Legality
Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) legal status by country
Also known as: hyoscine
Countries where the legal status of Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) 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
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- AlbaniaScopolamine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no tropane alkaloid except cocaine is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a...
- ArgentinaNot scheduled as an estupefaciente. Every one of the 886 numbered rows of the current Anexo I was searched by...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք rather than through the narcotics...
- AustraliaScheduled medicine, mostly prescription only; no Commonwealth criminal drug status. Scopolamine is hyoscine....
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and controlled instead as a prescription medicine. The placement is the...
- 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. Scopolamine is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelarusScopolamine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The...
- BelizeScopolamine, which the Belize statute book calls hyoscine, is a listed poison in Belize and not a controlled...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Scopolamine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaScopolamine (hyoscine) is a prescription drug, not a controlled substance: the Transderm-V motion-sickness...
- ColombiaControlled, and named in an offence of its own. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 lists it at entry...
- CroatiaScopolamine is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te...
- CzechiaNot listed. Scopolamine is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013...
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Scopolamine has no entry. It is a tropane alkaloid, and the only tropane compounds in the...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Scopolamine, also...
- EstoniaScopolamine is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Scopolamine is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceScopolamine is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in...
- GeorgiaScopolamine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier...
- GermanyScopolamine is not scheduled in Germany, and the rejection recorded on this row is a pharmacological one...
- GhanaScopolamine is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Scopolamine is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the...
- 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. Scopolamine, searched also...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryNot listed. Scopolamine is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Scopolamine is not named in Fylgiskjal I, searched as...
- 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...
- IranScopolamine has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqControlled in the plant form Schedule Five names, and as an isolated alkaloid it is not named in any Iraqi...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanScopolamine is not a controlled substance in Japan. Scopolamine, also called hyoscine, is a tropane alkaloid;...
- JordanWhether Scopolamine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanScopolamine is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this...
- 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. Scopolamine is in no table of Group 1 or Group...
- LatviaScopolamine is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. 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...
- LithuaniaScopolamine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Scopolamine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaScopolamine is a poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List under its other name as...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs scopolamine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell...
- MexicoScopolamine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Scopolamine is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o ljekovima,...
- MoroccoControlled as a produit toxique and not as a narcotic. The dahir of 2 December 1922 on substances vénéneuses...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Scopolamine was searched for across...
- NetherlandsScopolamine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II, and neither is any of the solanaceous plants that...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Scopolamine, a...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for скополамин, and the...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Scopolamine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: scopolamine (hyoscine) is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Scopolamine, called hioscyna in Polish, appears in none of the three...
- PortugalScopolamine (hyoscine), escopolamina (hioscina) is an authorised prescription/pharmacy medicine, not a...
- QatarScopolamine is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RomaniaScopolamine is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The...
- 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...
- SerbiaScopolamine is not a named entry on the Serbian controlled substance list. The dossier records a negative...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Scopolamine is in no Part of the First Schedule. Neither scopolamine...
- SlovakiaScopolamine is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- Solomon IslandsRestricted as a poison, with sale by or under the supervision of a registered pharmacist. The instruments...
- South AfricaControlled as a Schedule 2 substance under the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, through the...
- South KoreaScopolamine (hyoscine) is a registered medicine, not a controlled drug: butylscopolamine (Buscopan) products...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Scopolamine is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaNot a dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): absent...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for scopolamine. The German search...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent from all four...
- TajikistanControlled in Tajikistan as a poisonous substance under the entry «Скополамин», not as a narcotic or...
- ThailandScopolamine is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and...
- TurkeyScopolamine is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-82 reports that Постанова...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Scopolamine, also called hyoscine, is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayControlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025,...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Scopolamine/hyoscine is absent from Lists I to IV, so no narcotics-offence...
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Not individually verified
For these 140 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Scopolamine (Devil's Breath) 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
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- 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
- Montserrat (UK)
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe