Is Psilocybin legal in Vietnam?

Legal status

Controlled. Psilocybin is reached by IB #29 of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, signed and in force 19 January 2026, which is the list the Criminal Code's own definition points at. In the decree as read: Psilocybine, and psilocine at IB #28, CAS 520-52-5.

Consequences if caught

Capital and life exposure. Psilocybin is a chất ma túy under Vietnamese law, so articles 248 to 252 of the Criminal Code reach it, and whether death is available depends entirely on which conduct is charged. Vietnam sorts drug offences by conduct and the five conducts do not carry the same consequences. For Psilocybin they run as follows, on the Code as it stands after 1 July 2025. Producing, Điều 248. Tội sản xuất trái phép chất ma túy. Khoản 5 reads thì bị phạt tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, life imprisonment or death. Death is retained for this conduct and the death band at Các chất ma túy khác ở thể rắn có khối lượng 09 kilôgam trở lên, that is nine kilograms or more, or Các chất ma túy khác ở thể lỏng có thể tích 22 lít trở lên in liquid form. Possessing, Điều 249. Tội tàng trữ trái phép chất ma túy. Khoản 4 reads thì bị phạt tù từ 15 năm đến 20 năm hoặc tù chung thân, fifteen to twenty years or life. This article never carried the death penalty, before the amendment or after it. Transporting, Điều 250. Tội vận chuyển trái phép chất ma túy. Khoản 4 now reads thì bị phạt tù 20 năm hoặc tù chung thân, twenty years or life. This is the conduct the 2025 amendment changed. Before 1 July 2025 the same khoản read thì bị phạt tù 20 năm, tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, and the words hoặc tử hình are gone. Transporting no longer carries the death penalty in Vietnam. Trading, Điều 251. Tội mua bán trái phép chất ma túy. Khoản 5 reads thì bị phạt tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, life imprisonment or death. Death is retained for this conduct and the death band at Các chất ma túy khác ở thể rắn có khối lượng 09 kilôgam trở lên, that is nine kilograms or more, or Các chất ma túy khác ở thể lỏng có thể tích 22 lít trở lên in liquid form. Appropriating, Điều 252. Tội chiếm đoạt chất ma túy. Khoản 4 carries fifteen to twenty years or life and no death penalty. The life band at Các chất ma túy khác ở thể rắn có khối lượng 300 gam trở lên, that is three hundred grams or more applies to possessing, transporting and appropriating alike. Death is discretionary rather than mandatory on the wording of both articles that retain it. Each of those khoản reads thì bị phạt tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, which offers life imprisonment or death, so the court chooses between them. Neither article prints death as the only penalty for its band. I read no Vietnamese judgment and this cell makes no claim about how often a sentence is carried out.

If prescribed or medical

Psilocybin has no lawful medical form in Vietnam to carry a prescription for, so the prescription question does not arise and no reader should be told to carry paperwork for it. It sits in IB #29, and the danh mục it falls in is the decree's own statement of how tightly the substance is held rather than a statement about medical availability.

Documentation

Where the rule for Psilocybin comes from. Two instruments, and they do different jobs. The list. Luật Phòng, chống ma túy số 73/2021/QH14, Điều 2 khoản 1, provides Chất ma túy là chất gây nghiện, chất hướng thần được quy định trong danh mục chất ma túy do Chính phủ ban hành. The Government, not the Assembly, decides what is a narcotic substance, and it does so by decree. The decree in force is Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, signed and in force 19 January 2026, whose Điều 3 khoản 2 repeals Nghị định 57/2022/NĐ-CP and Nghị định 90/2024/NĐ-CP. Four danh mục in seven parts, 694 entries. For Psilocybin the placement is IB #29, established by CAS 520-52-5. Placements in this batch were settled on the CAS number wherever the decree prints one, because a name that resembles the substance is not the substance: the decree lists 2C-B and Brolamphetamine separately, and Methoxetamine and 3-MeO-PCP separately, and matching on a name alone would have merged them. The offence. Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025. That amendment substituted articles 248 to 252 in full, and it is the reason this cell separates the conducts rather than saying that Vietnam has the death penalty for drugs. The consolidated text read is văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH of September 2025. Method and its limits. The decree is a scanned signed PDF with no text layer; it was rendered at 600 dots per inch and read with optical character recognition in Vietnamese, and the entries that enter this cell were checked against the page images. The Vietnamese in this cell was normalised to NFC before being checked character for character against the cached statute, because the cached file mixes composed and decomposed forms and a literal search against it returns a false zero. This cell states no figure for how often Vietnam carries out a death sentence, and cites no Vietnamese judgment, because none was read.

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