1. What the law is
Bolivia answers a minimal quantity for personal use with treatment, not prison. Article 49 of Ley 1008 sends a dependent or non-habitual consumer caught with that amount to a drug-dependence facility rather than jail. Anything above that minimum is charged as trafficking under article 48, which carries ten to twenty-five years. Psilocin and psilocybin sit in Lista I of the annex to Ley 913 of 2017, the controlled-substances list now in force. No medical or supervised route exists.
2. History
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Illegal status takes effect.
3. Proposed laws
No proposed law is on file in Bolivia that would change this entry, as of the 16 Aug 2026 review.
4. Common questions
Is psilocybin legal in Bolivia?
Psilocybin is illegal in Bolivia.
Are magic mushrooms ("shrooms") legal in Bolivia?
"Magic mushrooms" and "shrooms" are common names for fungi that contain psilocybin, and this entry states the law on psilocybin itself, which some laws treat separately from the fungus. Psilocybin is illegal in Bolivia.
Read the law
Ley 1008 del Regimen de la Coca y Sustancias Controladas (19 July 1988), consolidated text published by the Ministerio de Gobierno: art. 48 punishes trafficking in controlled substances with 10 to 25 years' presidio; art. 49 provides that a dependent or non-habitual consumer found in possession of minimal quantities presumed to be for immediate personal use is interned in a public or private drug-dependence institute for treatment, and that possession above the minimum quantity is charged under art. 48. Psilocin and psilocybin are listed in Lista I of the annex to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017 (Ley de Lucha contra el Trafico Ilicito de Sustancias Controladas), which is the controlled-substances annex in force; Ley 913 also derogated art. 33 incisos a), q) and r), arts. 35, 36, 38 to 42 and 44 of Titulo II, and Titulos VI, VII and VIII of Ley 1008.1
Sources
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- 1.web.mingobierno.gob.bo (opens in new tab) · web.mingobierno.gob.bo
- 2.dgsc.gob.bo (opens in new tab) · dgsc.gob.bo
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Changes to this record
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Every change we have made to this record, dated, corrections included. Nothing changes silently.
Bolivia's entry now cites Bolivia's own official consolidated law rather than a third-party database, and names the 2017 law whose list actually covers psilocybin. A cultivation penalty the entry had cited rests on a cross-reference repealed in 2017 and has been removed. Psilocybin remains illegal.
Bolivia had been recorded as legal on the strength of an entry that was actually about ayahuasca. Ley 1008 lists psilocybin, and the status was corrected to illegal.
Psilocybin Media Group. "Bolivia: psilocybin legal status." The Psilocybin Record, accession BO-001, version of 23 Aug 2026. https://psilocybinlegalization.com/record/bolivia