Is Mescaline legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name as the isolated alkaloid. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Мескалін» at CAS 54-04-6 and record UKR-58 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case because the list prints in capitals. The listing is of the molecule. The cactus that produces it was left unresolved in the same source at record UKR-74, where the search found no named plant entry and rejected this very heading as a near comparison, so Ukraine reaches the alkaloid on this reading and the plant question is open. A cell that treated the alkaloid heading as covering cactus material would be answering a question this source did not put.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine provides no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, twelve years of imprisonment at the ceiling of its third part, no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 54-04-6 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for the alkaloid. Where the material is plant tissue, the band would have to be applied to an assayed alkaloid content, and this source gives neither the figures nor any rule for weighing a plant matrix. No separate possession article is named by the source. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

Ukraine allows no personal use quantity, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 54-04-6 and no authorised Ukrainian medicine contains this alkaloid, so no prescription route arises. Ceremonial or religious use in another country creates no Ukrainian permission, and no exemption of that kind was established in this source. No import permit or foreign prescription rule was established either, and none was researched.

Documentation

Carry nothing in reliance on the alkaloid heading, and treat plant material as a separate and unresolved question under record UKR-74 rather than as a safe one. If cactus material is carried as an ornamental plant, carry its botanical identification and the horticultural supplier's documentation. A traveller with a prescribed medicine should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the ingredient, strength, dose and treatment period. The heading at CAS 54-04-6 was read on 20 September 2026.

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