Luxembourg
Psilocybin is illegal in Luxembourg. Using it, or carrying, holding or buying it for personal use, can bring eight days to six months in prison, a fine of 251 to 2,500 euros, or both. Growing it, even for personal use, brings one to five years.1
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1. What the law is
Luxembourg punishes using psilocybin, or holding it for personal use, with eight days to six months in prison, a fine of 251 to 2,500 euros, or both. Carrying or buying it for personal use is the same offense. A user who entered a detoxification cure before the use was discovered, or completes one the prosecutor offers, is not prosecuted.
The 1974 regulation listing psilocybin and psilocin covers organisms that naturally contain a listed substance and have an established potential for abuse and no lawful customary use. It also covers biological material able to reproduce and grow them. From 2004 to 2009 the regulation named plants and mushrooms containing such substances.
Growing or importing psilocybin, even for personal use, carries one to five years in prison, a fine of 500 to 1,250,000 euros, or both. So does selling it, or carrying, holding or acquiring it for someone else, paid or free. Prison rises to five to ten years for an offense against a minor, and to fifteen to twenty for organized activity or a death caused by use. The term is life where the death follows an offense against a minor.
2. History
The legal events behind this entry, dated and oldest first. Our own reviews and corrections are listed under Changes to this record.
No reform legislation on file for Luxembourg yet. If one passes, it appears here, dated.
3. Proposed laws
No proposed law is on file in Luxembourg that would change this entry, as of the 13 Nov 2026 review.
4. Common questions
Is psilocybin legal in Luxembourg?
Psilocybin is illegal in Luxembourg. Using it, or carrying, holding or buying it for personal use, can bring eight days to six months in prison, a fine of 251 to 2,500 euros, or both. Growing it, even for personal use, brings one to five years.
Are magic mushrooms ("shrooms") legal in Luxembourg?
"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 Luxembourg. Using it, or carrying, holding or buying it for personal use, can bring eight days to six months in prison, a fine of 251 to 2,500 euros, or both. Growing it, even for personal use, brings one to five years.
Read the law
Loi modifiée du 19 février 1973 concernant la vente de substances médicamenteuses et la lutte contre la toxicomanie, consolidation applicable from 21 July 2023, the latest. Article 7(1), as replaced by the loi du 10 juillet 2023, holds the personal-use offense, excluding use in premises the Minister of Health approves. Aggravated use is article 7(2). Cultivation, import and supply fall under article 8(1), whose last sentence sets a two-year minimum in or near schools and prisons, among other places. Articles 9 and 10 raise the ranges. The cure routes are articles 23 to 26. Règlement grand-ducal du 20 mars 1974 concernant certaines substances psychotropes, consolidation applicable from 13 July 2026: annex points 7 (psilocine) and 8 (psilocybine), and article 1, second paragraph (b) and (c), as replaced by the règlement grand-ducal du 20 avril 2009.1
Sources
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- 1.Loi modifiée du 19 février 1973 concernant la vente de substances médicamenteuses et la lutte contre la toxicomanie, the drug law, consolidation of 21 Jul 2023Legilux (opens in new tab) · data.legilux.public.lu
- 2.Règlement grand-ducal du 20 mars 1974 concernant certaines substances psychotropes, the list of psychotropic substances, consolidation of 13 Jul 2026Legilux (opens in new tab) · data.legilux.public.lu
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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.
This entry had called using or holding psilocybin for personal use in Luxembourg a crime. Its penalty, eight days to six months in prison, is a correctional one, which makes the offense a délit; the entry now calls it an offense, and the penalty is unchanged. The 2004 wording that named plants and mushrooms was an earlier text of the same paragraph of the 1974 regulation, replaced in 2009; the entry had called it a predecessor. The entry now gives the heavier prison terms for growing, importing and supply, up to life, and its head sentence gives one to five years for growing, even for personal use.
Luxembourg joins the register. Using psilocybin or holding it for personal use is a criminal offense under the drug law of 19 February 1973, and psilocybin and psilocin are listed in the 1974 regulation on psychotropic substances.
Psilocybin Media Group. "Luxembourg: psilocybin legal status." The Psilocybin Record, accession LU-001, version of 13 Nov 2026. https://psilocybinlegalization.com/record/luxembourg