Is Memantine legal in Norway?
- Legal status
- Not controlled as narkotika in Norway. Memantine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by the groups clause or by section 3. Searched as memantin across all 824 rows, with no hit. It is a prescription medicine governed by the ordinary provisions of legemiddelloven and the medicines regulations rather than by chapter VII on narcotics.
- Consequences if caught
- Because it is not narkotika, neither legemiddelloven section 24 nor straffeloven section 231 applies to it. The narkotikaliste read here is the Lovdata consolidation as at 16 September 2026. Its own amendment note ends with forskrift 26 August 2026 no. 1682, in force 1 September 2026, and no instrument after that was read, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
- If prescribed or medical
- Not a narcotic medicine, so narkotikaforskriften section 19 and its quantity limits do not apply. Any prescription status it has comes from ordinary medicines law.
- Documentation
- Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. The section 19 narcotic regime and the Schengen certificate are not engaged.
- Norway, forskrift 14. februar 2013 nr. 199 om narkotika (narkotikaforskriften), narkotikalisten and sections 3, 5 and 19
- legemiddelloven (LOV-1992-12-04-132) sections 22, 24 and 31
- straffeloven (LOV-2005-05-20-28) sections 231 and 232
- lovdata.no
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Norway
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