Are Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice) legal in Sweden?
- Legal status
- Controlled. The synthetic cannabinoids are scheduled compound by compound 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. A representative row reads «AB-CHMINACA N-(1-amino-3-metyl-1-oxobutan-2-yl)-1-(cyklohexylmetyl)-1H-indazol-3-karboxamid». The class is scheduled compound by compound, every row read sits in Förteckning I, and a single international number would be wrong for it. Six rows read with international P II are AB-CHMINACA and AB-FUBINACA, then AB-PINACA and ADB-BUTINACA, then ADB-FUBINACA and the row printed as CUMYL-4CN-BINACA. The row for A-CHMINACA, the row for ADB-4en-PINACA, the rows for JWH-022, for JWH-073 and for JWH-081, and most of the CUMYL rows, carry no international listing. The JWH-018 row reads «JWH-018 Naftalen-1-yl-(1-pentylindol-3-yl)metanon», Förteckning I with international P II. Twelve JWH rows and about a dozen CUMYL rows were counted in the text read.
- 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 and supply carry imprisonment and that there is no death penalty.
- If prescribed or medical
- These substances have no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Sweden.
- Documentation
- There is no lawful personal import route. The live cell recorded successive listings since 2009, scheduling by name as narkotika or, for newer analogues, as hälsofarliga varor, and incorporation of the synthetic cannabinoids added to Schedule II of the 1971 Convention. That history is carried forward and was not re-derived.
- 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
- the row read at line 62 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text
- 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
- euda.europa.eu
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