Legality
Nitrous Oxide legal status by country
Also known as: laughing gas, whippets, nangs
Countries where the legal status of Nitrous Oxide has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for Nitrous Oxide in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaNitrous oxide is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no inhalant of any kind is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The...
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaNot listed in the Armenian annex, and that is now a measured absence rather than the unmeasured one the...
- AustraliaScheduled poison; no Commonwealth criminal drug status. F2026L01327 places nitrous oxide in Schedule 4...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and controlled instead as a prescription medicine. The placement is the...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Nitrous oxide is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelarusNot listed in the Belarusian narcotics annex, and the contradiction the applied cell left open is now settled...
- BelgiumNitrous oxide is controlled in Belgium by a product specific prohibition rather than by a schedule entry. The...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Nitrous oxide is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaNitrous oxide sold for inhalation is treated as a drug requiring market authorisation (a DIN) under the Food...
- ChinaNitrous oxide is regulated in China as a hazardous chemical under the State Council Regulations on the Safe...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for óxido nitroso, protóxido de...
- CroatiaNitrous oxide is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CzechiaNot listed. Nitrous Oxide is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č....
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Nitrous oxide has no entry. It is an inorganic gas, and every substance named in the five...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Nitrous oxide is...
- EstoniaNitrous oxide is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Nitrous oxide is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceNitrous oxide is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in...
- GeorgiaNitrous oxide is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier...
- GermanyNitrous oxide is placed by the Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz through a named line in Anlage 2, and the line...
- GhanaNitrous oxide is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Nitrous oxide is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Nitrous oxide, searched...
- HungaryNot listed. Nitrous oxide is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Nitrous oxide is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranNitrous oxide has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Nitrous oxide appears nowhere in the ten schedules. It is not named in...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanNitrous oxide is listed in Japan as a 指定薬物, a designated substance, under the pharmaceuticals Act, which...
- JordanWhether Nitrous oxide is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanNitrous oxide is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. Nitrous oxide is in no table of Group 1 or...
- LatviaNitrous oxide is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaNitrous oxide is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names nitrous oxide. The entry relied on reads «Diazoto...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Nitrous oxide is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by...
- MalaysiaNitrous oxide is named nowhere in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and it is not a Third...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs nitrous oxide is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell...
- MexicoNitrous oxide is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Nitrous oxide, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Nitrous oxide was searched for across...
- NetherlandsControlled as a soft drug. Nitrous oxide is named in lijst II of the Opiumwet and not in lijst I, and the row...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Nitrous oxide, an...
- NigeriaNot separately listed. Nitrous oxide is not named in the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap. N30,...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for диазотен оксид; E942, and...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Nitrous oxide is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not...
- OmanControlled as a volatile substance. Nitrous oxide is named in Group III, serial 5, «OXYGENATED COMPOUNDS», of...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: nitrous oxide is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. A search of all three annexes for nitrous oxide, including its Polish...
- PortugalControlled as a new psychoactive substance. Nitrous oxide was added to the list made under Decreto-Lei n.º...
- QatarNitrous oxide is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the...
- RomaniaNitrous oxide is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- SerbiaNitrous oxide is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under this Act. It is not in any Part of the First...
- SlovakiaNitrous oxide is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaNot named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, so it is not a drug...
- South KoreaNitrous oxide is not a narcotic under Korea's drug law but is designated under the Chemical Substances...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Nitrous oxide is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for nitrous oxide. The German...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandNitrous oxide is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and...
- Trinidad and TobagoNitrous oxide is not a dangerous drug under Chap. 11:25: it is not listed in the First or Second Schedule, as...
- TurkeyNitrous oxide is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine by use category rather than by the narcotics list, and the source contradicts itself...
- United Arab EmiratesNitrous oxide is not treated as a scheduled narcotic on this record, and the dossier is explicit that it is...
- United KingdomControlled as a Class C drug. Part III of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 names it at paragraph...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. nitrous oxide is not...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Nitrous oxide is not listed in the current narcotic or precursor schedules, so no...
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Not individually verified
For these 140 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Nitrous Oxide specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Aceh (Indonesia)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Hong Kong
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe