Legality
Poppers legal status by country
Also known as: alkyl nitrites, rush
Countries where the legal status of Poppers 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 Poppers in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaNot applicable as a single status. Poppers is a product label and not a molecule, so one status for the whole...
- Antigua and BarbudaThis is a product label and not one chemical entry, and no alkyl nitrite is named in the First Schedule. This...
- ArgentinaControlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 795 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026,...
- ArmeniaNot applicable as a single status for Armenia, and this is a completed decision rather than an unfinished...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicines as a class, with one member prohibited. Poppers is a label for liquid alkyl...
- AustriaNot applicable as a single status, and not because the instruments are silent on nitrites. Poppers is a...
- 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. Poppers are not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BarbadosNot scheduled in Barbados: no alkyl nitrite of any kind has an entry in Parts I to III. Under the Drug Abuse...
- BelarusNot applicable as a single status in Belarus, and the reason is Belarus's own: the республиканский перечень...
- BelgiumNot applicable as a class status, and not because the decree is silent. Poppers is a product class rather...
- BelizePoppers is a street label for a group of alkyl nitrites, and no nitrite of any kind is printed anywhere in...
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaNot applicable as a class status. This is a product category that may contain any of several alkyl nitrites,...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaControlled in part. Poppers has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear on...
- CanadaPoppers (alkyl nitrites) are not a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act narcotic but ARE regulated as drugs...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 2, the lista of substances that do not produce those grave effects.
- ColombiaPoppers is a label, not a schedule entry. No entry anywhere in Anexo Técnico 1 carries that name or any alkyl...
- CroatiaPoppers is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari...
- CzechiaNot listed. Poppers is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb....
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation where the nitrite is one of the two that are placed: it...
- DominicaPoppers is a market label for alkyl nitrites, most often amyl, butyl or isopropyl nitrite. No alkyl nitrite...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Poppers is a product label covering several alkyl nitrites, and no alkyl nitrite is named in the...
- EgyptPoppers is a product label covering a group of alkyl nitrites, not the name of a single chemical substance,...
- El SalvadorNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 31 to 34 of the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades...
- EstoniaPoppers is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. No entry for poppers was located in...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands for the two nitrites the order names, which is narrower than the label....
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Poppers is a trade name for alkyl nitrite preparations and it is not named in...
- FranceNot applicable as a single status, because poppers is a use name and not a substance name. The dossier...
- GeorgiaThe label Poppers covers a product category rather than a single molecule, and Georgia's answer follows the...
- GermanyPoppers is a collective name for several different alkyl nitrites, and German law resolves substances rather...
- GhanaPoppers is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Poppers are printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- GrenadaPoppers is a street label for the alkyl nitrites, and no nitrite of any kind appears in the First Schedule as...
- GuyanaThis is a label rather than a substance, and that is the confirmed answer and not an unresolved one. The...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Poppers, searched also as...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). One member of the group is named in the...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland, and the route to that answer is not the printed name of this row. Poppers is a street...
- 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...
- IranPoppers has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Poppers is a street term for alkyl nitrites, and no nitrite of any kind...
- IrelandNot applicable as a single status. The label does not name one substance, and the placement recorded reads:...
- IsraelNot a single substance; no alkyl nitrite of any kind is named in the Schedule as read
- ItalyNot applicable as a single status, because the word covers more than one chemical. The dossier records the...
- JamaicaPoppers is a label rather than a single scheduled molecule, and Jamaican law is applied to what the material...
- JapanPoppers is a market label for alkyl nitrite inhalants, not one substance, so Japanese law answers for the...
- JordanPoppers is a product label and not a substance, so Law No. 23 of 2016 has no single entry to give it, and the...
- KazakhstanPoppers is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- 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. Poppers are in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- LatviaPoppers is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaPoppers is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names poppers. The entry relied on reads «Amilnitritas (Amyl...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Poppers, a product name for alkyl nitrite liquids, a description brought from outside...
- MalaysiaPoppers are alkyl nitrites, and the one that is scheduled is amyl nitrite, listed in the Poisons List under...
- MaltaNeither Maltese drug ordinance governs poppers. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from...
- MexicoPoppers is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de...
- MoldovaPoppers is a product label covering several alkyl nitrites, not one substance, and that is the settled...
- MontenegroNot applicable as a single status. Montenegro's own reason on this row is that the label was stopped as a...
- MoroccoControlled only through a component, and the label itself resolves to no single answer. Poppers is a street...
- MyanmarPoppers is a product label covering several different alkyl nitrites, not one substance with one status. That...
- NetherlandsPoppers is a trade name for alkyl nitrites, and it is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II, nor is any...
- New ZealandNot applicable as a single status, and the Act's own definition is the reason. Poppers is a market name for...
- North MacedoniaNot applicable as a single status. The search ran on поперс; амил-нитрит; алкил-нитрити in the classification...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Poppers is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by...
- PanamaPoppers is a label rather than a substance, and that is the finding for this row rather than a gap in it. No...
- PeruThis row is a product label rather than a substance. What is sold under it is an alkyl nitrite, usually amyl,...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: the alkyl nitrites sold as poppers are not listed in the Dangerous...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. A search of all three annexes for the alkyl nitrites, including the...
- QatarControlled in Qatar at Table 2 section b, added by Decision 8 of 2026 of Law No. 9 of 1987. Poppers is a...
- RomaniaPoppers is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Nitrit de amil», located at Legea 143/2000,...
- 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...
- Saudi ArabiaPoppers is a product label rather than a substance, so it takes no single schedule placement in Saudi Arabia....
- SerbiaThis is a product category and not a single molecule, and the category is what the cell resolves. The dossier...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug and not a psychoactive substance under this Act. It is not in any Part of the First...
- SlovakiaPoppers is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- SloveniaNot applicable as a class status. The name is a product category rather than a molecule, and different...
- South AfricaPoppers is a label for a group of alkyl nitrites, and no alkyl nitrite is named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Poppers, a trade label for alkyl nitrites, and each nitrite...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SurinamePoppers is a commercial label covering several different alkyl nitrites rather than one substance, and...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot applicable as a single status, because poppers is a use name and not a substance name. The source records...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- ThailandNot applicable as a single status, and not because the notifications are silent. Poppers is a market label...
- TongaPoppers is the street name for the alkyl nitrite class as a whole, amyl nitrite, isobutyl nitrite and related...
- Trinidad and TobagoPoppers, a product name for alkyl nitrite liquids, a description brought from outside the text, are not...
- TurkeyPoppers is a product label covering a range of alkyl nitrites and not a single chemical, so it cannot receive...
- UkraineNot applicable as a class status, and the reason given is Ukraine's own. Applicability record UKR-77 stopped...
- United Arab EmiratesPoppers is a product class label covering a group of alkyl nitrites, not the name of a single chemical...
- United KingdomPoppers is a market label for alkyl nitrite liquids, such as isobutyl, isopropyl, pentyl and amyl nitrite,...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayThis is a product label and not one chemical entry, and no alkyl nitrite is named in the national list. This...
- VenezuelaLabel row, not a scheduled molecule. No alkyl nitrite is an entry in either Convention list that Ley Orgánica...
- VietnamNot applicable as a class status. “Poppers” is a market term for varying alkyl nitrites rather than a single...
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Not individually verified
For these 129 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Poppers 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
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Hungary
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- 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)
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe