1. What the law is
This entry rests on a claim we cannot check. Companies have announced since October 2020 that the Bureau of Standards issues Scientific Research Licenses to cultivate, process, import, export and research psilocybin for medicinal purposes. No government document saying so has been found. The Ministry of Agriculture, which houses the Bureau, runs a working search of its own site, and on 21 September 2026 it returned nothing for psilocybin, nothing for psychedelic and nothing for the named licensee companies, while returning results for arrowroot and for the Bureau itself. Nothing found makes possession generally lawful either. The status stands because prohibition would be equally unsupported.
2. History
The legal events behind this entry, dated and oldest first. Our own reviews and corrections are listed under Changes to this record.
Medical use status takes effect.
3. Proposed laws
No proposed law is on file in St. Vincent and the Grenadines that would change this entry, as of the 21 Sep 2026 review.
4. Common questions
Is psilocybin legal in St. Vincent and the Grenadines?
Psilocybin is legal for medical use in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Are magic mushrooms ("shrooms") legal in St. Vincent and the Grenadines?
"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 legal for medical use in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Read the law
Scientific Research Licenses reported to be issued by the SVG Bureau of Standards (initiative announced 29 October 2020; a Med Plant Science licence reported 1 March 2022) permitting cultivation, processing, import, export and research of psychedelic compounds including psilocybin for medicinal purposes. No instrument has been located, statutory or administrative. Every element of this description traces to company announcements and local reporting, and the Bureau's own ministry publishes nothing that names it.1
Sources
No primary source is on file for this entry yet, so its status is not yet checked against one. The methodology explains how each entry is graded for confidence.
- 1.psych.global (opens in new tab) · psych.global
This entry is for information only and is not legal or medical advice. Laws change, and enforcement can differ from the letter of the law, so check the current position against the sources above before relying on it.
Changes to this record
3 changes on file, the latest on . Show allHide
Every change we have made to this record, dated, corrections included. Nothing changes silently.
This entry no longer says that wellness clinics were planned for patients in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Nothing we can cite supported it. We also checked the right part of the government this time: the Bureau of Standards named as the licence issuer sits under the Ministry of Agriculture, whose website we had never searched. On 21 September 2026 it returned nothing for psilocybin, nothing for psychedelic and nothing for the companies named in the announcements, while returning results for arrowroot and for the Bureau itself. The country's legal status here is unchanged, and so is our low confidence in it.
This entry now carries much lower confidence. The licence scheme it describes comes from company announcements, and no government source for it has been found.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines had been recorded as legal. What is described is a licensing scheme for medicinal and research use, not a general legalization, so the status was narrowed to medical.
Psilocybin Media Group. "St. Vincent and the Grenadines: psilocybin legal status." The Psilocybin Record, accession VC-001, version of 21 Sep 2026. https://psilocybinlegalization.com/record/st-vincent-and-the-grenadines