Legality
Xylazine legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Xylazine 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 Xylazine in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- AlbaniaXylazine is not listed in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and the Act contains no veterinary sedative. This is a positive finding of absence and not a...
- ArgentinaControlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 882 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026,...
- ArmeniaGoverned in Armenia through veterinary medicines legislation rather than through the narcotics annex, and the...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicine under the Poisons Standard; no Commonwealth criminal drug status. F2026L01327...
- 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. Xylazine 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....
- BelarusXylazine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. Xylazine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CanadaXylazine is regulated in Canada as a prescription veterinary drug under the Food and Drugs Act and its...
- ChileControlled as a chemical, not as a drug. The placement is established: this substance lies outside both...
- ColombiaControlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026...
- CroatiaXylazine is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaNot listed. Xylazine is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb....
- DenmarkNot a euphoriant under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. Xylazine has no entry. It is a veterinary alpha-2 adrenergic agonist and a thiazine, and no...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Xylazine, a...
- El SalvadorControlled under the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2...
- EstoniaXylazine is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. It is governed instead by the...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Xylazine is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceXylazine is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GeorgiaXylazine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records...
- GermanyXylazine is not scheduled in Germany. The search ran on 20 September 2026 under „Xylazin; Xylazine“ across...
- GhanaXylazine is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named...
- GreeceNot listed in the Greek narcotics tables. Xylazine 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. Xylazine, searched also as...
- Hong KongNot a dangerous drug under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134). Controlled as a medicine under the...
- HungaryControlled. Xylazine is a named entry of the új pszichoaktív anyagok jegyzéke carried in the 3. melléklet to...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland's narcotics list. Xylazine 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...
- IranXylazine has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. Xylazine appears nowhere in the ten schedules under any Latin or Arabic...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule; 2010...
- IsraelControlled. Named in the First Schedule of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973 at חלק ב'...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanXylazine is not a controlled substance in Japan. It is a veterinary medicine: the official veterinary...
- JordanWhether Xylazine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanXylazine is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- 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. Xylazine is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2...
- LatviaXylazine is not listed in the Latvian controlled substances annex. Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaXylazine is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Xylazine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaXylazine is a poison under the Poisons Act 1952, listed in the Poisons List by name with «All preparations»...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs xylazine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that...
- MexicoXylazine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General...
- MoldovaNot in Moldova's national tables of controlled substances as at 3 October 2026. Xylazine, searched as...
- MontenegroNot listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o...
- MyanmarNot listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. Xylazine was searched for across Notification...
- NetherlandsXylazine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such, and the...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Xylazine, a...
- North MacedoniaNot a controlled drug under the classification lists. The lists carry no row for ксилазин, and the instrument...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway. Xylazine is not a row on the narkotikaliste, and it is not reached by...
- 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: xylazine is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Xylazine appears in none of the three annexes, so it is not a...
- QatarXylazine 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...
- RomaniaXylazine 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...
- SerbiaXylazine is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak...
- SingaporeNot a controlled drug under this Act. Xylazine is in no Part of the First Schedule. Xylazine is a veterinary...
- SlovakiaXylazine is controlled in Slovakia. Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 names xylazine. The entry relied on reads...
- SloveniaNot named in the annex. A search of every named row of the annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih...
- South AfricaNot named in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, so it is not a drug...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Xylazine 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 xylazine. The German search...
- TaiwanCategory 2 narcotic (第二級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- ThailandXylazine is not named in Thailand's criminal drug schedules. A substance specific sweep, run in Thai and by...
- UkraineGoverned in Ukraine as a veterinary medicine rather than as a scheduled substance. Record UKR-87 reports that...
- United KingdomControlled as a Class C drug. Part III of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 names it at paragraph...
- 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. Xylazine is not named in Decree 28/2026 and is not reached by any identified...
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Not individually verified
For these 143 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Xylazine 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
- Belize
- 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
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- 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)
- 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)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Portugal
- 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)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Korea
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- 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