Psychoactive substances

Government Decree amending the Decree on psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market

59 new substances will be classified as psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market.

Finland intends to classify the substances in the enclosed annex as psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market; as a result, these substances cannot be manufactured, imported, stored, sold or transferred. An exemption is their use for scientific research and industrial purposes. The possession and use of these substances will not be punishable.

Added to the Government Decree will be 59 substances that are considered important to place under control as psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market. 40 of these substances have reportedly appeared on European consumer markets, primarily for no other real use but mind-altering purposes, i.e. for intoxication, and 19 are positional isomers of the aforementioned substances. These substances are neither medicines nor narcotics, and there is no known industrial use for them.