Is Psychedelic Therapy Legal in Qatar?

Zero-tolerance prohibition under Law No. 9 of 1987 on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Dangerous Psychotropic Substances (amended 2023, schedules updated 2026). Psilocybin scheduled; no therapeutic access. Trafficking can carry the death penalty.

Ecstasy/MDMA explicitly prohibited under Law No. 9 of 1987; possession, use and trafficking criminalized, trafficking carries up to life imprisonment and possible death penalty. No medical pathway.

Captured by the comprehensive narcotics/psychotropics prohibition; no specific listing located and no medical pathway.

DMT prohibited as a controlled psychotropic under Law No. 9 of 1987; no religious or therapeutic exemption.

Best-effort: prohibited as an internationally controlled hallucinogen under the blanket narcotics framework.

Tracked separately — a prescription medicine, excluded from the blended status.

Prescription anesthetic used in hospitals; tightly controlled. Possession without prescription is criminalized. Not a recreational/therapeutic psychedelic pathway.