Is Salvia divinorum legal in Sweden?
Also known as: ska maria pastora
- Legal status
- Not named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. I searched that text for Salvia and Salvinorin. No entry for Salvia divinorum was found. The föreskrift says of itself that the names of substances, plant material and fungi are not exhaustively given and that other designations may occur, so this is an absence of the names searched for rather than a finding that nothing at all reaches the substance.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live cell recorded that possession, sale and import are criminal offences and that material is seized on import.
- If prescribed or medical
- No medical use in Sweden and no lawful prescription route.
- Documentation
- The live cell recorded that salvinorin A, and Salvia divinorum extract, were classified as narkotika by Läkemedelsverket with the classification in force from 2006. That claim and that date are carried forward and were not re-derived, and they are in tension with what was measured here. Whether the 2006 declaration was made under the narcotics list or under lagen (1999:42) om förbud mot vissa hälsofarliga varor was not established in this pass.
- Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026
- 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika
- Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name
- lakemedelsverket.se
- lakemedelsverket.se
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), 1 §, 2 §, 3 § and 8 §
- Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
- riksdagen.se
- Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
- lakemedelsverket.se
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