Is Salvia divinorum legal in Jordan?

Also known as: ska maria pastora

Legal status

Whether Salvia divinorum is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ salvia-divinorum: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for Salvia divinorum: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were Salvia divinorum, salvinorin A and salvinorin, checked against the plant and psychotropic entries. Neither the plant nor its active diterpene was found, and no plant-family clause was established that would reach a Salvia species by genus. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind, and article 19(a)(1) separately reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers may add a plant or a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: not established. Neither the species nor salvinorin A was recovered, so the placement that the penalty depends on is still open and two branches follow. If the plant and its diterpene are genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added either to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way, and article 19(a)(1) is available besides, because it reaches a plant producing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances as such, so a living plant or a dried leaf can be the offence with no extraction step at all. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», life imprisonment, mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved, and article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, at any quantity. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess, and a traveller should read the harsher one.

If prescribed or medical

No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for Salvia divinorum, because the control status that would drive it is not established, and there is no Jordanian medical route for the plant or its extract to describe. Live plants, cuttings and dried leaf meet agricultural and plant health controls on import, and standardised extracts meet food and supplement controls, none of which were audited for this table. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions, so a route here is unread rather than absent.

Documentation

No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for Salvia divinorum, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry leaf, a cutting or an extract. A plant or a plant product crossing a border meets agricultural inspection before it meets a drug law, and a strength-labelled extract invites a laboratory reading that plain leaf does not. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.

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