Legality
Salvia divinorum legal status by country
Also known as: ska maria pastora
Countries where the legal status of Salvia divinorum 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 Salvia divinorum in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, neither the plant nor its active diterpene. This is a positive finding of absence and not a...
- ArgentinaControlled through a named constituent or member, not as a label. The row itself is not an entry. The...
- AustraliaProhibited under the Poisons Standard and a prohibited import; not a Criminal Code drug. F2026L01327 names...
- AustriaControlled in Austria under the new psychoactive substances regime, and not as a narcotic or a psychotrope....
- 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. Salvia divinorum is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BangladeshSalvinorin A is named in Class 'kha' at serial 4 of the First Schedule, between Pyrovalerone and Synthetic...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelgiumSalvia divinorum is a controlled substance in Belgium because it is listed. The Royal Decree of 6 September...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 9 of lista E, the list of proscribed plants and fungi that can...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaControlled through a named constituent. Salvia divinorum is not itself a named entry of any of the three...
- CanadaControlled. NAMED: Order SOR/2015-209 added 'Salvia divinorum, its preparations and derivatives, including...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 2, the lista of substances that do not produce those grave effects.
- ColombiaControlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026...
- CroatiaSalvia divinorum is listed in Croatia, in the psychotropic section for substances under Schedule 1 of the...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaControlled through the diterpene it contains rather than as a plant. „Salvinorin A“ is printed in seznam č. 4...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation. Named on liste B of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene is named in the Categorías. Salvinorin A is a...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. The plant Salvia...
- EstoniaSalvia divinorum is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands. Salvia divinorum is named on liste B nr. 417 of bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af...
- FinlandControlled, though not as a narcotic. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä...
- FranceSalvia divinorum is classified as a narcotic in France. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the...
- GermanySalvia divinorum is named as a species in Anlage I of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz, which is the opposite...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Salvia divinorum is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in...
- 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. Salvia divinorum, searched...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in...
- HungaryControlled. The plant is not itself an entry, and it is not named in any of the six jegyzékek. The forms...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Salvia divinorum". Its Alþjóðasamningar column is...
- 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...
- IranSalvia divinorum 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. Neither the plant Salvia divinorum nor salvinorin A appears anywhere in...
- IrelandSalvia divinorum is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1 plant...
- ItalyControlled. The Ministry of Health compilation of the DPR 309/1990 tables carries «Salvia divinorum;...
- JapanSalvia divinorum material in a form ready for use on the body is listed in Japan as a 指定薬物 product, a...
- JordanWhether Salvia divinorum is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanDried Salvia divinorum leaf is not itself a listed article while the salvinorin it contains is a listed...
- 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. Salvia divinorum is in no table of Group 1 or...
- LatviaSalvia divinorum is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is 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...
- LithuaniaSalvia divinorum is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names Salvia divinorum. The entry relied on reads...
- MacauControlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 36, prints «墨西哥鼠尾草». The quoted item names the plant in...
- MalaysiaSalvia divinorum is named nowhere in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and nowhere in the...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs salvia divinorum is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a...
- MexicoSalvia divinorum is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Salvia divinorum is listed in two tables, and the decision does not say which governs....
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Salvia divinorum was searched for across...
- NetherlandsSalvia divinorum and salvinorin A are not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. Lijst II names plants only...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Salvia divinorum, a...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Salvia divinorum is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PeruThis substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas...
- PhilippinesA dangerous drug under RA 9165, by a national listing. Board Regulation No. 3, Series of 2015, adopted 9...
- PolandControlled. Poland names both the plant and its active principle in its own national list. «SALVIA DIVINORUM»...
- PortugalProhibited as a new psychoactive substance. Salvia divinorum is not in tables I to IV of Decreto-Lei n.º...
- QatarSalvia divinorum is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the...
- RomaniaSalvia divinorum is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Salvia divinorum Epling & Jativa»,...
- RussiaControlled through its salvinorin A content. The dossier's explanation for this row reads: “Plant product is...
- 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 ArabiaSalvia divinorum is expressly a prohibited plant in Saudi Arabia, listed in Schedule IV of the schedules...
- SerbiaSalvia divinorum is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak...
- SingaporeClass A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry...
- SlovakiaSalvia divinorum is controlled in Slovakia. Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 does not name Salvia divinorum as...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Salvia divinorum is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule,...
- SurinameIllegal. Lijst III, which S.B. 2018 no. 64 annexed to the act, prints in Tabel III the entry 'Plant-based...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandControlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries Salvia divinorum in list d, where the entry...
- TaiwanCategory 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- TajikistanControlled in Tajikistan, both as a plant and through its active compound. Row 8 of Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to...
- ThailandSalvia divinorum is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai...
- UkraineControlled in Ukraine through its active principle and the list's plant note, not by a named plant entry. The...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Salvia divinorum and its active compound salvinorin A are not named in Schedule 2 to...
- 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. Salvia divinorum is...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Neither Salvia divinorum nor salvinorin A is listed in Decree 28/2026, so the...
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Not individually verified
For these 144 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Salvia divinorum 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
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- 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)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- 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
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Puerto Rico (US)
- 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)
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe