Slovakia
Psilocybin is illegal in Slovakia, where the Criminal Code names psilocybin mushrooms. Possessing even a negligible amount can bring up to two years in prison, unless the act is judged too minor to be a crime. Up to 10 grams of dried mushrooms is negligible.1
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1. What the law is
Slovakia's Criminal Code covers possession of psilocybin mushrooms in any amount. Even a negligible amount can bring up to two years in prison. Only an act judged too minor to be a crime is a misdemeanor, fined up to 500 euros. Negligible means up to 10 grams dried, or more if it holds at most 100 milligrams of active substance.
Holding more, up to 50 grams, brings six months to three years. Up to 2.5 kilograms brings one to six years, as does a negligible amount within 24 months of a final conviction for the same offense. Making the drug, holding more than 2.5 kilograms, or any amount for distribution or profit, is production or trafficking. It carries one to five years for a negligible amount, and 10 to 25 years or life for the largest.
Growing up to 40 fruiting bodies for personal use carries up to a year. At lower tiers a court may waive punishment where the offender admits and regrets the act and shows effective effort to reform. Where dependence caused the act, it may do so with protective treatment and up to two years' probation.
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 Slovakia yet. If one passes, it appears here, dated.
3. Proposed laws
No proposed law is on file in Slovakia that would change this entry, as of the 13 Nov 2026 review.
4. Common questions
Is psilocybin legal in Slovakia?
Psilocybin is illegal in Slovakia, where the Criminal Code names psilocybin mushrooms. Possessing even a negligible amount can bring up to two years in prison, unless the act is judged too minor to be a crime. Up to 10 grams of dried mushrooms is negligible.
Are magic mushrooms ("shrooms") legal in Slovakia?
"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 Slovakia, where the Criminal Code names psilocybin mushrooms. Possessing even a negligible amount can bring up to two years in prison, unless the act is judged too minor to be a crime. Up to 10 grams of dried mushrooms is negligible.
Read the law
Trestný zákon (Criminal Code, Act 300/2005 Z. z.) as in force from 18 August 2026. Sections 171, 172(2) and 173 hold possession, personal growing, and production and trafficking; section 135b defines possession. Annex 1 sets the negligible amount of Huby s obsahom psilocybínu a psilocínu at 10 g dry matter; above that, section 135c(1) makes 100 mg of active substance as free base the test. Section 135d multiplies the 10 g for the higher tiers, and Annex 2 sets 40 fruiting bodies. Waivers: section 40(1)(a), for an admitted prečin, and section 40a, with protective treatment under section 73(2)(c). Section 10(2) of the Code and section 30(1)(c) of the Misdemeanours Act (Act 372/1990 Zb.) carry the misdemeanor route. The drug law (Act 139/1998 Z. z.) lists psilocybín and psilocín in Annex 1, Group I.1
Sources
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- 1.Criminal Code (Trestný zákon, Act 300/2005 Z. z.), version in force from 18 Aug 2026Slov-Lex (opens in new tab) · static.slov-lex.sk
- 2.Act 139/1998 Z. z., the drug law and its schedule, version in force from 15 Nov 2026Slov-Lex (opens in new tab) · static.slov-lex.sk
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Changes to this record
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In Slovakia a negligible amount of psilocybin mushrooms is anything up to 10 grams dried, or more where it holds no more than 100 milligrams of active substance. This entry had said the active substance decides the tiers above 10 grams; the Criminal Code sets them as multiples of that weight. It had also placed section 10(2), on acts too minor to be crimes, in the Misdemeanours Act; the section is in the Criminal Code. The entry now gives the terms for production and trafficking, up to life, and the conditions of the court waivers.
Slovakia joins the register. Its Criminal Code names psilocybin mushrooms and makes possessing even a negligible amount, up to 10 grams dried, punishable by up to two years in prison.
Psilocybin Media Group. "Slovakia: psilocybin legal status." The Psilocybin Record, accession SK-001, version of 13 Nov 2026. https://psilocybinlegalization.com/record/slovakia