Is Psychedelic Therapy Legal in United Arab Emirates?

Zero-tolerance prohibition under Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021 on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances. Psilocybin scheduled (Tables 1-4); import/possession/use prohibited except for licensed scientific/medical use. No general therapeutic pathway; trafficking can carry the death penalty.

MDMA/ecstasy prohibited under Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021; possession and use criminalized, trafficking carries severe penalties up to death. No medical access.

Captured by the comprehensive narcotics/psychotropics prohibition (scheduled tables); no general medical pathway. Illegal under more-restrictive default.

DMT prohibited as a controlled psychotropic under Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021; no religious or therapeutic exemption.

Best-effort: prohibited as an internationally controlled hallucinogen under the scheduled tables of Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021.

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

Prescription anesthetic used in hospitals under controlled-medical-use provisions of Federal Decree-Law No. 30 of 2021; non-medical possession criminalized. Not a recreational/therapeutic psychedelic pathway.