Is Psilocybin legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Псилоцибін» at CAS 520-52-5 and record UKR-79 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. The registry number fixes the phosphate ester rather than the free phenol, and this source does not state whether the free phenol has a heading of its own, which matters because fungal material converts one to the other. Three other rows of this source lean on this heading and none is settled by it: records UKR-09 and UKR-10, on substituted tryptamines, and record UKR-17, where the heading was compared against a fungus that does not contain this molecule at all.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has 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 520-52-5 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this compound. Fungal material contains it at a low and variable percentage, so a band applied to dried mushroom weight and a band applied to assayed content give very different answers, and this source states neither the figures nor which method is used. No separate possession article is named. 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 520-52-5. Supervised clinical use is under trial in several countries and this source establishes no Ukrainian authorised product, no import permit, no trial supply route and no recognition of a foreign prescription. None was researched. A trial participation document is not a Ukrainian authorisation.

Documentation

Carry nothing in reliance on this row. Where material is held under a research or clinical trial authorisation, the institutional licence, the import authorisation and the study documentation are the relevant papers and they must be Ukrainian rather than foreign. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine that has been confused with fungal material 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 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.