in Schedule 5 at its own entry, with no medicinal product, research authorisation or prescribing route recorded against it. No permit procedure appears anywhere in the dossier for this branch, so the question is deferred rather than answered.

Documentation

No documentation route is recorded for lysergide. Provenance: the Schedule 5 placement and the entry «ثنائي إيثيل أميد حمض الليسرجيك؛ LSD» were read on 20 September 2026, with the capital analysis resting on Article 57 and not on the Schedule 10 bands. The point worth carrying is that the entry names the diethylamide, so a substance identified only as a lysergamide is a separate question, and the dossier records that two such compounds were searched for in this schedule without being found.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with United Arab Emirates’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.