Is Psilocybin legal in United Arab Emirates?

Legal status

Psilocybin is placed in Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025 at the printed entry «بسيلوسيبين». The dossier draws the distinction that governs this subject in the United Arab Emirates: the compound is a scheduled Schedule 5 psychotropic, which is a different thing from the treatment of an unscheduled mushroom product considered only under the conduct based rule at Article 12(2). Those two routes produce different answers, and this row is the first of them. The entry names the compound, so a preparation proved to contain it is placed by it whatever the form of the material. The row runs through Articles 10, 41 and 57, with Schedule 10 carrying the quantity bands. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Schedule 5 is one of the four schedule groups Article 57 names, and the «بسيلوسيبين» entry is in Schedule 5, so the compound carries the harsher of the two trafficking articles. The dossier records Article 57 as stating mandatory death for its trafficking or promotion trigger and as stating no quantity for it, and records that the Schedule 10 bands do not gate that route. The contrast with the conduct based route is the thing to hold onto: a mushroom product that is not proved to contain the scheduled compound is a question for Article 12(2) and the non capital Article 44, while material proved to contain it is on this quantity free capital route. Article 41 carries the personal use route for this branch, with its tariff unstated in the dossier.

If prescribed or medical

The dossier records at the modafinil row that a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: psilocybin is in Schedule 5 at its own compound entry, and no medicinal product, clinical trial authorisation or prescribing route is recorded against it. Trials and approved treatment settings exist in other jurisdictions and the dossier extends nothing from them to this placement, so the question of any lawful route is deferred.

Documentation

No documentation route is recorded for psilocybin, and enrolment in a programme elsewhere is not an Emirati authorisation on this record. Provenance: the Schedule 5 placement and the entry «بسيلوسيبين» were read on 20 September 2026, with the capital analysis resting on Article 57 and not on the Schedule 10 bands. The point worth carrying is that the entry is the compound's, so what a product is called decides nothing and what it is assayed to contain decides everything.

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