4-HO-MET (metocin) is a synthetic psychedelic tryptamine and close structural analogue of psilocin, the active compound in magic mushrooms, producing broadly similar effects. It is not federally scheduled by name in the US but can be prosecuted as a psilocin analogue under the Federal Analogue Act, and some states have scheduled it explicitly.
⏳Pending medical review. This page has not yet been checked by a clinician, so read it as general information, not medical advice.
Overview
4-HO-MET, also known as metocin or methylcybin, is a synthetic psychedelic of the tryptamine family, first made by Alexander Shulgin in the 1970s and described in his book TiHKAL. It is a close structural relative of psilocin (the compound psilocybin converts to in the body), and users report a broadly psilocybin-like experience. It emerged as a research-chemical / designer drug in the late 2000s and is typically sold as a powder or pellet.
Source: Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA); peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC)
Chemistry & mechanism of action
4-HO-MET is a non-selective serotonin receptor agonist that acts on the 5-HT2A receptor, the target central to classic psychedelics such as psilocin and LSD. Activating 5-HT2A produces the characteristic changes in perception, thought, and mood. Because it is structurally close to psilocin, its pharmacology and subjective effects are broadly comparable, though it has been far less studied.
Source: peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC); Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
Effects
Reported effects resemble psilocybin: visual distortions, shifts in mood and thought, emotional openness, and altered sense of time, lasting several hours. Accounts describe experiences that can swing between euphoric and deeply unpleasant. Because it is obscure and little-studied, there is limited reliable information on its effects, and unregulated products vary in strength and identity.
Source: peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC); Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
Risks & harms
Because 4-HO-MET has only a short history of human use and almost no formal safety research, its risk profile is poorly characterized — an uncertainty that is itself a hazard. As a serotonergic psychedelic it can produce intensely distressing psychological experiences, especially in an unsafe setting or for people vulnerable to psychiatric illness, and it may raise heart rate and blood pressure. Combining it with other serotonergic drugs — including certain antidepressants (SSRIs, MAOIs), other psychedelics, or stimulants like MDMA — carries a risk of serotonin syndrome, a potentially life-threatening reaction with agitation, high fever, rigidity, and rapid heart rate. Unregulated products cannot be assumed to contain what they claim or at the potency assumed; substances sold as one tryptamine are frequently another, and dose cannot be judged by eye. Anyone experiencing a severe psychiatric crisis, very high temperature, rigidity, or seizures needs emergency care — call 911, and Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 can advise. This page has not yet been medically reviewed.
Source: peer-reviewed literature (NIH/PMC); SAMHSA; Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
Legal status (US)
In the United States, 4-HO-MET is not scheduled by name under the federal Controlled Substances Act. However, because it is a close structural analogue of psilocin — a Schedule I substance — it can be treated as a Schedule I controlled substance under the Federal Analogue Act when intended for human consumption, exposing possession, sale, or distribution to federal prosecution. Some states (such as South Dakota and West Virginia) have scheduled it explicitly or restricted synthetic tryptamines broadly. Legal status varies internationally. Follow local law; consult DEA resources for specifics. This page has not yet been medically reviewed.
Source: DEA; US federal law (Federal Analogue Act, 21 U.S.C. 813); Wikipedia (CC-BY-SA)
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Drug laws and enforcement change and vary by country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with the destination’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling — penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.
Before you travel
Verify current rules with the destination country’s official drug authority and your own country’s embassy before traveling. Find the destination’s U.S. embassy & official country guidance → Non-U.S. travelers: check your own government’s travel advisory and embassy.
If you’re detained or arrested abroad
Contact your own country’s embassy or consulate in the destination immediately, not the destination’s authorities. U.S. citizens: contact the nearest U.S. embassy/consulate and the U.S. State Department at +1-202-501-4444 (from abroad). If a U.S. citizen is arrested or detained abroad →
If an experience becomes overwhelming, the goal is to stay safe and let it pass, most difficult experiences ease as the drug wears off.
Get to a calm, safe space with someone you trust who is sober and can stay with you.
Cool down if you’re overheating, move somewhere cool, remove extra layers, rest. Overheating is especially a risk with stimulants and MDMA.
Sip water to thirst, but don’t over-hydrate. Drinking large amounts of plain water (especially after MDMA) can dangerously dilute your blood sodium (hyponatremia). Electrolytes help more than volume.
Slow your breathing, long, slow exhales help settle a racing heart and anxiety.
A sugary drink, fruit juice, or a snack can ease shakiness and the anxiety that comes with low blood sugar.
Do not take more, and do not add another substance to manage it. Redosing or adding something else (including a sedative like a benzodiazepine) can make things worse, not better.
With psychedelics, fear and confusion are usually temporary. Change your surroundings, calmer light, quiet music, a trusted person, and remind yourself it will lift as the drug wears off.
Call 911 (or Poison Control, 1-800-222-1222) right away for chest pain, a very high body temperature, a seizure, unconsciousness, or severe confusion. These are medical emergencies, not something to wait out.
Source: general harm-reduction guidance from SAMHSA, NIH/NIDA, and MedlinePlus, in our own words. Draft, not yet medically reviewed.
Forensic dossier
Draft · every field is source-cited or marked “Unknown, pending review”
Unknown — pending review (no Rx/OTC label; illicit — pill visuals = FIRST-PARTY submissions only, never generated or scraped)
Route
Unknown — pending review
Shape
Unknown — pending review
Color
Unknown — pending review
Imprint
Unknown — pending review
Score
Unknown — pending review
Scheduling & legal status
US schedule
Unknown — pending review
International
Unknown, pending review
Effects, risks & interactions
Effects
4-HO-MET (4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, "metocin") is a synthetic tryptamine psychedelic, a structural cousin of psilocin first explored by the chemist Alexander Shulgin. It acts on serotonin receptors like other tryptamine psychedelics, producing shifts in vision and perception, in mood, and in the texture of thought, unfolding over a few hours. Users often describe it as relatively gentle and euphoric compared with some psychedelics, though — as with all research chemicals — such descriptions come from uncontrolled use rather than clinical study.PubChem CID 21786582 ↗ · retrieved 2026-06-18
Risks
Because human data on 4-HO-MET are thin, its potency and full effects are poorly characterised, so unexpected intensity is a real possibility. It shares the tryptamine-psychedelic hazards — distressing or frightening episodes, disorientation that raises the chance of injury, nausea, and a lift in heart rate and blood pressure — and, in people prone to psychosis, the risk of lasting effects. Its serotonergic action means pairing it with antidepressants or other serotonin-active drugs can provoke serotonin toxicity. Sold as an unlabelled research chemical, what a given sample actually is, and how strong, is unknowable without a test.PubChem CID 21786582 ↗ · retrieved 2026-06-18
4-HO-MET is a 指定薬物, a designated substance, under the pharmaceuticals Act in Japan. The entry is 「Ｎ―エチル―四―ヒドロキシ―Ｎ―メチルトリプタミン及びその塩類」 at 省令第一条第八十号 of 平成十九年厚生労働省令第十四号, which is N-ethyl-4-hydroxy-N-methyltryptamine and its salts. 4-HO-MET differs from psilocin only in its nitrogen substituents (one methyl and one ethyl where psilocin has two methyls), and psilocin is a narcotic at 政令第一条第六十号 while this is a designated substance. This is the position on the designated substances list status 6 September 2026, with the narcotics tables status 6 September 2026 and the psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025 read for the other lanes, and the e-Gov text of the ordinance as at 2 October 2026. The pharmaceuticals Act's 第二条第十五項 keeps narcotics, psychotropics, stimulants and opium out of the designated substances list, so the three MHLW lists do not overlap.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No Japanese drug statute provides a death sentence: 死刑 appears in the main provisions of none of the 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 (the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act), the 覚醒剤取締法 (the Stimulants Control Act), the あへん法 (the Opium Act), the 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (the Cannabis Plant Cultivation Act), the pharmaceuticals Act (the PMD Act) or the 麻薬特例法 (the Narcotics Special Provisions Act), each read on e-Gov on 2 October 2026. Japan has not abolished capital punishment: 刑法第九条 lists it among the principal punishments, 「死刑、拘禁刑、罰金、拘留及び科料を主刑とし、没収を付加刑とする。」, and 第百九十九条 provides it for murder. Every penalty below reads 拘禁刑, the single form of imprisonment that replaced 懲役 and 禁錮 on the day described in the ministerial ordinance's own words as 「刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行の日（令和七年六月一日）」, 1 June 2025; under 刑法第十二条第一項 「有期拘禁刑は、一月以上二十年以下とする。」, so an open ended fixed term such as one year or more runs to twenty years, and 第十四条第二項 allows an aggravated fixed term to rise to thirty. The drug statutes took the new term from 令和四年法律第六十八号. Life imprisonment appears in the drug statutes in three places only: 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第六十四条第二項 (heroin imported, exported or made for profit), 覚醒剤取締法第四十一条第二項 (stimulants imported, exported or made for profit) and 麻薬特例法第五条 (dealing in any 規制薬物 as a business). The designated substances regime sits in the pharmaceuticals Act, 昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号, not in the narcotics statutes, and its prohibition is 第七十六条の四: 「指定薬物は、疾病の診断、治療又は予防の用途及び人の身体に対する危害の発生を伴うおそれがない用途として厚生労働省令で定めるもの（以下この条及び次条において「医療等の用途」という。）以外の用途に供するために製造し、輸入し、販売し、授与し、所持し、購入し、若しくは譲り受け、又は医療等の用途以外の用途に使用してはならない。」 Doing any of the commercial acts as a business is 第八十三条の九, 「第七十六条の四の規定に違反して、業として、指定薬物を製造し、輸入し、販売し、若しくは授与したとき又は指定薬物を所持したとき（販売又は授与の目的で貯蔵し、又は陳列したときに限る。）は、当該違反行為をした者は、五年以下の拘禁刑若しくは五百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。」, up to five years or a fine of up to five million yen or both. Everything else, simple possession, purchase and use included, is 第八十四条第二十八号, 「第七十六条の四の規定に違反したとき（前条に該当するときを除く。）。」, under which 第八十四条 provides 「次の各号のいずれかに該当する場合には、その違反行為をした者は、三年以下の拘禁刑若しくは三百万円以下の罰金に処し、又はこれを併科する。」, up to three years or a fine of up to three million yen or both. A 指定薬物 is not a 規制薬物 under 麻薬特例法第二条第一項, so the life term in that Act's 第五条 does not reach 4-HO-MET.
If prescribed / medical
There is no prescription route. 第七十六条の四 allows a 指定薬物 only for the 医療等の用途 that 平成十九年厚生労働省令第十四号 第二条 lists: academic research or testing by named public bodies, the tests and inspections under 法第六十九条第四項 and 第六項, 法第七十六条の六第一項 and 法第七十六条の八第一項, criminal forensics, the substance specific uses in its table, and 「前各号に掲げる用途のほか、厚生労働大臣が人の身体に対する危害の発生を伴うおそれがないと認めた用途」. The ordinance's table assigns no substance specific use to this entry. A foreign prescription for 4-HO-MET is not among those uses and the pharmaceuticals Act has no traveller permission for a 指定薬物 of the kind the narcotics and stimulant raw material lanes have.
Documentation
A foreign prescription does not make 4-HO-MET importable, and an individual traveller cannot bring it into Japan for personal use at all: 第七十六条の四 forbids importing a 指定薬物 for any purpose outside the 医療等の用途, and personal use is not one of them. No permission is issued and no document helps. The MHLW personal import guidance says the same of every controlled item, «Regardless of the description above, you cannot bring prohibited drugs and controlled drugs into Japan.» The ordinance opens 「医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律（昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号。以下「法」という。）第二条第十五項の規定に基づき、次に掲げる物を指定薬物に指定する。」 and 省令第一条第三百六十六号 extends the list to anything containing a designated substance, 「前各号に掲げる物のいずれかを含有する物。ただし、サルビア ディビノラム（直ちに人の身体に使用可能な形状のものに限る。）及びミトラガイナ スペシオーサ（ミトラガイナ属に属する他の種との交雑種を含み、直ちに人の身体に使用可能な形状のものに限る。）以外の植物を除く。」 Placement relied on: the MHLW designated substances list status 6 September 2026 (the English list headed as of September 6, 2026, 2,484 substances; the Japanese index dates its own copy 令和８年８月27日現在 and gives the same total).
Japan · e-Gov law data API (Digital Agency), XML fetched 2 October 2026 · the e-Gov web pages are JavaScript shells, so the API text was cached and read · 省令第一条第八十号 of the designated substances ordinance, entry 「Ｎ―エチル―四―ヒドロキシ―Ｎ―メチルトリプタミン及びその塩類」 · 医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律第二条第十五項に規定する指定薬物及び同法第七十六条の四に規定する医療等の用途を定める省令 平成十九年厚生労働省令第十四号, last amended by 令和八年厚生労働省令第百三十五号, in force with 令和八年政令第二百五十八号 on 2026-09-06, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/419M60000100014 · pharmaceuticals Act 昭和三十五年法律第百四十五号 第二条第十五項 第七十六条の四 第八十三条の九 第八十四条, as amended among others by 令和五年法律第六十三号 and 令和七年法律第三十七号, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/335AC0000000145 · MHLW designated substances list status 6 September 2026, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11120000/001743042.pdf · Japanese list https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11120000/001743040.pdf · MHLW personal import guidance, read 2 October 2026, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/seisakunitsuite/bunya/kenkou_iryou/iyakuhin/kojinyunyu/topics/tp010401-1_00001.html · Updated October 2, 2026
Singapore
Legal status
Class A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry (20), which reads "4-Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine (also known as 4‑Hydroxy‑MET or 4-HO-MET)".
Consequences if caught
Second Schedule reach: none. The Second Schedule carries 20 rows imposing "Death" and they name exactly eight terms: opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis mixture, cannabis resin and methamphetamine. This substance is none of those eight and it is not reached through any of them, so the Second Schedule sets no capital band for it. Trafficking in a Class A drug carries "Maximum 20 years and 15 strokes" with a minimum of "5 years and 5 strokes"; unauthorised import, export or manufacture of a Class A drug carries "Maximum 30 years or imprisonment for life and 15 strokes". Consumption and possession are separately punishable.
If prescribed / medical
Any authorised medical or scientific handling is under the Act and its regulations. Do not rely on a foreign prescription without checking with the Health Sciences Authority before travelling. Nothing here authorises possession.
Documentation
VERIFIED against the instrument. Instrument: Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore). Section: First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry (20). URL: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973. The whole Second Schedule was read before the capital statement above was written: it names eight terms and this is not one of them.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Second Schedule, Third Schedule and Fifth Schedule, on Singapore Statutes Online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973, read as at the version the page marks "Current version as at 17 Sep 2026", the most recent amendment shown on its own timeline being S 321/2026 with effect from 1 June 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
United Arab Emirates
Legal status
4-HO-MET is named in the tryptamines block of Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025, at item 35, subitem 12. The entry is «4-HO-MET؛ 4-هيدروكسي-N-ميثيل-N-إيثيل تريبتامين», and the dossier records that the schedule carries both the abbreviation and the 4-Hydroxy MET form, rendering the chemical name as 3-{2-[Ethyl(methyl)amino]ethyl}-1H-indol-4-ol. Subitem 12 is two places along from subitem 7, which carries the acetate ester 4-AcO-DMT, so the block is enumerating individual hydroxy and acetoxy tryptamines rather than controlling a family by description. That is what makes the placement usable: it rests on a printed name and not on a structural argument about the 4-position. Schedule 5 puts the row in the Articles 10, 41 and 57 branch, with a Schedule 10 group 1 quantity band. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Item 35, subitem 12 of Schedule 5 is inside one of the four schedule groups Article 57 names. The dossier records Article 57 as stating mandatory death for its trafficking or promotion trigger, and as stating no quantity, so the capital route on this row is not reached by crossing a weight. Schedule 10 gives the substance a group 1 band, and the dossier is explicit that the Schedule 10 bands do not gate the Article 57 route. Anyone reading a group 1 figure as the point at which death becomes available on this row has substituted a threshold rule for a schedule rule, and the article does not contain the threshold. Article 41 is the personal use route the dossier attaches to this branch, with no tariff stated.
If prescribed / medical
The single country level traveller fact the dossier carries is recorded at the modafinil row: a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: 4-HO-MET is at Schedule 5, item 35, subitem 12, with no medicinal product, prescribing route or import permit recorded against it. The medical carriage question is deferred rather than inferred from the Schedule 5 branch.
Documentation
Nothing in the dossier documents a lawful route for 4-HO-MET, so no paperwork is set out for this row. What is recorded is the placement itself, which is the fact that governs. Provenance: the entry «4-HO-MET؛ 4-هيدروكسي-N-ميثيل-N-إيثيل تريبتامين» at item 35, subitem 12 was read on 20 September 2026, and the capital analysis for the row rests on Article 57 and not on the group 1 band.
United Arab Emirates, Decision No. 158 of 2025, Schedule 5, item 35 (tryptamines), subitem 12, printed entry «4-HO-MET؛ 4-هيدروكسي-N-ميثيل-N-إيثيل تريبتامين» for 4-HO-MET, the dossier also recording the 4-Hydroxy MET form · Articles 10, 41 and 57 attach to this branch and the Schedule 10 group 1 band does not gate Article 57 · Updated September 21, 2026
China
Legal status
Not confirmed, verify with Chinese embassy
Consequences if caught
Zero-tolerance regime: under Criminal Law Article 347, smuggling, selling, transporting, or manufacturing drugs is punished regardless of quantity. Importing narcotics/psychotropics requires an Import/Export License from the State Council's drug regulatory department. This specific substance was not named by a reachable source.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed, verify with the Chinese embassy before travel.
Documentation
Written documentation from a medical institution proving the medicine is necessary; customs verifies the amount against the original prescription and retains a copy (one prescription = one inspection). Psychotropic-drug allowances can be as short as a 3-7 day supply.
Controlled in Russia through a derivative entry, not by name. The dossier places 4-HO-MET under the Decree 681 entry «4-Гидрокситриптамин и его производные» (in English, 4-hydroxytryptamine and its derivatives) and describes it as: “List I 4-hydroxytryptamine-derivative entry.” The row gives no structural reasoning beyond that description. The list number stated for this row is taken from the dossier's explanation column and is not printed in the quoted list entry. Decree 681 of 30 June 1998 sets the controlled lists and Decree 1002 of 1 October 2012 sets the amounts. The dossier read Decree 681 and Decree 1002 as amended up to Government Decree No. 880 of 11 June 2025, checked on 18 September 2026; a later government decree is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The highest sentence the dossier records under articles 228 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code is life imprisonment, at article 228.1(5). For 4-HO-MET the dossier's ceiling column gives Decree 1002 amounts of over 0.05 g (significant), over 0.25 g (large) and over 500 g (especially large), and the dossier's penalties section says the printed numbers are strict “over” thresholds, not inclusive cut-offs. Personal possession without intent to sell below the significant amount is an administrative offence under KoAP article 6.8, and the dossier gives no fine figure for it. Above the significant amount article 228 of the Criminal Code applies, and the dossier's penalties section gives up to 3 years for a significant amount, 3 to 10 years for a large amount and 10 to 15 years for an especially large amount, with the additional sanctions stated in the article. Production, sale or transfer is criminal at any amount under article 228.1, where, as the dossier puts it, there is no minimum quantity gateway and quantity instead aggravates the sentence; the especially large limb, article 228.1(5), carries 15 to 20 years or life imprisonment, plus the optional fine and disqualification stated there. The record this cell rests on does not set out separate import, export, cultivation or consumption offences, so none is stated here.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier's model section describes List I as prohibited narcotics and psychotropics, and this row states no prescription or medical route for 4-HO-MET, so none is given here.
Documentation
The dossier this cell rests on does not state a traveller documentation or import permit rule for 4-HO-MET.
Not confirmed for 4-HO-MET. As in force on 3 October 2026, 4-HO-MET, PubChem CID 21786582, "3-[2-[ethyl(methyl)amino]ethyl]-1H-indol-4-ol", is not named in any Thai naming notification read, and it is not reached by the extension clause of the nearest entry. The search ran on 3 October 2026, in Thai, in Latin script and by chemical name, through every Ministry of Public Health naming notification the Thai FDA Narcotics Control Division publishes under the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564: narcotic Category 1 of B.E. 2565 as amended up to No. 5 B.E. 2568, narcotic Category 2, narcotic Category 4 of B.E. 2566 as amended up to No. 3 B.E. 2568, narcotic Category 5, and psychotropic Categories 1 to 4 of B.E. 2565, Category 1 as amended up to No. 5 B.E. 2569. The tryptamines the psychotropic Category 1 list names are DET at item 12, DMT at item 18, etryptamine at item 20, psilocin at item 45, "ไซโลซีน (psilocine หรือ psilotsin)", "3-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl)-1H-indol-4-ol", and psilocybin at item 46. 4-HO-MET differs from psilocin by one ethyl group in place of a methyl on the side chain nitrogen. Clause 2 of the notification extends an entry to other names for the same structure, stereoisomers, salts, esters, ethers and preparations, and a change on the amine is none of those, so psilocin's entry does not carry it. This is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is uncontrolled in Thailand.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. No capital and no life exposure can be stated for 4-HO-MET and neither can be ruled out, because no category was proved and under the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 the ceiling follows the placement: with the placement open there is no section 145, 146 or 149 figure to attach. Psilocin and DMT, the named neighbours, are Category 1 psychotropics with a 10 year section 149 maximum, rising to 1 to 15 years where the conduct is for trade or carries another listed aggravation, and that exposure is not this substance's on the text read. If a later notification placed 4-HO-MET in narcotic Category 1, the section 145 paragraph 3 death alternative would still be discretionary and circumstance based, reserved for an organised network leader or a state or public security impact, and never triggered by a stated quantity. Treat the risk as unquantified rather than as low.
If prescribed / medical
No route can be stated, because the category is unproved, and the only statutory traveller exemption, section 39 paragraph 2 of the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564, covers psychotropic substances of Category 2, 3 or 4 carried for personal treatment within a 30 day quantity. The five tryptamines the psychotropic lists name are all in Category 1, outside that exemption.
Documentation
Carry the search record rather than a conclusion, and do not travel with 4-HO-MET. Check an analysis for psilocin and for 4-AcO-DMT as well, because psilocin is named and its acetate ester is reached through clause 2, while 4-HO-MET is neither. The notifications were read on 3 October 2026 on the Thai FDA Narcotics Control Division site: psychotropic Category 1 at https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-185 with amendments pc-194, pc-203, pc-211 and pc-183, the last gazetted 17 September 2569, and narcotic Category 1 at https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/nc-344 with its amendments nc-353, pc-198, pc-207 and nc_037, the last gazetted 12 September 2568. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited pages, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. Names and categories are set by ministerial notification and a later one can add 4-HO-MET, so re-read before relying on this.
Indonesia
Legal status
Not a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika or Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika: named in none of the seven current golongan: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III of Permenkes No. 15 Tahun 2025, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV of Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025. 4-HO-MET, metocin, is in none of the seven current golongan. Searches for 4-HO, metosin and the hydroxytryptamine fragment return nothing. The model: each Act carries its own list for the first time only, and every change since is a Ministerial regulation. Pasal 6(1) of Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika divides narcotics into Golongan I, II and III. Pasal 6(2) then provides that 「Penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (1) untuk pertama kali ditetapkan sebagaimana tercantum dalam Lampiran I dan merupakan bagian yang tak terpisahkan dari Undang-Undang ini」, so the Act's own annex governs only the first classification. The empowering article is Pasal 6(3): 「Ketentuan mengenai perubahan penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (2) diatur dengan Peraturan Menteri」. The psychotropics Act is built the same way: Pasal 2(3) of Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika sets the four golongan 「untuk pertamakali」 in its annex and Pasal 2(4) provides that 「Ketentuan lebih lanjut untuk penetapan dan perubahan jenis-jenis psikotropika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (3) diatur oleh Menteri」. So neither Act's annex is the operative list today. The narcotics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika, ditetapkan 21 November 2025, diundangkan 28 November 2025, Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 989, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 7 Tahun 2025. The psychotropics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, Berita Negara Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 6 Tahun 2025. The Act itself was last amended by Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2023. One part of the scheme is still in the Act and not in any regulation: the Prekursor Narkotika in Lampiran II, Tabel I and Tabel II, which neither Permenkes restates.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Neither Act creates an offence for this substance, so neither the narcotics ladder in Pasal 111 to 127 nor the psychotropics offences in Pasal 59 and following can engage on any facts. What governs it instead is named in the status above. The tryptamines here are individually enumerated: DMT, alfa-metiltriptamina at item 100, 5-MeO-MiPT at item 101, psilocin at item 46 and psilocybin at item 47. 4-HO-MET is a close relative of psilocin, differing by one N-alkyl substitution, and there is no tryptamine class clause to reach it. So it is not controlled by either Act. Neither reaches this substance, and not because the penalty is low but because no offence under either Act engages at all. The capital provisions are Pasal 113(2), 114(2) and 116(2) for Golongan I narcotics, Pasal 118(2), 119(2) and 121(2) for Golongan II, and Pasal 59(2) of the psychotropics Act for Golongan I psychotropics. Every one of them operates on a substance in a named Golongan, and this substance is in none of the seven lists: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV. Golongan III narcotics carry no death penalty in any event. The precursor tables in Lampiran II of the Act were also read and this substance is in neither of them, so Pasal 129 does not apply either. No quantity and no conduct reaches a capital or life sentence for it under these two Acts. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass: Permenkes 15/2025 and 14/2025 were read and no entry for this substance was located under the names searched. That is an unresolved search and not a finding of absence: the lists print chemical names and a name not searched for is a name not found.
Saudi Arabia
Legal status
Not confirmed. A placement for 4-HO-MET was not established, and the search that failed is recorded rather than summarised. The schedules attached to the Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, in the version issued on 4 September 2026, were searched from Schedule I to Schedule IV for 4-HO-MET and no matching entry was verified. The search record reads «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 4-ho-met: فُحصت الجداول من الأول إلى الرابع ولم يُتحقق من قيد مطابق.», the item specific search record for 4-HO-MET, the schedules from the first to the fourth were examined and no matching entry was verified. What was searched: “4-HO-MET”, “metocin”, “4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine”, «4 هيدروكسي ميت»; no exact N-ethyl tryptamine entry was recovered. The tryptamine entries that do exist were read, and none of them names a compound with an N-ethyl substituent at this position, so the placement would have to come from a generic clause rather than an entry, and no such clause was found. Absence of a verified entry is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful in Saudi Arabia, and the schedules are kept current under M/39 Articles 70 to 71 rather than by a fresh Royal Decree.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of 4-HO-MET in Saudi Arabia was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful in Saudi Arabia, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for 4-HO-MET in Saudi Arabia. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for 4-HO-MET in Saudi Arabia, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Saudi Arabia, Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, Articles 1 and 70 to 71 for identification and schedule maintenance and Articles 37 to 41 for the penalties that would follow a placement · Schedules I to IV in the version issued on 4 September 2026 were searched for 4-HO-MET with no entry verified. The schedules were read at https://sfda.gov.sa/sites/default/files/2026-09/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A9%20%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%202026.pdf, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority copy, and the penalty articles at https://www.moh.gov.sa/eServices/Licences/Documents/17.pdf, the Ministry of Health copy of M/39, with the statute text cross-checked against the readable transcription at https://github.com/Ahmed-Sleem/SaudiLegalCorpus · Updated October 4, 2026
Malaysia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is named nowhere in the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and nowhere in the Poisons Act 1952. Psilocin is named in Part III, and 4-HO-MET differs from it at one N-substituent, which makes it an analogue rather than an isomer, ester, ether or salt. Those four are the only generic extensions Part III carries and the Act has no analogue clause. So on the text 4-HO-MET is not a dangerous drug and section 39B does not reach it. That is a statement about the schedule as amended to 25 November 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. 4-HO-MET is in neither list. «Psilocine, Psilotsin, 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole» is in Part III of the First Schedule and 4-HO-MET differs from it at an N-substituent, which makes it an analogue and not an isomer, an ester, an ether or a salt. Section 39B is the only capital provision in Malaysian drug law, and section 39B(1) prohibits trafficking in «a dangerous drug», which section 2 defines as «any drug or substance which is for the time being comprised in the First Schedule». A substance outside that Schedule cannot be trafficked within the meaning of section 39B however much of it there is, the section 37(da) presumption weights do not reach it, and neither do the section 39A enhanced penalties. It is not in the Third Schedule to the Poisons Act 1952 either, so the section 30 psychotropic offence does not reach it. Do not read that as permission. The Dangerous Drugs Act carries no analogue clause at all, measured across the whole Act, so a substance is in or out on the naming; but section 45A provides that where the Minister «considers it expedient to add a substance to, or remove a substance from, or vary the First Schedule, he may by order make the requisite modifications», and he has used it twice since the consolidated text, by P.U. (A) 97 gazetted 2 April 2024 and P.U. (A) 416 gazetted 25 November 2025. An order takes effect on gazetting and there is no notice period. Customs may also treat an unlisted substance as a prohibited import under a separate order that was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical
Neither drug statute reaches 4-HO-MET, so neither supplies a prescription route for it and neither requires one. Psilocin is named in Part III as «Psilocine, Psilotsin, 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole», and 4-HO-MET differs from it at one nitrogen substituent. That makes it an analogue rather than an isomer, ester, ether or salt, and only those four relationships are carried forward by Part III. What this cell does not state is whether it is a registered product, an unregistered product or a prohibited import under the medicines and customs instruments, because none of those instruments was read for it.
Documentation
No documentation requirement arises under either drug statute, because neither reaches 4-HO-MET. There is no entry for a document to answer to. «Psilocine, Psilotsin, 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-hydroxyindole» is the nearest, and a single nitrogen substituent separates them. That is not the same as saying it may be brought in freely. Product registration with the National Pharmaceutical Regulatory Agency and the customs prohibited imports orders are separate regimes, neither was read for this cell, and nothing is stated here about either. Carry any prescription and the original packaging as a matter of course, and expect the question at the border to be settled by those other regimes rather than by the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 or the Poisons Act 1952.
South Korea
Legal status
Not confirmed, verify with Korea's MFDS / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named by a reachable South Korean source. South Korea controls 478 substances under the Narcotics Control Act, with a minimum of 1 year's imprisonment for possession/use of narcotics/psychotropics. Distinctively, South Korea prosecutes its own citizens for drug use committed abroad even where it was legal there (hair-follicle testing on return, up to 5 years); foreign nationals face deportation and a re-entry ban.
If prescribed / medical
Controlled-substance medicines require MFDS advance approval before travel; verify this substance's status with the MFDS / your embassy.
Documentation
MFDS advance approval is required for controlled-substance medicines (including CBD/THC oil, amphetamines, opiates, and benzodiazepines), apply online before travel (email narcotics@korea.kr). Non-controlled medicines are allowed up to 6 bottles / a 3-month supply with a prescription and a doctor's letter.
Controlled as a Class A drug through a generic definition. It is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971; Part I, paragraph 1(b) reaches it, which covers any compound not named in paragraph 1(a) «structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by modification in any of the following ways», including «by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain to any extent with alkyl or alkenyl substituents». 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine: its parent is a ring-hydroxy tryptamine, 4-hydroxytryptamine, and the only change is a methyl and an ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen, both alkyl, so it is inside the first limb. Section 2(1)(b) of the Act provides that «the expressions “Class A drug”, “Class B drug” and “Class C drug” mean any of the substances and products for the time being specified respectively in Part I, Part II and Part III of that Schedule». Schedule 2 was read as in force on 2 October 2026 in the legislation.gov.uk revised text, which records no known outstanding effects and incorporates S.I. 2024/1361, in force 15 January 2025; Schedule 2 moves by Order in Council under section 2(2), so this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 provides a death sentence; the highest punishment in Schedule 4 to the 1971 Act is imprisonment for life. Its closest named relative is psilocin, 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, which is an entry in paragraph 1(a); 4-HO-MET differs only by one N-ethyl in place of an N-methyl and is caught by the generic limb rather than by name. This row is Class A, so the Class A drug involved column of Schedule 4 to the 1971 Act governs. Possession, section 5(2), carries on indictment «7 years or a fine, or both.» Possession with intent to supply, section 5(3), supplying or offering to supply, section 4(3), and production, section 4(2), each carry on indictment «Life or a fine, or both.» Sale has no offence of its own: selling is supplying under section 4(3), and trafficking is not a separate offence in the Act, being concerned in another person's supply falling under section 4(3)(b) and (c). Importation and exportation are prohibited by section 3(1) and prosecuted as customs offences under sections 50(3), 68(2) and 170(2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, which Schedule 1 to that Act punishes for this class «where the goods were a Class A drug, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for life, or to both». Cultivation falls under production, because section 37(1) defines producing as «producing it by manufacture, cultivation or any other method». Use is not itself an offence: the Act reaches the user through possession, and its only offence of use is smoking or otherwise using prepared opium under section 9. An occupier who knowingly permits production or supply on premises commits the section 8 offence, also 14 years on indictment. The Act sets no quantity threshold and no statutory presumption of intent to supply; on indictment the fine has no stated maximum and runs with imprisonment or alone, because every band reads «or a fine, or both». A third Class A drug trafficking offence by an offender aged 18 or over carries a minimum of seven years in England and Wales under section 313 of the Sentencing Act 2020 («Minimum sentence of 7 years for third class A drug trafficking offence») and in Scotland under section 205B of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, each with its own exception. No administrative disposal attaches by statute: the penalty notice table in section 1 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, which applies in England and Wales, lists possession only of cannabis, cannabinol and its derivatives, and khat. Section 28 gives a defence of lack of knowledge; under section 28(3) a belief that it was a different controlled drug is no defence unless, had it been that drug, no offence would have been committed. The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 does not reach it: section 2(1) of that Act confines a psychoactive substance to one that «is not an exempted substance (see section 3).» and Schedule 1 exempts «Controlled drugs (within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971).» The 1971 Act is therefore read first and governs alone.
Canada
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in any schedule of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The Act was read against it in full.
Consequences if caught
It was searched for in all schedules and is not named. Psilocin and psilocybin are named individually, each with any salt thereof and no wider wording. Canada has no separate new psychoactive substances act, so there is no second instrument to fall back on. The Act defines analogue as a substance that, in relation to a controlled substance, has a substantially similar chemical structure, but that definition applies only where a schedule entry invokes it, and nineteen entries do. Schedule III carries one class definition, for a phenethylamine structure, and there is no equivalent for tryptamines. So a substance that is named nowhere and falls under no class definition and no analogue-bearing entry is not reached, and what other Canadian instrument might apply was not established here.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Canada has not been established here.
Documentation
Not confirmed. No controlled drug documentation requirement arises under the Act.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (S.C. 1996, c. 19), ss. 4 and 5 and Schedules I to IV · laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · consulted 16 September 2026 · Updated September 16, 2026
Australia
Legal status
Controlled federally as a drug analogue of a listed drug; its border status is conditional and the Poisons Standard does not place it. 4-HO-MET (metocin) is not named in F2026L01327, in the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 or in Schedule 4 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, each as in force on 2 October 2026. Criminal Code s301.9(1) makes a substance a drug analogue of a listed drug if it is, among other things, «a structural modification obtained in one or more of the following ways», including «(iii) by the replacement of one or more of the groups or atoms specified in subsection (2) with one or more of the other groups or atoms specified in that subsection», or «(d) any other homologue, analogue, chemical derivative or substance substantially similar in chemical structure». Controlled drug: 4-HO-MET is 4-AcO-MET, which Schedule 1 item 3 lists («4-Acetoxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine (4-AcO-MET)»: 2.0 kg, 250.0 g, 2.0 g), with the acyloxy group replaced by a hydroxy group, groups specified in different paragraphs of s301.9(2) ((a) and (c)), which s301.9(1)(c)(iii) plainly describes; so it is a controlled drug at 4-AcO-MET's quantities. Border: 4-AcO-MET is not in Schedule 2, and the nearest listed border controlled drug is psilocine (Schedule 2 item 195: 0.1 kg, 0.1 g), from which 4-HO-MET differs by an N-methyl group becoming N-ethyl, a swap within the one alkyl paragraph s301.9(2)(b). The method used for every row is a reading, not a rule the Act states: a modification that limb (a) or limb (c) plainly describes is treated as making a drug analogue; one contestable modification (a swap within one paragraph of s301.9(2), or a core ring replaced), a single limb (d) change from the listed drug, or an express exclusion or different listing in the Regulations is treated as making the exposure conditional; anything more, including adding or removing a ring, is treated as outside s301.9. Because s301.9(1)(c) allows a modification «obtained in one or more of the following ways», the tier this gives can depend on how a change is described, and nothing read settles which description governs. On that method 4-HO-MET is a controlled drug, and a border controlled drug only conditionally. Described another way the step is plain: psilocine's N-methyl group gaining a methyl group in place of one of its hydrogen atoms, a hydrogen atom («hydrogen atoms», (2)(d)) replaced by an alkyl group ((2)(b)). Because s301.9(1)(c) allows a structural modification «obtained in one or more of the following ways», nothing read decides whether such a redescription, or a composition of steps, is accepted, so the tier depends on the description and this cell keeps the exposure conditional. Prohibited Imports Regulations: regulation 5(20) makes a drug include «an isomer or a mixture of isomers of a chemical or compound referred to in paragraph (a)», and 4-HO-MET has the same molecular formula, C13H18N2O, as 5-MeO-DMT, which Schedule 4 names («139C 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (otherwise known as 5-MEO-DMT)»). If «isomer» there reaches a structural isomer carrying different groups, and not only a stereoisomer, 4-HO-MET is a drug for regulation 5 and a prohibited import; nothing read settles that, so its prohibited import status is conditional. Poisons Standard: Poisons Standard s7(c) extends a named substance to «every salt, active principle or derivative of the substance, including esters and ethers», and the instrument does not define derivative. This data set reads it with the definition the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 give in regulation 5(20), «any substance chemically derived from the chemical or compound and from which the chemical or compound may be regenerated»: a salt, ester, ether or amide from which the named substance is regenerated is a derivative, and a compound from which it cannot be regenerated is not shown as one. Psilocine cannot be regenerated from 4-HO-MET, whose N-ethyl group does not convert back to N-methyl, so it is not shown as a derivative of psilocine; no class entry covers tryptamines, and its placement is a question for each state and territory applying the Standard. The Poisons Standard read is the Poisons Standard October 2026 (Federal Register of Legislation F2026L01327, made 28 September 2026, registered 30 September 2026, in force from 1 October 2026 under its s2, replacing the June 2026 issue; no later issue was registered when it was read). This cell states Commonwealth law only. The Poisons Standard has effect through adoption by each state and territory: its Reader's guide, which s5(1) of the instrument says is not part of it, states «The scheduling of poisons is implemented through relevant State and Territory legislation.» Most personal possession and use offences are state and territory law, which differs by jurisdiction, and Criminal Code s300.4 keeps those laws running concurrently with Part 9.1. Read as in force on 2 October 2026 against F2026L01327, the Criminal Code Act 1995 at Compilation No. 174 (compilation date 30 June 2026, C2026C00243), the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 at Compilation No. 6 (compilation date 13 December 2025, F2025C01260) and the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 at Compilation No. 147 (compilation date 13 July 2026, F2026C00751). The Criminal Code Regulations schedules are made by the Governor-General and the Poisons Standard by a delegate of the Secretary under Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 s52D, so a later instrument can change any of this, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment.
Germany
Legal status
4-HO-MET is reached by the Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz as a member of the indole-3-alkylamine group at Anlage 1 Nr. 5.1, and not by any named narcotics entry. The dossier records the amine limb as „R1 und R2: Wasserstoff, Alkyl- (bis C6)“ and notes that the indole ring system may carry a „Hydroxy-“ group at position four. The methyl and ethyl substituents on the nitrogen fall inside the printed alkyl allowance, and the hydroxy group at position four is expressly listed for the ring, so both halves of the molecule are accounted for by separate printed limbs. Entry into the Act is through § 2 Nr. 1 Buchst. a, the Anlage 1 group route, which is distinct from the Anlage 2 lines under Buchst. b and from anything in BtMG Anlage I, II or III.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. There is no death penalty in Germany and no limb of this statute approaches one. The distinction that governs this row is between what is forbidden and what is punished. NpSG § 3 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 forbids a list of handlings that includes acquisition and possession; NpSG § 4 Abs. 1 punishes a shorter list, trading, placing on the market and administering to another, together with manufacture or import for the purpose of placing on the market. The group placement therefore delivers a prohibition, and a penalty only where the conduct also appears on the offence list. The dossier records the ceiling as § 4 Abs. 3, „Freiheitsstrafe von einem Jahr bis zu zehn Jahren“, which applies to the aggravated forms rather than to the ordinary offence, and the ordinary offence carries up to three years or a fine. The sections were read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026.
If prescribed / medical
There is no prescribing route to attach anything to. The substance holds no BtMG placement, so the marketable and prescribable tier does not arise, and the NpSG exemptions are for recognised commercial, industrial and scientific use rather than for treatment. The dossier records no German prescription or traveller rule for this row, so the cell says so and defers rather than supplying one.
Documentation
Paperwork does not resolve a structure-group question. What decides this one is whether the sample carries a hydroxy group at ring position four and alkyl groups within the six-carbon limit on the amine, which is an analytical finding. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.
Germany, Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz, Anlage 1 Nr. 5.1 „Indol-3-alkylamine“, residues R1 to R5 and Rn, read at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/npsg/anlage_1.html on 20 September 2026 · § 2 Nr. 1 Buchst. a, § 3 and § 4 read at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/npsg/ on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
France
Legal status
4-HO-MET is classified as a narcotic in France. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the list of substances classified as narcotics carries the entry « 4-HO-MET », and that printed entry is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The entry is a single designation, 4-HO-MET, with nothing bracketed and no alternative spelling offered beside it. The list prints 4-HO-MET exactly as the substance is commonly named, so no alias step is needed to reach the entry. The order's express clauses carry the entry across the salts, stereoisomers and preparations it names, and those textual bridges were applied while family resemblance without an applicable clause was not. France works from closed enumerated lists given effect by the Code de la santé publique, so the position for 4-HO-MET rests on the list reaching it and not on the substance belonging to a group the list is silent about. The consolidated Légifrance version carries the amendment history and later amending orders are folded into it, so this placement is the one standing on 18 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. France abolished the death penalty and no French drug provision carries one. The ceiling that does run on this row is life imprisonment under Penal Code article 222-34, which reaches the person who directs or organises a group whose object is illicit narcotics activity, and it is available because the consolidated order of 22 February 1990 carries 4-HO-MET among the narcotics at the entry « 4-HO-MET ». The entry is a single designation with nothing bracketed beside it, and the order prints it exactly as the substance is commonly named, so no alias step stands between a seizure and the article. Conduct short of that is charged elsewhere: article L. 3421-1 of the Code de la santé publique addresses illicit use and stands apart from organised trafficking. The dossier settles the ceiling and the article carrying it without printing the intermediate trafficking tariffs, so no figure between personal use and article 222-34 is stated here.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in France is that a Schengen traveller certificate or a medicines carriage list is evidential and administrative, not the criminal schedule, so producing one changes what a traveller can show and not where a substance sits. Attached to this substance: 4-HO-MET is on the narcotics side of the 22 February 1990 pair of orders at the entry « 4-HO-MET », which means the certificate can evidence a lawful medical carriage while the narcotics classification continues to govern the conduct. The dossier records no per substance prescribing route for 4-HO-MET and none is invented here.
Documentation
A Schengen traveller certificate is a route for 4-HO-MET only if 4-HO-MET is necessary for the traveller's medical treatment and a competent authority of their state of residence issues or authenticates the certificate: Article 75 of the Schengen Convention lets a traveller carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances «that are necessary for their medical treatment» on «a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence». It never alters where 4-HO-MET sits in the French schedules. Provenance: the placement relied on is the entry « 4-HO-MET » in the Arrêté du 22 février 1990 fixant la liste des substances classées comme stupéfiants, read on Légifrance at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085 and checked on 18 September 2026. Both consolidated orders were followed through their terminal annex material and their amendment links, so what is quoted is the consolidated entry and not the 1990 original wording.
Netherlands
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. The closely related psilocine is named, and its row prints «psilocine | 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol», a description that specifies the two N-methyl groups this substance does not have. No Opiumwet offence arises from it as such.
Consequences if caught
Lijst IA carries four substance groups: substanties die zijn afgeleid van 2-fenethylamine, cannabimimetica en synthetische cannabinoïden, substanties afgeleid van 4-aminopiperidine, and benzimidazol opioïden, the nitazenen. For the 2-fenethylamine group the printed definition admits a closed list of eighteen ring systems at structuurelement A: fenyl, naftyl, tetralinyl, methyleendioxyfenyl, ethyleendioxyfenyl, furyl, pyrrolyl, thiënyl, pyridyl, benzofuranyl, dihydrobenzofuranyl, indanyl, indenyl, tetrahydrobenzodifuranyl, benzodifuranyl, tetrahydrobenzodipyranyl, cyclopentyl and cyclohexyl. An indole is not among the eighteen admitted ring systems. No authorised medicinal product contains it in the Netherlands. Article 10 carries the penalties for lijst I. Intentionally having the substance present, the limb at article 2 under C, carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Intentionally cultivating, preparing, processing, selling, delivering, supplying, transporting or manufacturing it, article 2 under B and D, carries up to 8 years. Intentionally bringing it into or out of Netherlands territory, article 2 under A, carries up to 12 years, so the trafficking and import limbs run from 8 to 12 years. Where the presence, or the bringing into or out of the territory, concerns a small quantity intended for own use, article 10, sixth limb, lowers the ceiling to 1 year or a fine of the third category; it does not reach the article 2 under B and D acts. The fine on the serious limbs is the fifth category, which the Criminal Code prints at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 11 carries the penalties for lijst II. Acting intentionally against article 3 under B, C or D carries imprisonment of up to 2 years, and up to 6 years where the person acts in the exercise of a profession or business. Intentionally bringing it into or out of the territory, article 3 under A, carries up to 4 years. Where the offence concerns a large quantity the two year and the four year cases both rise to 6 years. Article 1 of the Opiumwetbesluit fixes that large quantity at 500 gram hennep, 200 hennepplanten or 500 units of another lijst II substance. The fine is the fifth category, printed at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. Article 2a carries the lijst IA prohibition and article 10b its penalties. Acting intentionally against it carries imprisonment of up to 6 years. Acting without intent carries hechtenis of up to 3 months. Where intentional import, export or presence concerns a small quantity for own use the ceiling is 6 months. Article 10c adds up to 3 years for preparatory acts. The fine is the fifth category on the intentional offence and the third category on the others, printed at 67.000 euro and 6.700 euro with editorial notes recording 110.000 euro and 11.000 euro from 1 January 2026. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Netherlands' published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. This is stated as at the Opiumwet consolidation in force from 17 September 2026, read at wetten.overheid.nl on 22 September 2026, and it does not rule out a later amendment.
Spain
Legal status
Not a controlled substance on the text read: 4-HO-MET is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto 2829/1977, and it is not in the 1961 Convention lists that Ley 17/1967 article 2 incorporates. Search log: «4-HO-MET» returned 0 whole word hits in Anexo 1, 0 in Anexo 2 and 0 in the Yellow List; «metocina» returned 0 whole word hits in Anexo 1, 0 in Anexo 2 and 0 in the Yellow List. Nor is it in the 1971 Convention schedules as printed in the English INCB Green List, 36th edition, 2025: «4-HO-MET» returned 0 whole word hits there. Psilocin at Lista I entry 23 is the N,N-dimethyl compound; 4-HO-MET carries a methyl and an ethyl group and is not printed. The psychotropic annexes are a closed enumerated list: the stems «análog» and «isómer» return 0 and 1 hits across both annexes, the one «isómer» hit being zipeprol's own entry covering its stereoisomers, so there is no analogue or generic clause. A substance enters only when a later instrument adds its name: article 1 extends the decree to substances «o bien que en futuro puedan ser incorporadas a las Listas o la Relación», ministerial orders have amended Anexo 1, and article 4 lets the Dirección General amend Anexo 2 «mediante Resolución, podrá modificar el contenido de la Lista de principios activos contenidos en el anexo dos» (may, by resolution, amend the list of active ingredients in annex two). The lists are read as at the Real Decreto 2829/1977 consolidation published 21/04/2026 and in force from 22/04/2026. Narcotic absences are decided through Ley 17/1967 article 2 against the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026; the INCB Green List, 36th edition updated December 2025, is a cross-check for psychotropics. Narcotics can also be designated nationally, «en el ámbito nacional por el procedimiento que reglamentariamente se establezca» (nationally, by the procedure set by regulation); Real Decreto 1194/2011 sets that procedure and so far names tapentadol and isotonitaceno, as consolidated to 8 June 2021. 1971 Convention decisions after December 2025 and 1961 Convention decisions after July 2026 were not read, and this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Because no list names it, Código Penal article 368 and Ley Orgánica 4/2015 article 36.16 are not reached through a list entry. Article 368 also uses the undefined term «drogas tóxicas»; whether a court could treat an unlisted substance as one is not determined in this cell, and no instance of it for this substance was read. Neighbouring penal law searched: Código Penal article 359 punishes whoever «sin hallarse debidamente autorizado, elabore sustancias nocivas para la salud o productos químicos que puedan causar estragos, o los despache o suministre, o comercie con ellos» with «prisión de seis meses a tres años y multa de seis a doce meses». Whether a given product is a substance harmful to health in that sense was not determined, and no application of the article to this substance was read.
If prescribed / medical
Spain runs two medicine control regimes side by side: narcotic medicines under Ley 17/1967 and psychotropic medicines under Real Decreto 2829/1977. No prescription route is stated: no drug list reaches it, and no Spanish medicine authorisation for it was read for this cell.
Italy
Legal status
Controlled. The Ministry of Health compilation of the DPR 309/1990 tables carries «4-HO-MET» as an operative entry, and the compilation places it in the Table I or II group without this cell choosing between the two, because the dossier does not. Article 14 of DPR 309/1990 is the provision that creates those enumerated tables and expressly includes the chemical variants stated in them, so salts, stereoisomers, preparations and medicinal table routing attach to 4-HO-MET only so far as the entry's own wording reaches. Resemblance is not a free standing analogue offence in Italian law, so a compound that merely looks like 4-HO-MET is outside the tables until a decree names it. Classification moves by ministerial decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale, and the consolidated compilation current on 18 September 2026 is what this answer rests on.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Italy has no death penalty and DPR 309/1990 carries no life term, so the top of the range is a term of years. The ceiling is 30 years, and three provisions build it: article 73 of DPR 309/1990 creates the trafficking offence, article 80 supplies the aggravations, and article 78 of the Penal Code caps a combined temporary imprisonment calculation at 30 years. That figure belongs to the most aggravated trafficking calculation and not to a personal quantity. What puts 4-HO-MET inside article 73 at all is the table entry «4-HO-MET», which the compilation places in the Table I or II group, the group carrying the full trafficking range rather than the medicinal routing. Acquisition or possession for personal use is handled administratively under article 75, a different track from article 73 and not a milder version of it.
If prescribed / medical
Italy's country level rule, in the dossier's own terms, is that a traveller certificate list or a prescribing summary is not a substitute for the statutory tables, and that acquisition or possession for personal use runs under article 75 of DPR 309/1990 as an administrative matter rather than under the trafficking article. Attached to 4-HO-MET, that rule meets the entry «4-HO-MET» in the Table I or II group of the Ministry of Health compilation, and the compilation carries medicinal table routing only so far as the table text itself says so. Whether a lawfully prescribed and dispensed form of 4-HO-MET exists in Italy is therefore set by that wording rather than by this cell, which does not establish it either way, so anyone holding a prescribed product should work from the entry's own routing. The dossier records no Italian traveller certificate procedure and no per substance prescribing route for 4-HO-MET, so nothing here should be read as one.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if the 4-HO-MET in hand was lawfully prescribed, and carry nothing else containing it on the strength of a foreign document, because the entry «4-HO-MET» sits in the Table I or II group and medicinal table routing reaches it only where the table text says so. The instrument is DPR 309/1990, its enumerating provision is article 14, and the placement was read in the Ministry of Health compilation of the tables and its ministerial amendment index on 18 September 2026. Classification changes by decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale rather than by a travel or prescribing summary, and the amendment horizon checked includes the 2026 update that added the nitazene class. Articles 73 and 80 carry the offence and its aggravations, article 78 of the Penal Code supplies the cap of 30 years, and article 75 covers personal use administratively.
Mexico
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de Salud, which prints the estupefacientes, and it is not named in any of the five groups of article 245, which prints the psychotropics. The group prints one 4-hydroxy tryptamine and this row is a different one. Article 246 lets the Secretaria de Salud add further psychotropic substances by lists published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion, and the consolidated text records one such addition with the note «Sustancia adicionada por Acuerdo DOF 24-12-2018», so the printed lists are open. Every note the Diario Oficial published between 1 January 2019 and 21 September 2026 was checked for a later such acuerdo and none adds anything to article 245. That absence is stated against the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Where this row sits is settled by the fact that no printed entry carries it. Psilocin is printed as «PSILOCINA, PSILOTSINA 3-(2-dimetilaminoetil) -4-hidroxi-indol.», and the dimethylamino in that chemical name is what this row replaces. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, and this row is not one of them. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are printed on the same carried-forward footing. Article 193 of that code names articles 237, 245 fracciones I, II and III and 248, and this row is in none of them. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is outside the set that second paragraph names, and no reading of the first paragraph was adopted here to put it back inside. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Mexico's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Brazil
Legal status
Not confirmed. Unresolved in Brazil, not established as either listed or unlisted. No entry in the annex names this substance and the searches run in Portuguese for 4-HO-MET, metocina and 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina returned nothing. The nearest named entries were read and rejected: item 29 of lista F2 is 4-HO-DET, item 30 is 4-HO-MIPT and item 22 is 4-AcO-MET, and none of the three is this molecule. No tryptamine structural class exists in the annex, so lista F2 items b, c and d, which cover synthetic cannabinoids, synthetic cathinones and phenethylamines, do not reach it. The only candidate route is lista F2 adendo 1.1, which puts all salts and isomers of the substances of that list under its control, and this molecule shares a molecular formula with the 5-MeO-DMT entry at item 52 of the same list, so an isomer argument is available. That argument is mine and no published entry states it, so the placement is not established. [Guessing]. The instrument is Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998 and the text read is Anexo I as published with Resolucao 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026, Atualizacao n. 101.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 5, XLVII, a of the 1988 Constitution provides that there shall be no penalty of death, save in the case of declared war under article 84, XIX, and article 5, XLVII, b bars any penalty of a perpetual character, so neither a death sentence nor a whole life sentence is available under the drug law. [Certain], the constitutional text was read this pass. What follows is Brazil's drug law as it stands, set out because a reader needs to see it. None of it is asserted against this row, for the reason given at the end. Personal use is article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, the statute the live Brazilian cells name in English as the Drug Law, and it carries no prison. The three penalties are a warning about the effects of drugs, provision of services to the community, and an educational measure of attendance at a programme or course. Paragraph 3 caps the second and third at five months, paragraph 4 at ten months on a repeat, and paragraph 2 leaves the personal use question to the judge on the nature and quantity seized, the place and conditions of the act, the social and personal circumstances, and the conduct and record of the agent. The statute itself fixes no quantity figure. The Supremo Tribunal Federal decided Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, on 26 June 2024, and how far it reaches beyond cannabis is genuinely contested. Read the narrow way, item 1 of the thesis says that no criminal offence is committed by a person who acquires, keeps, has in deposit, transports or carries for personal consumption the substance cannabis sativa, naming that substance and no other, and the andamento of 24 August 2023 records the relator adjusting his vote to restrict the declaration of unconstitutionality to seizures of the narcotic substance dealt with in that appeal, cannabis sativa. Read the wide way, items 2 and 3 are not limited to cannabis on their face: item 2 says the article 28 I and III sanctions are applied by the judge in a procedure of non penal nature with no criminal repercussion for the conduct, and item 3 gives the Juizados Especiais Criminais competence over the conduct of article 28 with any penal effect of the sentence forbidden. Nor is the operative order limited on its face: the plenary declared the unconstitutionality, without reduction of text, of article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, so as to remove from that provision each and every effect of a penal nature, keeping the measures it provides until specific legislation arrives. Which reading governs a substance other than cannabis was not settled by the documents read this pass, and nothing here decides it. [Guessing] as to the reach. What does not turn on it, and is [Certain] either way, is that article 28 has carried no custodial penalty since 2006. Supply is article 33: reclusao of 5 to 15 years and payment of 500 to 1,500 dias-multa. Article 33 paragraph 4 allows a reduction of one sixth to two thirds for a primary agent of good record who is not dedicated to criminal activity and does not belong to a criminal organisation. Article 34 puts equipment at 3 to 10 years, article 35 association at 3 to 10 years, article 36 financing at 8 to 20 years and article 37 informing at 2 to 6 years. Article 40 increases articles 33 to 37 by one sixth to two thirds on its seven listed grounds, transnationality and proximity to schools, prisons and hospitals among them. Article 40-A, inserted by Lei 15.358 de 2026, applies articles 33 to 37 in double where the agent is a member of an ultraviolent criminal organisation, a paramilitary group or a private militia. Doubling article 36 gives 16 to 40 years, and 40 years is the highest figure the statute produces on its own face. That is my derivation from the two articles as read, tagged [Certain] for each figure and [Guessing] for whether the article 40 increase then stacks on top of the doubled figure, which the text read here does not settle. Those are Brazil's published drug penalties and they are not asserted against this row. Both article 28 and article 33 operate on drogas, and whether either reaches this substance is exactly what was not established: no entry of the annex read names it, and the only candidate route is an isomer clause that has to be argued rather than read.
India
Legal status
No Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic substances), in the NDPS Rules 1985, in the Regulation of Controlled Substances Order 2013 or in the small and commercial quantity notification. Psilocin is listed at serial 9 and psilocybine at 10. 4-HO-MET carries an N-ethyl in place of one N-methyl, which changes the molecular formula, so it is not an isomer of either and is not carried by serial 111.
Consequences if caught
Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, the NDPS Act, punishes a contravention in relation to psychotropic substances in three quantity bands. A small quantity carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 1 year. A quantity greater than small but less than commercial carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 10 years. A commercial quantity carries rigorous imprisonment of 10 to 20 years, and that lower figure is a statutory minimum rather than a starting point. The fine runs with the band: up to 10,000 rupees at small quantity, up to 1 lakh rupees in the middle band, and 1 lakh to 2 lakh rupees at commercial quantity, and the court may record reasons for a higher fine. Section 27 punishes consumption, with rigorous imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to 20,000 rupees for cocaine, morphine, diacetylmorphine and any substance notified in that behalf, and imprisonment up to 6 months and a fine up to 10,000 rupees for anything else. Every offence under the Act is cognizable, but the section 37 bail bar reaches only sections 19, 24 and 27A and offences involving a commercial quantity. Section 31 raises the ceiling to one and one half times after a previous conviction, and section 64A gives an addict charged under section 27 or with a small quantity immunity on completing recognised de-addiction treatment. No band applies to this row, because the quantity notification carries no entry against which a small or commercial quantity could be measured. Section 31A does not reach this row: its table names only opium, morphine, heroin, codeine, thebaine, cocaine, hashish, LSD, the listed THC isomers, methamphetamine, methaqualone and amphetamine, with their salts and preparations, and this row is not among them. A seizure here turns entirely on chemical identification: if the analysis returns psilocin, serial 9 and its 2 g and 50 g apply, and if it returns 4-HO-MET, no entry does. Those figures are given because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as India's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
No Indian medicine contains it and no prescription can be written for it.
Documentation
The Schedule does list one substituted tryptamine beyond the psilocybin pair, etryptamine at serial 105A, which shows the list is specific rather than generic. India's essential narcotic drugs for medical and scientific use, notified under section 2(viiia) by S.O. 1181(E) of 5 May 2015, are codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone; a traveller carrying one should carry the prescription with the original packaging, bring only a reasonable personal quantity and declare it at customs. Tramadol was added to the Act's psychotropic Schedule in 2018 and its commercial quantity is 250 g. This absence is stated as at the Central Bureau of Narcotics consolidation of the Act and Rules labelled updated 2026, which prints the Schedule as amended through S.O. 1730(E) of 16 April 2025, read with S.O. 906(E) of 18 February 2026, and it does not rule out a later notification.
Turkey
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not confirmed as a controlled substance in Turkey and this row is a deferral rather than a finding. The dossier searched the Turkish terms «4-HO-MET» and «metosin» and the transliterations 4-HO-MET and metosin against the classification decisions made under article 19 of Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances, and confirmed no current entry. It rejected the near match «psilosin», because the ethyl analogue is not psilocin. The compound therefore sits one carbon away from a molecule whose parent, psilocybin, is verified as scheduled on its own row, and a closed list does not bridge that distance without a decision that names the analogue. The annexes to the decisions footnoted to article 19, running to Presidential Decision No. 10851 of 9 January 2026, are not reproduced in the consolidated statute, so whether such a decision exists could not be established from what was read.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of 4-HO-MET in Turkey was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful in Turkey, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for 4-HO-MET in Turkey. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for 4-HO-MET in Turkey, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Turkey, Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances of 12 June 1933, articles 19 and 20, with the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237, articles 188(1), 188(3), 188(4), 188(6), 191(1) and 192(2) · the consolidated texts were read at https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.3.2313.pdf (HTTP 200, 220,153 bytes) and https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.5237.pdf (HTTP 200, 1,070,143 bytes), both fetched on 20 September 2026. The dossier's own url column holds one identical string for all 88 Turkey rows and that string is these two addresses run together with no separator, so the citation it supplies is document level rather than per substance. The annexes to the ten decisions footnoted to article 19 are not reproduced in the consolidated statute and were not read. · Updated October 4, 2026
Egypt
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is not printed in any of the six tables of Decision 44 or in Decision 242 as at 3 October 2026, on the page images read entry by entry. It is not an ester, ether, salt or isomer of «Psilocin, psilotsin», Table 1 Section 2 item 96, but it is a close analogue of it. The word «نظائرها» appears in the headings of Table 1 Sections 1(a) and 2 and of Table 3 Sections 3 and 4, listed apart from «أيسومراتها», isomers, so it is not the isomer clause. If it means analogues it may reach this substance; if it means isotopes, or is a second word for isomers, it does not. Neither Decision 44, Decision 242 nor Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 defines it. Against the analogue reading, the tables print close analogues separately, «2-Fluorodeschloroketamine» beside «Ketamine» and «3- Methoxyphencyclidine» in Table 1 although «Phencyclidine» is in Table 3, which would be needless if analogues were already reached. This batch applies one rule throughout: a printed placement governs, and the undefined heading word «نظائرها» decides a row only where nothing in the tables places it. Article 1 bis also provides «ويصدر بتحديد ضوابط ومعايير هذه المواد قرار من الوزير المختص», a ministerial decision setting criteria for the synthetic substances; no such decision appears in the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026. The answer turns on that one word, and it is left open rather than guessed. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. Every page of both instruments has now been viewed, including Decision 44's preamble and two articles on PDF pages 1 and 2 and Decision 242's preamble on its page 1; none defines «نظائرها». The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Greece
Legal status
Not listed in the Greek narcotics tables. 4-HO-MET is printed at no entry of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, Β, Γ or Δ in the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, which is the version read for this cell. The 4-hydroxy tryptamine the first table does name is psilocin, at serial 15, printed «ΨΙΛΟΚΙΝΗ». The N-methyl-N-ethyl homologue is printed at no serial. Reading that edition does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision under article 1 paragraph 4, which is the power that moves the list.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and no offence in the narcotics code carries it, which is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. 4-HO-MET is at no entry of the four tables, so the trafficking and possession articles of Law 4139/2013 do not reach it as a listed narcotic. That is not a finding that the substance is lawful, and the reason matters. Article 1 paragraph 1 of Law 4139/2013 defines «ναρκωτικά» by what a substance does, by its action on the central nervous system and its capacity to cause dependence, and article 1 paragraph 2 then says those substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες», are included in particular in the tables. The word «ιδίως», in particular, is not the word a closed list takes. Against that, article 20 paragraph 2 defines the trafficking offence by reference to substances «που αναφέρονται στους πίνακες», referred to in the tables. The statute points two ways at once and this cell does not resolve it. That reading of article 1 and article 20 is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Conduct, not the table a substance sits in, is what sorts the Greek drug offences. Article 29 paragraph 1 punishes obtaining, holding, using or growing for the offender's own exclusive use with «φυλάκιση μέχρι πέντε (5) μηνών», imprisonment of up to five months. There is no fixed gram threshold anywhere in the law. The court weighs instead the type, the purity, the quantity, the frequency and duration of use, the daily dose and the particular needs of the user. Article 29 paragraph 2 allows the court to leave the offender «ατιμώρητος», unpunished, where the act was entirely occasional and unlikely to be repeated, and paragraph 3 keeps such a conviction off the copies of the criminal record that are issued. Article 20 paragraph 1 punishes trafficking with «κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον οκτώ (8) ετών», at least eight years. The fine that goes with that article runs up to three hundred thousand euro. Article 22 raises the custodial minimum to ten years where the offence is committed by an official, inside a school, barracks, police cell, prison or sports ground, within a criminal organisation, or by a repeat offender. The fine under article 22 is fifty thousand to five hundred thousand euro. Article 21 drops the exposure to up to three years for a dependent person trafficking small amounts to cover their own use, or for supplying a relative without profit. Article 30 paragraph 4 treats dependence as a separate track: an article 29 offence goes unpunished, an article 20 offence falls to at least one year, and an article 22 offence falls to at most ten years. The ceiling in the code is life imprisonment, and it is article 23 that carries it. Article 23 paragraph 1 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη ή με πρόσκαιρη κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον δέκα ετών», life imprisonment or a determinate sentence of at least ten years. The fine under that paragraph is fifty thousand to six hundred thousand euro. It applies where the substance can cause grievous bodily harm and did cause grievous harm or death to another or endangered the health of many, or where an adult acts professionally to bring a minor into use. Article 23 paragraph 2 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη, καθώς και με χρηματική ποινή από πενήντα χιλιάδες ευρώ μέχρι ένα εκατομμύριο ευρώ τιμωρείται». That paragraph states no lesser alternative, so life imprisonment is the only sentence it offers. The fine it names runs from fifty thousand euro to one million euro. It applies to professional financing or professional trafficking where the expected gain exceeds seventy five thousand euro, and to using weapons during the offence or to escape. Every article number, Greek phrase and euro figure in this recital is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Greece's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Portugal
Legal status
Prohibited as a new psychoactive substance. 4-HO-MET is not in tables I to IV of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, but it is named on the list made under Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013, so a separate prohibition applies and the drug consumption regime does not.
Consequences if caught
4-HO-MET was checked against the schedules of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 and is not there. It is named instead on the list of new psychoactive substances approved by Portaria n.º 154/2013 and amended by Portaria n.º 232/2022, at entry 25 of the annex, '4-HO-MET (4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina)'. Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013 is a separate regime from the drug tables and it prohibits far more than consumption. Portaria n.º 232/2022 recites it: it 'proíbe a produção, importação, exportação, publicidade, distribuição, venda, detenção, ou disponibilização de novas substâncias psicoativas', in translation it prohibits the production, importation, exportation, advertising, distribution, sale, possession or supply of new psychoactive substances, and article 3.º provides that the substances are those on a list approved by ministerial order. Because this substance is on that list and not in tables I to IV, the ten day quantity, the commissions for the dissuasion of drug addiction and the trafficking offence in article 21 of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 do not apply to it. A different prohibition does. The penalty provisions of Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013 were not read here, so no penalty figure is stated. The list was read as amended to 7 September 2022 and any later amendment was not available.
If prescribed / medical
There is no prescription route. A new psychoactive substance on this list has no authorised medicinal form in Portugal.
Documentation
No documentation can authorise possession of a listed new psychoactive substance. If you are carrying other controlled medicines on Schengen travel, carry a Schengen certificate together with the original packaging and the prescription.
Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013, de 17 de abril, art. 3.º · Portaria n.º 154/2013, de 17 de abril, annex, as amended by Portaria n.º 232/2022, de 7 de setembro (Diário da República, 1.ª série, N.º 173) · Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, de 22 de janeiro, tables I to IV · diariodarepublica.pt · Updated September 15, 2026
Vietnam
Legal status
Not named in the danh mục. 4-HO-MET is not named; the appendix separately names 4-HO-DiPT and psilocin, neither of which is the same molecule. 4-HO-MET does not appear in any of the four danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP as those lists stand on 19 January 2026, and an absence from the list is not a finding that it is lawful in Vietnam. This cell does not say that it is.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. 4-HO-MET is not named; the appendix separately names 4-HO-DiPT and psilocin, neither of which is the same molecule. Articles 248 to 252 of the Criminal Code are each written about a chất ma túy, and Luật Phòng, chống ma túy số 73/2021/QH14, Điều 2 khoản 1, defines that term as a substance the Government has placed in the danh mục. 4-HO-MET is not in that list, so producing it is not article 248, possessing it is not article 249, transporting it is not article 250, trading it is not article 251 and appropriating it is not article 252. None of the five conducts engages those articles, and no quantity alters that, because the quantity ladders sit inside articles that never open. One reason for that is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and was not re-derived from the decree text in this pass: the four danh mục extend to muối, đồng phân, ester, ether and muối của đồng phân, that is salts, isomers, esters, ethers and salts of isomers, and they do not extend to analogues, because the words tương tự and đồng đẳng appear nowhere in the decree. A substance that is not printed, and is not a salt, isomer, ester or ether of something printed, is outside the definition rather than arguably inside it. Two things still qualify all of this. Điều 3 khoản 6 routes a newly identified substance through Bộ Công an to the Government, so the list moves and a substance absent today can be added tomorrow. And this is a statement about the narcotics law only: Vietnam's pharmaceutical, customs and administrative rules were not read for this cell and may reach 4-HO-MET independently of the Criminal Code.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier this cell is written from carries no prescription column, so no medical route for 4-HO-MET is stated here and none was derived from anything else. There is no placement to attach either: the dossier does not print 4-HO-MET in any of the four danh mục, and the published 2cb entry records the same absence. A substance outside the danh mục has no narcotics prescription route to describe, which is a different thing from saying it may be carried freely. Whether 4-HO-MET can lawfully be prescribed in Vietnam, in what form, and what a traveller carrying it would have to show, is deferred and not answered here. This pass did not read Vietnam's pharmaceutical, import or customs rules, and a substance outside the narcotics law can still be refused at a border.
Documentation
Where the rule for 4-HO-MET comes from, and how far it reaches in time. Two instruments do two different jobs. The list: Luật Phòng, chống ma túy số 73/2021/QH14, Điều 2 khoản 1, provides that a chất ma túy is a substance the Government has placed in the danh mục, so the Government and not the National Assembly decides what counts, and it does so by decree. The decree in force is Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, issued and effective 19 January 2026, whose Điều 3 khoản 2 repeals Nghị định 57/2022/NĐ-CP and Nghị định 90/2024/NĐ-CP, and whose Điều 1 reads “Ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này Phụ lục các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất sau đây”, that is, issued with this decree is the appendix containing the following lists of narcotics and precursors. The published 2cb entry counted that appendix as four danh mục in seven parts and 694 entries, a count carried forward here and not re-made in this pass. The offence: Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, enacted 25 June 2025 and in force 1 July 2025, which substituted the drug articles in full and is the reason this cell separates the conducts instead of saying that Vietnam has the death penalty for drugs. The consolidated Criminal Code text read for the article wording is văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH. The search behind this row. The dossier's instrument column records the terms used as: 4-HO-MET / metocin / methylcybin. That is a record that somebody looked, and it is not a printed schedule entry. The published 2cb entry records the same row as not listed, which is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass. The horizon. This cell is written as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and the dossier behind it records its own date checked as 17 September 2026. The power that moves the list is Điều 3 khoản 6 of the decree, which reads “Khi phát hiện chất mới chưa có trong các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này … trình Chính phủ sửa đổi, bổ sung và công bố các danh mục đó.”, that is, when a new substance not yet in the lists is discovered, the Ministry of Public Security submits it to the Government to amend, supplement and publish the lists. What the text in hand incorporates is the 2026 appendix together with the Criminal Code as it stands after 1 July 2025, and nothing here was checked against an amendment published after 19 January 2026. This cell does not rule out a later amendment made under that power. Two limits of the source, stated because they bear on how much weight this row can take. The dossier has no search log column of its own, so on a row where nothing was found there is no way to tell a blank from a row nobody searched, and where its instrument column happens to record search terms that is a record of looking rather than a schedule entry. And the decree is a scanned signed document: the published 2cb entry records that it was rendered at 600 dots per inch and read with optical character recognition in Vietnamese, and that normalisation to NFC was needed before any Vietnamese string could be searched against the cached text, because the cache mixes composed and decomposed forms and a literal search returns a false zero. That method note is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass.
Philippines
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025: searched in all 24 pages, "4-HO-MET" 0 hits; "metocin" 0 hits. Psilocine on page 14 carries two methyl groups where 4-HO-MET carries a methyl and an ethyl. Section 11 of RA 9165 speaks of "those similarly designed or newly introduced drugs and their derivatives" within its other dangerous drugs limb, and whether that reaches an unlisted analogue was not established, so absence from the list is not treated as an answer. This is stated as at the Board's list of 06 July 2025 and the Board's regulations register read at https://ddb.gov.ph/board-regulations/ on 2 October 2026, whose newest entry is Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026 and which lists no Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2026, and it does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is stated for this substance, because its status is not established. If it is a dangerous drug, possession is section 11 of RA 9165, measured regardless of purity, with no quantity that is lawful; import and supply under sections 4 and 5 carry life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000. RA 9346 prohibits the death penalty, so no drug offence carries death.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is asserted, because the substance's status is not established.
Documentation
Do not carry it into the Philippines on the strength of this page. Importing a dangerous drug unless authorized by law is section 4 of RA 9165, regardless of quantity, and the status of this substance is not established.
Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, enrolled text as published by the Dangerous Drugs Board, sections 3(j), 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 93 and its annex · ddb.gov.ph · Dangerous Drugs Board, Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, all 24 pages, read on 2 October 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Republic Act No. 9346, sections 1 and 2, text read at lawphil.net on 2 October 2026 because the Official Gazette refused the request · · Updated October 2, 2026
Switzerland
Legal status
Controlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries 4-HO-MET in list e, where the entry reads „4-HO-MET“. Article 1 of the ordinance defines the controlled set as narcotics, psychotropic substances, raw materials and products with a presumed narcotic like effect, precursors and auxiliary chemicals, and article 1(2) then extends each named entry to its salts, esters, ethers, carbamates and stereoisomers and to preparations containing it. The model is closed but extended, so a chemical resemblance to the list e entry is not by itself enough to bring a compound inside it. Article 2 assigns lists a to d to Annexes 1 to 5 and list e to Annex 6. The German consolidation read for this row is dated 13 March 2026, and the German, French and Italian texts are equally authoritative.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Switzerland has no death penalty and the Betäubungsmittelgesetz authorises no life term either, so the ceiling is 20 years: BetmG article 19(2) defines the aggravated forms of the offence and StGB article 40 supplies that maximum precisely because the drug act does not reach beyond it. What brings street conduct inside article 19 at all is the list e placement of the entry „4-HO-MET“ rather than the weight carried; quantity then separates the ordinary case from the aggravated serious case. Switzerland fits none of the three threshold models cleanly, because it combines one federal statutory cannabis figure, substance specific Federal Supreme Court thresholds for the aggravated serious case, and conduct based offences for which quantity is not the sole determinant, so no settled weight can be quoted here. Unauthorised consumption is a separate offence under BetmG article 19a and is not silently treated as trafficking.
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET sits in list e of BetmVV-EDI, entered as „4-HO-MET“, and the only country level rule this dossier establishes for a person carrying a drug in Switzerland is the personal use regime: BetmG article 19a keeps unauthorised intentional consumption punishable in its own right, article 19b makes the preparation of a negligible quantity for one's own consumption nonpunishable, together with qualifying free sharing for simultaneous joint consumption, and article 19b(2) fixes that negligible quantity at 10 g of cannabis and at nothing else. The figure is federal law rather than a cantonal tolerance, so it gives no margin to a list e substance such as 4-HO-MET, and cantonal police and prosecutors administer the rule without being able to replace it. No prescription, import certificate or traveller exemption specific to 4-HO-MET was established in this dossier, so nothing here authorises a foreign prescription at the Swiss border.
Documentation
Carry no 4-HO-MET into Switzerland on the strength of this row, and keep any medicine you are lawfully entitled to in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient and the dose. The provenance is the EDI ordinance BetmVV-EDI in its German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read at the Fedlex classified compilation on 18 September 2026, where the list e entry reads „4-HO-MET“; the penalty articles are BetmG article 19 with StGB article 40 supplying the 20 year maximum, and the 94 page consolidation was read through its final page, so no further drug schedule follows it.
Czechia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is a psychotropní látka, a psychotropic substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek carries it at příloha č. 4, seznam č. 4 psychotropních látek, and the printed entry is „4-Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyl tryptamin“, in the international non proprietary name column. The second column of the same row prints „4-HO-MET“. It is printed between „4-HTMPIPO“ and „4-Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyl tryptamin“, which is 4-HO-MiPT, so the nitrogen substituents were read off the chemical name rather than taken from the abbreviation. The IUPAC column reads „3-{2-[ethyl(methyl)amino]ethyl}-1H-indol-4-ol“, the N-ethyl N-methyl compound, and the note column prints two further trade style names for it. The placement rests on that printed entry read in place together with the rows on either side of it, and not on a substring match or on family resemblance. This placement is read as those lists stand after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. which is consolidated version 17 of the nařízení, in force from 25 June 2026, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2013-463 on 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 6(3) of the Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. reads „Trest smrti se nepřipouští“, the death penalty is not permitted, so no Czech drug provision carries one. The ceiling that does run on this row is eight to eighteen years under § 283 odst. 4 of the Criminal Code, zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. which reaches unlawful production of or other dealing in an omamná or psychotropní látka where the act causes grievous bodily harm to at least two people or a death, or is done for profit of large extent, or is done in connection with an organised group operating in several states. In the instrument the entry this row turns on is identified by the chemical name 3-{2-[ethyl(methyl)amino]ethyl}-1H-indol-4-ol, and it is that printed chemical name rather than the English common name that a Czech charge is built from. On quantity, no greater than small figure was published for this row in the sources reachable for it, and none is invented here. The fine is separate from every custodial band above. Holding no more than a small amount for personal use is an administrative misdemeanour rather than a crime, and the live cell records the penalty for that misdemeanour as a fine of up to CZK 15,000. Read in the consolidated Criminal Code, § 283 odst. 1 sets one to five years for unlawful production, import, offer, sale or holding for another, § 283 odst. 2 sets two to ten years for the first aggravated tier and § 283 odst. 4 sets eight to eighteen years for the gravest. Possession above a small amount for one's own use is § 284, up to two years at odst. 1, six months to five years at odst. 2 and two to eight years at odst. 3. Growing or processing a plant or fungus for one's own use, and other dealing with it for one's own use, is § 285, whose odst. 2 is cannabis possession at more than 200 g in the dwelling or more than 50 g away from it, and whose bands are up to six months at odst. 1 and odst. 2, up to three years at odst. 4 and six months to five years at odst. 5. Making, obtaining or holding a precursor or other object intended for unlawful manufacture is § 286, up to five years at odst. 1 and two to ten years at odst. 2. The live cell stated these as up to one year for cannabis and up to two years for other drugs under § 284, six months to five years under § 285, and one to ten years under § 283 rising to eighteen in aggravated cases, and those live figures are carried forward here beside the bands re-derived from the consolidated text. Those bands and that fine are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Uruguay
Legal status
Not confirmed. The anchored search ran on 4-ho and on hidroxi across all 526 entries. The hidroxi anchor returns hidroxipetidina at Lista Amarilla, Lista I, hidroxicina at Nacional, and the two hydroxides in Anexo III Tabla 2, none of them this row; the fentanyl hydroxy entries and n-hidroxi mda match only inside the name and are not anchored matches. No entry for this substance exists. The weakness the earlier cell disclosed is now closed and the closure is stated plainly. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it replaces the whole consolidated list, and article 8 creates a control with no counterpart anywhere in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. Those annexes are published only as Diario Oficial page images, and they have now been read: the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, carillas 7 to 24, fetched one page image at a time from the Diario Oficial image service, read by eye off the page and checked against a Spanish optical character recognition pass, with the eye preferred wherever the two disagreed. Anexo I, Estupefacientes, carries 173 entries at carillas 7 to 12. Anexo II, Sicotropicos, carries 278 entries at carillas 12 to 21 and ends with three generic groups, Feniletilaminas and Catinonas sinteticas, each classed Sicotropicos Lista I, and Derivados de Fentanilo, classed Estupefacientes Lista I. Anexo III carries 75 entries in Tablas I and II at carillas 22 to 24. 526 entries in all. The name column was transcribed by eye and every search below was run against that transcription, not against the optical character recognition text, because the recognition text is not a sound basis for an absence: measured against the transcription, it carries only 396 of the 526 names, 9 of the 29 on carilla 22 and none of the 14 on carilla 24, where it captured the CAS and control columns and dropped the substance column altogether. A search run against it alone would return a false zero for about a quarter of the list [Certain, re-derived here; an independent count by the coordinator using a different normaliser returned 400 rather than 396, and both figures are floors because a misspelling counts as a miss]. This row is a 4-hydroxytryptamine. The generic groups reach phenethylamines, synthetic cathinones and fentanyl derivatives, and a tryptamine is outside all three printed nuclei [Certain]. There is no tryptamine group in Anexo II. [Certain as to what the annexes print.] That is what keeps this row open, and the ground has narrowed. The earlier cell deferred on two questions: whether a generic group caught the substance, and whether the derivatives limb reached it. The first is now answered, against control by group. The second is not: article 6 of Decreto 198/025 extends the list to the listed substances' "sales (cuando la existencia de dichas sales es posible), isomeros, derivados y los preparados que las contengan, segun las definiciones de estos", while the notes actually printed under the annexes are narrower and say only "Se consideran controlados tambien todos los isomeros y sales de las sustancias comprendidas en las listas, asi como los productos que las contengan", with no mention of derivatives and no exception clause. The definitions the article points to are not printed anywhere in the three annexes [Certain as to both wordings and as to the absence]. So the nearest listed thing is psilocina at Lista Verde, Lista I, whose 4-hydroxytryptamine scaffold this row shares, and whether the derivatives limb reaches this substance is a question the instrument still does not answer. This cell is a deferral and not a finding of absence, and it must not be read or indexed as a statement that the substance is uncontrolled in Uruguay. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the list read is the one enacted by Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025, which is the current consolidated national list and replaces the Anexo I of Decreto 265/020 that the earlier cell searched. The power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016, and article 8 of Decreto 198/025 subjects substances to control by generic group rather than by name. The annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them and the last amendment the text in hand incorporates. This does not rule out a later individual entry, a later replacement of the annexes, or a later generic group.
Argentina
Legal status
Controlled. Not named individually in Anexo I, but within Anexo II, chemical group 17, Triptaminas of Decreto 560/2019, which article 2 of that decree makes an estupefaciente route in its own right.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of Ley 23.737 published by InfoLEG: the words muerte and perpetua each return zero hits across the whole Act, so it carries neither a capital route nor a life route, and the heaviest term anywhere in it is the eight to twenty years of article 7. The scope of that measurement is this Act. It is not a statement about any other body of Argentine law. [Certain] Argentina places substances by delegated executive list. Article 40 of Ley 23.737 rewrote the last paragraph of article 77 of the Penal Code to read that el término estupefacientes comprende los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias susceptibles de producir dependencia física o psíquica que se incluyan en las listas que se elaboren y actualicen periódicamente por decreto del Poder Ejecutivo nacional. Article 2 of Decreto 560/2019 then makes that a dual list: it considers estupefacientes las sustancias incluidas en la lista del Anexo I y las sustancias que queden incluidas en los grupos químicos de la lista del Anexo II. Anexo I was substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, and now runs to 886 numbered rows. Anexo II carries seventeen chemical groups and has not been substituted. A search of Ley 23.737 for a substance name is therefore not a scheduling result. [Certain] Placement read in this pass at Anexo II, chemical group 17, Triptaminas. The entry reads: the group definition read in this pass: structure (32) is the tryptamine skeleton, with "R3 y R3' representan cada uno, de modo independiente entre sí, uno de los siguientes sustituyentes: hidrógeno; alquilo o alquenilo C1-8 lineal, ramificado o cíclico; bencilo" and "R4= uno o más de los siguientes sustituyentes, en cualquier posición del anillo: hidrógeno; halógeno; alquilo o alquenilo C1-8 lineal, ramificado o cíclico; acetiloxi; etoxi; metoxi; hidroxilo; alquiltio; haloalquilo o metilendioxi". [Certain] No row in the current Anexo I begins with this name. Fila 152 is 4-hidroxibutirfentanilo and Fila 153 is 4-MEAP, and there is no row between them. The group route applies because this substance is a tryptamine bearing a hydroxyl on the benzo ring, which R4 lists, and a methyl and an ethyl on the side chain nitrogen, which R3 and R3' list. The closing clause of Anexo II adds enantiómeros, diasterómeros and their salts. [Certain] The list read for this row is the complete Anexo I, all 886 numbered rows, taken from the text-layer PDF that the Boletín Oficial publishes and that the decree's own NOTA names as the place its annexes appear. Its sha256 is 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62 and a copy is kept at research/instruments/argentina/. The low resolution image served on the two normativa pages omits one page of that annex, Fila 614 to 651; the Boletín Oficial PDF does not, and every figure here was read from the PDF. [Certain] Every statement above about what the list does and does not contain was read as at the Anexo I substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, read together with Anexo II of Decreto 560/2019, which was the current text when this cell was written. This does not rule out a later decree substituting or amending either annex, and it does not rule out a placement under some instrument other than these two. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the articles themselves. Article 14 first paragraph sets prisión de uno a seis años, one to six years, and a fine for anyone who holds estupefacientes. Article 14 second paragraph reduces that to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, when, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, surgiere inequívocamente que la tenencia es para uso personal. Article 5 sets prisión de cuatro (4) a quince (15) años, four to fifteen years, y multa de cuarenta y cinco (45) a novecientas (900) unidades fijas, for anyone acting sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo who sows or cultivates, produces, manufactures, extracts or prepares, trades or holds for the purposes of trade, distributes, gives in payment, stores or transports, or delivers, supplies, applies or facilitates to others for payment. A delivery free of charge is tres (3) a doce (12) años, three to twelve years. Article 5 drops to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, where the escasa cantidad sown or cultivated shows unequivocally it was to obtain estupefacientes for the person's own consumption, and to seis (6) meses a tres (3) años, six months to three years, where a free and occasional supply was plainly for the recipient's own use. Article 6 sets the same four to fifteen years for importing and then illegitimately altering the declared destination, dropping to three to twelve years where the quantity shows unequivocally the goods were not for trade. Article 7 sets prisión de ocho (8) a veinte (20) años, eight to twenty years, y multa de noventa (90) a mil ochocientas (1.800) unidades fijas for organising or financing any of the article 5 or article 6 activities. Article 11 raises the penalties in the preceding articles en un tercio del máximo a la mitad del mínimo for its six listed aggravations, among them use of a person under eighteen, violence or deceit, three or more organised participants, and commission near a school, a health centre, a place of detention or a sporting or cultural institution, and the same sentence caps the increase in its own words, sin que las mismas puedan exceder el máximo legal de la especie de pena de que se trate. Arithmetic on article 7 plus article 11 gives twenty six years and eight months, which is a derivation and not a figure the Act states, and the species cap governs it. Article 17 lets the court suspend the sentence in an article 14 second paragraph case where personal use and dependence are proved and order a curative measure instead, and a satisfactory result exempts the person from the penalty. Article 16 adds a curative measure to the sentence of any dependent person convicted of any offence. [Likely] Carried from the live cell rather than re-derived here, because the ruling is not on the instrument pages read in this pass: the 2009 Corte Suprema decision in Arriola held the article 14 second paragraph penalty unconstitutional for consumption in private that harms nobody else, under article 19 of the Constitution. That ruling binds its own case. Lower courts vary, police still arrest, and the statute fixes no gram threshold, so decriminalised is not legalised and sale and purchase remain criminal. [Certain] The Anexo II group number stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier prepared for this country, which prints the substance name and nothing else. It was read in this pass from the published image of Anexo II itself.
Colombia
Legal status
Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for 4-HO-MET, metocina or 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for 4-HO-MET, metocina or 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. Anexo Técnico 1 numbers its 469 entries consecutively from 1 to 469 with no gap, so the absence was confirmed by reading the whole of it: a sweep of every entry name and every chemical name returns no hit for this substance.. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the Lista Verde rules extend only to salts and stereoisomers, which this is not. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The whole 4- block, entries 21 to 32, was read and contains no tryptamine.
Costa Rica
Legal status
Not confirmed. The placement for this row is not established, and the position is open rather than negative. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes the scope by reference to the substances included in the 1961 and 1971 Conventions and the 1988 Convention, and the Ministerio de Salud reproduces those listas in Spanish in its national fiscalizacion list and adds a short Otros agregados section of national additions. Both limbs were searched for this row and neither returns an entry. 4-HO-MET is a separate tryptamine from psilocin rather than a form of it, so the psilocina entry does not carry it. [Likely] that the row is not currently reached, not [Certain]. The search log is in the documentation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Constitution provides "La vida humana es inviolable", the human life is inviolable, and the word "muerte" appears zero times across the 81 pages of the consolidated Act. Both of those were measured in this pass and together they are what carries the heading. Costa Rica is an abolitionist state of long standing, [Likely] on the nineteenth century date, which was not re-derived here. Costa Rica publishes these penalties for drug trafficking. Article 58 carries eight to fifteen years for unauthorised distribution, commerce, supply, manufacture, transport, storage or sale, and article 77 raises that to eight to twenty years on an enumerated aggravation. Those are the country's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether either offence reaches 4-HO-MET is exactly what was not established. The second paragraph of article 58 reaches possession only "para cualquiera de los fines expresados", that is possession for one of those trafficking purposes. Ley 7786 creates no offence of consumption and no offence of simple possession for personal use. Article 79 answers a person consuming in a public place with voluntary and free treatment in a public or private health centre, not with a penalty.
If prescribed / medical
The prescription position follows the placement, and the placement is what was not settled. Article 58 turns on the words "sin autorizacion legal", so a Costa Rican authorisation is what matters if the substance is reached at all. Article 2 confines handling of the substances the Act covers to medical, analytical and research quantities on official forms issued by the Ministerio de Salud under Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025.
Documentation
Consolidation read: Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, in the Texto Completo Norma 8204 print published by the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas, which carries its own generation date of 19 November 2018. The same ranges, ocho a quince anos in article 58 and de ocho a veinte anos in article 77, were independently read on 18 September 2026 against the later Sinalevi record of Ley 7786, version 13 of 13, so the 2018 print is corroborated rather than assumed current. Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Costa Rica prints no annex of controlled substances in its drug Act: across the 81 pages the only drug names anywhere are in article 96, on the disposal of seized marihuana, cocaina and heroina. Article 1 regulates "estupefacientes, psicotropicos, sustancias inhalables y demas drogas y farmacos susceptibles de producir dependencias fisicas o psiquicas, incluidos en la Convencion Unica sobre Estupefacientes... de 1961... asi como en el Convenio de Viena sobre Sustancias Psicotropicas, de 21 de febrero de 1971... asimismo, en la Convencion... de 1988". Its second paragraph is a different thing and is often misread as the control annex: it has the Ministerio de Salud and the MAG draw up and publish in La Gaceta "las listas de estupefacientes, psicotropicos y similares Licitos", the licit ones, which is the authorisation side. The incorporation is ambulatory: article 36 defines precursors as Cuadro I of the 1988 Convention "y sus anexos, asi como los que se le incorporen en el futuro", and article 100 gives the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas a mandate framed by the conventions and by "los listados oficiales, publicados periodicamente en La Gaceta". The second limb, measured. The national list is the Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Direccion de Drogas y Estupefacientes of the Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026 and signed that day by Dra. Mariela Alfaro Segura. It runs to 27 pages in three sections, estupefacientes, psicotropicos and Otros agregados, and it names its own legal basis as the Reglamento para el control de drogas, estupefacientes y psicotropicas N. 45161-S, the instrument cited elsewhere as Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025. The two titles are the same text. A reading of 18 September 2026 records that the decree gives the competent body the function "Elaborar y actualizar la lista de sustancias oficialmente consideradas estupefacientes o psicotropicos y similares de uso regulado" and that its five annexes are forms rather than a substance schedule; that quotation is carried from that reading and was not re derived here. The whole of Otros agregados is twelve entries: metilfenidato, tapentadol and the synthetic cannabinoid JWH-073 among the estupefacientes, and ketamina, esketamina, mexazolam, zaleplon, zopiclona and the piperazines mCPP, CPP, TFMPP and 1,4 dibencilpiperazina among the psicotropicos. Amending Act in force between that list and this reading, read in the official gazette in this pass. Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, published in Alcance 78 to La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, provides "Rige tres meses a partir de su publicacion" and so took effect on 19 September 2026. It runs to four articles: it adds article 15 quater to Ley 7786 on the anti-money-laundering duties of virtual asset service providers, carries that cross reference into articles 16, 16 bis, 25, 33, 33 bis, 86 and 123, reforms the article 81 administrative fines, and allows three months for regulations. Every Ley 7786 article it touches is money laundering machinery, and it leaves articles 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis and 79 untouched, so it moves no row in this batch. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Costa Rica dossier was used only as the slug list and as one of the two term list sources. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Two of its readings were not adopted: it treated ergometrina and ergina as one row when they are separate substances on separate limbs, and it left dextrometorfano unresolved when the instrument excludes it in terms. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed. Anchored matching correctly did not return bencilmorfina, desomorfina, dihidromorfina, metildihidromorfina, mirofina or diacetilmorfina for the morfina row, isometadona, normetadona or the metadona intermediario for the metadona row, metcatinona or 4-metiletcatinona for the catinona row, MMDA or N-etil MDA for the MDA row, beta-ceto-MDMA for the MDMA row, levometanfetamina for the metanfetamina row, PCPY for the PCP row, brolanfetamina for the anfetamina row, or norpseudoefedrina for the efedrina row. Two extraction zeroes were false and were recovered by re interrogation: hexahidrocannabinol and 2-fluorodescloroketamina are both line wrapped in the source and a column based read missed both. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. pgrweb.go.cr/scij is a JavaScript shell: the Ley 8204 and Ley 7786 records and the sinalevi.go.cr record each returned about 25 KB that renders to 1,159 characters of site chrome and no statutory text, so a size threshold would have cleared all three. imprentanacional.go.cr served the official gazette carrying Ley 10961. The institutional reproduction at icd.go.cr served the consolidated Act, and ministeriodesalud.go.cr served the national list and the circulars. The schedule pages were checked for hidden content: the list PDF holds one image object repeated on all 27 pages, which is the ministry letterhead, and its byte size is accounted for by that banner, so no entry is carried in an image. Search log for this row: the names "4-HO-MET" and "metocina" were searched across all three sections of the national list and neither appears, while "psilocina, psilotsina" is entered in Lista I of the 1971 Convention. 4-HO-MET is a separate tryptamine from psilocin rather than a form of it, so the psilocina entry does not carry it. The reading is as at the national list of 10 September 2026 and the Convention listas it reproduces, and it does not rule out a later list or a later national addition. Nothing here is a finding that 4-HO-MET is uncontrolled. Carry any prescription and its dispensing label, and treat the position as open rather than settled. Sourcing, re derived in this pass and not carried: the two Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas urls cited by this row are DIRECTORIES and not documents. The listing page names the national fiscalisation list but does not carry it; the list is a separate PDF behind a numbered link, and that PDF is what the placement in this row actually rests on. Both documents are now fetched and cited by their own urls: "Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes", and "Lista de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Psicotropicas Sometidas a Fiscalizacion Nacional". The first carries the Otros agregados section this row's reasoning refers to [Certain, read from the fetched PDF]. The circulars page cited alongside them exposes no document at all.
Dominican Republic
Legal status
Not listed. The listed tryptamines are «Dimetiltriptamina» at number 10 under code 7435, «Dietiltriptamina» at number 9 under code 7434, «Psilocibina» at 19 and «Psilocina» at 20. This compound carries one methyl and one ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen and a hydroxyl at the 4 position, which makes it a different substance from each of them rather than a salt or an isomer of any. Article 7 is an open clause: it reaches «LSD o cualquier otra sustancia alucinógena» at any quantity, and acápite XXV of article 2 ends its list of the Grupos Alucinógenos with the words «y otras similares». An absence from the Categorías therefore does not close this row. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
It sits structurally between two listed compounds without being either of them. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
Jamaica
Legal status
No current named entry for 4-HO-MET was proved in the Dangerous Drugs Act. The searches recorded for this row ran «4-ho-met», «4-ho-met», spelling variants and the chemical name across the consolidated text and returned no named entry and no closed group rule. Section 10(1) is the operative list of drugs to which Part IV applies and it names only medicinal opium, any extract or tincture of the plant cannabis sativa, morphine and its salts, diacetylmorphine and the other esters of morphine, cocaine and ecgonine with their salts and esters, the dihydrocodeinone and morphine N oxide group, and thebaine with the ethers of morphine; Part IIIA reaches ganja alone, defined in section 2 by reference to the plant and its resin. The row checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name. There is no First Schedule of substances in this Act to consult: the Schedule it carries is the set of licence Forms A, B and D. Section 11(2) and 11(3) let the Minister extend Part IV by order, and orders of that kind are published as separate Legal Notices which this consolidation does not reproduce, so absence from section 10 is not a finding that this substance is uncontrolled in Jamaica.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The words death, capital and hanging appear nowhere in the 43 page consolidated Dangerous Drugs Act, and every penalty limb in it stops at imprisonment: thirty five years on conviction before a Circuit Court under sections 7B, 8A and 8B, and five years or less on summary conviction before a Resident Magistrate. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was proved and a ceiling copied across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. The searches recorded were «4-ho-met», «4-ho-met», spelling variants and the chemical name, and the row checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name. If an identification or a Ministerial order under section 11 were to bring the material within Part IV, sections 8A and 8B would carry the thirty five year Circuit Court ceiling and the summary alternative of a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars or five years. If it were identified as ganja or its resin, the ounce based scale in sections 7B and 7C would apply instead. Neither of those is asserted here.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is described for this substance in the Dangerous Drugs Act, and the Act supplies the only traveller rule this citation can carry: possession of a Part IV drug is lawful only as authorized by a licence or under regulations made under section 9, and section 15 governs a dangerous drug brought to the Island in transit. No schedule placement attaches to this row on the face of this instrument, so nothing in the Act tells a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The term recorded for this row in the compilation is «4-ho-met», and the identification question that has to be settled before any authorisation answer is given is the one this row was drawn around, which checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name.
Ireland
Legal status
4-HO-MET is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 1 para. 1(p). The entry relied on prints “structurally derived from... a ring-hydroxy tryptamine”, and that is the wording this placement rests on. 4-HO-MET matches the N-alkyl ring-hydroxy tryptamine class. Section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 is what turns a scheduled substance into a controlled drug for that Act's offences, and the schedules themselves are set by the Regulations named above rather than by the Act, so a placement moves when an amending instrument moves it. This row is reached by the N-alkyl ring-hydroxy tryptamine class in paragraph 1(p), which is a different class from the paragraph 3 ester and ether limb the psilocybin, 4-AcO-DMT and 5-MeO-DMT rows in this table rely on.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ireland has no death penalty, so nothing on this row can reach one. The exposure that does run is imprisonment, and it runs because of where this row sits: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 1 para. 1(p). The entry that puts it there prints “structurally derived from... a ring-hydroxy tryptamine”, so what follows runs from that entry and not from the substance's reputation. Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 makes simple possession an offence and section 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years on indictment for it. Section 15 reaches possession for unlawful sale or supply and section 27(3) permits life imprisonment for that. Section 15A is the presumptive offence and the source read here records it applying at €13,000, which is a market value of the drugs and is not a weight, a dose count or a quantity threshold of any kind. Sections 27(3C) and 27(3D) then carry the ten year presumptive minimum and the narrow grounds on which a court may go below it. The 2010 Act does not run alongside any of this, because section 2(1)(f) of that Act puts a controlled drug outside it. The source's own ceiling line for this row reads: For 4-ho-met, 1977 Act s. 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years for possession on indictment; s. 27(3) permits life for s. 15 supply; s. 15A applies at €13,000 with the s. 27(3C)-(3D) ten-year rule; 2010 Act excluded by s. 2(1)(f). Read as at 20 September 2026. These are the statutory ceilings the source records and they are not a prediction of what any court would impose.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for Ireland in the source read here, and deferred rather than guessed. The dossier this cell was authored from carries no prescription column and no traveller column, and no source for one, so nothing is asserted about whether a visitor may bring 4-HO-MET into Ireland, what a foreign prescription is worth at an Irish border, or what licence, certificate or authorisation Ireland requires for it. That was not researched and it is not inferred here. What the row does establish is its placement, which reads: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 1 para. 1(p). Attached to this substance, the wording read for it is “structurally derived from... a ring-hydroxy tryptamine”, and that is a scheduling record rather than anything about medicine. This row's own words record no medical limb, no exemption and no prescribing route of any kind, so there is nothing in it to attach to even conditionally. A scheduling fact is not a prescribing route, and the silence in this field is an absence of research rather than a permission.
Austria
Legal status
Controlled in Austria under the new psychoactive substances regime, and not as a narcotic or a psychotrope. The placement is group 6 of the NPS regulation's structural annexes: 4-HO-MET is not named; Annex II group 6 covers tryptamine and any compound derivable from that base structure, including one bearing the substituents permitted by NPSV §1(2). 4-HO-MET keeps the tryptamine core with a 4-hydroxy group and N-methyl and N-ethyl substituents, which fits group 6 for synthetic material. The dossier is careful on the boundary with the narcotics list: the extra N-ethyl carbon prevents treating it as a positional isomer of the listed psilocin, so the SV §1(5) isomer rule does not reach it. Austria regulates new psychoactive substances by structure rather than by list alone. NPSG §1 additionally requires psychoactivity and synthetic manufacture, and §2 excludes lawful medicinal channels and anything already subject to the Suchtmittelgesetz, so the SMG is applied first and the NPS scope second. The twelve cannabinomimetic cores and the other group definitions are alternatives rather than a catch all, and the annex has to be read as written rather than as a general ban on novel compounds.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. NPSG §4(2) sets one to ten years where the §4(1) offence causes death or serious injury to a larger number of people, and that is the whole of the ceiling, with no life term and no capital sentence behind it. 4-HO-MET is an NPS rather than a psilocin isomer, and that distinction is what keeps it off the narcotics ladder. Two years is the base figure under NPSG §4(1), and the shorthand that an NPS ban makes possession an offence is simply not the offence Austria wrote. Section 5 nonetheless permits confiscation unless the lawful purpose exception is met, and §7 supplies customs seizure powers. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Austria entry rather than re-derived from the Suchtmittelgesetz in this pass, the published penalties are these. Austrian practice is depenalised and not legalised, and the published entry says so in those terms. There is no legal minimum quantity, and possession of any amount for personal use is punishable under section 27, up to six months in prison or a fine. Under Therapie statt Strafe at section 35, small quantity personal use is typically provisionally suspended from prosecution on one to two years of probation where the person accepts counselling or treatment. Consumption itself is not criminalised, but the possession that precedes it is. Above the Grenzmenge, the threshold quantity, the offence becomes dealing or trafficking under sections 28 and 28a, up to one to three years, escalating to ten to fifteen years for commercial or organised cases. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Austria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Poland
Legal status
Controlled. Poland names this substance in its own national list. «4-HO-MET» is entry lp. 47 in group I-P of Załącznik nr 1, the psychotropic annex, with the designation «4-hydroksy-N-etylo-N-metylotryptamina». Article 33(2) of the 2005 Act confines group I-P to scientific research, so no lawful medical supply of it exists in Poland. Psilocin, the 4-hydroxy tryptamine that occurs naturally, is separately named at lp. 76 of the same group.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Poland has no death penalty, and the heaviest band the 2005 Act reaches for any conduct with this substance is a term of years. Possession is an offence under article 62(1) of the 2005 Act and the band there is up to three years. Where the quantity is considerable, article 62(2) sets a band of one year to ten years. In a case of lesser gravity article 62(3) provides instead for a fine, a restriction of liberty or up to one year. Article 62a lets proceedings be discontinued, even before the decision to open an investigation, where the quantity is insignificant and intended for the holder's own use and a penalty would be inexpedient. That is a power of the prosecutor and not an entitlement of the holder, so it is not decriminalisation. Supply offences sit apart from possession. Article 56 punishes putting such a substance on the market with a fine and six months to eight years, and article 56(3) raises that to a fine and two years to twelve years where the quantity is considerable. Article 59(1) punishes supply for gain with one year to ten years. The published Poland entry recorded an absence from both conventions and concluded that no Polish offence arises. The entry read here contradicts the conclusion.
If prescribed / medical
There is no authorised medicinal product with this substance in Poland, so no prescription route exists for it. Article 33(2) confines group I-P to research.
Documentation
No personal import route exists, because a listed substance may be brought in only under the licensing chapter of the 2005 Act and not on a traveller's own account. The certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement is the route for a prescribed controlled medicine and does not reach a substance for which no prescription can be written. The research use that article 33(2) permits is a licensed institutional activity, not something a person can document at a border.
Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 17 sierpnia 2018 r. w sprawie wykazu substancji psychotropowych, środków odurzających oraz nowych substancji psychoaktywnych, tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1139 · api.sejm.gov.pl · Updated September 21, 2026
Croatia
Legal status
Controlled in Croatia through a bounded entry rather than under its own name. 4-HO-MET is not named in the Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, and was not added by its amendment NN 154/2024. The entry it is reached through is »triptamini« at Odjeljak 1. of the psychotropic list, the section for substances under Schedule 1 of the 1971 Convention, printed in English as »Tryptamines«, whose description column opens »Spojevi strukturno izvedeni iz 2-(1H-indol-3-il)etanamina zamjenom jednog ili oba vodikova atoma amino-skupine alkilnom ili alkenilnom skupinom ili uključenjen dušikova atoma u cikličku strukturu, bez obzira na to jesu li ili nisu dodatno modificirani na jedan ili više od sljedećih načina:«. 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, which is the parent with two different alkyl groups on the amino nitrogen and a hydroxy group on the six membered ring, and the entry names a hydroxyl group among the permitted ring substituents. The Popis names no 4-substituted tryptamine other than psilocybin, so the placement of this row depends entirely on reading the class definition and not on any printed name. This placement is read in the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, together with its only amendment, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026. It does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Ustav Republike Hrvatske reads »U Republici Hrvatskoj nema smrtne kazne«, there is no death penalty in the Republic of Croatia, and Article 41 of the Kazneni zakon lists the only punishments as a fine, imprisonment and long term imprisonment. A charge on this row is built from the entry »triptamini« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. which is a bounded definition rather than a name, so what connects a seized sample to it is an opinion on the molecule's structure. Article 190 of the Kazneni zakon supplies the criminal bands, and its subject is »tvari koje su propisom proglašene drogom«, substances declared a drug by regulation, so a Popis entry is what brings a row within it. Article 190(1) sets six months to five years for unauthorised production or processing. Article 190(2) sets three to twelve years for producing, processing, transporting, exporting, importing, acquiring or possessing such substances intended for unauthorised sale, and for offering, selling or brokering them. Article 190(3) sets three to fifteen years where the sale is to a person with severe mental disturbance or to a child, or takes place at or near a school or another place serving the education, upbringing, sport or social activity of children, or in a penal institution, or where an official commits it in the course of duty. Article 190(4) sets not less than three years for organising a network of resellers or intermediaries, and Article 190(5) not less than five years where the act causes considerable damage to the health of a larger number of people or the death of the person sold to. Article 190(8) requires confiscation of the substances, the plants and fungi they come from, and the means of production, transport and consumption. Article 190(2) read one to twelve years until Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, replaced the word »jedne« with »tri«, and it has read three to twelve years since that Act came into force on the eighth day after its publication on 5 November 2025. Article 44(1) of the Kazneni zakon caps a term of imprisonment at twenty years, which is what bounds the open ended minima in Article 190(4) and Article 190(5), and Article 46 puts long term imprisonment of twenty one to forty years outside the reach of Article 190. No 4-substituted tryptamine other than one named molecule appears in the instrument, so this row rests wholly on the class definition. The live cell recorded that since 1 January 2013 personal use possession of any drug has been reclassified from a kazneno djelo, a criminal offence, to a prekršaj, a misdemeanour, and that is carried forward here. It recorded the misdemeanour fine as roughly 660 to 2,650 euro. It recorded possible short misdemeanour detention of up to 90 days, confiscation, and no arrest for possession alone. On quantity it recorded that there is no statutory personal use quantity and that courts decide case by case, and that hedge is carried forward as it stood. It recorded cultivation or production without intent to sell as six months to five years. It recorded sale, import, export or possession for sale as three to twelve years. It recorded aggravated cases, near schools, to children or organised, as up to fifteen to twenty years. It recorded that medical cannabis has been legal since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents. It recorded that claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded. Read against the control Act, the misdemeanour the live fine belongs to is Article 54(1) point 1 of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga read with Article 54(3), which makes possession contrary to Article 3(1) a misdemeanour for a natural person. The fine that provision prints is 5.000,00 to 20.000,00 kuna or imprisonment of up to 90 days, because the Act's consolidation still carries the pre euro figures, and at the fixed conversion rate that range is about 663 to 2,654 euro, which reconciles with the live figure rather than replacing it. Article 190 as read carries no possession for own use offence at all, which is consistent with the live cell's 2013 reclassification but is not proof of it. The words without intent to sell are the live cell's gloss and not the statute's: Article 190(1) is unauthorised production or processing, and Article 190(7) deems unauthorised growing of a plant or fungus from which a drug can be obtained to be production. The 0,75 g monthly cap appears in nothing read for this cell; Article 13(6) to (9) of the control Act permits cannabis cultivation and production for medical purposes on an approval from the health ministry, and the monthly figure is carried forward from the live cell and was not re-derived. Those bands, that fine and those quantity words are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Hungary
Legal status
Controlled. 4-HO-MET is not itself an entry. It is not named in the K1 or K2 jegyzék, in the P1 to P4 jegyzékek, or in the numbered table at point 6.1 of the 3. melléklet, and the forms searched were the code, metocin, the full chemical name, and each of them with the accents stripped and with every whitespace character removed. What reaches it is the structural description at point 3 of the 3. melléklet, «Azok a triptamin (2-(1H-indol-3-il)etánamin) szerkezeti részt tartalmazó vegyületek, amelyekben», where point 3.1.1 allows the amine nitrogen to carry «legfeljebb 4 szénatomos alkil-, vagy alkenilcsoportot, illetve csoportokat tartalmaz», which the methyl group and the ethyl group are, and point 3.2 allows «az indolil csoport 4-es vagy 5-ös helyzetben» to carry «hidroxi-, metoxi- vagy acetoxicsoportot tartalmazhat.», which the hydroxy group at the 4 position is. Reading a molecule against a structural description is a reading and not a printed row, and it is recorded here as one. Hungary carries the list outside the Act: the Criminal Code names no substance and the delegated rendelet carries the jegyzékek, which is the outward reference model and the second of the three. Section 459(1a) of the Criminal Code, 2012. évi C. törvény, inserted by section 26 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, reads «E törvény alkalmazásában kábítószer a 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet 1. mellékletében a kábítószerek 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, 2. mellékletében a pszichotróp anyagok 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, valamint 3. mellékletében meghatározott anyag.», so the K1 and K2 jegyzékek of the 1. melléklet, the P1 and P2 jegyzékek of the 2. melléklet and the whole of the 3. melléklet are inside the Criminal Code definition and the P3 and P4 jegyzékek are not. The P3 and P4 jegyzékek remain controlled schedules of the rendelet, and an entry there alone does not place a substance in the ordinary section 176 trafficking lane. This is read from the consolidated text of the rendelet as in force on 29 June 2026, as those lists stand after the amendment made by 1/2026. (VI. 19.) EÜM rendelet, which is the last amendment reflected in the text that was read.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Hungary has no death penalty. It does have life imprisonment for a drug offence, and that is the ceiling here. In Hungary 4-HO-MET is reached through a structural description in the 3. melléklet rather than through a row of its own, and where that row sits is what decides whether the ordinary section 176 lane applies. Criminal Code section 176(1) makes offering, handing over, putting into circulation or trading in a drug a bűntett punishable by two to eight years, «Aki kábítószert kínál, átad, forgalomba hoz, vagy azzal kereskedik, bűntett miatt két évtől nyolc évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 176(3) raises that to five years to twenty years or life imprisonment where the offence is committed in respect of a significant quantity, «A büntetés öt évtől húsz évig terjedő vagy életfogytig tartó szabadságvesztés, ha a bűncselekményt jelentős mennyiségű kábítószerre követik el.». The live Hungary cell recorded the life ceiling under section 176(3) and this pass re-derived the same provision from the Act and adds the five to twenty year band printed beside it. Section 178(6) makes consuming a drug, and acquiring, holding or ordering for import a small quantity for consumption, a vétség punishable by up to two years, «Aki kábítószert fogyaszt, illetve csekély mennyiségű kábítószert fogyasztás céljából megszerez, tart vagy az ország területére történő behozatal céljából megrendel, ha súlyosabb bűncselekmény nem valósul meg, vétség miatt két évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 180(1) is a conditional non punishment route and not a numerical decriminalisation rule: it requires the offender to admit the offence, «a bűncselekmény elkövetését beismeri,», to prove by document before the first instance decision at least six months of continuous treatment for dependence, other care for drug use or a preventive and informative service, «az elsőfokú ügydöntő határozat meghozataláig okirattal igazolja, hogy legalább hat hónapig folyamatos, kábítószer-függőséget gyógyító kezelésben, kábítószer-használatot kezelő más ellátásban részesült, vagy megelőző-felvilágosító szolgáltatáson vett részt, és», and to disclose the circumstances and enable the seller to be identified before the indictment, «a vádemelésig az elkövetés körülményeit feltárja, illetve lehetővé teszi a kábítószert értékesítő személy kilétének a megállapítását.». The live Hungary cell recorded those three conditions and this pass re-derived them from the Act. Section 180(2) closes that route where within the preceding two years the proceedings were suspended on that ground or the offender was held liable for drug trafficking or drug possession, and section 180(2a) closes it where the offender has already taken it twice, «Az (1) bekezdés nem alkalmazható akkor sem, ha az elkövető az (1) bekezdés b) pontja szerinti lehetőséget már két alkalommal igénybe vette.». Section 461 supplies the quantity definitions that grade the offence, so a quantity figure in Hungary selects the band rather than creating a lawful allowance. The quantity rule for this row is printed. Section 461(5)(c) sets the csekély mennyiség, the small quantity, at «3. pontja szerinti vegyületcsoport esetében a 2 gramm,», which is 2 gramm of pure active ingredient for the compound group at point 3 of the 3. melléklet. Section 461(6) puts the significant quantity at more than twenty times the upper limit of that small quantity and section 461(7) puts the particularly significant quantity at more than two hundred times it. Section 461(8) adds that for a compound occurring in salt form the pure active ingredient content means the content expressed as base, «E törvény alkalmazásában só formában előforduló vegyületek esetén tiszta hatóanyag-tartalom alatt a bázis formában megadott hatóanyag-tartalmat kell érteni.». The live Hungary cell printed the same rule for this row, in its own words: 2 g pure active ingredient for Annex 3 point 3; Btk. §461(5). This pass re-derived it from the text of the Act rather than carrying the figure forward. No fine figure attaches to any of those provisions in the text read: the Criminal Code states them as custodial bands and the rendelet states no penalty of its own. Those are Criminal Code provisions rather than rendelet provisions, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Cambodia
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Cambodia's authorities (Law on the Control of Drugs) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Cambodian source (Law on the Control of Drugs 1996, as amended), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Cambodia ABOLISHED the death penalty in 1989 (constitutional), there is NO death penalty for any drug offence; the maximum is LIFE imprisonment. ENFORCEMENT: a 2017 anti-drug campaign sharply increased arrests and post-2019 tourist-area enforcement tightened, foreigners are routinely jailed, and the old 'smokers' paradise' reputation is OUTDATED.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Cambodia ABOLISHED the death penalty in 1989 (constitutional); the maximum penalty for any drug offence is LIFE imprisonment. There is no medical, recreational, or industrial cannabis provision. Enforcement tightened sharply after a 2017 anti-drug campaign and post-2019 in tourist areas, foreigners are routinely jailed and the old 'smokers' paradise' reputation is OUTDATED. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law on the Control of Drugs (1996, amended 2005, 2011/2012), Arts 40/45 · UNODC and Amnesty International (corroborative) · cdc.gov.kh · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Sri Lanka
Legal status
Dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule, Part I, Group B, Section 3, clause 6, the tryptamine analogue clause. 4-HO-MET is not named. Clause 6 reaches it through substitution at the side chain nitrogen with alkyl substituents, limb (a), and through the ring hydroxy wording in the opening words of the clause. The model: the list is inside the Ordinance and the power to change it is delegated, with a parliamentary lock on the delegation. Section 48 provides that 「the drugs, substances, articles or preparations, specified for the time being in Groups A, B, C, D and E in Part I of the Third Schedule, shall be deemed to be dangerous drugs」. Section 2(1) then provides that 「regulation」 means a regulation made under this Ordinance and published in the Gazette, 「and includes the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Schedules」, so the Third Schedule is itself a regulation. The empowering section is section 80. Section 80(2)(b) lets the Minister make regulations 「for adding any item to or deleting any item from, or altering, varying or amending in any other way, any of the lists or Groups of poisons and dangerous drugs set out in the First and Third Schedules」, and section 80(3) then provides that 「No regulation so made shall have effect unless it has been approved by Parliament and notification of such approval has been published in the Gazette」. So the delegation is real but it is locked to an affirmative vote, and in practice the 2022 changes were made by primary legislation rather than by regulation. The Act was last amended by the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026. The Third Schedule was last amended by section 6 of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022 and published as a supplement to Part II of the Gazette of 25 November 2022, which substituted Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III. Act No. 7 of 2026 does not touch the Third Schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 54A(1) has four limbs and they do not carry the same exposure. Limb (a) punishes any person who 「manufactures any of the following dangerous drugs, namely heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 with 「a sentence of death or life imprisonment」, with no quantity stated. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) punish trafficking, importing or exporting, and possession, of 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule in excess of the amount set out in the said Column II」, with the penalty in Column III. Part III Column II is headed 「Pure Quantities」, and Column I is headed 「Traffics, possess, imports or exports」, so possession is inside the same ladder as trafficking. Section 54B extends the same punishment to abetting, attempting and acts preparatory to or in furtherance of a section 54A offence. Since Act No. 7 of 2026 a parallel section 54AA applies the same two structures on the high seas, aboard a ship registered in Sri Lanka or a stateless ship. For a dangerous drug that is not in Part III, section 54A never engages, because limbs (b), (c) and (d) operate only on a drug 「set out in Column II of Part III」. The charge is the general penalty in section 78(5): on summary conviction by a Magistrate a fine of one thousand to ten thousand rupees or up to five years or both, and on conviction before the High Court a fine of ten thousand to twenty five thousand rupees or six months to seven years or both. Section 78(6) requires the written consent of the Attorney-General before non-summary proceedings. The clause carves out serotonin by name, which is a hydroxytryptamine, and carves out nothing else. That express carve out is evidence the drafters meant the ring hydroxy tryptamines to be inside. Neither reaches this substance, at any quantity, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. The death and life penalties in this Ordinance live in exactly two places. Section 54A(1)(a) attaches them to the manufacture of 「heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 and names no other drug. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) attach the Column III penalties to 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule」, and Column II names only opium, 「Morphine, Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamine」, and cannabis. This substance is in none of those, so section 54A cannot engage however much of it is involved, and section 54AA cannot either, because it is built on the same two structures. Being a dangerous drug under section 48 is not the same thing as being in Part III, and the corpus this cell replaces repeatedly ran the two together.
Morocco
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is in no entry of tableaux A, B or C annexed to the dahir of 2 December 1922 as annexed in 1922, read complete from the page image on 22 September 2026, and in no entry of tableaux I to IV of the 1971 Convention as printed at Bulletin officiel 3590 on 19 August 1981, thirty two entries read complete from the page image. That pair of absences does not make it lawful. Article 1 of the 1922 dahir provides that substances are inscribed in tableaux A, B and C by arrêté, and the operative arrêté was not read, so the list that would decide this row was not in front of the author. 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine. Tableau I prints three tryptamines, « DET », « DMT » and « psilocine, psilotsin », each as a specific compound with its own chemical designation. A methyl-ethyl homologue of psilocin is none of the three, and no tryptamine family clause exists.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 provides death or life imprisonment. The ceiling in that dahir is article 2, five to ten years. Conduct distinction. Article 2 of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 punishes whoever imports, produces, manufactures, transports, exports or unlawfully holds « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants » with five to ten years and a fine of 5.000 to 500.000 dirhams. Article 8 punishes unlawful use of one of those substances or plants with two months to one year and a fine of 500 to 5.000 dirhams, or one of those two penalties only, and suspends prosecution where the person consents to a cure de désintoxication after medical examination on the requisition of the procureur du Roi. Both articles operate only once classification as a narcotic is established, and for this row it is not: the substance is in no printed entry that was read, and the arrêté that populates tableau B was not among the instruments held. So no penalty range can be attached to this substance with confidence, and the ranges above are stated to show the ceiling that would apply if it were classified, not to assert that it is. Article 13 lets the sentencing court ban a foreign national from the territory for five to ten years, without prejudice to administrative expulsion. Article 11 requires confiscation of substances seized in the cases the dahir covers.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is the 1922 dahir's: substances intended for human or veterinary medicine are inscribed in section II of tableaux A, B and C by arrêté of the health administration, and each tableau carries its own dispensing chapter, with tableau B the strictest. A prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule and neither settles the other. No domestic schedule placing this substance was read for this cell, so no prescribing rule is stated for it. Carry a certified prescription and a doctor's letter for any medicine you bring in, and declare it.
Documentation
The chain has three links and the enumerated list sits in the middle one. Dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 28 rebia II 1394 (21 May 1974), published at Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 and 929, enumerates no substance at all. Its article 1 punishes contravention of the dahir of 12 rebia II 1341 (2 December 1922) on the importation, trade, holding and use of substances vénéneuses, or of the regulatory texts made for its application, concerning « les substances classées comme stupéfiants et inscrites au tableau B », and its articles 2, 3, 4 and 8 attach to « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants ». Classification therefore happens under the 1922 dahir. Article 1 of that dahir, as modified by the dahir of 17 March 1953, divides substances into « Tableau A: produits toxiques », « Tableau B: produits stupéfiants » and « Tableau C: produits dangereux », and provides that they are inscribed in section I and section II of each tableau by arrêté. The operative arrete was not read for this cell. The table annexed to the 1922 dahir and printed in the ONSSA consolidated text read on 22 September 2026 is the original annex as annexed in 1922; it carries no sections, so it predates the structure article 1 now describes. Dahir 1-80-140 of 17 December 1980, at Bulletin officiel 3590 of 19 August 1981, page 404, is a publication dahir: it publishes the 1971 Vienna Convention on psychotropic substances as annexed, and it creates no offence and inscribes nothing in tableau B. Its tableaux I to IV are the treaty's own schedules as printed in 1981, thirty two entries in total, and they were read complete from the page image. Placement for 4-ho-met: in no entry of any tableau read, and the operative arrêté was not read. Search record. 4-HO-MET, metocin and hydroxy-methylethyltryptamine were searched. The stem tryptamine returns three matches, one for each named tryptamine, and reading all three is what establishes that the entries are specific rather than generic. All searching was done with word boundaries enforced and with plural tolerance, after a search for tetrahydrocannabinol returned a false zero on the gazette's own plural. The dossier for this jurisdiction was treated as A term list and its printed Entry claims were not accepted. It presents English substance names inside a French quotation frame, attributes them to the 1981 Bulletin officiel, and names substances that postdate that printing by decades. Every entry quoted in this cell was read from the rendered page image of the gazette at 150 dpi, because the text layer of the 1974 and 1981 scans carries optical character recognition damage.
Qatar
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three Ministry of Public Health controlled lists. Psilocine at Table 1-B item 9 is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. 4-HO-MET carries an ethyl group in place of one methyl and is a different compound, and the list names its tryptamines one by one. Qatar's tables are closed and named. They carry no general analogue clause and no blanket new-psychoactive-substance clause, so a compound that is not named and not caught by a described limb is outside them. The two described limbs that do exist are the salts, esters, ethers and isomers limbs inside each table and the chemically synthesised cannabinoid preparations item added to section a of Table 1 in 2024, and neither reaches this row. Article 1 of Law No. 9 of 1987 provides «تعتبر مواد مخدرة أو مؤثرات عقلية خطرة في تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد والمؤثرات العقلية المبينة في الجدولين رقمي (1) و(2) الملحقين به. ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (3).», making the narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances for this Law those set out in attached Tables 1 and 2, and excepting from them the preparations set out in Table 3. The power to move a substance in or out is article 33, «يجوز بقرار من وزير الصحة العامة تعديل الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب الواردة فيها.», which lets the Minister of Public Health amend the attached tables by deletion, addition or change of the stated percentages. This reading is stated as at the annex as published in the Official Gazette and as it stands after Ministerial Decisions 22 of 2015, 6 of 2024, 2 of 2025 and 8 of 2026, the last of which took effect on 2 February 2026, read at the publisher on 22 September 2026. Those five documents are not a complete statement of the tables, and this cell says so rather than implying otherwise: the Ministry of Public Health prints on its own list of controlled narcotic and dangerous psychoactive substances a further block of entries, among them carfentanil, hydromorphone, oripavine and a long run of designer cathinones and synthetic cannabinoids, that appears in neither the Gazette annex nor any of the four located decisions, and the instruments that placed them were not found. So this reading is measured against those five documents and the three Ministry lists together, and not against a certified consolidation, because the portals publish none.
Consequences if caught
The figures below are Qatar's published drug penalties. Article 34 opens «يعاقب بالإعدام أو الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال», punishment by death or life imprisonment, and the word or is what leaves death discretionary at the base tier. The same article then provides «وتكون العقوبة الإعدام وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال في حالة العود.», making death the punishment on recidivism, and extends that same result to an offender who is a public official charged with drug control and to one who involves a person under eighteen, an ascendant, a descendant, a spouse or a person in his charge. Article 35 opens «يُعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تزيد على عشرين سنة ولا تقل عن عشر سنوات وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال», ten to twenty years for possession, acquisition, purchase, sale, delivery, receipt, transport, cession, exchange, dispensing or brokering with intent to traffic, for supplying for consumption for consideration and for keeping a place for consumption for consideration. Article 35 then provides «وتكون العقوبة الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال في حالة العود.», life imprisonment on recidivism, and attaches life to its stated aggravations as well. Article 37 sets six months to three years for personal use, possession for use or consumption, lets the court order treatment instead for a proved addict for not less than three months and not more than a year, and article 38 bars prosecution altogether for a user who presents for treatment of his own accord. No quantity threshold appears anywhere in articles 34, 35, 37 or 41. Weight does not select the tier and a foreign threshold table has no work to do here. The fines are stated in the same articles and are separate from the custodial terms: article 34 adds a fine of not more than five hundred thousand riyals and not less than three hundred thousand, article 35 not more than four hundred thousand and not less than two hundred thousand, its no-consideration limb and article 41 not more than two hundred thousand and not less than one hundred thousand, and article 37 not more than twenty thousand and not less than ten thousand. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Qatar's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Kuwait
Legal status
Not a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. 4-HO-MET is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, as those schedules stand after Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026. Serial P1-39 is alpha methyltryptamine and P1-23 is etryptamine, both different substances.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Conduct distinction. Articles 48 and 49 of Decree Law 159 of 2025 punish possession and personal use of a scheduled substance, up to ten years and up to five years respectively. 4-HO-MET is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so neither article reaches it as a scheduled substance. Serial P1-39 is alpha methyltryptamine and P1-23 is etryptamine, both different substances. None. Articles 42 and 43 of Decree Law 159 of 2025, which carry death or life imprisonment, bite only on المواد أو المستحضرات المخدرة أو المؤثرة عقلياً, narcotic or psychotropic substances and preparations, which article 1 defines by reference to the annexed schedules. 4-HO-MET is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2, so there is no scheduled substance for those articles to attach to. Articles 44 and 45, which make death mandatory, operate only on article 42 and 43 offences and so cannot attach either. That is the reason exposure is absent, not merely the fact of it. No quantity threshold arises, because no capital article is engaged.
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET is not on a criminal schedule of this decree law, so the prescribing chapter of Decree Law 159 of 2025 does not govern it. A separate Ministry of Health prescribing or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule. Carry a certified prescription and a medical report for any medicine you bring in.
Documentation
The governing instrument is Decree Law 159 of 2025 on combating narcotics and psychotropic substances and regulating their use and trade, eighty four articles in thirteen chapters, gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm on 1 December 2025 and in force from 15 December 2025. Article 83 repealed Law 74 of 1983 and Decree Law 48 of 1987 and merged them. The schedules do not sit in the law. Article 40 reads يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل الجداول أو المجموعات المرفقة بهذا المرسوم بقانون، بالحذف، أو بالإضافة, so the Minister of Health amends them by decision. The last such amendment read for this cell is Decision 165 of 2026, made on 24 May 2026 and gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026, whose article five annexes the complete updated schedules. The schedules are arranged as Group 1, narcotic substances, tables 1 to 6, Group 2, psychotropic substances, tables 1 to 4, Group 3, chemical precursors, and a Group 4 list of the substances article 52 names. Group 3 was not reprinted in the annex and was not read for this cell. Foreign nationals are liable to deportation after sentence. Kuwait retains and imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking. Placement for 4-HO-MET: in no table of Group 1 or Group 2. Serial P1-39 is alpha methyltryptamine and P1-23 is etryptamine, both different substances. The absence was tested five ways before it was accepted: the international name, optical character recognition variants of it, the Arabic form, the chemical name, and independently by enumerating every Latin word in the schedules that begins with the same letter and reading that list. A measured zero from a scanned table is not a finding until it has been interrogated. A name that resembles the substance is not the substance. The nearest thing in these schedules to 4-HO-MET is alpha methyltryptamine at serial P1-39, and it is a different substance; this cell does not rest on it.
Peru
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is not carried by Peru's controlling schedule under any name the search reached. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA runs to 244 numbered entries across Listas I A, I B, II A, II B, III A, III B, III C, IV A, IV B, V and VI, and none of them is this substance. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under 4-HO-MET, metilcina and 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. The reading was taken from the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which is a text only file carrying no images at all. The two publications agree on every list, on the entry at every item number and on the count, and the numbering runs continuously from 1 with no gap in any of the eleven lists, so the absence is taken from a listing read to its end rather than from a truncated one. Matching was anchored at the start of the entry name and every anchored hit was read in full before it was allowed to become a placement. The convention limb, under article 2 of the Reglamento and article 14.1 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, was run again in this run and does not reach it: the substance is named in neither the 1971 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, nor the 1961 Convention schedules, read in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026, both searched with line breaks and hyphens collapsed so that a name split across two lines is still found. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Article 2 of the Reglamento states three limbs: it comprises the substances in the Listas of Decreto Ley 22095, the connected lists of the international conventions incorporated into domestic law, and the substances that may be included under article 86 of that Decreto Ley and article 61 of the Ley General de Salud, and it then says that los listados correspondientes aparecen en el Anexo N. 2. The rule applied across this country set follows those words: where Anexo N. 2 carries an entry its band governs and supersedes the older one, and where Anexo N. 2 is silent the Decreto Ley 22095 annex and the incorporated convention lists can still bring a substance within article 2, so silence in the published catalogue is a gap in it rather than a de-control. Because Anexo N. 2 does not reach this substance and no other Peruvian instrument read in the 21 September 2026 pass places it, the row is unresolved rather than permitted. Absence from the sanitary schedule is not a statement that the substance may be carried or used, and the position under customs, medicines registration and consumer law was not examined here. This run, on 3 October 2026, searched an instrument the previous pass did not reach. Article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241, as replaced by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 1592 published on 14 December 2023, provides that "La lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas se aprueba mediante Resolución Ministerial del Ministerio del Interior" and that "Las actividades ilegales relacionadas con las citadas sustancias, se encuentran sancionadas". Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of 17 June 2026, published in El Peruano on 18 June 2026, approves the "Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP)" as its annex, which runs to 736 numbered items followed by three named groups: alkyl nitrites, the genera of hallucinogenic mushrooms, and three plant species. Section I of the annex provides that the list "incluye sus análogos, sales, isómeros, ésteres, éteres, precursores, mezclas entre ellas o con otro tipo de sustancias, incluyendo los compuestos derivados", and it calls its detailed list its own Anexo 2; that is not Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento, which is what Anexo N. 2 means everywhere in this cell. Its 736 numbered items and its closing groups were searched in Spanish, against the page images where the extracted text was doubtful, under 4-HO-MET, metocina, 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina and N-metil-N-etil, and none of them is this substance. The nearest entry is item 125, "4-AcO-MET", 4-acetoxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina, which is the acetate ester of this substance and a different compound. The annex says its list includes the analogues, salts, isomers, esters, ethers, precursors and derived compounds of what it names; reading that clause to reach the parent compound of a listed ester would be an inference rather than a placement, and it is not applied. The clause's words were read against this row one by one, precursores included, and none is applied, because the annex names no parent compound of item 125 and treating this substance as that item's precursor would be an inference rather than a placement. The annex also defines a nueva sustancia psicoactiva as any substance that produces a psychoactive effect by stimulating or depressing the central nervous system; that definition names no substance, and applying it to place this row would be an inference rather than a placement, so it is not applied. Both the Anexo N. 2 catalogue and the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas are read as at 3 October 2026, and article 14.3 of Decreto Legislativo 1241 lets the latter be updated by the same procedure that approved it, so this reading does not rule out a later list.
Chile
Legal status
Controlled. Decreto 867 artículo 1, the lista of substances capable of grave toxic effects or considerable harm to health.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Chile abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes by Ley 19.734 of 2001 [Likely, carried from a secondary source], and the escala general de penas in artículo 21 of the Código Penal, re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of 20 November 2018, opens at presidio perpetuo calificado and names no death penalty [Certain]. No provision of Ley 20.000 carries a death penalty [Certain]. Ley 20.000 splits substances in two. Artículo 1 inciso primero reaches those capable of grave toxic effects or considerable harm to health, and inciso segundo reaches other drugs of the same kind that do not produce those effects. Decreto 867 puts the first group in its artículo 1 and the second in its artículo 2, so which artículo an entry sits in is what fixes the penalty range [Certain]. Placement: Decreto 867 artículo 1. The entry read in full is "4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina (4-HO-MET)". Decreto 512 separately added "4-Acetoxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina (4-AcO-MET)", which is the acetate and a different entry [Certain]. Artículo 1 inciso primero of Ley 20.000 sets presidio mayor en sus grados mínimo a medio, five years and one day to fifteen years, with a fine of forty to four hundred unidades tributarias mensuales, for unauthorised elaboration, manufacture, transformation, preparation or extraction. Artículo 3 applies the same penalties to trafficking, and its second inciso treats importing, exporting, transporting, acquiring, transferring, abstracting, possessing, supplying, keeping or carrying as trafficking [Certain]. Artículo 4 punishes possessing, transporting, keeping or carrying small quantities with presidio menor en sus grados medio a máximo, five hundred and forty one days to five years, and a fine of ten to forty unidades tributarias mensuales, unless the holder justifies a medical treatment or exclusive personal use proximate in time [Certain]. Ley 21.817, published 23 May 2026, added a final inciso to artículo 4 under which small quantities of substances the reglamento determines to be capable of grave toxic effects attract the artículo 1 penalty instead [Certain]. I read that inciso as operating on the artículo 1 list of Decreto 867, because that list is the reglamento's determination of substances capable of grave toxic effects, and I flag the competing reading below. Artículo 19 raises the penalty by one degree where any of its twelve listed aggravations applies, and permits two degrees where two or more concur. One degree above the artículo 1 band is presidio mayor en sus grados medio a máximo, ten years and one day to twenty years [Certain]. The two degree ceiling turns on Código Penal degree arithmetic that I did not settle in this pass, so it is not established here. Artículo 50 makes consuming in a public place, and holding or carrying in such a place for exclusive personal use proximate in time, a falta punished by a fine of one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, attendance at a prevention programme for up to sixty days or treatment for up to one hundred and eighty days, or community work of up to thirty hours, with an accessory driving licence suspension of up to six months. The same penalties reach consumption in a private place where those present agreed beforehand to consume [Certain]. Artículo 50 refers to the drugs mentioned in artículo 1 of the law, which covers both incisos and so both listas [Certain]. A falta is not a prison sentence, but it can become one and this cell previously said it could not. Artículo 52 provides that where the fine under artículo 50 letter a) is not paid, the court may substitute the prevention, treatment or community service penalty, that any such substitution requires the agreement of the convicted person, and that in the absence of that agreement the court shall impose reclusion by way of substitution and enforcement of the fine, at one day for each third of a unidad tributaria mensual, never exceeding six months [Certain]. The same reclusion follows revocation where an imposed treatment or prevention penalty is not complied with [Certain]. Because the artículo 50 fine runs from one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, one day per third of a unidad puts the ceiling reachable from that fine at thirty days, and the six month figure is the statutory cap rather than an outcome this route can reach [Certain]. Artículo 52 also lets the court waive the fine or set it below the legal minimum in duly qualified cases [Certain]. Artículo 51 requires the pecuniary sanction to be applied at its maximum where the falta is committed in a place of detention, a military or police precinct by an outsider, or in an educational or health establishment by someone who works there [Certain]. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. The artículo transitorio of Ley 21.817 orders the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública to amend Decreto 867 within six months of publication, so by 23 November 2026, to add a new classification for substances harmful even in low quantities. The consolidated Decreto 867 read in this pass carries no list framed on quantity, so that classification is still pending [Certain]. That is the competing reading of the artículo 4 inciso final flagged above: on it the inciso cannot operate until the new classification exists, which would leave small quantities of an artículo 1 substance at the artículo 4 band of five hundred and forty one days to five years rather than the artículo 1 band of five years and one day to fifteen years. I did not settle which reading a Chilean court would take, and the difference between the two is about ten years.
New Zealand
Legal status
Controlled through the open analogue limb rather than by a schedule name. 4-HO-MET, a hydroxylated tryptamine, has no entry of its own in Schedules 1 to 3 on the text cited, and this finding does not rest on that absence: the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 defines a controlled drug analogue as any substance whose structure is substantially similar to that of a controlled drug, subject to the stated exclusions, and the stated parent structure places 4-HO-MET in that limb unless a medicine exclusion or an express exclusion applies. The analogue route lands in Schedule 3 Part 7, so the class is C. It is the one tryptamine in this analogue group whose row offers no cross-reference to a named parent, so the similarity comparison has to be made against the Schedule 1 tryptamines generally. The dossier states the statutory route rather than claiming a laboratory determination, because a court-grade analogue conclusion can depend on expert structural evidence. The consolidation read was the one current at 20 September 2026, with the Order of 2025 commenced on 27 November 2025 as the latest instrument actually in force.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. New Zealand has no death penalty. A controlled drug analogue is treated as a Class C controlled drug, so the exposure on 4-HO-MET is the section 6 dealing maximum of 8 years, with section 7 reaching possession. This row's own ceiling column states the section 7 limb without attaching a figure to it, and the Class C rows in this table put that possession maximum at 3 months. The 8 year figure is the whole of the exposure on this route. The analogue figure is the only number this row produces, because no named entry attaches a different one to it.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for a traveller. This dossier carries no country-level rule for entering New Zealand with a prescribed medicine: it records that medicines status has to be checked alongside the analogue exclusions and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 route, and that a court-grade conclusion can turn on the medicine exclusions, but it states no declaration requirement, no permit, no quantity allowance and no carry limit at the border, and none was researched for this cell. What is established is the placement a traveller would be read against: 4-HO-MET is not named in Schedules 1 to 3 and is reached, if at all, through the section 2 controlled-drug-analogue limb, which is treated as Class C. No medicine form is in view, and this row offers no cross-reference to a named parent, so the comparison runs against the Schedule 1 tryptamines generally. Do not read that placement as a ruling on a lawfully prescribed and lawfully carried supply, which is a different question this cell does not answer. Settle the border question with the Ministry of Health, whose classification order implementation page this dossier cites, and with the New Zealand border authority, before travelling.
Documentation
Carry the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026 and read section 2 together with Schedule 3 Part 7, because neither carries the finding for 4-HO-MET on its own. Read the analogue definition and note that the dossier states the statutory route rather than a laboratory determination for 4-HO-MET. Carry the point that an absent name is not an answer in New Zealand: the list is closed for named substances while the analogue limb is open, so a search of the schedules that returns nothing has not finished the question. Carry the classification chain this finding was read against as well: the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment, and the 2026 Order, which was made but is not treated as law in this dossier because its own section 2 leaves commencement to the Governor-General and no commencement instrument was located by the horizon. Carry the date as well, 20 September 2026, because in New Zealand a classification order can move a substance between classes without a word of the Act changing.
South Africa
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is not printed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, and whether the open homologue limb reaches it is not settled here.
Consequences if caught
The nearest printed text is "Psilocin (4-hydroxydimethyltryptamine)." and the difference is one methylene on a nitrogen substituent: the printed compound carries two methyl groups on the amine, this one carries a methyl and an ethyl. That is the textbook relationship the word homologue describes, which is exactly why this row defers rather than resting. Paragraph 2 (a) to (d) is exhausted: a molecule one carbon larger is not an isomer, and it is not an ester, an ether or a salt of the printed compound. The neighbouring row for the acetate ester of the same printed compound is a finding for that reason and this one is not. The limb in question is Part III paragraph 2 (e), which reads "(e) all homologues of the listed substances (being any chemically related substances that incorporate a structural fragment into their structures that is similar to the structure of a listed substance or exhibit pharmacodynamic properties similar to the listed substances in this Part of the Schedule), unless listed separately in any Part of Schedule 2." The equivalent limb in Part I is paragraph 2 (c) and is worded identically for that Part. If the limb does reach this substance the consequences are the ordinary ones for the Part the listed relative sits in: section 4 (b) with section 17 (d) at up to 15 years for use or possession, and section 5 (b) with section 17 (e) at up to 25 years for dealing. If it does not, the Act does not reach the substance at all. This cell does not choose between those two outcomes. The two routes that could close this question are not available from what this cell holds. The Act supplies no test for deciding a homologue case, and the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act 101 of 1965 schedules, which are the other place a South African answer could come from, are not held in this repository and were not read for this cell. Capital exposure: none, and life exposure: none. Section 17 sets out the whole penalty scale of this Act and its highest figure is 25 years for dealing; no provision of the Act carries a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route can be stated for this substance, because the instrument that would answer that question is the Medicines and Related Substances Control Act 101 of 1965 and its consolidated schedules, which are not held in this repository. The Drugs Act's own exceptions in section 4, paragraphs (i) to (vi), run through a practitioner and through that Act, so they cannot be applied to this substance without it.
Documentation
Search record. The terms searched were 4-ho-met, metocin, 4-hydroxy-MET, psilocin and psilocybin. The first three return zero occurrences. The contrast with the acetate ester row is deliberate and is the reason both rows are written: one is closed by an express limb and the other is not. The text read for this cell is the Juta consolidation of the Act downloaded on 29 May 2025, taken from the Department of Justice copy at justice.gov.za whose sha256 begins bc1216a3. It carries the substitution of Schedules 1 and 2 by section 2 of Act 14 of 2022 with effect from 14 December 2022, and it marks section 7 of the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 of 2024, the provision that would amend Schedule 2 again, as not yet put into operation by proclamation. The schedules are stated as at that consolidation and this does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
Kenya
Legal status
Not a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic drugs, the Second Schedule of psychotropic substances, the Third Schedule of prohibited plants or the Fourth Schedule of precursor chemicals, as at 31 December 2022. The nearest entry read and rejected is "psilocine, psilotsin" in the Second Schedule, which names a different substance.
Consequences if caught
The nearest entry read and rejected is "psilocine, psilotsin", printed in the Second Schedule list of psychotropic substances. 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, which replaces one of the two N-methyl groups of the compound that entry names with an N-ethyl group, so it is a different substance and the Second Schedule extends only to salts. This is stated as at the Kenya Law revised edition of Cap. 245, being the text as at 31 December 2022 as revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), read on 22 September 2026, which the publisher marks as the latest version of the Act. Section 3(2)(b) sets imprisonment of not less than 5 years for possession of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance other than cannabis, and section 4, which reaches trafficking and possession alike, sets a term of 30 years on its lower band and of 50 years on its upper one. The quantity bands are possession of less than 1 gram under section 3(2)(b), between 1 and 100 grams under section 4(a)(i), and more than 100 grams under section 4(a)(ii). The fines are not less than 5,000,000 shillings under section 3(2)(b), not less than 30,000,000 shillings under section 4(a)(i), and not less than 50,000,000 shillings or three times the market value, whichever is greater, under section 4(a)(ii), each expressed as an alternative to imprisonment or in addition to it. Cap. 245 carries no death penalty, and imprisonment for life appears only at section 4(b)(i), for precursor chemicals and for substances held out to be narcotic or psychotropic, and at section 4B(5), for conspiracy. Those figures are carried across every Kenyan row because Cap. 245 sets them country wide rather than substance by substance, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Kenya's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
If prescribed / medical
Cap. 245 does not reach this substance on the text read, so the section 3(3) exemption for a licence or a prescription is not the provision that governs it. Kenya's medicines, pharmacy and poisons legislation, its customs rules and any import permit requirement sit in other instruments, and none of them was read for this cell, so nothing here settles whether a traveller may bring this substance into Kenya. Carry any prescription you hold and put the question to a Kenyan mission before you travel.
Documentation
This row rests on an absence, so it carries the version of the list it was read against. Cap. 245 is the controlling instrument. It carries four schedules, the First for narcotic drugs, the Second for psychotropic substances, the Third for prohibited plants and the Fourth for precursor chemicals, and none of the four uses entry numbers, so no numbered placement is asserted anywhere in this batch. The text read incorporates the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), assented on 24 February 2022 and commenced on 21 March 2022, which replaced the whole of section 3(2), replaced section 4 outright, inserted sections 4A and 4B, inserted the word tramadol in the First Schedule, inserted the word ketamine in the Second Schedule and added the Fourth Schedule, and which carries no transitional or savings provision. This is stated as at the Kenya Law revised edition of Cap. 245, being the text as at 31 December 2022 as revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), read on 22 September 2026, which the publisher marks as the latest version of the Act. Section 87 lets the Cabinet Secretary by order add a substance or plant to the First, Second or Third Schedule or delete one from it, and no order made after 31 December 2022 was found by the routes tried, which does not rule out a later one.
Belgium
Legal status
4-HO-MET is controlled in Belgium, but not by being named. It is reached by the generic tryptamine definition in Annex IVA group 5, reached through the hydroxy substituent it prints, and the operative provisions come from the instrument named for this row, the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017, where article 2 defines the controlled substances through Annexes I to V and article 61 routes a breach back to the Law of 24 February 1921. Belgium works a delegated model: article 2bis §1 of the Law of 24 February 1921 punishes breaches concerning substances whose list is settled by the King, and the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017 supplies that list. The named lists are closed, so pharmacological resemblance, a similar spelling or a substring match cannot enlarge them. Annex IVA is the one part of the list that is open, and it is open only inside the eight precisely printed generic chemical families; a structure that does not fit the printed core and substituent ranges is outside it. The dossier records the hydroxy option as printed in the family, which is what brings this compound inside it.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belgium's drug law carries no death penalty and no life sentence. What does attach to 4-HO-MET is the article 2bis ladder in the Law of 24 February 1921, reached through the same routing article as a named substance, and here the hydroxylated tryptamine falls inside the printed family rather than being named separately. Article 2bis §1 sets the ordinary band at three months to five years of imprisonment with a fine of EUR 1,000 to 100,000. Article 2bis §3 raises that to ten to fifteen years for its stated aggravations, including where use following the offence causes death. Article 2bis §4 carries the ceiling, fifteen to twenty years, where the offence concerns a child under twelve or participation as a leader in an association, so twenty years is the maximum imprisonment this statute exposes. Article 2bis §5 allows a further fine of EUR 1,000 to 100,000 in the §2 to §4 cases, which makes that fine available rather than automatic. Annex IVA is the generic family limb, and a family result carries the same article 2bis exposure as a named entry: what differs is how the substance is proved to be listed, not what follows once it is.
If prescribed / medical
The rule that applies to a traveller here is Belgium's own and it is one rule for the whole country: article 3(4)(4) of the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017. It is a document exception rather than a schedule, and it is not a prescribing right. It covers a medicine that was lawfully obtained, carried for the traveller's own personal use, and limited to no more than three months of treatment, and it expressly excludes the substances in Annex II limb A. 4-HO-MET is reached through the generic family in Annex IVA group 5 rather than through a named entry, and that family is not the excluded limb, so the placement does not shut the exception out; whether a lawfully obtained medicine exists to carry is a separate question this row does not answer. No named entry and no Belgian medicine record exists for this tryptamine in the dossier. No route specific to 4-HO-MET was found in this dossier and none has been invented for it.
Sweden
Legal status
Controlled. 4-HO-MET is named in Förteckning I of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. The row reads «4-HO-MET 3-[2-[etyl(metyl)amino]etyl]-1H-indol-4-ol», and its international column reads no international listing. Förteckning I is the tier for substances, plant material and fungi that normally have no medical use. 4-HO-DIPT and 4-HO-MPT are neighbouring rows and neither is this one. The live cell for this row said that Sweden controls the substance by incorporating a convention rather than by naming it in a national list, or that Sweden has no national list in the criminal act. Sweden does have a national list, it is the föreskrift named here, and this substance stands in it by name.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live block for this row was a recital of the statutory definition rather than a statement about this substance, and it opened on the premise corrected above. Every figure in it is carried forward here. 8 § of the Narkotikastrafflag defines narkotika as medicines or goods hazardous to health with dependence forming properties or euphoriant effects, or goods readily convertible into such, which are subject to control under an international agreement Sweden has acceded to, or have been declared narkotika by the government. The second limb is the one that carries the national list: the declaration is made by föreskrift, and the föreskrift is the one quoted in this cell. An ordinary narkotikabrott carries up to three years. A ringa offence, which is the minor form, carries a fine or up to six months. A grov offence carries two to seven years and a synnerligen grov offence six to ten years. Lag (1999:42) om förbud mot vissa hälsofarliga varor applies to goods which by their inherent properties entail danger to human life or health and which are used or can be assumed to be used to achieve intoxication, where the government has prescribed that the act applies to them. Its 2 § keeps the two regimes apart by excluding anything that is narkotika under the 1968 act and any medicine approved within the European Union. Its 4 § punishes an intentional breach with a fine or up to one year, which is a third of the drug law maximum. That second act does not reach this row, because its own 2 § excludes anything that is narkotika under the 1968 act, and this substance is. The penalty figures above describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Whether an authorised medicinal form exists was not established per substance here. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription.
Documentation
Norway
Legal status
Controlled in Norway. 4-HO-MET is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the Forskrift 14 February 2013 no. 199 on narcotics (narkotikaforskriften) and given effect by legemiddelloven section 22, where it appears as "4-HO-MET". It is listed without a reference to section 5, so it is a controlled narcotic with a lawful medical route rather than an outright prohibition.
Consequences if caught
Possession and use are forbidden by legemiddelloven section 24 first paragraph and punished under section 31 by a fine or imprisonment for up to six months, or both. Unlawful manufacture, import, export, acquisition, storage, sending or transfer is a narcotics offence under straffeloven section 231, punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years, and negligent commission by up to one year. An aggravated narcotics offence under section 232 carries up to ten years, a very substantial quantity carries from three to fifteen years, and under particularly aggravating circumstances up to twenty one years. The narkotikaliste read here is the Lovdata consolidation as at 16 September 2026. Its own amendment note ends with forskrift 26 August 2026 no. 1682, in force 1 September 2026, and no instrument after that was read, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
If prescribed / medical
Narcotic medicines may be carried for personal medical use under narkotikaforskriften section 19 if a doctor or dentist prescribed them and the traveller can document that, for example by the package label, the prescription or a doctor's declaration. A visitor without a registered address in Norway may bring up to one month's supply at the stated dosage. A person registered as living in Norway may bring one month's supply bought in Norway, but only one week's supply bought abroad, extended to one month with a declaration from a doctor in Norway on the form set by the Directorate for Medical Products. Travellers resident in the Schengen area may present an original Schengen certificate instead, issued for Norwegian residents by a pharmacy. Customs may require the documentation at the moment of entry.
Documentation
Narcotic medicines may be carried for personal medical use under narkotikaforskriften section 19 if a doctor or dentist prescribed them and the traveller can document that, for example by the package label, the prescription or a doctor's declaration. A visitor without a registered address in Norway may bring up to one month's supply at the stated dosage. A person registered as living in Norway may bring one month's supply bought in Norway, but only one week's supply bought abroad, extended to one month with a declaration from a doctor in Norway on the form set by the Directorate for Medical Products. Travellers resident in the Schengen area may present an original Schengen certificate instead, issued for Norwegian residents by a pharmacy. Customs may require the documentation at the moment of entry.
· Updated September 16, 2026
Denmark
Legal status
Controlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation through the tryptamine group entry rather than under its own name: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer as in force on 29 March 2026. Liste B nr. 462 reaches it.
Consequences if caught
The nearest numbered entry is 4-HO-DIPT at liste B nr. 222, which is the diisopropyl compound and not this one. Liste B nr. 462, the Tryptamin-gruppen, covers enhver kemisk forbindelse som strukturelt er afledt af enten tryptamin eller tryptamin med en eller flere ringbundne hydroxygrupper ved substitution på sidekædens nitrogenatom med en eller flere alkylgrupper. The entry then sets out its variables as R1 equals H or alkyl, R2 equals alkyl, and R3 equals H or one or more hydroxy groups. A 4-hydroxy tryptamine bearing an N-methyl and an N-ethyl group is within that description on the entry's own terms. The exception list printed under that entry names DET, DMT, Psilocin and Psilocybin INN, and 4-HO-MET is not among them, so the group clause is what places it rather than a numbered entry of its own. This is a reading of a structural group entry rather than a numbered placement, so it is recorded as a structural judgement. Section 1 also extends the lists to possible salts and simple derivatives with euphoriant effect of a placed substance, giving esters and ethers as its examples, and to all preparations containing or made from one, so the placement reaches a preparation as well as the pure compound. The offence is not in the bekendtgoerelse. Section 30 says a breach of it is punished under section 3 and sections 3 a to 3 d of lov om euforiserende stoffer, and that where the circumstances in section 191 of straffeloven apply the breach is punished under that provision instead. Section 3(1) of the Act sets the ordinary penalty as a fine. The same sentence sets the custodial ceiling at imprisonment for up to 2 years. In fixing the penalty, including a fine, the court must weigh the harmful effects of the substance and, since 1 July 2025, its dangerousness. Section 191 of straffeloven raises the ceiling to imprisonment for up to 10 years where a person transfers euphoriant substances to a larger number of people, or for significant payment, or under other particularly aggravating circumstances. That ceiling rises again to imprisonment for 16 years where the transfer concerns a significant quantity of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or where the transfer of such a substance was otherwise of a particularly dangerous character. Section 191(2) applies the same band to importing, exporting, buying, delivering, receiving, manufacturing, processing or possessing such substances with intent to transfer. Section 3(2) of the Act treats four things as significantly aggravating, and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025 added the last two of them: repeated sales of a particularly harmful or dangerous substance, sale or free transfer for later sale at restaurants including discotheques or at concerts or music festivals or other events mainly attended by children or young people, sale or free transfer for later sale through social media, and sale or free transfer for later sale in shops carrying on retail trade. Section 3 c, in force since 1 July 2025, allows a motor vehicle used in a serious breach to be confiscated, and requires confiscation where the vehicle's owner committed an offence falling under section 191, unless special grounds exceptionally tell against it. Section 3 d lets a court disqualify a person from retail shop work for supplying euphoriant substances from a shop, and impose an area ban whose breach carries imprisonment for up to 2 years. Denmark is widely described as refusing warnings for personal possession, and that description now rests on a repealed sentence. The rule that a warning could in general not be given was section 3(1) third sentence, and lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 repealed it with effect from 1 July 2024. In its place section 3(4) says that a withdrawal of the charge shall be given for possession of euphoriant substances for own use where social circumstances speak for it and the possession is due to a strong dependence on hard euphoriant substances following prolonged and sustained misuse, and it says that this applies in repeat cases as well. These are Denmark's general drug penalties rather than a tariff for this substance, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Read against bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer as in force on 29 March 2026, which repealed bekendtgoerelse nr. 2446 af 12. december 2021 at its section 33(2), and against lov om euforiserende stoffer as consolidated on 9 December 2019 and amended by lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025, all read at retsinformation.dk on 22 September 2026. The minister may add a substance to the lists at any time under sections 1 and 2 of the Act, so a placement and an absence are both statements about the lists as they stood on that date.
Finland
Legal status
Controlled, though not as a narcotic. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014 makes the substances in its annex psychoactive substances banned from the consumer market, and 4-HO-MET is named there. The entry reads «4-HO-MET (3-{2-[etyyli(metyyli)amino]etyyli}-1H-indol-4-oli)». That annex stands as substituted by 650/2026. Section 5 subsection 2 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 bans manufacture, import into Finland, storage, keeping for sale and transfer, and leaves research and industrial use to be permitted separately, so possession for one's own use and use itself are not among the banned acts. Section 3 subsection 3 of the same Act defines the category as substances used for intoxication that may be dangerous to health, notified for control, and that are neither medicines nor narcotics. It is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008, as those annexes stand after 651/2026, 1119/2025 and 650/2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 a carries the separate consumer market offence. It sets a fine or up to one year for manufacturing, importing, storing, keeping for sale or transferring a psychoactive substance banned from the consumer market, contrary to the Narcotics Act. Possession for one's own use and use itself are not among the acts it names. Section 33 a of huumausainelaki 373/2008 adds import and storage duties, and section 23 b allows a university, a research institute or a trader to import and store on prior notice to the Finnish Medicines Agency. Chapter 50 of the Criminal Code (39/1889) carries the narcotics offences. Section 1 sets a fine or up to two years for a huumausainerikos covering manufacture, cultivation, import, export, transport, sale, supply, distribution and possession. Section 2 sets one to ten years for a törkeä huumausainerikos where the object is a very dangerous narcotic or a large quantity, or substantial gain is sought, or the act is part of an organised group, or serious danger to life or health is caused to several people, or the drug is spread to minors. Section 2 a sets a fine or up to six months for a huumausaineen käyttörikos, unlawful use or possession of a small quantity for own use. Section 3 sets a fine or up to two years for preparation and section 4 the same for promotion, while section 4 a sets four months to six years for aggravated promotion. Section 7 allows the charge or the sentence to be waived where the quantity, the circumstances and the use situation make the act minor as a whole, or where the suspect has entered approved treatment. The live Finland cell recorded the same three provisions and asserted no custodial term at all, and every provision it named is carried here: Criminal Code (39/1889) chapter 50, the substantive prohibitions in Narcotics Act 373/2008 section 5 with the lawful exceptions in section 3, and the consumer market conduct offence in Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 a. The bands stated above are new to this pass and were read off the Criminal Code itself, not carried from that cell. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Finland's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. This row in particular. Its entry sits in the annex to valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014, as that annex was substituted by 650/2026, at printed line 619 of the Finnish annex text Finlex serves, and it reads «4-HO-MET (3-{2-[etyyli(metyyli)amino]etyyli}-1H-indol-4-oli)». In the printed order of that annex the line above it reads 7-HO-McPT and the line below it reads 4-HO-MIPT. Section 1 of that decree is one sentence and it does all of the work: «Kuluttajamarkkinoilta kiellettyjä psykoaktiivisia aineita ovat liitteessä mainitut aineet.». The penalty limb that placement engages is not chapter 50. It is Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 a, which opens «Joka huumausainelain vastaisesti tahallaan tai törkeästä huolimattomuudesta valmistaa, tuo maahan, varastoi, pitää myynnissä tai luovuttaa kuluttajamarkkinoilta kiellettyä psykoaktiivista ainetta, on tuomittava» and sets a fine or up to one year, and only where no heavier penalty is provided elsewhere. Section 5 subsection 2 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 states the prohibition this row breaches, «Kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyn psykoaktiivisen aineen valmistus, tuonti Suomen alueelle, varastointi, myynnissä pitäminen ja luovuttaminen on kielletty.», and that list of acts does not include possession or use, so the huumausaineen käyttörikos in chapter 50 section 2 a does not reach this row. No quantity threshold and no fine figure is printed for this row in either the decree or chapter 44 section 5 a.
Bolivia
Legal status
Not confirmed. No individual status was established for this row. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, the list article 5(c) of that Law makes operative, does not name it anywhere in Listas I to V. Lista I names PSILOCINA, which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. This substance differs at the nitrogen substituents and is a separate compound that the entry does not name. The version read is the Anexo as published in Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC on 23 March 2017, read as at 21 September 2026, and reading it does not rule out a later addition, because article 5(c) closes with las que sean incorporadas por Ley, incorporation by Law. That is an unresolved row and not a permission. [Certain] on the search, [Likely] that the substance is outside the list, because a list can be amended and a name can be printed in a form the search did not anticipate.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 15 I of the 2009 Constitution reads, in its own words, No existe la pena de muerte, and no limb of the Bolivian drug law carries a capital penalty. Nothing in the Anexo to Ley 913 was found to name this substance. Lista I names PSILOCINA, which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. This substance differs at the nitrogen substituents and is a separate compound that the entry does not name. Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988 article 48 punishes whoever traffics in sustancias controladas with presidio de diez a veinticinco años y diez mil a veinte mil días multa, ten to twenty five years and ten thousand to twenty thousand day fines, and it makes trafficking in larger volumes an aggravating circumstance. Article 48 takes its conduct from article 33(m) of the same law, which Ley 913 left standing and which defines tráfico ilícito as producing, manufacturing, knowingly possessing, holding in deposit or storage, transporting, delivering, supplying, buying, selling, donating, bringing into the country, taking out of the country and financing. The rest of the ladder sits in the same title. Article 46, cultivating or harvesting controlled plants, one to two years and two to four on a second offence. Article 47, manufacture, five to fifteen years. Article 50, administering to another, ten to fifteen years. Article 51, supplying to another, eight to twelve years. Article 52, fifteen to twenty years where the administering or supplying gravely harms health and twenty to thirty where the conduct results in a death. Article 53, a third more where two or more people organise. Article 55, transport, eight to twelve years with definitive seizure of the vehicle. The day fine unit is the statute's own and is not converted here. Article 49 sends the dependent user and the non habitual user caught holding a minimum quantity for immediate personal consumption to a farmacodependencia institute for treatment rather than to prison. That minimum is fixed case by case on the opinion of two specialists from a public institute and no gram figure is printed anywhere in the statute. Holding more than the minimum falls into article 48. A foreign national without permanent residence who commits these acts has the residence law applied and a fine of five hundred to one thousand days, which is the sentence in the article most likely to reach a traveller and which the live cell did not carry. Those are Bolivia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established.
Ecuador
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Ecuador's authorities (COIP; Constitution Art 364) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Ecuadorian sources (COIP Arts 220/228; Constitution Art 364; the repealed CONSEP table), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Personal-use possession is non-punishable in Ecuador (Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers; the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable, and CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023, the old bright-line thresholds NO LONGER EXIST, there is now NO defined personal-use quantity, and trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Personal-use possession is NON-PUNISHABLE: Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers, and the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable (CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table (Resolution 001-CONSEP-CO-2013, about 10 g cannabis, 1 g cocaine, 0.1 g heroin, 0.015 g MDMA) was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023; those gram thresholds NO LONGER EXIST. There is now NO defined personal-use quantity, trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26. Medical cannabis is legal (2019 Assembly vote; products under 1% THC via pharmacy). [contested] A REDCAN citizen cannabis-regulation initiative was pending in the National Assembly in 2025. Ecuador has NO death penalty for drugs. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Constitution (2008) Art 364 + COIP Arts 220/228 + CNJ Resolution 14-2023 + Executive Decree No. 28 (24 November 2023) · asamblea.gob.ec · defensoria.gob.ec · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Paraguay
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance was not found in Paraguay's controlled substance schedule as at December 2025, and the search did not settle whether it is controlled by another route. 4-HO-MET and metocina returned nothing anywhere in the schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] Placement for this row was not established. 4-HO-MET and metocina returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. Psilocina is in Lista I, but this row is its N-ethyl, N-methyl homologue rather than a stereoisomer of it, so the Lista I stereoisomer rule does not reach it. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain] The penalties set out above are Paraguay's published penalties under Ley 1.340/1988. They are not this row's exposure, because whether any of those offences reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Why this row defers rather than reporting a settled absence. Article 1 limb b of Ley 1.340/1988 reaches Todas aquellas de origen natural o sintetico que puedan producir estados de dependencia, estimulacion o depresion del sistema nervioso central, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to a Convention substance. On its own words that is an open pharmacological description rather than a list, and it describes a psychoactive substance without naming one. The article then provides that the substances of limbs b and c are to be established by decree. Whether limb b can reach a substance the decree has not named was not settled from any text read here, and no Paraguayan decision on the point was found. An absence from the decree and from the Convention lists therefore narrows this question and does not close it, which is why this cell states no answer rather than a negative one. The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
Ghana
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not a controlled drug under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019): it is not named in the Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Schedule or the Eighth Schedule of precursors. The search, in English, for 4-HO-MET, metocin and hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine returned no entry, and the nearest text read and rejected was Seventh Schedule Part 2 item 10, «Psilocin», and item 5, «N,N-Dicthyltryptamine (DET)», as printed; 4-HO-MET differs from psilocin by a carbon atom and is neither its isomer nor its ester or ether, a chemical fact from outside the text. It is not on the Green List 2024. The Food and Drugs Authority's Guidelines for the Sale, Supply and Use of Controlled Substances, issued under section 126 of the Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851), do not print it in their tables. Act 1019 says «"narcotic drug" includes any substance specified in the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Schedules», so its list is not stated to be closed, and no instrument or decision treating 4-HO-MET as a narcotic drug was found. This is stated as the Schedules stand after the Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100), which the judy.legal consolidation records as the Act's only amendment and whose Bill substitutes section 43 alone; the enacted text of Act 1100 was not itself read. The power to move the lists is in section 112: its subsection (1) gave a power to revise the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Schedules within twelve months of commencement, and its subsection (2)(b) gives a continuing power to make Regulations specifying «the classification of drugs and the appropriate penalties». The only Regulations found under the Act, L.I. 2475 of 2023 on cannabis cultivation, revise no Schedule on their table of contents, and this does not rule out a later instrument that was not found.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Neither Act 1019 nor the Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851) prints a sentence of death. 4-HO-MET is not named in Act 1019's Schedules, so the Second Schedule bands and section 50 do not attach through a listing. Section 118(1) of Act 851 says a person shall not «manufacture, prepare, import, export, distribute, sell, supply or exhibit for sale a drug» that the Food and Drugs Authority has not registered, and section 129 punishes a contravention of sections 111 to 124 on summary conviction by a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred and not more than fifteen thousand penalty units or imprisonment of not less than fifteen and not more than twenty five years, or both. No provision read for this cell makes possession by a patient or user an offence.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription or medical route for 4-HO-MET was found. Act 851 section 118(1) forbids selling or supplying an unregistered drug.
Documentation
Section 118(2) of Act 851 exempts from the registration rule «an import permit issued by the Authority for the importation of any of the articles mentioned in that subsection which is imported for personal use», and section 122(1) says a person without a licence or permit under that Part «shall not import a drug». The permit procedure for a traveller was not read.
Israel
Legal status
Not confirmed, not named; may be reached by the derivative clause on חלק א' סימן ב' פרט 6
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the Ordinance itself: the words מוות, תלייה and הוצאה להורג return zero hits across the whole text, and so does עולם, so there is no life route either, and the heaviest sentence anywhere in it is the 25 years of section 21 for involving a minor. [Certain] Not named anywhere in the First Schedule as read. [Likely] The reach that could catch it is חלק א' סימן ב' פרט 6, N,N-dimethyltryptaminum, whose text adds לרבות האיזומרים והנגזרות המבניות של חומר זה, the isomers and structural derivatives of this substance, read with the Schedule's own definition of נגזרת מבנית as substitution or deletion of one or more chemical groups on a given substance's structure, the listed groups including acyls, carboxylates, hydroxides, alkyls and alk-oxides. The psilocin and psilocybin entries at פרטים 12 and 13 carry no such clause, and the סימן wide sweep at פרט 14 extends only to optical isomers, stereoisomers, esters and ethers. So the question turns on the פרט 6 clause alone and is a chemistry question this text does not answer for you. Read against the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה); a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. Psilocin at פרט 12 is the closest named relative, 4-hydroxy-dimethyl-triptaminum, and it differs from this row at the nitrogen, so it is a sibling and not a placement. [Certain] Section 1 defines סם מסוכן as חומר מן המפורטים בתוספת הראשונה לרבות כל מלח שלו, וכן כל תכשיר, תרכובת, תערובת או תמיסה של חומר כאמור ומלחיהם, a substance listed in the First Schedule including any salt of it, and also any preparation, compound, mixture or solution of such a substance and of their salts. That definition reaches salts and mixtures and stops there: it says nothing about isomers, analogues or structural derivatives, so those come only from the words of an individual פרט or of a סימן wide sweep clause. Section 7(c) sets up to 20 years or a fine 25 times the fine in section 61(a)(4) of the Penal Law 5737-1977 for possession or use, dropping to 3 years or the plain section 61(a)(4) fine where the drug was held or used for the person's own consumption alone. Section 6 sets the same 20 years for growing, manufacturing, producing, preparing or extracting without the Director's licence. Section 19A sets 20 years for the trade and transit offences of sections 13 to 18, which reach export, import, brokering, dealing, any other transaction and supply whether or not for payment. Section 21 raises it to 25 years on any of its three limbs, giving a dangerous drug to a minor, being responsible for a minor and allowing him to obtain or use one, or inducing a minor to obtain or use one, and section 25 bars a wholly suspended sentence or a probation order on that conviction. [Certain] Section 20 is not a penalty provision at all, it is the customs inspection power over a consignment carried in transit through Israel. No Second Schedule quantity is set for this substance, so the section 31(3) reverse onus, which presumes possession beyond personal consumption above a listed weight, has no threshold to run from here.
Panama
Legal status
Not confirmed. Whether Panama's criminal definition of a drug reaches 4-HO-MET was not established by the instruments read here. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry for it was read in the schedules of the 1961 or 1971 Conventions. Article 324 of the Código Penal defines the criminal object for the whole drug chapter, and it does so functionally and by incorporation rather than by a closed national list: «droga es toda sustancia que produzca dependencia física o síquica, como los narcóticos, fármacos, estupefacientes y todos aquellos productos, precursores y sustancias químicas esenciales que sirven para su elaboración, transformación o preparación, de conformidad con las disposiciones legales en materia de salud, convenios y acuerdos internacionales vigentes en la República de Panamá.». Panama therefore has no closed criminal schedule of its own. A substance is reached where it produces physical or psychic dependence and where the health legislation and the international conventions in force in Panama place it, so a reader looking for a Panamanian chemical annex to be absent from is looking for a document the criminal law does not use. Because the definition opens with a functional test rather than a list, an absence from the lists that were read does not close the question, and nothing read here shows the dependence limb being applied to this row. The N-methyl N-ethyl tryptamine has no entry in either treaty list. Its N,N-dimethyl relative is scheduled by name, and the difference between them is a single carbon on one nitrogen, which under an express-entry list is enough to leave this one out.
Consequences if caught
The articles below are set out in full because the placement question for 4-HO-MET is open, and if it were answered against the traveller these are the provisions that would apply. If the dependence limb were applied, the conduct articles would follow without modification, because they do not refer to schedules at all. Article 321 sets 8 to 12 years of prison for unlawful possession in circumstances objectively showing it is not for consumption, and its printed words are «Quien ilícitamente posea drogas, en circunstancias que objetivamente permitan determinar que no es para el consumo, será sancionado con ocho a doce años de prisión.». Article 312 sets the same 8 to 12 years where two or more people agree to commit a drug offence. Article 313 sets 10 to 15 years for bringing a drug into the national territory, even in transit, and raises that by a third to a half where the drug is brought in for local sale or distribution. Article 314 sets 10 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating, extracting, transforming or manufacturing, and article 318 sets 10 to 15 years for buying, selling, storing or exchanging for commercial purposes, doubled in the five aggravated cases it lists. Article 319 sets 8 to 12 years for devoting premises or a vehicle to drug activity, rising to 10 to 15 years for the owner of a commercial place open to the public. Article 322 sets 20 to 25 years where conduct under articles 312, 313 or 321 is carried out by the leaders, directors or organisers of a criminal band, and its words are «la pena será de veinte a veinticinco años de prisión.», so the ceiling this chapter carries is 25 years. The dossier for this country stated that ceiling as 20 years and that is corrected here against the article itself. Article 320 covers buying or possessing for one's own consumption in scarce quantity, and its penalty is a fine of 50 to 250 day units, weekend arrest or community work, in the words «Quien ilícitamente compre o posea drogas para su consumo en escasa cantidad será sancionado con cincuenta a doscientos cincuenta días-multa o arresto de fines de semana o trabajo comunitario.». Where the person is physically or psychically dependent and the quantity is scarce, article 320 imposes a security measure instead. The live cell attributed a band of 2 to 4 years to article 320; that band is in the third paragraph of article 313 and it applies where a drug is brought into the country and the scarce quantity and the other circumstances show unequivocally that it is for personal consumption, in the words «La sanción será de dos a cuatro años de prisión o su equivalente en días-multa o medidas curativas cuando, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, se determine inequívocamente que la droga es para el consumo personal.». Panama publishes no numerical quantity table for this corpus. Article 320 provides that scarce quantity for personal use is the measure the Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses determines in each case according to the person's state of dependence, «Se entenderá por cantidad escasa destinada a su uso personal la medida que determine el Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, en cada caso, según el estado de dependencia de la persona.», so the live cell's gloss of a single dose is corrected here as not what the article says. Article 323 directs the court to weigh the dangerousness of the drug and its market value when placing a sentence inside a band. Panama provides no death penalty for any drug offence. Those figures are carried forward from the live cell and re-derived against the Penal Code itself, and whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
Nigeria
Legal status
Not confirmed. The Nigeria dossier records that the complete 1961 and 1971 lists incorporated by section 52 of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap N30 (the NDLEA Act) were searched on 20 September 2026 for 4-HO-MET, its standard name and chemical synonym, that no entry was found, and that the closest entry it read, «Psilocine.», was rejected as a different substance. It adds that the Act contains no general analogue limb. The row quotes only the word «specified» from section 52, not the incorporation clause or any closing line of the schedules, and it names no edition or date of the schedules it searched, so the absence is not taken as an answer for 4-HO-MET.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is stated for 4-HO-MET while its placement is unconfirmed. The dossier's ceiling note says that no NDLEA Act life or capital exposure attaches to its negative finding and that separate food, medicines, poisons, tobacco or alcohol legislation may still apply; because the finding itself is not accepted, neither half is relied on, and the lack of a listing is not a statement that possession is lawful.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier carries no prescription information for 4-HO-MET, and no prescription route is stated.
Documentation
No documentation rule is stated for 4-HO-MET. The search record this cell rests on is the dossier row checked on 20 September 2026, which cites the INCB list in source_url and names «Psilocine.» as the nearest entry it rejected.
incb.org · National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap N30, section 52 (searched, absence not accepted) · Updated October 3, 2026
Bangladesh
Legal status
Not confirmed for Bangladesh. 4-HO-MET is named nowhere in the First Schedule. Psilocine is, in Class 'ka' at serial 6 and again in Class 'kha' at serial 4, and 4-HO-MET differs from psilocin in one N-substituent. Searched, on 2026-09-17: the full First Schedule as printed in the Bangladesh Gazette of 14 November 2018, all three classes and every serial, for this substance's name, its synonyms and its abbreviations; the consolidated Act on bdlaws for the same terms; both amending Acts for a schedule amendment, finding none; and the Department of Narcotics Control's own list of laws, which carries ten instruments and no schedule amendment. The name is not there. What is left is Class 'ka' serial 7 or Class 'kha' serial 5, which reaches an «অ্যানালগ», and section 2(3) defines one as «তপশিলের অন্তর্ভুক্ত হয় নাই এইরূপ বস্তু, যাহার রাসায়নিক সংগঠন তপশিলের অন্তর্গত কোনো মাদকের রাসায়নিক সংগঠনের অনুরূপ এবং যাহার আসক্তি সৃষ্টিকারী মনোদৈহিক কার্যক্রম একই রকম», a substance not in the schedule whose chemical composition resembles a scheduled narcotic's and whose addiction-forming psychoactive action is the same. That is a judgment about resemblance and effect, not a fact on the face of the schedule, and no Bangladeshi decision applying section 2(3) to this substance was found. The status is therefore not confirmed. Treat it as controlled and assume a court would apply the analogue clause.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 9(1) prohibits, for every narcotic except alcohol, cultivation, production or processing, carrying, transport or transfer, import and export at limb (a); supply, marketing, buying, selling, transfer, receipt, sending, dealing, auction, holding, possession, storage, warehousing and display at limb (b); consumption, application or use at limb (c); and any attempt, investment of money, establishing, running or patronising an operation, or a false declaration, at limb (d). Section 36 then sets the penalty from a 34 row table whose second column names a First Schedule class and serial number, not a substance, so what a substance is punished by depends entirely on which serial it sits in. This substance is in no serial of the First Schedule that could be identified, so no row of the section 36 table can be matched to it and no penalty range is stated here. Do not read that as permission. Section 65 lets the Government add a name to any schedule by notification in the official Gazette at any time, and Class 'ka' serial 7, Class 'kha' serial 5 and Class 'ga' serial 4 each sweep in the derivatives, alkaloids, salts, isomers, analogues and agonists of the substances above them. No quantity threshold applies to 4-HO-MET because no schedule entry was matched to it, and the death penalty under the section 36 table reaches only three entries in the whole schedule: Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6. Nothing in Class 'kha' or Class 'ga' is capital under that table, and neither is Class 'ka' serial 1, 2, 3, 7 or 8. Section 36A, inserted by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026 on 16 July 2026 and in force at once, adds a capital route that has no quantity threshold and no class restriction at all. Buying, selling, supplying, offering, advertising, brokering or communicating about a narcotic or a psychoactive substance through cyberspace, a digital device, a website, social media, a mobile application, an online platform or any other digital medium, or using a digital payment system, an e-wallet, a virtual asset or a cryptocurrency for those purposes, is punishable under section 36A(2) by «যে কোনো মেয়াদের কারাদণ্ডে অথবা সর্বোচ্চ মৃত্যুদণ্ডে», imprisonment for any term or at the maximum death, with a fine of up to 20 lakh taka. Its proviso states that recovery of the drug from the offender is not required. This reaches any substance that is a narcotic under section 2(29), which is anything in the First Schedule, and the schedule's own Explanation at clause (ক) defines a psychoactive substance as anything in Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6, Class 'kha' serials 4 and 5, or Class 'ga' serials 3 and 4. So a substance outside the schedule is outside the section 36 table, and would only reach the capital tier if a court read it into one of those three serials through the derivative and analogue clauses. If a court were to read it into Class 'ka' serial 7 or Class 'kha' serial 5, that serial is not capital: for Class 'ka' serial 7 the section 36 table gives 1 to 5 years up to 500 grammes, 5 to 10 years up to 5 kilogrammes and 10 years to imprisonment for life above 5 kilogrammes; for Class 'kha' serial 5 the ceiling is 7 to 10 years above 10 kilogrammes; for Class 'ga' serial 4 the ceiling is 5 to 7 years above 5 kilogrammes.
Pakistan
Legal status
Not confirmed for Pakistan. 4-HO-MET is named in no schedule of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine. Schedule-I's tryptamines are DMT, DET, psilocybine and psilocine, four named compounds with no class entry for substituted tryptamines. The N-methyl-N-ethyl substitution appears in none of them. Searched 'tryptamine', 'indol' and 'MET' across both instruments.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Nothing in the Act attaches a band to 4-HO-MET, so what follows is the shape of the regime it sits outside rather than a penalty for it. What the Act would do if it did reach this substance is settled, and is stated here so the gap is visible rather than blank. A psychotropic substance runs the section 9(2) bands, a controlled substance the section 9(3) tables, and one of the seven named narcotics its own row in section 9(1). A substance outside all three, but caught by the Rules 2001, falls to section 16 at three years and fine. Whichever of those routes were to apply, death is not among them. Death is not available. Act No. XXXVIII of 2023, section 2, assented on 2 August 2023 and published in the Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, on 5 August 2023, removed every death reference from section 9. The words at the heroin and morphine band of 6000 grams or more and at the cocaine band of 5000 grams or more were omitted, and the Pakistan Code now prints a bracketed omission mark where they stood. In the fourth proviso to section 9(2) the words 'may be death or' were replaced by 'shall be'. The word death survives twice in the whole fifty page Act and both are procedural. Because death is unavailable, the question whether it is mandatory does not arise. The ceiling is life, and section 9A(3) says what that means: 'Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for time being in force, imprisonment for life under this Act means imprisonment in jail for the period of twenty-five years.' Section 9A(2) bars probation and parole, and section 9A(1) bars remission except for a juvenile or a female convict.
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET is outside the Rules 2001 licence system, since rule 2(1)(xiii) confines a drug of abuse to a prohibited drug, a high-risk drug or a risk drug, each defined by a Schedule to those Rules. Section 6 permits medical, scientific and industrial use subject to conditions specified by or under the Act, and the Rules 2001 supply those conditions for a drug of abuse. An unscheduled substance is outside that permit system, which cuts both ways: no licence is required and none is available. Rule 14 provides for permits in relation to first-aid kits and rule 15 for programmes for medical and scientific purposes, and rule 11 governs import, export and transit permits. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine should hold the prescription and the dispensing label, in the prescriber's name, and should expect the quantity to be measured against the section 9 bands if the substance is scheduled.
Documentation
Taiwan
Legal status
Category 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), reached as a bracketed isomer of 附表三第320項「羥基-N-甲基-N-乙基色胺（Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine、HO-MET）【包含其異構物 4-HO-MET、5-Hydroxy、6-Hydroxy、7-Hydroxy】」. 4-HO-MET is named as an isomer inside the hydroxy N methyl N ethyl tryptamine entry. The entry heading carries no ring position, and the four positional isomers are then listed in the bracket, which is how this schedule handles a whole substitution series in one line. The model: the four grades and their anchor substances are in the Act itself, article 2(2) reading 「毒品依其成癮性、濫用性及對社會危害性，分為四級，其品項如下」, and the full item lists are the Act's own four schedules, 附表一 to 附表四. The power to change them is delegated. Article 2(3) reads 「前項毒品之分級及品項，由法務部會同衛生福利部組成審議委員會，每三個月定期檢討，審議委員會並得將具有成癮性、濫用性、對社會危害性之虞之麻醉藥品與其製品、影響精神物質與其製品及與該等藥品、物質或製品具有類似化學結構之物質進行審議，並經審議通過後，報由行政院公告調整、增減之，並送請立法院查照」, a review committee of the justice and health ministries reviewing every three months, adjustment by Executive Yuan announcement, reported to the Legislative Yuan. The Act was last amended 4 May 2022. The list was last amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026, which moved etomidate and eight related compounds from Category 2 up to Category 1.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 4(3) punishes manufacture, transport or sale of a Category 3 narcotic by seven years upward, with a fine of up to NT$10 million. Article 5(3) punishes possession with intent to sell by three to ten years. Use and simple possession are not crimes at this tier: article 11-1(2) makes holding or using a Category 3 narcotic without proper reason an administrative fine of NT$10,000 to NT$50,000 plus four to eight hours of drug hazard education. Article 11(5) turns possession criminal at 5 grammes pure weight, up to two years. Article 9(1) increases the penalty by up to one half where an adult sells to a minor, and article 9(2) does the same where the buyer is known to be pregnant. Article 19 confiscates the property used in an article 4 offence and, for an article 4 offence specifically, the vehicle, vessel or aircraft used. Simple possession is article 11-1(2), an administrative fine of NT$10,000 to NT$50,000 with four to eight hours of drug hazard education, and article 11(5) makes it criminal at 5 grammes pure weight. Neither reaches this substance, at any quantity. Article 4(3), the Category 3 trafficking limb, reads 「製造、運輸、販賣第三級毒品者，處七年以上有期徒刑，得併科新臺幣一千萬元以下罰金」, seven years upward, with no life and no death. The public official aggravation in article 15(1) does not change that: its first sentence attaches death or life only to article 4(2) and article 6(1), and its second sentence gives an article 4(3) offence only 「加重其刑至二分之一」, an increase of up to one half, which cannot produce a capital or a life sentence from a fixed term floor. One qualification, and it is about the charge rather than about this substance. Article 9(3) reads 「犯前五條之罪而混合二種以上之毒品者，適用其中最高級別毒品之法定刑，並加重其刑至二分之一」: where the offence involves a mixture of two or more graded narcotics, the statutory penalty of the highest grade among them governs the whole offence, with up to one half added. So holding this substance mixed with a Category 1 narcotic is charged at the article 4(1) rate. The capital exposure in that case is supplied by the Category 1 component, which carried it already; what article 9(3) adds is that this material is swept into the same charge rather than treated separately.
Hong Kong
Legal status
A dangerous drug in Hong Kong. It is not named in Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in the version in force from 18 July 2025 (last amended by L.N. 172 of 2025) as read in the Department of Justice consolidation dated 12 June 2026, but paragraph 1(b) catches it, on this site's reading of the structure set out below.
Consequences if caught
Paragraph 1(b) of Part I covers «any compound (not being a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a)) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent». 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine: a ring-hydroxy tryptamine with a methyl and an ethyl group, both alkyl, on the side chain nitrogen and no other substituent. That fit is this site's reading of the printed definition, not words of the schedule, and it is set out so it can be checked. Trafficking: section 4(1)(a) forbids any person to «traffic in a dangerous drug» except under the Ordinance or a licence, and section 2 says trafficking «includes importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying or otherwise dealing in or with the dangerous drug, or possessing the dangerous drug for the purpose of trafficking», so bringing it into Hong Kong falls within trafficking, whatever the amount. Section 4(3) sets the maximum «on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $5,000,000 and to imprisonment for life», and «on summary conviction, to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years». Manufacture: section 6(2), «liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of $5,000,000 and to imprisonment for life». Supply to a person not authorised to possess it: section 5(2), on indictment «to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 15 years». Possession and consumption are each an offence under section 8: section 8(1) forbids a person to «have in his possession» or to «smoke, inhale, ingest or inject» a dangerous drug, and section 8(2) sets «on conviction upon indictment to a fine of $1,000,000 and, subject to section 54A, to imprisonment for 7 years», or «on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and, subject to section 54A, to imprisonment for 3 years»; level 6 is $100,000. Section 54A requires the court to consider a report of the Commissioner of Correctional Services before passing a custodial sentence for possession, except where section 54A(1A) applies: the person is in the same proceedings sentenced for another offence to imprisonment for more than 9 months, or is already serving a term of more than 9 months. Each of these provisions joins the fine and the imprisonment with the word and, so both may be imposed; the figures are maxima. Imprisonment for life is the highest penalty the Ordinance states. The Ordinance sets no quantity below which possession is lawful, and section 47 is not a quantity rule: a person proved to have had in physical possession «anything containing or supporting a dangerous drug», or the keys of a container holding one, «shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have had such drug in his possession», and is presumed to have known its nature. This is stated as at the consolidations named in this cell, and for the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance as at the consolidation dated 12 June 2026. Section 50(1) provides that «The Chief Executive may by order published in the Gazette amend the First and Third Schedules», so this does not rule out a later amendment. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2026, made by the Chief Executive on 24 September 2026 under section 50(1) and scheduled for gazettal on 2 October 2026, adds N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene, N-desethyl etonitazene and MDMB-FUBINACA to Part I, and its section 1 reads «This Order comes into operation on 27 November 2026.» Those three additions are therefore not in force on 2 October 2026.
Venezuela
Legal status
Not confirmed. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies controlled drugs by reference to the Convention schedules, and no anchored entry for this substance was found in the 1961 Yellow List or the 1971 Green List editions read, nor in the Law's Anexo I. Article 2 also lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances and no consolidated ministerial list was obtainable, so this is unresolved and not a proved absence. Confirm with Venezuela's authorities before travel.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Constitution forbids it at article 43, read here in the Contraloría General de la República text: “El derecho a la vida es inviolable. Ninguna ley podrá establecer la pena de muerte, ni autoridad alguna aplicarla.” [Certain], re derived from that text in this pass. The abolition itself is usually dated to the Decreto de Garantías of 1863. [Likely] and carried, not re derived: that decree was not read here, and the year 1863 appears nowhere in the Constitution or in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. Consumption is a separate route and it is not in the offences title. Article 141 provides that a person found consuming, or who declares themselves a consumer, or who holds a quantity not above the personal dose for consumption of article 131 numeral 2, is put at the disposal of the Ministerio Público, which has toxicological tests run on urine, blood or other organic fluids and a chemical and botanical examination made of the substance seized, and then asks the control judge for the person's liberty subject to attending a specialised rehabilitation centre. Where consumption is confirmed the outcome is obligatory treatment and a social reinsertion programme. Article 130 has the judge order obligatory rehabilitation in a specialised centre and allows reinserción social, seguimiento and servicio comunitario alongside it. Article 142 has the judge also suspend the driving licence and any firearms carry licence. Article 139 separately suspends a driving licence for not less than six months for driving under the effects of these substances, with obligatory treatment. Those provisions sit in Título V, Del Consumo y el Procedimiento, not in the offences and penalties title that carries articles 149 to 153, and the route turns on the quantity being at or below the personal dose. Article 153 punishes illicit possession of estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas, their mixtures, salts or pharmaceutical specialities, or controlled chemicals, for purposes other than the licit activities the Law declares or the personal consumption of article 131, with one to two years. Article 149 punishes trafficking, commerce, supply, distribution, concealment, transport by any means, storage or brokerage with fifteen to twenty five years. That falls to twelve to eighteen years where the quantity does not exceed 5,000 g of marihuana, 1,000 g of genetically modified marihuana, 1,000 g of cocaine or cocaine based narcotic substances, 60 g of poppy derivatives or 500 units of synthetic drugs, and to eight to twelve years where it exceeds the article 153 maxima but does not pass 500 g of marihuana, 200 g of genetically modified marihuana, 50 g of cocaine, 10 g of poppy derivatives or 100 units of synthetic drugs. Directing or financing those operations carries twenty five to thirty years, and thirty years is the ceiling of this Law, not the twenty five of the first paragraph. Article 150 punishes illicit manufacture, elaboration, refining, transformation, extraction, preparation, mixing or production with fifteen to twenty years, and directing or financing those operations with twenty five to thirty years; that, not article 149, is the governing article for a clandestine producer. Article 151 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting, storing, trafficking, transporting, concealing or distributing seeds, resins and plants containing these substances with twelve to eighteen years, six to ten years where the seed or resin does not exceed 300 g or the plants do not exceed 10 units, and twenty five to thirty years for directing or financing, and where the plants are genetically modified marihuana it increases the penalty by half. Article 163 lists fourteen aggravating circumstances for trafficking in all its forms, for illicit manufacture and production and for trafficking in seeds, resins and plants, among them using children, people with disabilities, people living on the street, older adults or indigenous people, commission by public officials or by someone simulating that condition, commission in a home, an educational, cultural, sporting or religious institution, a prison, a public transport vehicle, a public office or a treatment and rehabilitation centre, and commission within 500 m of such places. For numerals 2, 7, 9, 10 and 13 the penalty rises by one third to one half, and in the remaining cases by one half. Applied to the twenty five to thirty year limb that uplift would pass thirty years, while Constitution article 44 numeral 3 provides that there shall be no perpetual or infamous sentences and that custodial penalties “no excederán de treinta años”. The Law does not say how the two are reconciled. Article 153 prints its possession figures only for cocaine and its derivatives, compounds or mixtures at up to 2 g, marihuana at up to 20 g, genetically modified marihuana at up to 5 g and poppy derivatives at up to 1 g, and article 149 prints its band figures only for those families and for units of synthetic drugs. No figure is printed for this substance. Where the offence reaches it, the amount that counts as a personal dose falls to the court: article 131 defines the personal dose by tolerance, degree of dependence, individual pattern of consumption, the psychophysical characteristics of the person and the nature of the substance, and states that the judge shall appreciate it rationally and scientifically on the report of the forensic experts, while the third paragraph of article 153 has the judge determine, using the maximum experience of experts as a reference, what may constitute a personal dose of the substance concerned for an average person. Those figures are not in article 131, which prints no gram amount at all. Those are Venezuela's published penalties. They are not this row's exposure. Whether the offence articles reach this substance is exactly what was not established, because the Law identifies estupefacientes and sustancias psicotrópicas by reference to the Convention schedules rather than by a national chemical annex, and no anchored entry for this substance was found in either incorporated list. Terms searched in both incorporated lists: 4-HO-MET (green 0, yellow 0), metocin (0, 0), 4-hidroxi-MET (0, 0). Nearest entry read and rejected: psilocine, code PP 012, 1971 Convention Schedule I, printed as “psilocine, psilotsin, 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol”. That is the 4-hydroxy compound carrying two N-methyl groups. This row is the N-methyl N-ethyl homologue, which the entry does not name and which no homologue clause reaches. Read as at the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, for the 1961 Convention schedules and the INCB Green List, 36th edition of 2025, for the 1971 Convention schedules. That does not rule out a later edition, and article 2 of the Law lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances, so this is an unresolved row and not a proved absence.
Guatemala
Legal status
Not confirmed. Placement under Decreto 48-92 was not established from the lists read, and this is unresolved rather than absent.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is established rather than assumed, because Decreto 48-92 as enacted did carry a death penalty: article 12 lists "De muerte" first among the principal penalties for natural persons, and article 52, "Delitos calificados por el resultado", provided that "Si como consecuencia de los delitos tipificados en esta ley, resultare la muerte de una o más personas, se aplicará la pena de muerte o treinta años de prisión, según las circunstancias del hecho". Two things remove it. First, the Corte de Constitucionalidad expelled article 12 literal a) and the words "muerte o" from article 52 by judgment of 24 October 2017, expediente 5986-2016 [Likely, taken from secondary reports; the Court's own record was not reached, and one of those reports contradicts itself on the expediente number]. Second, and independently of that judgment, article 52 was never conditioned on a substance or on a quantity but only on a resulting death, so no row of this table carried capital exposure even on the 1992 text [Certain, re-derived from the gazette this pass]. Readers should know that the government's own published text of the law, at senabed.gob.gt, still prints both capital passages intact. Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". This row was searched under "4-HO-MET", "metocin", and with mechanical spelling variants of those, 5 candidate terms in all, matched anchored at the start of an entry name so that a longer entry containing the term could not be read as this row. None of them began an entry. The nearest entry read is PP 012 in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention, "psilocine, psilotsin", chemical name "3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol". That is the 4-hydroxy tryptamine the list does carry, and it is the N,N-dimethyl compound. This row is the N-methyl-N-ethyl compound, which is not named. A similarity search also offered NM 001, "METAZOCINE", which was read and is a benzomorphan with no relation to this row at all. The lists read were the INCB Yellow List, 64th edition of July 2025, for the 1961 Convention, the INCB Green List, 35th edition of 2024, for the 1971 Convention, the INCB Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, for Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, and Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003. Those are the three treaties MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 section 2 names, so limb one is now read in full; an earlier version of this cell had read two of the three and substituted a national Acuerdo for the 1988 tables. The Código de Salud and the "demás disposiciones que se emitan" were not obtained, so this row is unresolved rather than absent, and as at those editions the position does not rule out a later national provision reaching this substance. Acuerdo Ministerial 239-2022 amended Listado I of Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003, which is direct evidence that these lists move. What follows is Guatemala's published penalty scheme, and it is the country's scheme and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One penalty in article 12 speaks directly to a non-Guatemalan reader. The principal penalties for natural persons are listed there, and literal f) is "Expulsión del territorio nacional de extranjeros", expulsion of foreign nationals from the national territory. It is a principal penalty in its own right and not an administrative consequence.
Nepal
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Nepal's authorities (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Nepali sources (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Controlled drugs carry tiered penalties up to life imprisonment; Nepal has NO death penalty (the maximum is life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Nepal has NO death penalty, the maximum drug penalty is life imprisonment (jiban kaidi), under the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD, amended through 1998). Historically cannabis was legal through government shops until 1973; a cannabis-legalization bill is currently tabled but NOT enacted (proposed, not law). Cannabis consumption draws up to 1 month or an NPR 2,000 fine (first-time minor offenders may be released on a bond, and there is no punishment for a person in recognized treatment, Sec 19A). Cannabis possession is tiered: 50 g or less up to 3 months; 50-500 g up to 1 year; 500 g, 2 kg up to 2 years; 2-10 kg up to 3 years; 10 kg or more 2-10 years plus a fine (a reported personal-use line is about 5 g cannabis / 2 g hashish). Heroin and cocaine: 5 g or less 2-5 years; 5-100 g 5-10 years; over 100 g or any trafficking 10 years to life plus an NPR 500,000-2,500,000 fine. Cultivation: 25 plants or fewer up to 3 months; more than 25 plants 3 months, 3 years. Other hard drugs (methamphetamine/'yaba', MDMA, LSD) are controlled, with trafficking punishable up to life. Foreigners face the same law, no bail, and deportation after sentence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998, Secs 19/19A · lawcommission.gov.np · Updated July 14, 2026
Romania
Legal status
Not confirmed for Romania. 4-HO-MET could not be settled from the instruments read, and this cell states the search rather than an answer. The record is: Jurnal de căutare unic 18 Sep 2026: “4-HO-MET”; “metocin”; “4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine”. Căutate în Legea 143/2000, tabelele I-III, şi în Legea 194/2011, art. 2 şi art. 16-17. Nicio înscriere nominală pentru 4-HO-MET; Legea 194 cere probe privind produsul şi efectul, nu oferă o listare automată pe denumire. The exact name is absent from the schedules, and the separate psychoactive-products law cannot be applied to this slug without product-specific evidence. Romania uses the simplest of the three models: the schedule sits inside the Act. Article 1(a) makes Tables I to IV integral to Legea 143/2000 and supplies the mechanism for adding, deleting or moving an entry. Tables I and II are droguri de mare risc, high-risk drugs; Table III is droguri de risc. A mixture is reached through a listed constituent. Legea 194/2011 is a separate products regime and does not turn an unlisted name into a scheduled drug. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidated text identifies Legea 30/2025 as the latest schedule amendment included, effective 29 March 2025, and states that it contains all officially published amendments through that Act. A search that did not settle the question is not a finding that the substance is uncontrolled, and it is not a finding that it is. Treat 4-HO-MET in Romania as unresolved and verify with the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices before relying on anything.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Romania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. No exposure is assigned to 4-HO-MET on this record, because the control question was not settled and a penalty cannot be stated for a status that is unknown. The scale runs by table and by conduct. Article 4(1) sets 3 months to 2 years or a fine for unauthorised own-use acts involving a Table III risk drug, and article 4(2) sets 6 months to 3 years where the drug is high-risk. Article 2 sets 3 to 10 years for risk-drug circulation and 5 to 15 years for high-risk. Article 3(2) sets 10 to 20 years for unauthorised import or export of a high-risk drug. Article 9 raises the special limits by one third where the act finances drug consumption, and article 13(2) permits up to 5 further years in the specified education-related circumstance. That scale is what Romania applies to a substance that is on its list, and whether 4-HO-MET is on it is exactly what this row could not determine.
If prescribed / medical
The prescription question for 4-HO-MET in Romania cannot be answered from this row, because the control status underneath it is unresolved. The body to ask is the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices, and the question to put to it is whether 4-HO-MET appears on the controlled list at all. Nothing here should be read as permission to carry or obtain it.
Slovakia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed operative schedule at Annex 1, divided into Groups I, II and III, and no matching listed substance was found for 4-HO-MET. The source records the aliases searched: 4-HO-MET; metocin, run through every group of Annex 1, its extension clauses and its final line. A no-hit on an English spelling would not have been enough, because the schedule uses Slovak names, chemical formulas, brand-neutral synonyms, plant entries and member-by-member lists. Two statutes divide the work. Act No. 139/1998 decides whether a substance is in the three-group list at Annex 1, and section 3(1) classifies narcotic and psychotropic substances by their effects on health into those three groups. The Criminal Code, No. 300/2005, decides the amount category through sections 135c to 135f and supplies the offences at sections 171 to 173. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidation of Act No. 139/1998 read was effective 1 January 2026 and incorporates amendment No. 293/2025; the Criminal Code consolidation read was effective 18 August 2026 and incorporates amendments through No. 168/2026. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovakia has no death penalty. It does have life imprisonment for a drug offence, under Criminal Code section 173(5), and that is the one point on which this row has to be read carefully: the life ceiling is not assigned to 4-HO-MET, because sections 171 to 173 attach to the substances in Act No. 139/1998 Annex 1 and 4-HO-MET is not one of them. No controlled-substance threshold is given for it either, for the same reason. If a listed constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent is assessed separately and carries its own exposure. That is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is unregulated in Slovakia; it is a statement that the drug offence scale is not the instrument that reaches it, and this row did not audit whichever regime does.
If prescribed / medical
There is no controlled drug prescription question for 4-HO-MET in Slovakia, because Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 does not carry it. Whether 4-HO-MET is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Slovak medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit; the source states in terms that it is a schedule and penalty verification and not advice about licensing, medicines, precursors, food or tobacco. The State Institute for Drug Control is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route for 4-HO-MET as unread rather than as open.
Documentation
Carry 4-HO-MET as the Slovak medicines and pharmacy regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the schedule is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for 4-HO-MET and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for 4-HO-MET appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. Act No. 139/1998 and Criminal Code No. 300/2005 were read on Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal, on 18 September 2026, and every annex was carried to its end: Act 139 Annex 1 ends with zolpidem followed by the salts clause, and Criminal Code Annex 1 ends with the lysergide row.
Trinidad and Tobago
Legal status
Not confirmed. Searches for 4-ho, ho-met, metocin, ethyl-n-methyl, methylethyltryptamine, psilo and tryptamine found no entry for 4-HO-MET. The tryptamine rows printed are DET, «N,N-Diethyltryptamine», DMT, «N,N-Dimethyltryptamine», «ETRYPTAMINE», «psilocine,» and «PSILOCYBINE», all in the Schedule I table of the 2016 consolidation, and Legal Notice No. 345 of 2019 added none. Psilocine is printed as the 4-hydroxyindole with two methyl groups on the side chain nitrogen, and 4-HO-MET is understood to carry one methyl and one ethyl group there, a chemical fact brought from outside the text, so no row names it, and the Second Schedule clause on salts and stereoisomers does not reach a different compound. The substance is not listed by name in any Schedule read, as at 3 October 2026, the date the instruments were read.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. No penalty is stated for 4-HO-MET. Neither the psilocine row nor the DET row names it, and neither is borrowed.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. No instrument read gives 4-HO-MET a medical route; without a placement section 5(2) does not arise.
Documentation
Not confirmed. No document for 4-HO-MET is described in the instruments read.
Not confirmed. Searched: Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · Legal Notice No. 343 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · No. 345 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · No. 346 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · No. 166 of 2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment, whose one row is printed as an image and was read from the page · No. 131 of 2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · No. 293 of 2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment, dated 13 May 2026 and printing no commencement date of its own · Updated October 3, 2026
Ukraine
Legal status
Controlled in Ukraine by its own name as an especially dangerous psychotropic substance whose circulation is prohibited, and it is printed twice. The list prints «4-hydroxy MET (4-HO-MEТ; Metocin)» with the chemical name «3-[2-[етил(метил)аміно]етил]-1H-індол-4-ол», and again «4-HO-MET» with the chemical name «3-{2-[етил(метил)аміно]етил}-1H-індол-4-ол», both in Таблиця I, Список № 2, headed «Особливо небезпечні психотропні речовини, обіг яких заборонено». The first printed name carries a Cyrillic letter inside a Latin abbreviation and is quoted exactly as printed. The list was read at https://web.archive.org/web/20260112104514/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF/print on 3 October 2026, the publisher's own print view of Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770 від 6 травня 2000 року in the redaction of 13 September 2025, basis 692-2025-п, as captured by the Internet Archive with the publisher's currency line of 12 January 2026. The one later amending act, Постанова № 146 of 5 February 2026, was read in full at https://web.archive.org/web/20260212034633/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/146-2026-%D0%BF/print on 3 October 2026. It adds two synthetic cannabinoid entries, rewrites the tetrahydrocannabinol entry of Таблиця II, Список № 2, and moves piperonal and red phosphorus within Таблиця IV, and it touches no entry quoted in this cell. The publisher's card captured on 16 August 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260816050801/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF names the current redaction as 7 June 2026 on the basis of 146-2026-п. This does not rule out a later amendment made after 16 August 2026. The publisher host itself refused every connection from here on 3 October 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 51 of the Criminal Code lists every punishment a Ukrainian court may impose and ends at «довічне позбавлення волі»; it lists no death penalty, and none of articles 305 to 318 provides a life term. This row is in Таблиця I, Список № 2, so the especially dangerous limb of articles 305 and 307 applies with no quantity condition. Sale, or production, acquisition, storage or transport for sale, under article 307 is four to eight years under part 1 for a restricted substance, but part 2 reaches «особливо небезпечні наркотичні засоби або психотропні речовини» without any quantity, so any sale of this row's substance carries six to ten years with confiscation of property, rising to nine to twelve years with confiscation under part 3 for an organised group, an especially large size or the involvement of a child. Smuggling under article 305 is five to eight years under part 1, and eight to ten years with confiscation of property under part 2, which reaches «особливо небезпечні наркотичні засоби чи психотропні речовини» with no quantity condition, so this row starts at part 2; an organised group or an especially large size gives ten to twelve years with confiscation under part 3. Possession, acquisition, storage or transport without intent to sell under article 309 is a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 tax free minimum incomes, correctional labour of up to two years, or probation supervision or restriction of liberty of up to five years under part 1; a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 tax free minimum incomes or imprisonment of up to three years under part 2 for a group, a repeat within a year or a large size; and five to eight years under part 3 for an especially large size or the involvement of a minor. Part 4 releases from liability a person who voluntarily seeks treatment for addiction. Trafficking or sale under article 307 thus spans four to twelve years across its three parts, with confiscation of property attached only in parts 2 and 3. Article 316, the public use offence, names only «наркотичних засобів» and not psychotropic substances, so its text does not reach this row; use in private is not itself an offence in the articles read either. Article 310 penalises growing only opium poppy and cannabis, so it does not reach this row. Below the criminal threshold, article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses punishes production, acquisition, storage, transport or sending of a small amount of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance without intent to sell by a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days, and releases a person who surrenders the substance voluntarily. That article was read on 3 October 2026 only on the secondary publisher https://urst.com.ua/kupap/st-44, whose own currency line gives a redaction of 11 February 2022, because the official host refused the connection. The small, large and especially large sizes that move a case between article 44 and the parts of articles 309 and 307 are set by Ministry of Health Order No. 188 (наказ МОЗ № 188 від 01.08.2000). Its Table 1 covers narcotic drugs only, and its separate table for psychotropic substances was not in the text read in this run, so no gram figure is stated for this row. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine taken from Кримінальний кодекс України in the redaction of 18 September 2026, basis 4986-IX, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20261001134802/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14/print on 3 October 2026 with the publisher's currency line of 1 October 2026, and none of them is a quantity threshold.
Bahrain
Legal status
Not a controlled drug on the text read. 4-HO-MET is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to Bahrain's Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, nor in any of the three decisions that have amended them. Psilocine in Group II Schedule 1 is the 4-hydroxy dimethyltryptamine, and the N-ethyl N-methyl homologue is not printed anywhere in the tables.
Consequences if caught
Whether Bahrain's drug offences reach 4-HO-MET is a question this cell does not answer, because the offences are built on the tables and 4-HO-MET is in none of them; whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. What follows is therefore recorded as Bahrain's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Article 30(a) punishes trafficking in the narcotic drugs of Group I Schedules 1, 2, 3 and 4, the psychotropic substances of Group II Schedule 1 and the plants of Group I Schedule 5 by death or life imprisonment. That paragraph adds a fine of not less than 5,000 and not more than 50,000 Bahraini dinars, and Article 30(b) makes the penalty death in five listed cases. Article 31(a) sets not less than ten years with a fine of 3,000 to 30,000 dinars, Article 31(b) raises that to life imprisonment, and Article 32 covers personal use of the same schedules with imprisonment and a fine of not more than 3,000 dinars, or not more than seven years with a fine of not more than 5,000 dinars where the purpose is neither trafficking nor personal use. Article 34 sets not more than five years with a fine of not more than 3,000 dinars for Group II Schedules 2, 3 and 4, Article 35 not more than six months with a fine of not more than 100 dinars, and Article 36 imprisonment with a fine of not more than 1,000 dinars for the Group III precursors. The Law states no quantity threshold anywhere, and no table states one for 4-HO-MET. Article 57 forbids going below ten years on Article 30 or Article 31(b) when Article 72 of the Penal Code is applied. Article 49 of the Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, attaches civil deprivation of 3 to 15 years to a felony and Article 50 civil deprivation of 1 to 3 years to a misdemeanour. They are set out that way because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Article 51 makes confiscation of the substance, the equipment and any vehicle prepared for the purpose mandatory in every case. Article 54 lets the court add permanent deportation of a foreign national to the sentence. Bahraini courts have passed drug death sentences, including in a 2019 smuggling case, and executions for drug offences have not been carried out, sentences being commonly commuted; that last point is carried forward from the cell this replaces and was not re-derived here.
If prescribed / medical
The Law provides no prescription route for 4-HO-MET. Article 23 lets a pharmacist dispense only a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance on a Ministry of Health prescription form, and Article 26's traveller allowances are written for Group I and Group II medicines, so neither reaches this row.
Brunei
Legal status
Not a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013), from both parts of its Third Schedule, and from all four substantive schedules to the Regulations. Searched as "4-HO-MET" and "hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine", and no entry under that name or any synonym searched for it appears in either instrument.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. 4-HO-MET carries no penalty under the Misuse of Drugs Act in Brunei, because no offence in the Act reaches it. The Part II offences in sections 3, 3A, 4, 5 and 6 are each framed as an offence in relation to a controlled drug, and section 2 confines that to "any substance or product which is for the time being specified in Part I, II or III of the First Schedule to this Act or anything that contains any such substance or product". What decides it for 4-HO-MET is that no entry under that name or any synonym searched for it appears in either instrument. Searching the four parts of the First Schedule, both parts of the Third Schedule and the four substantive schedules to the Regulations under "4-HO-MET" and "hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine" returned nothing. Death is not available, and neither is any penalty under this Act. The substance is not a controlled drug, so no offence in Part II is engaged by it and no column of the Second Schedule is reached. The specified drug column, the only one in which death appears, names only opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis resin, methylamphetamine and MDMA. Where death does appear it is mandatory. Section 29(2) provides that the columns "show respectively the punishments to be imposed on a person convicted of the offence", and each death row gives death alone with no maximum, no minimum and no alternative. No provision of the Act confers a sentencing discretion on a capital conviction. The Act creates no sentence of life imprisonment. The phrase appears nowhere in its text, and the longest determinate term it reaches is 30 years.
If prescribed / medical
Neither the Misuse of Drugs Act nor its Regulations governs the prescribing or supply of 4-HO-MET. Neither instrument names it, and no entry under that name or any synonym searched for it appears in either instrument. No register, requisition or prescription requirement in the Regulations attaches to it, since every one of those is keyed to a scheduled controlled drug. What was not checked for this cell is Brunei's medicines and poisons regime, which is a separate body of law that was not fetched. Absence from the Misuse of Drugs Act is not a statement that a substance is freely available.
Documentation
No document is required for 4-HO-MET under the Misuse of Drugs Act, because the Act does not reach it. No entry under that name or any synonym searched for it appears in either instrument. That is a statement about one Act and no wider. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine should still carry the prescription and keep the product in its labelled dispensed container. What was not checked for this cell is Brunei's medicines and poisons regime, which is a separate body of law that was not fetched. Absence from the Misuse of Drugs Act is not a statement that a substance is freely available.
Iran
Legal status
4-HO-MET has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the Anti-Narcotics Law, in the narcotics-list decree of 1338/05/02, or in any of the four psychotropic schedules, taking the Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, which is 25 October 1988, as the publisher’s consolidation carries it, with its 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments, meaning 1997, 2001, 2010, 2017 and 2020, and the fine revision of 1403/03/30, which is 19 June 2024, and the four psychotropic schedules as those schedules stand after the Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13, which is 4 December 2005, both read on 22 September 2026. Psilocin at entry 21 of Schedule 1 is the 4 hydroxy N,N dimethyl compound and 4-HO-MET is the N methyl N ethyl homologue, a different substance, and the schedule carries no homologue clause. The additional list that Articles 4, 8 and 46 leave to Parliament was not recovered, so this does not rule out a later parliamentary listing or a Ministry of Health designation under Article 1 note 1.
Consequences if caught
Nothing in this cell should be read as saying the substance is permitted. The recovered instruments place it nowhere, and two designation routes remain open that could not be read: the parliamentary list that Articles 4, 8 and 46 contemplate, and the Ministry of Health announcement power in Article 1 note 1. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
Laos
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Laos's authorities (Lao Penal Code Art 146; Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Lao sources (Lao Penal Code 2017, Art 146; Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA of 2012), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. The Art 146 death thresholds are stated for heroin/morphine/cocaine (more than 500 g) and amphetamines/methamphetamine/ecstasy/psychotropics (more than 3 kg). [retained; abolitionist in practice, no executions since 1989, routine commutation] The death penalty is retained for drugs (Penal Code Art 146), and some sources describe it as MANDATORY above the thresholds [reported], but NO executions have been carried out since 1989 and commutation is routine (e.g. the Orobator case, where a pregnant defendant caught with 680 g of heroin received life, not death).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Laos (a Golden Triangle state where about 90% of death-row sentences are drug-related, with roughly 315 people on death row) retains the death penalty for drugs under the Lao Penal Code (2017, Art 146, consolidating the earlier Penal Law and the Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA of 2012). Death applies to producing, distributing, possessing or transporting more than 500 g of heroin, morphine or cocaine; more than 3,000 g (3 kg) of amphetamines, methamphetamine, ecstasy or other psychotropics; or more than 10,000 g of drug precursors. Some sources describe the death penalty as MANDATORY above these thresholds [reported], but it is abolitionist in practice, NO executions have been carried out since 1989, and commutation is routine (e.g. the Orobator case, where a pregnant defendant caught with 680 g of heroin received life, not death). Personal-use possession is graduated: for heroin, morphine or cocaine, less than 0.2 g is treated as a victim needing treatment and 0.2-2 g draws 2-10 years plus a fine; for methamphetamine or ecstasy, less than 0.3 g is treated as a victim and 0.3-3 g draws 1-5 years; using a marijuana-smoking service draws 3 months, 5 years. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lao Penal Code (2017), Art 146, consolidating Penal Law Art 146 + Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA (2012) · laoofficialgazette.gov.la · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Myanmar
Legal status
Not listed in Myanmar's narcotic or psychotropic notifications. 4-HO-MET was searched for across Notification 24/2025 and Notification 25/2025 and no entry was established for it. Apart from the poppy, coca and cannabis plants and what is derived or extracted from them, which section 2(a)(i) makes narcotic drugs on the Law's own words, section 2 confers status only by notification, so a substance outside both is not a narcotic drug or a psychotropic substance under this Law at all.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none on the text. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law 1993 was read in the copy at myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344, fetched 18 September 2026, and the amendments in Law 17/2025 were read from the Global New Light of Myanmar, 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5, on 3 October 2026. Section 20 takes «a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance» as its object, and section 2 defines both by delegation: a narcotic drug is the poppy, coca or cannabis plant and what is derived or extracted from it, or «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared to be a narcotic drug», and a psychotropic substance is «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared» to be one. This substance is not one of the three named plants or an extract of one, so whether section 20 reaches it turns on a Ministry of Health notification, and neither notification lists it, as the status of this row records, so section 20 does not reach it. No offence under this Law is made out for 4-HO-MET on this record. Sections 16(c), 19 and 20 each take a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance as their object, so where no notification names the substance and it is not derived or extracted from one of the three plants, none of the three attaches to it and the 5 to 10 year, 10 year to life and 15 year to life or death bands are all out of reach. What this finding is, and what it is not. No entry for 4-HO-MET was established under this Act, and that is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is lawful under Myanmar's other laws. Medicines, imports, customs, product and excise law were not audited here and any of them may reach it. None is assigned to 4-HO-MET under this Law, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. Section 20, the only article that reaches death, takes a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance as its object, and no notification entry places 4-HO-MET in either category. Section 19 and its 10 years to life imprisonment are out of reach for the same reason, and section 26 never engages at all, because its deemed sale quantities presuppose a substance the notifications have already caught. Law 17/2025 replaced «life imprisonment without limit» in the introduction of sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», and its new section 2(i) defines that as «a prison sentence imposed on a convicted person requiring them to remain incarcerated until death». The definition in section 2 is closed. Beyond the three plants named in section 2(a)(i) and what is derived or extracted from them, status is conferred by Ministry of Health notification, and the Law carries no analogue clause, no structural derivative limb and no generic definition, so a substance absent from the lists is not swept in by chemical resemblance to one that is present. What this cell states is the statute as written. It is not a description of enforcement. Policing of these provisions since February 2021 is not what the text describes, and substantial areas of the country sit outside central government control, so the law on the page and the treatment a person actually meets are two different questions.
Oman
Legal status
Not listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026. The dossier records a search of all thirteen tables of Groups I to IV through the last page, by name, synonyms and chemical name: «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 4-ho-met: بُحث الاسم والمرادفات والاسم الكيميائي في الجداول الثلاثة عشر حتى آخر صفحة؛ لم يوجد قيد مطابق», “Completed thirteen-table search: no exact 4-ho-met entry”. This is a reading of one instrument as of 20 September 2026, not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful: Article 5 lets the Minister add a substance to the annexed groups by decision.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none under this law for 4-HO-MET as read. The source read assigns no penalty under the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026 to a substance outside its annex, and 4-HO-MET is in none of its tables as the dossier records them. Article 5 lets the Minister add a substance by decision, so this holds as of 20 September 2026 only, and it is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is lawful under medicines, product, customs or other law, which was not read for this cell.
If prescribed / medical
This law sets no prescription rule for 4-HO-MET, because 4-HO-MET is outside its annex as read. Medicines, product and import rules sit outside it and were not read for this cell.
Documentation
This law asks for no document for 4-HO-MET, because 4-HO-MET is outside its annex as read. Medicines, customs and product rules are separate and were not read for this cell. Where the rule comes from. The law changed in September 2026. Royal Decree 67/2026 was issued on 3 September 2026. Its Article III repeals the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 17/99, and its Article IV brings the decree, and with it the new law, into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette. Decree.om and the dossier this cell was authored from both record that publication as issue 1664 of 6 September 2026, so the law took effect on 7 September 2026. Article II keeps existing regulations and decisions running until replacements issue, «وإلى أن تصدر يستمر العمل باللوائح والقرارات القائمة، بما لا يتعارض مع أحكامه», so far as they do not conflict with its provisions. The decree's own articles were read in the text the Oman News Agency published on 3 September 2026. The attached law and its annex were read only through the verbatim quotations in the dossier dated 20 September 2026, because on 3 October 2026 qanoon.om served a Cloudflare challenge in place of the text, the web archive held no copy, and decree.om carried the decree's Articles I to IV and its Gazette reference but not the attached law, which it said would be uploaded shortly. Article 5 of the law, as that dossier quotes it, provides «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب أو الكميات كلما اقتضت الضرورة ذلك», the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing percentages or quantities whenever necessary. It takes the place of article 4 of the 1999 law, «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك», which gave the same power without the word for quantities and with «الظروف», circumstances, where the 2026 text has «الضرورة», necessity. So a reading of the annex is a reading as of a date, and this one runs to 20 September 2026. Placement for 4-HO-MET: none in the 2026 annex as read. Under the 1999 law this page recorded: in no table read. The 1999 placements in this cell are this page's earlier reading and are not printed in the quoted extract the dossier carries for this row.
Bulgaria
Legal status
Controlled. 4-HO-MET is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «4-хидрокси-N-метил-N-етилтриптамин», «(4-HO-MET)», «(Метоцин)». The row sits directly under the heroin row in the Bulgarian alphabetical order and carries the trivial name metocin as well as the code. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», and чл. 3, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите puts those names in a Council of Ministers наредба rather than in the Act itself. The list closes with a note carrying it across the related forms, «Към Списък І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, as those lists stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025, which is the last amendment to the наредба recorded by the Council of Ministers legal information system.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Bulgaria is in the European Union and the death penalty was abolished in 1998, so no Bulgarian drug provision carries one. The figures in the rest of this paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Possession is not subject to a formal personal-use threshold. Penal Code article 354a(5) lets a judge impose a fine up to about 1,000 leva (about €511) for insignificant quantities, but it remains a criminal conviction. Standard possession of high-risk drugs draws 1 to 6 years. A 2,000 to 10,000 leva fine runs alongside that band. Possession of moderate-risk drugs draws up to 5 years. Trafficking under article 354a draws 2 to 8 years for high-risk drugs and 1 to 6 years for moderate-risk drugs. It rises to up to 15 years for aggravated or particularly large amounts. Cultivation of opium poppy, coca or cannabis is prohibited by article 354c. The high-risk and moderate-risk split those bands run on is drawn by Penal Code articles 354a, 354b and 354c together with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors, the ЗКНВП. Those are Penal Code provisions rather than наредба provisions, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Чл. 58, ал. 1 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите lets a person in transit or temporarily in the country hold medicinal products containing narcotic substances «от списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, т. 2 и 3» only for treatment and in quantities no greater than 30 days of treatment, and чл. 58, ал. 2 requires a foreign national to hold a document issued by the competent authorities of the country where the treatment was prescribed. Списък I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «4-хидрокси-N-метил-N-етилтриптамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lithuania
Legal status
4-HO-MET is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 does not name 4-HO-MET on its own. It is reached through the printed group entry «Triptamino ir triptamino bioizosterinių darinių grupė*», so the result is a fit to that group rather than an entry in its own name. The chain has four links and each one matters. The Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law, at article 4, delegates classification to the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Order No. 5 of 6 January 2000 is the resulting list and carries Schedules I to IV. Criminal Code article 269(1) makes those ministerial lists the Criminal Code's own drug definition. Criminal Code article 269(2) then sends the quantity question to ministerial recommendations, and Health Minister Order V-239 of 23 April 2003 supplies the figures. The list and the amount table are two different instruments, and a substance can be controlled by Order No. 5 while its cells in Order V-239 are blank. That is the single thing English accounts of Lithuanian law most often get wrong, and it is why control and quantity are stated separately on this row. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The current consolidation of Order No. 5 begins on 18 June 2025 and the current consolidation of Order V-239 begins on the same day; the Control Law edition read includes the changes effective 1 November 2025 and the Criminal Code edition read was effective 3 July 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Lithuania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available for 4-HO-MET. The ceiling is 15 years under Criminal Code article 260(3), which applies where the amount is very large. The scale is set by which amount band the quantity falls in. Article 259 covers possession without intent to distribute and its subsection (2) is the small-quantity misdemeanour. Article 260(1) punishes distribution-purpose conduct by 2 to 8 years. Article 260(2) applies to a large amount and carries 8 to 10 years. Article 260(3) applies to a very large amount and carries 10 to 15 years. Order V-239 prints three figures for this entry: a small amount of not more than 0,2 g, a large amount of more than 20 g, and a very large amount of more than 100 g. Those three columns are what select the offence.
If prescribed / medical
Whether there is a lawful route for 4-HO-MET depends on which of the four schedules of Order No. 5 carries the entry, and this row does not state the schedule number because the source records the list entry and the amount table rather than the schedule division. Schedule IV matters more than an English reader expects: it carries amyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone and the other alkyl nitrites, and it ends at item 402. Handling outside an authorisation is what the Criminal Code punishes, so a licensed medical or scientific use runs inside the Control Law rather than around it. Treat the detail of the route for 4-HO-MET as unread and put the question to the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania.
Estonia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, and the entry relied on for 4-HO-MET reads «4-hüdroksü-N-metüül-N-etüültrüptamiin (4-HO-MET)». The source does not state whether that entry names 4-HO-MET itself or a constituent of it, because its explanation column carries one sentence for every controlled row, that the annex names the substance or the applicable controlled entry, and that wording covers both cases. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act prohibits handling except for authorised medical, scientific and enforcement purposes, and the annex controls the listed isomers, esters, ethers, salts and medicines as the instrument provides. Estonia publishes no gram figure for 4-HO-MET, because the boundary that decides the offence is a quantity test rather than a weight. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026, the day the instruments were read, and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Estonia has no death penalty, so no quantity of 4-HO-MET can carry one. The ceiling is life imprisonment under Penal Code section 184(2) with a superscript one, which is reached when section 184 conduct is committed for large financial gain or by a criminal organisation, and the band immediately below it is 6 to 20 years. Below it the scale runs in three steps: dealing in a small quantity, up to 5 years under Penal Code section 183(2); handling a large quantity, 1 to 10 years under section 184(1); and the aggravated form, 3 to 15 years under section 184(2). What makes a quantity large is not a gram figure. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, at section 3(1)(3), defines a large quantity as an amount sufficient to intoxicate at least ten people, so the prosecution must prove the intoxicating dose rather than weigh the seizure. A claim that Estonia allows a fixed personal quantity of 4-HO-MET is not the statutory rule, and small personal possession or use can remain an offence under the Act even where section 184 is not reached.
If prescribed / medical
There may be a lawful route and this row cannot tell you whether there is one for 4-HO-MET. The Act permits handling for authorised medical, scientific and enforcement purposes, so a medical route exists in principle. Regulation No 73 divides its schedule into six lists, Lists I to VI, and it is the list a substance sits in that decides whether it has a recognised medical use in Estonia. The source read for 4-HO-MET names the annex and the entry «4-hüdroksü-N-metüül-N-etüültrüptamiin (4-HO-MET)» and does not record which of the six lists carries it. That is a gap in what was read rather than a finding that no route exists, and the State Agency of Medicines is the body that settles it. Treat the prescription route for 4-HO-MET as unread, not as absent.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and get the State Agency of Medicines to confirm the position for 4-HO-MET in writing before you travel rather than at the airport. That is the carriage answer and it is deliberately short, because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for 4-HO-MET appears anywhere in what was read for this row. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The entry «4-hüdroksü-N-metüül-N-etüültrüptamiin (4-HO-MET)» was read in Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, alongside the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Penal Code, in their consolidated texts on Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette, on 18 September 2026.
Latvia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, and section 3(2) of the Circulation Law points to it expressly, which is why the former Cabinet Regulation No. 847 is not the current list. Annex 2 does not name 4-HO-MET separately. It is reached through the group entry «triptamīni un beta-(benzofuran-3-il)etānamīni», which is tryptamines and beta-(benzofuran-3-yl)ethanamines, and the result is a fit to that group rather than a printed entry of its own. The entry sits at item 11(8) of Annex 2, in Schedule I, which covers prohibited especially dangerous narcotic and equivalent psychotropic substances and plants. Control extends to specified derivatives, isomers, structural analogues, active metabolites, salts, medicines, plant preparations and mixtures under Circulation Law sections 3(3)(5), 3(3)(6) and 3(4) read with Annex 2 paragraphs 2 and 3. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. Annex 2 identifies its current version as the 29 April 2021 text, as amended to 13 November 2025, with the cited 2025 change taking effect on 1 December 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Latvia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available for 4-HO-MET. The ceiling is 15 years under subsection (3) of Criminal Law section 253 with a superscript one, which is reached by an organised group, a large amount, serious consequences, sale to a minor, or sale at specified public or educational venues. The scale runs from an administrative penalty to fifteen years. Circulation Law section 48(1) makes unauthorised acquisition or possession in a small amount, or unauthorised use, punishable by a warning or 10 to 56 fine units, and section 48(3) requires a written warning about criminal liability if it happens again within a year. Criminal Law section 253(1) covers handling without intent to sell at up to 3 years, and section 253(2) reaches 3 to 10 years for a group or a large amount. The sale provision, numbered 253 with a superscript one, covers sale-purpose conduct and sale at 2 to 8 years in its subsection (1), reaches 3 to 10 years in its subsection (2), and reaches 5 to 15 years in its subsection (3). Annex 2 prints the two cut-offs for this entry: the amount up to which a quantity is recognised as small is 0,02 g, and the amount from which a quantity is recognised as large is 1 g. The printed small ceiling and the printed large floor are not the same boundary. A quantity above the small ceiling but below the large floor is neither small nor large under those two columns, and falls into the ordinary band between them.
If prescribed / medical
Latvia places 4-HO-MET in the prohibited schedule, so there is no ordinary prescription route. Schedule I of Annex 2 covers prohibited especially dangerous narcotic and equivalent psychotropic substances and plants, and that placement is the strongest control the annex carries. Authorised scientific or forensic handling runs through the Circulation Law licensing provisions rather than through a prescription. Whether such an authorisation could cover 4-HO-MET was not audited for this row and is a question for the State Agency of Medicines of Latvia.
Slovenia
Legal status
Controlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names 4-HO-MET at Group I, row 377. Article 2 of the Uredba provides «Seznam skupin prepovedanih drog iz prejšnjega člena je v Prilogi, ki je sestavni del te uredbe.», which makes the annex a constituent part of the regulation rather than a separate document, so the names belong to the Uredba and not to the Criminal Code. The search that produced this placement searched the terms 4-HO-MET and metocin across all three groups. The entry is numbered 377 within that group in the copy that was read, and the number is reproduced only because the annex text itself prints it beside the entry. The placement is in Group I, which is not one of the two groups the source identifies as capable of carrying medicines. The annex was read on 20 September 2026 and this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovenia has abolished the death penalty and no Slovenian drug offence carries one, so this is a settled country level fact and not a reading of where any substance sits on the list. The exposure that does attach runs on three provisions. Personal use is handled under article 33 of the Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, which treats a smaller quantity held for one time personal use as a minor offence and carries a fine of roughly 42 to 209 euro, reduced or remitted where the person enters approved treatment. That article states no gram figure at all and it is a lighter route rather than a lawful possession allowance. Trafficking and manufacture fall under article 186 of the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, at one to ten years, rising to three to fifteen years on the aggravated limbs for organised conduct or conduct involving minors or vulnerable persons, and fifteen years under article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, is the drug offence ceiling in Slovenian law. Facilitating consumption falls under article 187 at six months to twelve years. This substance is reached through its own entry at Group I, row 377, so those three provisions apply to it directly and nothing here rests on an inference from a neighbouring entry or from a class.
If prescribed / medical
The source read for this cell carries no prescription column, so no substance specific Slovenian medical route is stated here and none is assumed. The country level traveller rule is the one the source does state: Groups II and III of the annex can include medicines, and lawful travel still turns on the applicable prescription, the original dispensing packaging and any Schengen or Slovenian certificate that is required, with a foreign brand assessed through its proved active ingredients rather than its name. This row sits in Group I, which the source does not identify as one of the two groups capable of carrying medicines, so a Slovenian medical route for it is deferred here rather than stated.
Documentation
Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and carry a Schengen certificate where one is required for the substance and the length of stay. Confirm the requirement with the Slovenian embassy or consulate before travelling rather than at the border, and be ready to show the active ingredient, since a foreign brand name is assessed in Slovenia through its proved ingredients and not through the name on the box. The placement relied on for this row is Group I, row 377, and that is what was read on 20 September 2026. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog was read on 20 September 2026. The dossier read for this cell names no edition and no amendment date for that annex, so the horizon of this cell is the reading date and nothing later, and this does not rule out a later amendment. The list moves by amendment of the Uredba itself, because article 2 of the Uredba makes the annex a constituent part of the regulation, so the Criminal Code can stay untouched while the names on the list change.
Serbia
Legal status
4-HO-MET is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, the annex carried by the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju Spiska psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, Član 2, at Lista 4, red 196, under CAS 77872-41-4. The row is recorded as «4-HO-MET | 3-(2-(etil(metil)amino)etil)-1H-indol-4-ol | CAS 77872-41-4», which is the international and trivial name column, the systematic chemical name column and CAS 77872-41-4. The wording given here is the dossier's record of the row, in Latin script, and it is not offered as the text the Službeni glasnik RS prints. Serbian is written in both Cyrillic and Latin, the official gazette promulgates in Cyrillic, and all 88 Serbian rows in this dossier are recorded in Latin script with no Cyrillic character anywhere in them, so the entry is attributed to the dossier and to its Latin script source rather than to the gazette text. The penalty does not come from the Spisak. It comes from the Criminal Code, at arts 246 and 246a, which is where conduct with what those articles call opojne droge is divided and sentenced, and neither those articles nor the Lista 4 row attaches a gram figure to 4-HO-MET.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The ceiling this dossier records for Serbia is 20 years of imprisonment, by Criminal Code art. 246(5) read with the general maximum in art. 45(1). That figure is document level, the same sentence on all 88 Serbian rows, so it is given here as the dossier's recorded ceiling for the country and not as a measured statement about this substance, and no route in the instruments the dossier cites reaches death. What this cell cannot give you is a weight. The Lista 4 row at red 196 carries a name, the systematic name «3-(2-(etil(metil)amino)etil)-1H-indol-4-ol» and CAS 77872-41-4, and it carries no quantity at all. Arts 246 and 246a divide conduct by manja količina and velika količina and print no gram value for either. So the line between the smaller quantity offence and the larger one for 4-HO-MET is a finding a Serbian court makes on the facts of a case, and it is not a number that can be checked before travelling. Anyone who says a particular weight is safe in Serbia is saying something the cited instruments do not say. The list number is a locator and not a severity tier: the dossier records the placement at Lista 4 but carries no description of what separates the seven lists from one another, so nothing here should be read as a claim that Lista 4 is treated more or less harshly than another. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry rather than re-derived from the Criminal Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Drug use itself is not a criminal offence. Possession of a small amount for one's own use under Criminal Code article 246a paragraph 1 draws a fine or up to three years, and punishment may be remitted in minor cases. Small quantity is not numerically defined in law, so there is no fixed statutory quantity. Possession of a large quantity under article 246a paragraph 2 draws three to ten years. Production, circulation or sale under article 246 draws three to twelve years, five to fifteen years if committed by a group, and at least ten years if by an organised group. Cultivation of opium poppy or psychoactive hemp under article 246 draws six months to five years. Facilitating the taking of narcotics is an offence under article 247. The death penalty was abolished in 2002. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci brings into play.
Iraq
Legal status
Not listed as at 22 September 2026. The nearest entry read is Schedule Five serial 18, psilocin, described as «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol». It is not named in any of the ten schedules annexed to Iraq's Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law No. 50 of 2017, as those schedules stand after Statement 347 of 2025 of 17 November 2025, the Official Gazette having been checked to issue 4881 of 14 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
The nearest entry read is Schedule Five serial 18, psilocin, described as «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol». 4-HO-MET carries an N-ethyl group in place of one N-methyl, which makes it a homologue rather than an isomer, and the Schedule Five footnote extends only to salts. Under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law No. 50 of 2017, Article 27 punishes importing, bringing in or exporting, producing or manufacturing, and cultivating a producing plant, in each case with intent to trade, by death or life imprisonment. Trafficking possession carries life or a term of imprisonment under Article 28, First, for a Schedule One substance, and severe detention under Article 28, Sixth, for a substance on any of the other tables. The fine on the Article 28, First, offence runs from 10,000,000 to 30,000,000 Iraqi dinars, and the fine on the Article 28, Sixth, offence from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Possession, purchase, import, production or cultivation for personal use carries one to three years under Article 32. The fine on personal use runs from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Article 27 keys on the act rather than on a weight, and the law sets no gram threshold for it. Article 1 defines narcotics, psychotropics and precursors exclusively by the substances listed in the ten annexed schedules, and Article 49, Second, is the only route by which a substance is added, by a ministerial statement published in the Official Gazette. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Iraq's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Iraq enforces the drug death penalty in practice: 144 drug-trafficking death sentences were issued in 2024, a figure carried forward here from the previous cell and not re-derived, on the authority of the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region.
If prescribed / medical
No recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route in Iraq.
Documentation
Nothing read here authorises carrying it, and an unlisted substance can be added by a ministerial statement at any time. Running or preparing a place for drug use is Article 28, Fourth, of this law; it is not a Penal Code Article 288 offence. Allowing another person to use drugs on premises of yours carries six months to two years under Article 33, First, with a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars. A doctor who writes a prescription for other than medical treatment faces not less than three months detention or a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars and a one year ban on practice under Article 31. Article 1 defines the ten schedules as the lists adopted by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 United Nations Convention against illicit traffic, each with its amendments, and Article 49, Second, is how Iraq amends them. Article 50 repeals Narcotics Law No. 68 of 1965, so the 1965 law is not the governing Act. Harm Reduction International reported 140 drug death sentences in Iraq between January and August 2024, a figure carried forward here and not re-derived. The US State Department has reported personal-use sentences of up to 15 years, which is longer than the Article 32 range and is carried forward here as that department reported it rather than re-derived from the statute. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with the Iraqi embassy before travel.
Jordan
Legal status
Whether 4-HO-MET is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, is not established, and this cell says so rather than choosing a side. The substance-specific search is recorded as «سجل البحث الخاص بـ 4-ho-met: بُحثت الأسماء والمرادفات والصيغة الكيميائية ولم يُعثر على قيد مطابق في ملف 29-12-2025؛ وتعذر فحص متن ملف 16-09-2026.», an item-specific search record for 4-HO-MET: the names, synonyms and chemical formula were searched, no matching entry was found in the 29 December 2025 file, and the body of the 16 September 2026 file could not be examined. The terms run were 4-HO-MET, metocin and 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine. This row produced a near miss that was examined and rejected: the search returned a separate hit for 4-HO-MiPT, and that hit was rejected because it is a different N-substituted tryptamine, an isopropyl homologue rather than the ethyl compound. What 4-HO-MiPT's own schedule position is was not established either, and this cell does not assert one for it. The gap is procedural rather than interpretive. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration names a current schedules file dated 16 September 2026 whose body could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025. Absence from a schedule is not a finding of legality in Jordan, because article 14(a) reaches «... من غير المواد المنصوص عليها في الجداول المرفقة بهذا القانون بقصد أحداث التخدير أو أي إثر آخر ضار بالعقل.», substances other than those specified in the schedules attached to this Law taken with intent to cause intoxication or another harmful effect on the mind. Schedules also move. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.», so the Council of Ministers, on the Minister of Health's recommendation, may add a substance by a decision published in the Official Gazette.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. The only thing the search returned near this compound was a hit for 4-HO-MiPT, which was rejected as a different molecule, so nothing has been matched to 4-HO-MET and the placement that the penalty depends on is still open. Two branches follow. If 4-HO-MET is genuinely unscheduled, article 14 of Law No. 23 of 2016 supplies non-capital possession, use and trafficking routes, with no weight threshold and with neither life imprisonment nor death available. If a Council of Ministers decision under article 37 has added it to a schedule since the last searchable consolidation, articles 19 and 20 reach it in the ordinary way. Article 19(a) sets temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for dealing conduct committed «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved. Article 20 provides «يعاقب بالإعدام», death, mandatory on its own wording where the international drug gang or international criminal activity trigger is present, and at any quantity, because no weight threshold appears in either article. Stating one branch as the answer would be a guess. A traveller should read the harsher branch, because what is deferred here is what could be read in September 2026 and not what Jordan permits.
Syria
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Syria's authorities (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Syrian sources (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree, Arts 39/43), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Syria (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree), trafficking, cultivation or manufacture is punishable by DEATH (Art 39); a user draws 3-15 years (Art 43); possession not for trafficking draws up to 1 year plus a fine up to 5,000 SYP; trafficking draws life plus a 1-5 million SYP fine. Death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate). [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Syria is retentionist on paper, death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate), but enforcement is opaque amid the conflict, and a September 2019 amnesty reduced some death sentences to life. Active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Syria (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree), trafficking, cultivation or manufacture is punishable by DEATH (Art 39); a user draws 3-15 years (Art 43); possession not for trafficking draws up to 1 year plus a fine up to 5,000 SYP; trafficking draws life plus a 1-5 million SYP fine. Death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate). There is no medical cannabis. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Syria is retentionist on paper, death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate), but enforcement is opaque amid the conflict, and a September 2019 amnesty reduced some death sentences to life. Active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993 (Legislative Decree), Arts 39/43 · corroborated by Harm Reduction International, CountryReports and NPA Syria · sherloc.unodc.org · hri.global · Updated July 14, 2026
Yemen
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Yemen's authorities (Law No. 3 of 1993) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Yemeni sources (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Arts 34/39), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Yemen (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances), trafficking or cultivating schedule-V plants with intent to traffic is punishable by DEATH or 25 years (Art 34); possession not for trafficking draws a lesser penalty (Art 39). The penalty keys on INTENT, not a fixed statutory quantity, there is no fixed gram threshold. [retained; executions rare amid conflict] Yemen is retentionist, death applies for trafficking or cultivation with intent to traffic, but executions are rare amid the conflict. Active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Yemen (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances), trafficking or cultivating schedule-V plants with intent to traffic is punishable by DEATH or 25 years (Art 34); possession not for trafficking draws a lesser penalty (Art 39). The penalty keys on INTENT, not a fixed statutory quantity, there is no fixed gram threshold; there is no medical cannabis. [retained; executions rare amid conflict] Yemen is retentionist, death applies for trafficking or cultivation with intent to traffic, but executions are rare amid the conflict. Active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Arts 34/39 · corroborated by Harm Reduction International · sherloc.unodc.org · hri.global · Updated July 14, 2026
Libya
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Libya's authorities (Law No. 7 of 1990 as amended) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Libyan sources (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, as amended), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources (do not rely on a specific article or gram figure), verify; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996) · corroborated by Human Rights Watch · security-legislation.ly · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Sudan
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Sudan's authorities (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Sudanese sources (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17 · Updated July 14, 2026
Albania
Legal status
Not confirmed. The search recorded for this row ran «4-HO-MET» and «metocin», written in the dossier as the complete list negative search «4-HO-MET; metocin», through every narcotic, psychotropic and plant table annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and on to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, and accepted no printed entry, no proved bounded class and no separate product regime. A completed search that accepts nothing records what was not found; it does not establish that 4-HO-MET sits outside the tables, and it is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is lawful to carry. The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. Treat the status as unsettled and settle it with the Albanian authorities before travelling.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. Whether those articles reach this row is exactly what the search on «4-HO-MET; metocin» did not settle, so the figures above are the exposure that would apply if a placement were established, and not a statement that it has been.
North Macedonia
Legal status
Not confirmed. The classification lists were searched for 4-HO-MET; metocin across the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables and through all 23 gazette pages including the signature page, and no printed entry was accepted. Psilocybine is printed at CAS 520-52-5, and the reading accepted no N-ethyl homologue of that printed row. The version read is the classification list published at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, read as at 20 September 2026. The power that moves that list is член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, under which the minister of health adopts the lists, so the list can be replaced without the statute changing, and a later amendment is not ruled out by this reading.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. North Macedonia carries no death penalty, and the dossier read for this pass states that on all 88 of its rows. The drug offence itself is Article 215 of the Кривичен законик, which sits in the chapter on offences against people's health, chapter 21. On penalty: Article 215 carries three to ten years, and the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009 carries six months to three years. Article 216 covers facilitating or enabling the use of drugs, and Article 217 covers causing severe bodily injury or health damage through the Article 215 and Article 216 offences. There is no separate personal-possession offence in the Code, and personal use is often charged under Article 215. On quantity, which is a different question from penalty and must not be read as the same one: small versus large quantity is not defined in the Code. Article 215(2) recognises a smaller quantity for the reduced offence but states no grams and creates no lawful allowance, so there is no statutory quantity band and no weight below which possession becomes lawful. The Public Prosecutor's internal guidelines set non-statutory cut-offs instead, and the reported working thresholds are around 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis, above which intent to sell is presumed. That is reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory, and that hedge is part of the figure rather than a footnote to it. The penalty bands, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 and Article 217, the absence of a separate possession offence and the reported thresholds are all carried forward from the published entry for this country and were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass. The dossier read for this pass records only a ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the bare existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2), so the three year floor, the six months to three years band and the two neighbouring articles are the published entry's material and not the dossier's. Whether Article 215 engages at all for 4-HO-MET depends on a placement this reading did not settle, so the bands above are stated as the bands of the offence and not as figures attached to this substance. What would have to be true for the article to reach it is either a printed row of its own or a homologue limb attached to the printed psilocybine or dimethyltryptamine rows. Nothing here should be read as saying the material is lawful: the reading records a search result and not a legality.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status
Not confirmed. The search made here used the identifier 4-ho-met and returned no entry and no near entry. It is a substituted tryptamine of the same family as the printed psilocibin entry, which is printed as a bare name. The reading that produced this was made against the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment, so this is an unresolved search result and not a finding that the substance is outside the list.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Criminal law in Bosnia and Herzegovina runs at state, entity and Brčko District level at once, and the sources read do not establish which code governs a given case: they name the applicable entity or Brčko criminal code without choosing between them, and the only code actually read is the Federation one, where drug trafficking sits at article 238 and the fixed-term ceiling is article 43, «Kazna zatvora ne može biti kraća od trideset dana ni duža od dvadeset godina.», thirty days at the bottom and twenty years at the top. Where in the country the conduct happens is therefore the first thing that has to be settled, and this answer does not settle it. Nothing attaches until a match is made, and the family entry that exists prints one name and no group rule. No quantity band applies on this record: a separate quantity instrument was searched alongside the list and returned no entry for this substance, so nothing in the national material read converts a weight into a tier. The penalty detail that follows is carried forward from this substance's own published entry on 2cb.com and was not re-derived from statute text in this pass, so it is reported as carried forward rather than asserted here: state-level Criminal Code article 195, illicit production and trafficking of narcotics, is charged for cross-entity or organized trafficking, with up to roughly 10 to 20 years for aggravated or organized forms and about 3 to 15 years base per secondary sources; possession for personal use is a misdemeanour under entity or district public-order law, for example the Brčko Law on Public Order article 31, a fine of about €250 to €750, with Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska equivalents, rather than the felony track, but each entity's criminal code can pursue felony charges for cultivation, sale, or possession beyond personal-use quantities; and the 2017 EUDA report notes the misdemeanour penalties do not vary by drug, recidivism or quantity. That published entry also states that the exact article and range a person faces depends on where in the country the offence occurs, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Republika Srpska versus Brčko, that article 195 at state level is the anchor, and that entity-level article numbers not confirmed there are not pinned. Every figure in that carried-forward detail is a penalty range or a fine and not one of them is a quantity threshold: the published entry itself says there is no uniform statutory gram threshold distinguishing personal use from intent to sell and that it varies by entity, which is the same absence recorded above and not a contradiction of it.
Georgia
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not established as a scheduled substance in Georgia on this record, and it is not established as lawful either. The dossier's outcome is not verified and it holds an absence record against the annexes to Law No. 624: the search set was "4-HO-MET" and "metocin", run across the list headings, the salts and isomers limbs, the named plants and the amendments, and it returned no entry. The comparison the dossier inspected and put back down was «კოკაინი». An N-ethyl analogue of psilocin, the active form of the listed psilocybin, was searched under its code and under the metocin name, and the dossier found no row for either. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so no row in this dossier carries a list number. An absence record is a statement about one text on one date, so it is version specific. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of 4-HO-MET in Georgia was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful in Georgia, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for 4-HO-MET in Georgia. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for 4-HO-MET in Georgia, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling · this row rests on absence record GEO-10 against those annexes, with the search set "4-HO-MET" and "metocin" and the rejected comparison «კოკაინი». Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The comparison cited here is the one this dossier reaches for by default on seventeen of its deferral rows and it is not a structural neighbour of this substance, so it carries no weight in either direction. The set that produced this record used two genuinely different names for the substance rather than one name in two cases. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given · Updated October 4, 2026
Armenia
Legal status
Not confirmed for Armenia, and this cell states the search rather than an answer. Record ARM-10 is a version specific absence record. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, was read in the version below, no printed line naming 4-HO-MET was accepted, and no bounded class clause was shown to reach it either. The near entry inspected was «Կոկաին», and it was set aside because it does not itself name this substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The limit of this record has to be on the face of it. The terms this row was searched under were «4-HO-MET» and «metocin», all of them Latin script. Not one of the 186 search terms logged across the eighty eight rows of this dossier carries a single Armenian letter, while 39 of the 41 entries the same dossier accepts elsewhere are printed in Armenian script. A Latin search of an Armenian list returns nothing whether or not the substance is on it. So this record states what the logged search could reach, and it does not establish that the annex is silent about anything searched for that way. A search that did not settle the question is not a finding that the substance is uncontrolled, and it is not a finding that it is controlled. The near entry recorded for this row is the coca alkaloid line, and that same line is recorded as the near comparison on 20 of this dossier's 32 absence rows, among them a mint, a tree leaf, two cannabinoids, three tryptamines and three substituted cathinones, none of which bears any relation to a coca alkaloid. It is a filing artefact of the record rather than a comparison anybody drew, so it tests nothing here. The search set recorded was the code and a one word synonym, both in Latin script. The psilocybin line in the same annex is the nearer comparison and it was not the one inspected.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Armenia has abolished the death penalty and Article 393 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia provides no life sentence for a drug offence, so the real exposure is a term of years. That much is settled whatever this row's place in the annex turns out to be, because it is a property of the penalty regime and not of the substance. What is not settled is the exposure itself. No penalty can be assigned to 4-HO-MET while its place in the annex is open on the instruments this pass reached. The 12 year ceiling under Article 393(3) is Armenia's general drug ceiling and not a figure attached to this row. A hydroxylated tryptamine sits beside an express tryptamine entry in the annex without being reached by it on this record.
If prescribed / medical
Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for 4-HO-MET is an unresolved annex position, so the country rule attaches without an entry to attach it to, and the medicines law question cannot be reached until the annex question is. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. The enquiry should ask how close a tryptamine has to be to the printed one before the printed line reaches it, because the record never put that question.
Montenegro
Legal status
Not confirmed. What was not established is whether this substance has any placement at all in the Montenegrin list: the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, was searched for «4-HO-MET; metocin» across the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables, the terminal check being the amended Prilog and its final plant table, and no exact printed entry was accepted, with no bounded class and no separate product regime settling it either. That is a completed negative search on a named version of the list and not a finding that the substance is lawful. The search was run under the trivial name of the substituted tryptamine as well as the abbreviation. A closely related hydroxy tryptamine is printed in this schedule, so the tryptamines here are named one at a time. The list is not the criminal code's to move. Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga gives it to the state administration body responsible for health and requires publication in the official gazette: «Spisak droga donosi organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove zdravlja... Spisak droga se objavljuje u Službenom listu Crne Gore.» The version read is the Prilog as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, read on 20 September 2026, and because Član 4 leaves the list with the health administration this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Montenegro's criminal code carries no death penalty and the dossier records none. The ceiling it records is fifteen years under Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik, the aggravated drug offence, read with the Code's imprisonment rules, and that is the only criminal article this reading names. That ceiling is Montenegro's drug offence maximum and it is not this row's exposure, because Article 300 depends on a placement in the list and the search for «4-HO-MET; metocin» established none. Nothing here says the conduct is outside the article and nothing here says it is inside it. No numerical lawful personal use threshold was found in the controlling Act or in the list, so there is no stated weight below which the question changes, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not described here as a general lawful possession safe harbour. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass: production, distribution or trafficking are reported at roughly two to fifteen years, the source given there being the United States State Department narcotics report, which also records that the individual paragraph ranges of Article 300(1) to (5) are not pinned in the sources it cites. The Article 300(6) offence of unlawfully making, acquiring, possessing, transporting or supplying equipment, material or substances knowing they are intended for narcotics production is reported at six months to five years. An addiction driven offender may receive mandatory treatment as a security measure to a maximum of three years, alongside or in place of imprisonment, and possession is reported as handled inside Article 300 with treatment diversion available. A foreigner faces expulsion for one to ten years or permanently. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty band and none of them is a quantity threshold, which is the separate point made above. These bands describe the Article 300 drug offence, and whether it reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Montenegro's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure. What this row rests on is a completed negative search for «4-HO-MET; metocin» with no accepted entry.
Kazakhstan
Legal status
4-HO-MET is not named in Kazakhstan's controlled list and the analogue route does not close cleanly either, so this row is unresolved rather than clear. Government Resolution No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approves three documents: a Список in four tables, a Сводная таблица of sizes, a short veterinary medicines list and the Список заместителей атомов водорода, галогенов и (или) гидроксильных групп в структурных формулах наркотических средств, психотропных веществ, which is what gives the analogue rule its content. The nearest listed relative is Псилоцин, псилотсин at item 30 of Таблица I section В. 4-HO-MET differs from the listed psilocin by an ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen where psilocin carries a second methyl. That is not the replacement of a hydrogen, a halogen or a hydroxyl group, which is what the substituent list is drawn to cover, so the analogue route is not clean on the face of the text. One nearby entry shows the drafter working this corner by hand: item 54 lists 5-HO-NMT, norbufotenine, by systematic name. 4-HO-MET is not among the entries worked that way. So the honest statement is that the instrument neither names 4-HO-MET nor supplies a substitution that plainly reaches it, and whether an expert report would call it an analogue in an individual case is not something this text settles. [Certain] that the substance is absent by name from all three approved lists as the instrument stands. [Guessing] on how the analogue rule would be applied to it. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text, and a later amendment adding this substance by name is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Kazakhstan has abolished the death penalty. No capital punishment remains available anywhere in its Criminal Code, because the law of 29 December 2021 numbered 89-VII on abolition replaced the words carrying it in Article 11 with life imprisonment, and Article 46 now names life imprisonment as the heaviest penalty the Code holds. Because the Resolution neither names 4-HO-MET nor supplies a size row for it, no threshold can be quoted for this substance and none is invented here. The penalty ladder is read off those sizes. Possession without intent to supply sits in Criminal Code Article 296, which is non-custodial at parts 2 and 3, a fine of up to 160 or up to 200 monthly calculation indices or arrest of up to 40 or 50 days, and becomes custodial only at part 4, three to seven years, once the seizure is особо крупный. Consumption in a public place is part 1 of the same article. Supply runs under Article 297 at five to eight years with confiscation for the bare offence and fifteen to twenty years for its heaviest part, and manufacture or processing for supply under Article 297-1, added on 2 January 2025 by law No. 150-VIII, carries life imprisonment at part 4. Those bands are read off the Сводная таблица, and for a substance the table does not carry there is nothing to read, so an exposure for 4-HO-MET would depend first on an expert report bringing it within a listed entry. Article 296 also carries a note releasing from liability under that article a person who voluntarily hands the substance over, seeks medical help or actively assists in uncovering a related offence. [Likely] The Criminal Code articles and their year ranges in this cell were read from secondary consolidations rather than from an official publisher in this pass. Two independent consolidations agree on them, and the Code's own article text was not reached: the state portal served only its contents list. The abolition of the death penalty, by contrast, was confirmed against the Code itself and is tagged [Certain] where it appears. [Likely] Carried from the entry published before this batch and not re-derived in this pass: the two middle rungs of that ladder are six to ten years for part 2 and seven to twelve years for part 3.
Cuba
Legal status
Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is 4-HO-MET, a hydroxylated tryptamine, and it is named nowhere in the Código Penal, which names only cocaína and Cannabis. Article 236(c) is a residual limb reaching «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores», punished by six months to one year or a fine. So if this substance is an illicit drug in Cuba it is caught, and the tier depends on whether a court reads it as «de efectos similares o superiores» to cocaine under article 236(a). Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
Guyana
Legal status
Not confirmed. No placement was established for 4-HO-MET on this record, and the search that returned nothing is recorded below rather than read as a finding of absence. The dossier records searches for «4-ho-met», together with spelling variants and the chemical name, against the First and Second Schedules to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, and no current named entry and no closed group rule was proved anywhere in the complete instrument. No placement is asserted here in either direction. 4-HO-MET is the hydroxy methyl ethyl tryptamine. It is not psilocin, and the psilocybin entry proved in this corpus does not reach it. A search that returns nothing proves that nothing was found in what was read. It does not prove the substance is lawful in Guyana, and this cell does not say that it is. The search was recorded on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of 4-HO-MET in Guyana was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is lawful in Guyana, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for 4-HO-MET in Guyana. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for 4-HO-MET in Guyana, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, First and Second Schedules, searched for this row without a proved result · the terms recorded are «4-ho-met» with spelling variants and the chemical name, and the row boundary the dossier records for that search is «checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name.» · read at https://mola.gov.gy/laws-of-guyana, the Ministry of Legal Affairs Laws of Guyana collection. The citation behind this cell is document level and not per substance. The source document carries exactly one hyperlink target for all 88 of its rows, and what it calls a links column holds constructed text such as «4-ho-met schedule | 4-ho-met penalty» rather than a web address, so no page, paragraph or deep link exists for this row and none is invented here. Many of the dossier's entry and search strings are recorded in Spanish language or international nonproprietary form rather than in the English wording a Guyanese statute prints, so every string here is reproduced exactly as the dossier holds it and is not offered as the literal printed text of the Schedules · Updated October 4, 2026
Bahamas
Legal status
Not listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those schedules stand after S.I. 50 of 1996, and not named in section 6 or section 11(1) of the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chapter 228. Searched case insensitively across all three held instruments for 4-HO-MET, for metocin and for hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine: zero hits in every one, including the 2024 draft Order. The nearest entries read and rejected are «psilocine, psilotsin», chemical name «3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol», which is the 4 hydroxy dimethyl compound, and «DET», chemical name «3-[2-(diethylamino)ethyl]indole», which is the diethyl compound without the hydroxyl. This substance is the mixed methyl ethyl 4 hydroxy compound and is neither of them.
Consequences if caught
No offence under Chapter 228 attaches to a substance that neither the Act nor the Application Order reaches, because every offence in the Act is framed around a drug to which the Act or a Part of it applies. One offence is still capable of applying: section 29(1)(f) with section 29(10) makes it an offence to solicit a person for the purpose of selling a dangerous drug, or to obtain money by representing that a substance is a dangerous drug when it is not.
If prescribed / medical
Chapter 228 does not reach it, so no authority under section 24 of that Act is needed to hold it. Chapter 228 is not the only law that can apply. The Pharmacy Act, the medicines law and the food and excise law of The Bahamas were not read for this cell and may regulate manufacture, sale or import independently of the drugs Act.
Documentation
A traveller carrying it into The Bahamas is not carrying a drug to which Chapter 228 applies on the reading above, but should expect the question to be settled at the border by the substance rather than by the brand name on the packet. No Ministerial Order later than S.I. 50 of 1996 was read for this cell, so a later addition by Order under section 6, section 11(3) or section 12(3) of the Act is not excluded. The Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024 was read and is not relied on: it carries no Statutory Instrument number, no signature and a blank execution block reading Made this day of 2024, and the Bahamas legislation portal serves it from its Bills directory rather than its subsidiary legislation directory.
Dangerous Drugs Act, Chapter 228, Statute Law of The Bahamas, LRO 1/2017 · laws.bahamas.gov.bs · Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994, S.I. 77 of 1994 as amended by S.I. 50 of 1996 · · Updated October 2, 2026
Lebanon
Legal status
Not a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four tables annexed to that Law, as those tables stand after Decree 343 of 16 May 2025, the last table change the publisher records, read on 22 September 2026 in the Ministry of Public Health consolidated annex carrying the seventh modification of January 2019 and in the Lebanese University consolidation note. The two hydroxytryptamine entries Lebanon prints are psilocin and psilotin, and this compound is not among them.
Consequences if caught
«Psilocine,Psilotin» is the only 4-hydroxytryptamine entry in the annex, printed eighteenth in the Table 1 block headed with the 1971 Convention Schedule I. 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine differs from psilocin in one N-substituent, an ethyl in place of a methyl, and is not printed. «D.M.T», «D.E.T» and «Etryptamine» are the other tryptamine entries and each is a distinct named compound. Law 673 carries no analogue clause and no generic structural clause. Articles 1 to 13 define no chemical family, article 8 requires each entry to be printed under an international common name or a scientific name, and an express extension clause appears on only a handful of entries in the whole annex. Article 124 of Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors opens the penal part by confining it to the plants and substances placed under control and by dividing them into the highly dangerous substances of Tables 1 and 2, the dangerous substances of Table 3 and the precursors of Table 4. Article 125 punishes the Table 1 and Table 2 offences with hard labour for life and a fine of 25,000,000 to 100,000,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 128 punishes the Table 3 offences with hard labour not exceeding five years and a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 127 punishes a small quantity of a Table 1 or Table 2 substance held for personal use with three months to three years and a fine of 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 Lebanese pounds, and article 130 punishes the Table 3 equivalent with two months to two years and a fine of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 Lebanese pounds. None of those articles states a quantity threshold. Article 150 doubles the maximum penalty in a list of aggravating cases that includes organising, directing or financing the offence, repeat offending, membership of an international smuggling ring, use of violence or a weapon, holding public office, working in health care, and supplying the drug to a minor. Article 148 gives the accomplice, the instigator and the intervener the penalty fixed for the principal. Article 155 makes confiscation of the substance and of the vehicles, equipment and other movable property used or prepared for the offence mandatory in every case. Article 152 lets the court expel a convicted foreign national from Lebanon permanently in felony and repeat misdemeanour cases, and remove him for one to five years in a misdemeanour case, taking him to the border once the prison term has run. Article 159 converts an unpaid fine into one day's imprisonment for every 25,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 161 bars suspension, splitting, day release, early release and conditional release during the first two thirds of any unsuspended sentence of a year or more. Articles 182 to 190 carry the treatment route the cell this replaces described: a user may come forward before any prosecution, article 189 exempts him from prosecution and puts the cost on the State once the addiction committee certifies his recovery, and article 190 arranges the aftercare. Articles 193 to 195 extend the same route into an investigation or a trial, with proceedings stayed definitively on recovery, and article 197 applies the articles 127 and 130 penalties where treatment is refused. Law 673 puts no capital penalty on any drug offence, and the one death penalty in it, article 140, attaches to killing a public official enforcing the Law or to an assault on one that causes a death. The cell this replaces stated that use or possession for personal use is punished by up to about 6 months' imprisonment plus a fine. That figure is carried here from the cell it replaces and it is not supported by the text: article 127 sets three months to three years, and article 130 sets two months to two years. The same cell put the treatment route at arts 182 to 190, which is right as far as it goes, and the route in fact runs to article 200. Its description of enforcement as uneven and of the treatment diversion as only partly implemented is carried forward from that cell and was not re-derived here. The figures above are Lebanon's published drug penalties, but this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Lebanon's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Tunisia
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Tunisia's authorities (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52') / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Tunisian source (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52', as amended April 2017), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND. Cannabis is controlled under the same Law 92-52 framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ("Law 52" / "Law 92-52"), as amended in April 2017 · UNODC SHERLOC legal database (statute named in free text) · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cyprus
Legal status
Controlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended; Classes A/B/C). 4-HO-MET is a Class A drug: 4-HO-MET is not named in the First Schedule to the Law as substituted by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Controlled Drugs) (Amending) Order of 2025, K.Δ.Π. 367/2025, published in Official Gazette No. 5985 on 5 December 2025, but on this site's reading it falls within a structural paragraph of Part I, Class A. 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, tryptamine hydroxylated on the benzene ring with a methyl and an ethyl on the side chain nitrogen, within (iii). Under section 30 and the Third Schedule, possession carries up to 12 years' imprisonment, and possession with intent to supply, supply, production, import and export carry up to life imprisonment, in each case or a fine, or both; taking any controlled drug in any way is a section 10 offence carrying up to life imprisonment or a fine, or both, whatever its class.
Consequences if caught
4-HO-MET is controlled in Cyprus under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended), as a Class A drug in Part I, Class A of the First Schedule to the Law as substituted by the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Controlled Drugs) (Amending) Order of 2025, K.Δ.Π. 367/2025, published in Official Gazette No. 5985 on 5 December 2025. Section 30 and the Third Schedule set the penalties. Possessing a controlled drug, under section 6(2), carries up to 12 years' imprisonment for a Class A drug, 8 years for Class B and 4 years for Class C, or a fine, or both. Possessing one with intent to supply under section 6(3), producing or supplying it under section 5(2), and importing or exporting it under section 4(1) carry up to life imprisonment for Class A and Class B and up to 8 years for Class C, or a fine, or both. Section 10(δ) makes it an offence «να λαμβάνει με οποιοδήποτε τρόπο οποιοδήποτε ελεγχόμενο φάρμακο», to take any controlled drug in any way, and the general column of the Third Schedule sets life imprisonment or a fine, or both, for a section 10 offence whatever the class. The proviso to section 30(2) limits imprisonment to two years for a person convicted of an offence of use, possession or transport of a controlled drug for personal use who was under 25 when it was committed and has no previous conviction under the Law or its Regulations. Section 30A presumes, unless the person satisfies the court otherwise, that possession or transport was for supply at 30 g or more of cannabis or its derivatives, 10 g or more of prepared opium or prepared cocaine or their derivatives, or 20 g or more in solid form or 20 cubic centimetres or more in liquid form of any controlled drug, and that cultivation was for supply at three or more cannabis plants, twenty or more opium poppy plants or five or more coca plants. The Law provides no death sentence; the longest term in its Third Schedule is life imprisonment, and the EMCDDA's Cyprus Country Drug Report 2019 states that «a life term has never been imposed».
Iceland
Legal status
Controlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "4-HO-MET", with "Metocin, Methylsybin, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-nethyltryptamine" in the Annað nafn column, and the row identifies it by the printed chemical name "3-[2-[ethyl(methyl)amino]ethyl]-1H-indol-4-ol". Its Alþjóðasamningar column is blank, so the row rests on the national listing alone rather than on a treaty schedule, and the copy-record duty in 3. gr. which attaches to the N I to N IV and P I to P III markers, is not engaged by any marker on this row. Column B of its row prints "x", and that mark is the operative one: 2. gr. of the reglugerð makes import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession of a substance marked "x" in the "dálki B í fylgiskjali I" "óheimil á íslensku forráðasvæði", unlawful on Icelandic territory. That prohibition is not absolute on its face. 2. gr. lifts it for a substance exempted under 3. mgr. 2. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974, for a medicine holding an Icelandic marketing authorisation from Lyfjastofnun, for a medicine otherwise permitted under the Medicines Act, and for a substance that may be imported, manufactured or wholesaled under 1. mgr. 6. gr. and Lyfjastofnun may exempt for scientific research or other special reasons.
Consequences if caught
The offence provisions reach this row through its placement, so they are set out here in full. The custodial ceiling for an offence against the Act and against the regulations made under it is imprisonment for up to 6 years, which 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974, the Narcotics Act, prints as "fangelsi allt að 6 árum", and the aggravated offence at article 173a of almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, the General Penal Code, carries imprisonment for up to 12 years. Iceland prints no quantity band: neither the Act nor the reglugerð sets a weight, a purity or a number of doses that moves an offence from one tier to another, and article 173a turns instead on supplying narcotics to many people, on handing them over for substantial payment, or on doing so in another particularly culpable way, its second paragraph extending the same ceiling to production, preparation, import, export, purchase, delivery, receipt and possession carried out for that purpose. The fine is separate again: 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 sets a fine as the alternative to imprisonment for the base offence, the same article makes the substances, the proceeds of unlawful sale and the articles used forfeit to the Treasury, and it directs increased punishment for a repeat offence involving import or distribution. The 12 year ceiling is not the original figure: 1. gr. of lög nr. 32/2001 raised the aggravated ceiling from 10 to 12 years at article 173a of the General Penal Code, where 10 years had stood since lög nr. 64/1974, and that Act prints the substitution as "kemur: 12 árum". Possession is unlawful and consumption is not among the conduct the two instruments enumerate. 2. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 and 2. gr. of the reglugerð, headed "Bannákvæði", both list import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession, and neither of them prints consumption in that list. Iceland has not decriminalised possession. What it has done instead is 2. gr. a of the Act, inserted by lög nr. 48/2020 and amended by lög nr. 41/2025, which lets the Directorate of Health licence a "neyslurými", a supervised consumption room governed by reglugerð nr. 170/2021, in which a user may hold the quantity he intends to consume there. Those figures are not recited here as general background: they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. The list read for this cell is Fylgiskjal I of reglugerð nr. 233/2001, read at api.reglugerd.is on 22 September 2026 in the consolidation the publisher serves as current, which carries amendments 1 to 19 and its own last amendment date of 9 August 2025 from reglugerð nr. 879/2025. That consolidation is one amendment behind the law and this cell says so: the 20th amendment, reglugerð nr. 1036/2025, is flagged pending by the publisher although its own 3. gr. commences it on 1 November 2025, and the two texts of 5. gr. visibly differ, the served one opening at pharmacy stock sent to Lyfjastofnun and the amending one opening at the holder of a pharmacy, wholesale or manufacturing licence. It was read in full and it rewrites 5. gr. and the heading of 7. gr. and nothing else, leaving both Fylgiskjöl untouched and printing no transitory article. The Act and the penal code were read in the Lagasafn consolidation stamped "Íslensk lög 1. september 2026", útgáfa 157c, whose own note records that lög nr. 85/2026 will amend the Act from 1 January 2027; that Act was read and its 51. gr. only renames the authority in 2. gr. b. A scan of the 360 regulations the publisher issued between 27 November 2025 and 7 September 2026 found no further amendment, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
Luxembourg
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Luxembourg is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Luxembourg's drug schedule; the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law. For cannabis specifically, the Law of 10 July 2023 legalised home cultivation of up to four plants per household and private consumption at home for adults; public possession of 3 g or less draws a €145 administrative fine with no criminal record. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law of 10 July 2023 amending the Narcotics Law of 19 February 1973 · police.public.lu · Updated July 14, 2026
Malta
Legal status
Which Maltese ordinance governs 4-HO-MET is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Both were searched for this substance and neither was found to carry an entry for it: no entry was verified in the Chapter 31 Third Schedule or in the First, Third or Fifth Schedules of Chapter 101. The search log for 4-HO-MET records that the source searched for '4-HO-MET', 'metocin', and '4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine'; no express entry was found, and no Maltese decision defining the Part A derivative clause for this compound was located. That is a finding about the two controlled drug schedules as consolidated on 18 September 2026, and this is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law. Malta's Part A schedule wording reaches derivatives, salts and esters, and no Maltese judgment or official ruling was located that applies those words to this compound, so control is not inferred here from structural similarity to a listed substance.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. No controlled drug ceiling is stated here and no Commissioner route is stated either, because no schedule entry was verified for 4-HO-MET in the consolidated texts. Stating a ceiling would mean asserting a control that was not found, and stating that no ceiling exists would mean asserting an absence the search does not support. This is not a declaration of general legality under every Maltese law, and it is not a finding that nothing can happen to a traveller carrying this substance. For context, the ceilings that would apply if an entry were established are life under Chapter 101 article 22(2)(a)(i) or Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(i), or ten years under Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) for a Part B psychotropic.
If prescribed / medical
No prescribing consequence follows from the two drug ordinances, because no entry for 4-HO-MET was verified in either of them, and a prescription route is a route out of a control that has not been established. Both ordinances were searched for this substance and neither was found to schedule it. The answer is therefore that the control status is unknown rather than that the substance is free of medical regulation: Maltese medicines and pharmacy law is a separate body of law, it was not read for this row, and a substance can be a prescription only medicine without appearing on a drug schedule. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. If you hold this substance on prescription, carry the prescription and treat its Maltese status as unsettled.
Documentation
El Salvador
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria, and the absence does not settle the row, because Article 2 of the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003 does not stop at the lists: it also reaches, in its own words, substances that act on the central nervous system and whose misuse can cause physical or psychological dependence, and Article 3 letter f lets the health regulator prohibit a further substance. Whether either limb reaches this row was not settled from the documents read here. The printed tryptamine entries are the dimethyl and diethyl compounds and the two psilocybe alkaloids, and none of them carries this row's mixed N-methyl N-ethyl substitution.
Consequences if caught
The printed tryptamine entries are the dimethyl and diethyl compounds and the two psilocybe alkaloids, and none of them carries this row's mixed N-methyl N-ethyl substitution. 4-HO-MET was not settled against El Salvador's drug control regime, and the penalties below are set out because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Article 34 divides possession from trafficking by a 2 gram line: possession of under 2 grams carries 1 to 3 years, possession of 2 grams or more carries 3 to 6 years, and possession of any quantity with the object of doing anything Article 33 lists carries 6 to 10 years. Article 34 closes by providing that it does not apply where the conduct fits a graver offence. There is no personal use exemption anywhere in the Ley. Article 31 sets 5 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating or harvesting, and Article 33 sets 10 to 15 years for acquiring, transferring, importing, exporting, storing, transporting, distributing, supplying or selling. Article 33's second paragraph raises the trafficking penalty by one third of the stated maximum where the act is international trafficking, so the ceiling on that route is 20 years, and Article 54 allows a court to raise the penalty by up to one third of the maximum on any of nine listed aggravating circumstances, which is a discretion and not the mandatory increase Article 33 creates. Article 55 allows the penalty to be cut to half the minimum where the accused names others or enables a seizure. The ceiling on every one of these routes is imprisonment, because the severest sanction is constitutionally barred for ordinary offences in El Salvador, so no offence in this Ley carries it. The Ley creates no lawful recreational regime and no medical regime for any substance it reaches, cannabis included: Article 3's final paragraph permits a listed substance to be imported, produced, made, extracted, possessed or used only in the quantities strictly necessary for scientific research, for making medicines, for medical treatment or for making products of industrial use, and only with the health regulator's authorisation. On the fine, the Sala de lo Constitucional struck the multa in each of these three articles as a penal consequence, Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments published on 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments published on 19 August 2009 and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010 published on 23 October 2013, so no fine now attaches to cultivation, trafficking or possession under this Ley. On quantity, the 2 gram line in Article 34 is the only weight the Ley fixes; it sets no substance by substance threshold and no quantity table, so the same 2 grams applies whatever the substance is. The 2 gram line and the bands of 1 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 10, 5 to 15 and 10 to 15 years and the one third increase are carried forward from the live cell and were re-read against the Asamblea Legislativa text for this pass; the Article 34 graver offence proviso, the Article 54 and Article 55 provisions and the three unconstitutionality rulings are new to this cell.
Honduras
Legal status
Not a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. 4-HO-MET, searched also as 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is not named in Listas I, II or IV of the 1961 Convention or in Listas I to IV of the 1971 Convention, which Article 321 makes the closed definition of droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica: «Por droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica, se entiende cualquiera de las sustancias incluidas en las Listas I, II y IV de la Convención Única y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre estupefacientes, hecha en Nueva York de 1961 y en las Listas I, II, III y IV del Convenio y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre sustancias psicotrópicas, hecho en Viena, el 21 de febrero de 1971.» The surviving definitions in Article 5 of Decreto 126/89 are a separate question: numeral 20 lists the hallucinogen group and closes it with «y otros similares», which is open wording of a kind Article 321 deliberately does not use. Where it does bite, it now bites without a penalty of its own, because Article 632 repealed the article of the 1989 law that punished a breach.
Consequences if caught
4-HO-MET is outside the offence that Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal create. What distinguishes this row is that it differs from the listed psilocin entry by one ethyl group, and the lists work by printed name rather than by resemblance. Art. 311 sets 4 to 7 years where the drug does not cause grave harm to health and 7 to 10 years in every other case. The fine under Art. 311 is 100 to 500 days. Art. 311's second paragraph allows 1 to 3 years or 2 to 5 years instead where the facts and the offender's own circumstances show lesser gravity, and that reduction is closed once an Art. 312 aggravator applies. Art. 312 replaces those terms with 10 to 15 years and a fine of 300 to 500 days on any of nine listed aggravators, and adds a further third where the organised group aggravator meets either the special quantity or the extraordinary transport one. Art. 313 cuts the Art. 311 first paragraph terms and the Art. 312 terms by a third on confession or on cooperation with the authorities. Art. 321 sets the special quantity in five categories, of marihuana, hashish, cocaine, opium and synthetic drug, none of which is engaged by this row. Art. 26 of Decreto 126/89, which set a first offence internment of up to 30 days in a rehabilitation centre with a fine, was repealed by Art. 632 of the Código Penal, which repeals Arts 16 to 30 and 41 of that law by name, so the 30 day figure is corrected here rather than restated. Nothing replaced it inside the Code's drug chapter, and Art. 311 reaches possession only where the substance is held for the purposes that article lists, so neither the Código Penal nor Decreto 126/89 as it now stands fixes a personal use quantity or a personal use measure. Those are the two instruments read for this cell, and other Honduran law was not searched for one. The Art. 311 bands of 4 to 7 and 7 to 10 years, the Art. 312 band of 10 to 15 years and the 30 day figure from Art. 26 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived here, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Honduras's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from the Gaceta text and are new to this cell.
Maldives
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Maldives is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Maldives's drug schedule; the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Maldives, drugs fall under the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), as amended by the Third Amendment ratified on 6 December 2025. Trafficking a Schedule 1 drug carries a mandatory 20-year base term; the sentence is elevated to capital punishment where the quantity exceeds 350 g of cannabis, 250 g of diamorphine, or 100 g of any other Schedule 1 drug AND the person brings it into the country at the point of entry. Capital punishment requires the unanimous agreement of the full Supreme Court bench, failing which the sentence is life imprisonment; the death penalty is retained de jure since December 2025, but a long-standing moratorium on executions has been in place since 1954. Possession of a Schedule 2 drug without a prescription carries 3-15 years plus a fine.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Maldives, drugs fall under the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), as amended by the Third Amendment ratified on 6 December 2025. Trafficking a Schedule 1 drug carries a mandatory 20-year base term; the sentence is elevated to capital punishment where the quantity exceeds 350 g of cannabis, 250 g of diamorphine, or 100 g of any other Schedule 1 drug AND the person brings it into the country at the point of entry. Capital punishment requires the unanimous agreement of the full Supreme Court bench, failing which the sentence is life imprisonment; the death penalty is retained de jure since December 2025, but a long-standing moratorium on executions has been in place since 1954. Possession of a Schedule 2 drug without a prescription carries 3-15 years plus a fine. Cannabis is a Schedule 1 drug; trafficking above 350 g brought in at the point of entry is capital-eligible (subject to the unanimous Supreme Court requirement and the 1954 execution moratorium), and lower amounts carry the mandatory 20-year base term. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025 · presidency.gov.mv · Updated July 14, 2026
Afghanistan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Afghanistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Afghanistan's drug schedule; the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework; cultivation and trafficking are prohibited, with penalties graduated by weight up to imprisonment. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (Arts 41-47) + the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Belarus
Legal status
4-HO-MET is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень print the entry «4-HO-MET» in Latin script, and registry number 77872-41-4 is what fixes which molecule that entry catches. The hydroxy tryptamine is printed by code in Latin, and its registry number is what fixes the N-ethyl N-methyl substitution that the code alone abbreviates. The terms taken to the annexes were "4-HO-MET", "metocin", and the row accepted was the printed entry itself rather than the paragraph that establishes the list, because the schedule owns the substance entries and the offence article does not. The version read was № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, record BEL-10.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale here. The figure itself is disputed and the dispute is stated rather than hidden: this repair reads Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling, the cell it replaces read the same paragraph as twelve to twenty five years, and the sources reachable here do not settle which reading is right. The earlier cell also framed the offence as articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one, a range this repair does not mention at all, so treat the article range as well as the figure as open. That term of years attaches to an offence in a listed substance, and this row is listed: the annex prints «4-HO-MET» at registry number 77872-41-4, record BEL-10. Belarus sets no lawful personal use allowance, so the size bands in the statute and the subordinate law are what decide which part of Article 328 is engaged, and they are read against this printed entry and not against a family name. An amount below every criminal band can still draw administrative or other liability, which is why there is no quantity in this cell that can be treated as safe. The band attaches to the entry as printed, and the code abbreviates a substitution pattern that only the registry number states in full, so the analysis has to reach the number.
If prescribed / medical
The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. This row's placement is the printed entry «4-HO-MET» in the республиканский перечень, record BEL-10, so any medicinal route runs through that placement. A criminal quantity band is not a lawful traveller allowance. The source states no medical route specific to 4-HO-MET and none is supplied here. The placement is a code entry whose substitution pattern is stated only by the registry number, so the number is what a declaration would have to carry.
Kyrgyzstan
Legal status
Not confirmed. The dossier did not establish whether Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 reaches 4-HO-MET. Its search record, as checked on 18 September 2026: «4-HO-MET» was searched by exact name, synonym and any stated salt, isomer or analogue rule in the resolution's controlled list and in the narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables of its criteria and sizes annex. No outcome-safe exact or group entry for «4-HO-MET» was retained from the list text. No substance specific quantity row was established in the annex. Criminal Code articles 282 to 284 were checked and supply consequences, but did not settle the missing substance match.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier records for this row that no death penalty applies to the drug offences in Criminal Code articles 282 to 284. No other penalty is stated for 4-HO-MET, because whether Resolution No. 152 reaches it is open and the dossier quotes no quantity row for it.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for 4-HO-MET, because whether the controlled list reaches it is open.
Documentation
No traveller rule is stated for 4-HO-MET. The open point the dossier names for this row is whether a different schedule synonym or group rule legally reaches 4-ho-met, and, if so, which quantity rule applies.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025, controlled list and criteria and sizes annex, with Criminal Code articles 282 to 284, as checked on 18 September 2026 · cbd.minjust.gov.kg · Updated October 3, 2026
Uzbekistan
Legal status
Not confirmed. The Uzbekistan dossier, checked 18 September 2026, did not establish a control entry for 4-HO-MET, and its row is marked not verified. The dossier's search record for this row: Search term: «4-HO-MET»; transliteration/Latin identifier: 4-ho-met. Searched Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV by exact name, synonym, salt/isomer language, and any relevant structural family. No outcome-safe exact or class match for «4-HO-MET» was retained from the schedule extraction. Then searched Resolution No. 330 quantity annexes for «4-HO-MET» and the same identifiers; no quoted substance-specific threshold row was established. Second instrument checked: Criminal Code arts 270 to 276; it supplies offence consequences but no missing per-substance number. Open point: whether an unquoted schedule synonym or group row legally reaches 4-ho-met, and, if so, which quantity entry applies.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier quotes article 25 of the Constitution: «В Республике Узбекистан смертная казнь запрещается» (the death penalty is prohibited in the Republic of Uzbekistan). Because no control entry for 4-HO-MET was established, the dossier quotes no threshold for it and this cell states no offence or penalty band for it. Treat it as unresolved, not as permitted.
If prescribed / medical
Not stated. The dossier row carries no prescription information for 4-HO-MET, and whether it is controlled at all is not established.
Documentation
Not stated. The dossier row carries no import, permit or traveller documentation rule for 4-HO-MET. Instruments the dossier searched for this row: Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV; Resolution No. 330 quantity annexes; Criminal Code arts 270 to 276. The dossier row records one URL, https://lex.uz/docs/2815342. The dossier's source and access record gives https://lex.uz/docs/111453 as its penal source, cited here for the Criminal Code. It gives no URL for the Constitution, which is cited by name.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, controlled Lists I to IV and quantity annexes · Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, articles 270 to 276 · lex.uz · lex.uz · Updated October 3, 2026
Tanzania
Legal status
Not confirmed. The dossier searched the First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 for 4-HO-MET and found no entry for it, and the other route, section 15(2), reaches substances «not specified in the Schedule... but have proved to have drug related effects», which needs proof specific to 4-HO-MET that the dossier did not establish.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is stated for 4-HO-MET in this cell, because its placement is not established. The dossier row assigns no penalty band to it.
If prescribed / medical
The source this cell rests on does not state a prescription route for 4-HO-MET.
Documentation
Search record, from the dossier row checked on 20 September 2026: 'Searched 4-ho-met, its INN and chemical synonym through the complete First Schedule; no exact entry appeared, the near match "Psilocine" was rejected as a different substance, and the second section 15(2) effects route still requires proof specific to 4-ho-met.' Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier found no post-2023 Gazette completeness certificate.
Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and section 15(2) · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026
Azerbaijan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Azerbaijan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Azerbaijan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Azerbaijan (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000), Arts 234/235/237/240 · track.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mongolia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Mongolia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mongolia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) · legalinfo.mn · Updated July 14, 2026
Moldova
Legal status
Controlled in Moldova. 4-HO-MET is reached by a reading of Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Lista nr. 2, psychotropic substances of 1971 Convention Schedule I: item 16, «Psilocină», «3-[2-(dimetilamino)etil]indol-4-ol» (gazette page 11). 4-HO-MET is not printed; it is psilocin with one N-methyl replaced by an N-ethyl, a structural derivative of it, and the list's extension reaches «derivaților structurali». Against the reading, Lista nr. 3 prints close relatives one by one, «4-HO-DET», «4-HO-DPT», «4-HO-MIPT / Miprocină» and «4-AcO-MET / Metacetină» (gazette pages 14 to 15), and leaves 4-HO-MET out. The reading is stated as such. The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e) aggravate where the drug is one «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă». Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», so a Table I substance is read as falling in that aggravation, and Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits the circulation of Table I substances «cu excepția utilizării lor în scopuri științifice și/sau de expertiză»: up to 4 years for large quantities kept without intent to sell, and 12 to 15 years for trafficking. The link between the two texts is a reading, stated as such. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-10, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999.
Turkmenistan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Turkmenistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Turkmenistan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Turkmenistan (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended), Art. 292 · bwcimplementation.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Senegal
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Senegal is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Senegal's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year. Cannabis (chanvre indien) is a Tableau I drug under the same Code des Drogues, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007), Arts 95/96/97/98/109 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Nicaragua
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET was not settled against Nicaragua's controlled list in this pass. The annex prints psilocin, and this is its N ethyl N methyl homologue. A homologue is not an isomer, so the preamble's isomer rule does not reach it. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Consequences if caught
4-HO-MET was not settled against Nicaragua's controlled list in this pass, and it should not be treated as permitted on that account. The annex prints psilocin, and this is its N ethyl N methyl homologue. A homologue is not an isomer, so the preamble's isomer rule does not reach it. Trafficking under article 359 of Ley No. 641 carries 5 to 15 years of prison, rising to 10 to 20 years where the trafficking is international. Article 358, as reformed in September 2024, bands simple possession at more than 1 gram and under 5 grams for cocaine or any other controlled substance, at more than 5 grams and under 20 grams for marihuana, and at 1 to 5 psychoactive plants, with a heavier band of 3 to 8 years above those figures. The fine article 359 attaches is 300 to 800 day fines, and 500 to 1000 day fines for the international form. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Nicaragua controls by three limbs at once: the lists and tables annexed to the law, whatever the Ministry of Health incorporates afterwards, and whatever the international instruments in force contain. The first limb is readable and was read for this cell. The second is published by the Ministry of Health and article 1 allows it to appear in any newspaper of national circulation before the gazette carries it, so it cannot be enumerated from the gazette alone. The third moves whenever the international schedules move. The same title prices the other conduct separately: financing at 10 to 25 years under article 348, sowing, growing or harvesting at 5 to 10 under article 349, industrial or artisanal processing at 5 to 20 under article 351, transport at 5 to 15 under article 352, carrying on the body at 2 to 8 under article 353, and storage at 5 to 15 under article 355. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and confirm the position with a Nicaraguan consulate before travelling. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Uganda
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Uganda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Uganda's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016), ss.4-5 · media.ulii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zimbabwe
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Zimbabwe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zimbabwe's drug schedule; the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward) + Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] · zimlii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Ethiopia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Ethiopia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Ethiopia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Khat (chat) is lawful and culturally significant in Ethiopia and is not a prohibited substance under the Criminal Code. Cannabis, by contrast, is controlled under the same Criminal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004), Art. 525 · wipo.int · Updated July 14, 2026
Algeria
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Algeria is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Algeria's drug schedule; Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. (Reported/unverified: human-rights reporting in 2025 referred to legislative efforts to expand the death penalty to certain drug offences; this is a reported proposal and is NOT reflected as enacted in the statute cited here, confirm against the current law.) Cannabis is controlled under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023 · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Tajikistan
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 as the Drug Control Agency published it, read at https://akn.tj/ru/2020/04/09/national-list-of-narcotic-drugs-psychotropic-substances-and-their-precursors/ on 3 October 2026, nor in the Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, nor in Annex 1 to the Criminal Code in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. The texts were searched in Russian and Latin script for "4-ho-met", "4-гидрокси-n-метил-n-этил", "метоцин". Named relatives include «ДЭТ» (item 3 of Перечень 2), «ДМТ» (6), «Псилоцин, псилотсин» (20) and «4-HO-DET» (110). The N-methyl-N-ethyl compound is not named. So this cell does not say whether 4-HO-MET is controlled in Tajikistan.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. No offence article, size band or penalty is stated for 4-HO-MET, because no entry for it was found in the texts read. Articles 200 and 201 of the Criminal Code also reach «аналогов» of narcotic and psychotropic substances, and article 2 of Law No. 873 defines an analogue as a substance not on the National List «химическая структура и свойства которых сходны с химической структурой и свойствами наркотиков, психоактивное действие которых они воспроизводят». Whether 4-HO-MET meets that test is decided by expert examination in a particular case, and this cell does not settle it. The previous version of this cell named Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 and the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as the framework its dossier checked.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. With no entry found for 4-HO-MET, the prescription rule in article 15 of Law No. 873, which governs narcotic and psychotropic substances, is not applied to it here, and no medical route is stated.
Documentation
Not confirmed. No traveller, permit, import or customs rule is stated for 4-HO-MET, because the drug law's permit rule in article 10 of Law No. 873 attaches to listed substances. Routes tried in this run: the Drug Control Agency's 2020 list page and its 2023.doc file, both answered HTTP 200; zakon.kz and spinform.ru copies of the resolution, both paywalled after the opening; the ncz.tj Criminal Code page, HTTP 200 but without the annex table; the ncz.tj Code files, HTTP 503 and 404; the prg.kz consolidation of the Code, HTTP 200 with the annex. Carried from the previous version of this cell: Not confirmed. The dossier row states no traveller, permit, import or customs rule for 4-HO-MET. Its search record for this row, as the dossier gives it: Search record: searched «4-HO-MET»; transliteration/Latin identifier: 4-ho-met; searched Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List in Appendix 1, Table 1 by exact name, synonym and any stated salt, isomer or analogue rule. No outcome-safe exact or group entry for «4-HO-MET» was retained from the list text. Then searched Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1, list and sizes for «4-HO-MET» and the same identifiers; no quoted substance-specific quantity row was established. Second instrument checked: Criminal Code arts 200 to 204; it supplies consequences but did not settle the missing substance match. Open point: whether a different schedule synonym or group rule legally reaches 4-ho-met, and, if so, which quantity rule applies.
Papua New Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Papua New Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Papua New Guinea's drug schedule; the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act 2021 (replacing the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952), specific penalty terms not pinned · reported by The National (thenational.com.pg, 2021) · Updated July 14, 2026
Angola
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Angola is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Angola's drug schedule; Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Angola, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. The cultivation, production, manufacture, trade, distribution, import, export, transport and possession of Table substances are prohibited; trafficking carries lengthy imprisonment, with severe cases reaching the 10-25 year range characteristic of this statutory model. The precise trafficking-article number is not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Angola, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. The cultivation, production, manufacture, trade, distribution, import, export, transport and possession of Table substances are prohibited; trafficking carries lengthy imprisonment, with severe cases reaching the 10-25 year range characteristic of this statutory model. The precise trafficking-article number is not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis (liamba) is a controlled drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Côte d'Ivoire
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Côte d'Ivoire is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Côte d'Ivoire's drug schedule; Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Côte d'Ivoire, drugs fall under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs), a four-table system that repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988. Trafficking-type offences, cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, transport and the offer, sale or distribution of Table I high-risk drugs, carry imprisonment of 5 to 10 years plus fines; supplying drugs to a minor carries 5 to 10 years; and personal use carries 1 to 3 months. Penalties are doubled in aggravated cases (violence or a weapon, or commission by a public official). The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a Table I high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 (lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs) · agp.africanlii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Rwanda
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Rwanda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Rwanda's drug schedule; Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors + Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018) · rwandalii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mozambique
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Mozambique is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mozambique's drug schedule; Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritius
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Mauritius is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritius's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude). Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, ss.29-30 · health.govmu.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bhutan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Bhutan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bhutan's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), ss.137/139 · oag.gov.bt · Updated July 14, 2026
Botswana
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Botswana is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Botswana's drug schedule; the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018, ss.5-6 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Zambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zambia's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 (repealed Cap. 96 of 1993) · zambialii.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cameroon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Cameroon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cameroon's drug schedule; Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources. Cannabis is a high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 (relative au contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs), Sections 91-95 · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Fiji
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Fiji is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Fiji's drug schedule; the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. Cannabis is an illicit drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004, s.4 · laws.gov.fj · Updated July 14, 2026
Liechtenstein
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Liechtenstein is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liechtenstein's drug schedule; the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 · gesetze.li · Updated July 14, 2026
Macau
Legal status
Not listed in Macau. 4-HO-MET is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law 18/2023 and amended by Laws 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026, the last in force 18 August 2026, read on 3 October 2026. Searches of the Portuguese, English and Chinese columns for 4-HO-MET, metocin, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyl, ethyl(methyl)amino and 4-羥基-N-甲基-N-乙基色胺 found no entry. The nearest Table II-A rows are «Psilocina, Psilotsin» (4-HO-DMT), «DET» and «DMT», all different molecules, and Table II-A's closing notes reach salts and isomers only. That is not a statement that 4-HO-MET is lawful to sell or supply: law outside Law 17/2009 is stated below only where it was read.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Law 17/2009, read on 3 October 2026 in the Official Gazette's annotated text as captured on 9 March 2026, punishes every offence in its Articles 7 to 16 with imprisonment or a fine, and that text, searched for morte and perpétua, contains neither word; Law 12/2026, which came later, amends only the tables and the daily reference map. Because 4-HO-MET is not named in any table, the offences of Article 7, Article 8, Article 11, Article 14 and Article 15, each written for plants, substances or preparations «compreendidos» in the tables it names, do not reach it through a listing.
If prescribed / medical
Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 4-HO-MET, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 4-HO-MET is sold only on prescription is not stated here.
Documentation
Article 2(1) confines the Law to «as plantas, as substâncias e os preparados que constam das tabelas I a IV»; Article 4(2)(4), which says Table II-A includes any substance that can cause hallucinations, is a criterion for compiling the table and creates no offence. The justification note for Law 12/2026 records that six substances already under international control «ainda não se encontram sujeitas ao controlo da Lei de combate à droga» until that law added them, so international scheduling does not by itself put a substance in Macau's tables. The isomer notes of Tables I-A, II-A and V reach isomers «em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica», read here as isomers within each listed chemical name and not every compound sharing a molecular formula. The Chinese searches ran against the Chinese column of Law 18/2023, because the Chinese text extracted from the Law 12/2026 PDF is garbled; Law 12/2026's replacement Table II-A prints the same 44 Portuguese entries as before.
Law 17/2009 of Macau, Articles 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 and 15 and Tables I-A to VI, as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026): annotated text as captured 9 March 2026 at https://web.archive.org/web/20260309025401/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp (official https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2009/32/lei17.asp answered 403) · Updated October 4, 2026
Namibia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Namibia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Namibia's drug schedule; the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a prohibited dependence-producing drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971, ss.2-3 · namiblii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Madagascar
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Madagascar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Madagascar's drug schedule; Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burkina Faso
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Burkina Faso is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burkina Faso's drug schedule; Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Benin is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Benin's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a drogue à haut risque under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mali
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Mali is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mali's drug schedule; Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants · unodc.org · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ [primary statute portal pending] · Updated July 14, 2026
Togo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Togo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Togo's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the DR Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the DR Congo's drug schedule; the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale). Cannabis (chanvre) is the drug specifically prohibited by the same Ordonnance, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Ordonnance de 1903 sur le chanvre (approuvée par le Décret du 10 mars 1917) · leganet.cd · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Malawi
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Malawi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Malawi's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Lesotho is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Lesotho's drug schedule; the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 · lesotholii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Eswatini
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Eswatini is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eswatini's drug schedule; the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act / Pharmacy Act provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritania
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Mauritania is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritania's drug schedule; Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Mauritania national drug control statute (sharia-influenced criminal law) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sierra Leone
Legal status
Not confirmed, the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Sierra Leone is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sierra Leone's drug schedule; the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
National Drugs Control Act 2008 · sierra-leone.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Seychelles
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Seychelles is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Seychelles' drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act, 2016 · seylii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cabo Verde
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Cabo Verde is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cabo Verde's drug schedule; Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (Lusophone six-table model) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Gambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Gambia's drug schedule; the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Belize
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine and metocin returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entries are Psilocin in Schedule I paragraph 1(a), which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and the paragraph 1(b) generic clause. Paragraph 1(b) is written for a ring-hydroxy tryptamine substituted at the sidechain nitrogen with alkyl substituents and no other substituents, which is the shape of this compound. Whether Belize's clause is read that way is not settled anywhere in the volume, and applying a generic clause is not the same as reading an entry, so the row is left open. This row is the closest of any tryptamine here to the printed generic clause, and it is deferred on the reading of the clause rather than on the absence of a name. Nothing in this cell rests on an absence being the whole answer: the Misuse of Drugs Regulations are subsidiary law, and the list that decides whether a substance is a controlled drug at all is the Act's own Second Schedule, which section 4 divides into Parts I, II and III for Class A, Class B and Class C. That schedule is in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103 and was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read, so this row is left open rather than answered. The search recorded above covers the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations as the Revised Edition 2020 volume prints them, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, together with the 1990 Act text. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught
No penalty is stated for this row and that is deliberate. Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Those provisions bite on a controlled drug, and whether this substance is one was not established, so a penalty sentence would have nothing to attach to. What is established, and is worth carrying, is that the Act's trafficking penalties in section 17 of the 1990 text do not vary by class, while the ordinary possession maximum in section 27 does and is taken from a Third Schedule that was not read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
Kosovo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Kosovo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kosovo's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) · Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors · gzk.rks-gov.net · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Timor-Leste
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Timor-Leste is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Timor-Leste's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) · UN 1988 Convention (adhesion) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Eritrea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Eritrea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eritrea's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Somalia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Somalia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Somalia's drug schedule; the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same dated Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Congo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Republic of the Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Republic of the Congo's drug schedule; the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Republic of the Congo Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burundi
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Burundi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burundi's drug schedule; Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Burundi Penal Code 2009 drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Djibouti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Djibouti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Djibouti's drug schedule; Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Djibouti national drug law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gabon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Gabon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gabon's drug schedule; Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Gabon Penal Code drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea's drug schedule; Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guinea drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN · Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Niger
Legal status
Not confirmed, Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Niger is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Niger's drug schedule; Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue (Niger) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Chad
Legal status
Not confirmed, Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Chad is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Chad's drug schedule; Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions (Chad) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Central African Republic
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Central African Republic is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Central African Republic's drug schedule; the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Central African Republic Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Liberia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Liberia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liberia's drug schedule; the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended 2022) (Liberia) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Equatorial Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Equatorial Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Equatorial Guinea's drug schedule; Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Equatorial Guinea Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea-Bissau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Guinea-Bissau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea-Bissau's drug schedule; Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 7/2008 / Guinea-Bissau national drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Comoros
Legal status
Not confirmed, Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Comoros is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Comoros' drug schedule; Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Comoros Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
South Sudan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in South Sudan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against South Sudan's drug schedule; the Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In South Sudan, drugs fall under the Penal Code Act, 2008. Under the Penal Code Act 2008, high-level/aggravated drug trafficking is a capital offence, the Penal Code enumerates the offences punishable by death, which include high-level drug trafficking alongside murder, treason and terrorism resulting in death; lower-level drug offences and personal-use possession carry imprisonment and/or a fine. South Sudan actively carries out executions (140+ between 2011 and 2018, with 300+ reported on death row), and a death sentence must be confirmed by the President and the Supreme Court. The specific Penal Code article for the drug capital provision is left to confirmation against the current Penal Code; the capital-for-high-level-trafficking assertion itself stands.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In South Sudan, drugs fall under the Penal Code Act, 2008. Under the Penal Code Act 2008, high-level/aggravated drug trafficking is a capital offence, the Penal Code enumerates the offences punishable by death, which include high-level drug trafficking alongside murder, treason and terrorism resulting in death; lower-level drug offences and personal-use possession carry imprisonment and/or a fine. South Sudan actively carries out executions (140+ between 2011 and 2018, with 300+ reported on death row), and a death sentence must be confirmed by the President and the Supreme Court. The specific Penal Code article for the drug capital provision is left to confirmation against the current Penal Code; the capital-for-high-level-trafficking assertion itself stands. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
The Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) · wipo.int · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Vanuatu
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Vanuatu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Vanuatu's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Samoa's drug schedule; the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Solomon Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Solomon Islands' drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Andorra is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Andorra's drug schedule; Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Monaco is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Monaco's drug schedule; Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Monaco Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
San Marino
Legal status
Not confirmed, San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in San Marino is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against San Marino's drug schedule; San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same provisions, with a regulated medical-cannabis regime permitted while recreational supply remains prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
San Marino Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cook Islands
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Cook Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cook Islands' drug schedule; the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 (Cook Islands) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Nauru
Legal status
Not confirmed, Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Nauru is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Nauru's drug schedule; Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions (Nauru) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Palau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Palau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Palau's drug schedule; Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 34 provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Palau National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Tonga
Legal status
Not confirmed, Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Tonga is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tonga's drug schedule; Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). [reported, NOT enacted] A 2021 private member's bill proposed a mandatory death sentence for trafficking 5 kg or more of a Class A drug; it was rejected and is NOT law. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
· Updated July 14, 2026
Kiribati
Legal status
Not confirmed, Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Kiribati is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kiribati's drug schedule; Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Tuvalu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tuvalu's drug schedule; Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Marshall Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Marshall Islands' drug schedule; the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Micronesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Micronesia's drug schedule; the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Suriname
Legal status
Illegal. 4-HO-MET is on lijst III, which S.B. 2018 no. 64 annexed to the act, through the Tabel III category 'Tryptamines'. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is an indole ring carrying a 2-aminoethyl chain at position 3, the tryptamine skeleton, with a hydroxy group at position 4 and a methyl and an ethyl on the nitrogen; it is the N-ethyl homologue of psilocin. The text read is the act as amended to S.B. 2023 no. 137: the 1998 act with its 2002 amendments, then S.B. 2018 no. 64, published on 16 July 2018 and in force the next day under its Artikel II, then S.B. 2018 no. 65, published on 18 September 2018 and in force the next day, then the Wet Industriële Hennepteelt, S.B. 2023 no. 137, published on 14 September 2023 and in force the next day, whose title recites the act as last amended by S.B. 2018 no. 65. Article 3 lid 2, article 4 lid 2 and article 8a lid 2 still let further substances be designated by Staatsbesluit. The subsidiary instruments located, the three Staatsbesluiten of 20 January 1999 published as S.B. 1999 nos. 20, 21 and 22 on prescriptions, exemptions and import permits and the commencement resolution S.B. 1999 no. 23, designate no substance, and no other designation was located, so this does not rule out a later designation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This act carries no death penalty and its heaviest sentence is levenslange gevangenisstraf, life imprisonment, under article 11 lid 1, and article 9 lid 1 of the Wetboek van Strafrecht as replaced by S.B. 2015 no. 44 lists the hoofdstraffen as gevangenisstraf, hechtenis, taakstraf and geldboete, with no death penalty among them. Searched as '4-HO-MET', 'metocin', 'hydroxy' and 'psilocine'. Only 'Psilocine' returns. Tabel III does not list compounds. Under the heading 'Categorieën van nieuwe psychoactieve stoffen (NPS'es):' it prints 'Aminoindanes, Synthetic Cannabinoids, Synthetic Cathinones, Tryptamines, Ketamine and Phencyclidine-type substances, Plant-based Substances (Kratom, Salvia divinorum, Khat), Piperazines, Phenethylamines enandere substances zoals 1,3 dimethyl-amylamine (DMAA)', in English and as printed, and the act defines none of those labels. Article 1 lid 2 equates the salts of a substance with the substance throughout the act. Article 8a lid 1 refers to 'de middelen voorkomende op de bij deze wet behorende lijst III' without limiting it to Tabel I and Tabel II, and Tabel III is printed in that annex. The memorie van toelichting describes lijst III only by reference to the two Convention tables and says nothing about Tabel III. Case law applying Tabel III was not searched. Membership is therefore read from the molecule's own structure against the plain words of the label, and one test is applied to every row: a substance is treated as inside a label where it is a new psychoactive substance whose molecule as a whole belongs to the chemical class the label names, and not where the class's own amine chain is built into a further ring system of another class. A ring fused to the aromatic ring with the amine chain left free, as in methylone, MDPV or 6-APB, does not take a substance outside its class; an ethylamine chain closed into a ring system, as in the ergoline skeleton of LSD, does. A ring formed on the nitrogen alone, as the pyrrolidine of MDPV, leaves the chain between the aromatic ring and the nitrogen open and does not count either. 'Psilocine' at lijst I onderdeel C names psilocin alone, with no homologue or derivative clause, so it does not reach 4-HO-MET and the Tabel III label does. Article 8a lid 1, inserted by S.B. 2018 no. 64, forbids four things in relation to 'de middelen voorkomende op de bij deze wet behorende lijst III': under A in, uit of door te voeren, importing, exporting or moving in transit; under B te bereiden, te verwerken, te verkopen, af te leveren, te verstrekken of te vervoeren, preparing, processing, selling, delivering, supplying or transporting; under C te bezitten, aanwezig te hebben of aan te wenden, possessing, having present or using; and under D te vervaardigen, manufacturing. Article 1 lid 1 under t, as replaced in 2018, defines bezitten as 'het hebben van chemische stoffen, gereedschappen, materialen of apparatuur om verdovende middelen of psychotrope stoffen te produceren', having chemicals or equipment to produce drugs, so plain possession of the substance is carried by the words aanwezig te hebben, having present. Article 11 lid 1, as replaced by article I onder M of that Act, punishes an intentional breach of article 8a lid 1 under A with 'levenslange gevangenisstraf of tijdelijke van ten hoogste vijftig jaren en een geldboete van de vijfde categorie', life imprisonment or a fixed term of at most fifty years and a fine of the fifth category. The same onderdeel rewrote article 11 lid 3 so that it reaches article 8a lid 1 under B, C and D, and an intentional breach of any of those carries at most thirteen years and a fine of the fifth category. So carrying it across the border is the limb exposed to life imprisonment, while possession, use, supply, transport and manufacture inside Suriname all sit in the thirteen year band, unless a Staatsbesluit under article 3 lid 2 has also designated the substance as a lijst I middel, in which case supply and manufacture would carry levenslange gevangenisstraf under article 11 lid 1 as well; no register of designations was located. Article 11 lid 2 gives at most nine years where the cross border limb is broken otherwise than intentionally, and article 11 lid 4 at most seven years for the lower band, each now with a fine of the fifth category, and article 14 lid 1 as amended makes the article 11 lid 4 cases overtredingen and the lid 1 to 3 cases misdrijven. Article 12 as amended punishes preparing or furthering an article 8a lid 1 under A offence, and conspiracy to commit one followed by a preparatory act, with at most eleven years and a fine of the fifth category. Article 40 lid 5 of the Wetboek van Strafrecht as replaced by S.B. 2015 no. 44 sets the fifth category at SRD 100,000. A bill submitted to De Nationale Assemblée on 17 August 2022 proposes replacing every category in article 40 lid 5, the first with SRD 10,500, the third with SRD 75,000, the fourth with SRD 150,000 and the fifth with SRD 300,000, and whether it has been enacted was not established; every SRD figure in this cell is the 2015 figure. Article 13 lid 1 lets the fine rise to four times the value of the goods where that value is more than a quarter of the maximum, and article 13 lid 2 as amended requires forfeiture of the article 8a middelen. Article 4a, also inserted in 2018, forbids any act aimed at promoting the sale, delivery or supply of a middel covered by article 8a except purely medical or scientific information, and article 11 lid 5 punishes breach of it with a fine of the third category, SRD 25,000. Article 14 lid 2 as amended reaches a Surinamese national who, abroad, prepares, furthers or conspires in the cross border limb, or attempts or takes part in such an offence committed in Suriname. The act sets no personal use tier, no quantity threshold and no tolerance rule anywhere. Article 11 lid 1 before 2018 read 'levenslange gevangenisstraf of tijdelijke van ten hoogste twintig jaren en een geldboete van ten hoogste vijfhonderd miljoen gulden'; S.B. 2018 no. 64 replaced the twenty years with fifty and the gulden sum with the fifth category, and replaced the gulden sums in leden 2, 3 and 4 and in article 12 with the same category.
North Korea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the DPRK Criminal Code (2013 revision and later amendments) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in North Korea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against North Korea's drug schedule; the DPRK Criminal Code (2013 revision and later amendments) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In North Korea, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments). The 2013 penal code revision designated illegal drug production a capital offence, and serious drug trafficking and smuggling are treated as grave crimes that can carry the death penalty; lower-level offences carry imprisonment or corrective labour. North Korea is among the small group of states with believed or confirmed drug-related executions in recent years (per the Harm Reduction International Global Overview); independent verification is constrained by extreme state opacity, and the specific Criminal Code article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for the gravest drug offences is death. A primary statute portal for DPRK law was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In North Korea, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments). The 2013 penal code revision designated illegal drug production a capital offence, and serious drug trafficking and smuggling are treated as grave crimes that can carry the death penalty; lower-level offences carry imprisonment or corrective labour. North Korea is among the small group of states with believed or confirmed drug-related executions in recent years (per the Harm Reduction International Global Overview); independent verification is constrained by extreme state opacity, and the specific Criminal Code article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for the gravest drug offences is death. A primary statute portal for DPRK law was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Criminal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments) · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
State of Palestine
Legal status
Not confirmed, the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the State of Palestine is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the State of Palestine's drug schedule; the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record. Cannabis is a controlled drug, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Antigua and Barbuda
Legal status
Not listed, and the paragraph 3 route that catches its neighbours does not reach it. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The terms searched were 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, metocin, each returning nothing in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283. The entries nearest to it were read in full and rejected: 'Psilocin.', 'Bufotenine.', 'N, N-Dimethyltryptamine.' and 'N, N-Diethyltryptamine.'.. This row is worth separating from 4-AcO-DMT and 5-MeO-DMT, which are caught. Those two are an ester and an ether of a named compound, which is exactly what paragraph 3 of Part I provides for. 4-HO-MET is not a derivative of any named entry: it differs from psilocin in the alkyl groups on the side chain nitrogen, carrying one methyl and one ethyl where psilocin carries two methyls. Changing an N-substituent is not an ester, an ether, a salt or a stereoisomeric form, so none of paragraphs 2 to 4 reaches it. Stated as at Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule as printed in the Revised Edition read on 22 September 2026, whose amendment list ends at Act 18 of 1989.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283 imposes a capital penalty. The heaviest term printed anywhere in it is 14 years, in the General column of the Second Schedule against section 10, and section 26 gives 10 years on conviction on indictment for import or export of a Class A or Class B drug. This Part placement is not printed in the dossier quotation, which cites only 'First Schedule, Parts I to III' as a search scope; it is read from the Act's own First Schedule. The First Schedule is printed in two columns, so the class is taken from the entry's position within its Part and not from the line it shares with the facing column. Nothing in the Act attaches a punishment to a substance that is not a controlled drug: sections 4, 5, 6 and 8 each operate on a controlled drug or on a plant of the genus Cannabis, and the Second Schedule columns are headed by the three classes. So no figure from the Second Schedule is stated for this row, and that is a consequence of the finding rather than a gap in it. The one route by which an unnamed substance can still be caught is a group rule, and each was tested for this row: paragraph 2 of Part I for a stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 for an ester or ether, paragraph 4 for a salt, and paragraph 5 for a preparation or other product containing a listed substance. None reaches it. This is stated from the consolidated text of Cap. 283 in the Revised Edition of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, whose printed amendment list runs 21 of 1973, 5 of 1975, 10 of 1979, 9 of 1982, 11 of 1987 and 18 of 1989, read on 22 September 2026. Section 3(2) provides that the Minister may by Order make such amendments to the First Schedule or any part thereof as may be necessary, so an Order made after that consolidation is not excluded by this cell.
If prescribed / medical
Barbados
Legal status
Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, no entry in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule places it, and the consequence is that it is not a controlled drug within section 3. The 4 hydroxy tryptamine that Part II does place carries two N methyl groups and appears against the chemical name «3-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol». An N methyl N ethyl member is a different compound. Part II places the N,N diethyl homologue separately at «det», which shows the Part enumerates N substitution patterns rather than covering them by a clause. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. The figures in those rows are given here only to size the gap that a placement would close. A controlled drug on the same facts draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment for simple possession, and imprisonment for life on indictment for trafficking. The compound it most resembles is placed, and a laboratory report that names the wrong one of the two decides the case, so the practical exposure turns on analysis rather than on any argument about the Schedule. Two things keep this from being a safety statement. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any of Parts I to III by order, so the position can change without an Act of Parliament and without warning to a traveller. And section 20(3) reaches a person who supplies something «represented or held out to be a controlled drug but which is not a controlled drug», so conduct around an unscheduled powder can still be an offence. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
If prescribed / medical
Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. The section 12 regulations do not govern it and it has no prescription form. Its close relatives in Part II have no therapeutic use either, so nothing in this series is a medicine a traveller could document. Section 3(2) lets the Minister add a substance to any Part of the First Schedule by order, so this answer is dated rather than permanent.
Dominica
Legal status
Not confirmed. No entry for 4-HO-MET was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, on a reading of the three complete printed lists as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. The nearest printed entry is the Class A «Pislocin», quoted as the revised edition sets it and read as psilocin, which is the 4-hydroxytryptamine the Schedule does carry. 4-HO-MET shares the 4-hydroxy position but differs at both nitrogen substituents, carrying a methyl and an ethyl where psilocin carries two methyls. So it is neither that substance nor, unlike psilocybin and 4-AcO-DMT, an ester of it, and Part I paragraph 3 is the only derivative route on offer. The absence is bounded by that revision and by nothing further: section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, Orders of that kind are published separately, and this consolidation reproduces none made after the note its Schedule pages carry. So about thirty five years of possible additions sit outside what was read, and that gap is why this row is left open here rather than published as a finding that the substance is uncontrolled in Dominica. Read on 3 October 2026 and not noted on this row before: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed in this Chapter carry, in paragraph 1(b) of their Fourth Schedule on printed page 59, a generic clause reaching any compound, other than a named entry, «structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent»; the printed paragraph repeats part of its own opening words, and the passage quoted is its complete final form. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is a ring-hydroxytryptamine substituted at the side chain nitrogen with a methyl and an ethyl group and nothing else, so it falls within those words. That does not make it a controlled drug. Section 4(1)(a) of the Act defines a controlled drug by Parts I to III of the Act's own Third Schedule, which prints no generic clause of this kind, and the four Schedules to the Regulations sort drugs for the purposes the Regulations name, the Fourth Schedule for regulations 17, 18 and 21 on registers and destruction; they do not add to the list. The same Fourth Schedule names «4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-x-methylphenthylamine», which the Act's Part I does not print, so the Regulations name compounds the printed Act does not; whether that is because the Act was amended or because the Regulations follow a model text never matched to the Act is not shown by either. That mismatch is a further reason to ask whether the Third Schedule was amended in a way this consolidation does not show, and it is why this row stays open rather than being published either way. Where earlier sentences in this cell say the Schedule carries no generic clause, they speak of the Act's Third Schedule and remain accurate.
Consequences if caught
Grenada
Legal status
Not listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that schedule stands as at SRO 16 of 2011. The word tryptamine is printed nowhere in the act, and this substituted tryptamine is not among the abbreviations Part II carries. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Searched as '4-HO-MET', '4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine', 'metocin' and 'tryptamine'. None appears. The tryptamines the act does list are given only as abbreviations in the Part II trivial names column, namely 'DET', 'DMT' and 'psilocine, psilotsin', and this compound is not one of them. Section 3(1) defines a controlled drug exhaustively as a narcotic drug listed in Part I of the First Schedule, a psychotropic substance listed in Part II, or a listed substance listed in Part III. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect. No offence in this act reaches it, because every offence in Parts II to V is framed in relation to a controlled drug and section 3(1) confines that expression to the three Parts of the First Schedule. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.
If prescribed / medical
Not a controlled drug under this act, so the section 12 and section 24 prescription machinery for controlled drugs does not reach 4-HO-MET. Whether it is regulated as a medicine or as a consumer product under Grenada's separate pharmacy and medicines law was not established here.
Documentation
No controlled drug documentation requirement arises under this act, because the substance is outside it. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.
Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A of the Laws of Grenada, Act No. 7 of 1992 as amended by SRO 16 of 2011, sections 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, 21, 24 and 37, the First Schedule Parts I to IV, the Second Schedule and the Fifth Schedule, read as at SRO 16 of 2011 · laws.gov.gd · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Saint Kitts and Nevis is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Kitts and Nevis's drug schedule; Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Saint Lucia
Legal status
Controlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(b) of Schedule 2. 4-HO-MET is not printed by name or chemical name anywhere in the act; the search terms metocin, hydroxy-N-methyl and ethyltryptamine return zero. It is caught by the tryptamine generic in paragraph 1(b), which reaches 'any compound (not being a compound specified in (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ringhydroxy trptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side-chain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent'. 4-HO-MET is a 4 hydroxy tryptamine, that is a ring hydroxy tryptamine, bearing a methyl and an ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen and nothing else, which is exactly the described case. The nearest printed entry read is 'Psilocin', which is the same ring hydroxy tryptamine bearing two methyl groups. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The closing words of paragraph 1(b), 'but no other substituent', are what makes this row clean and several neighbouring tryptamines unclean, since a further ring substituent takes a compound outside the clause. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. The Class A and Class B columns carry identical figures in every row of Schedule 3, so the class split makes no difference to the sentence. Importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production or being concerned in production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries the same figures. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years or $100,000, and on indictment 7 years or $200,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 3 years and/or $100,000, and on indictment 14 years and/or $200,000. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's drug schedule; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Haiti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Haiti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Haiti's drug schedule; Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sao Tome and Principe
Legal status
Not confirmed, Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Sao Tome and Principe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sao Tome and Principe's drug schedule; Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Holy See
Legal status
Not confirmed, Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Holy See is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Holy See's drug schedule; Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Puerto Rico (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Puerto Rico is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Puerto Rico's drug schedule; Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act with a regulated medical-cannabis exception: medical cannabis is legal for registered patients under Puerto Rico's 2015 medical-cannabis law, while recreational use, sale and cultivation remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) · 2015 medical-cannabis law · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Guam (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Guam is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guam's drug schedule; Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019, alongside the medical-cannabis programme (Public Law 34-80), with a regulated retail market; sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) · Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019 · Public Law 34-80 (medical cannabis) · guamcourts.gov · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in any entry of the federal schedules, 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30 September 2026, the eCFR text read at https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-09-30/title-21.xml?part=1308 on 3 October 2026. Neither 4-HO-MET nor N-ethyl-N-methyltryptamine appears in any entry. Psilocyn is Schedule I at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(30), DEA code 7438. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 could not be read in this run, and the territory can control what the federal schedules do not, so whether it is controlled here is not established.
Consequences if caught
Do not assume it is permitted. The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so federal law reaches this territory directly. The federal possession and supply offences, 21 U.S.C. 844(a) and 841(a)(1), apply to a controlled substance. 21 U.S.C. 813 provides that a controlled substance analogue 'shall, to the extent intended for human consumption, be treated, for the purposes of any Federal law as a controlled substance in schedule I', and 21 U.S.C. 802(32)(A) defines an analogue in limbs that include a chemical structure 'substantially similar to the chemical structure of a controlled substance in schedule I or II'. Whether 4-HO-MET is an analogue was not examined, so whether the federal offences reach it is not established. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. The territory can control what the federal schedules do not, so whether its law reaches this substance is the open question in this cell.
If prescribed / medical
There is no prescribing route to consider while its legal status here is not established.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. Search record for this cell, run on 3 October 2026 in English against every entry of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 as in force on 30 September 2026, the eCFR text read at https://www.ecfr.gov/api/versioner/v1/full/2026-09-30/title-21.xml?part=1308 on 3 October 2026: '4-HO-MET' returned no entry; 'metocin' returned no entry; 'N-ethyl-N-methyltryptamine' returned no entry; 'N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine' returned no entry. The territorial schedule at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 was not reachable, so it was not searched. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.
Northern Mariana Islands (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Northern Mariana Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Northern Mariana Islands' drug schedule; the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018, which authorizes personal possession, cultivation and a regulated adult-use market; no separate medical-cannabis programme is authorized, and sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018 · Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands controlled-substances code · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
American Samoa (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in American Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against American Samoa's drug schedule; the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 13 provisions, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
American Samoa Code Annotated Title 13 (controlled substances) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bermuda (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Bermuda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bermuda's drug schedule; Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bermuda Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended by the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2017) · bpa.bm · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cayman Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Cayman Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cayman Islands' drug schedule; the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: medical cannabis and CBD products are permitted only on local prescription (since 2017), while recreational cannabis is fully prohibited under zero-tolerance enforcement, possession carries a fine up to CI$3,000 and up to 3 years' imprisonment, and importation a fine up to CI$20,000 and up to 7 years on first conviction. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Cayman Islands Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) · legislation.gov.ky · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gibraltar (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Gibraltar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gibraltar's drug schedule; Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled as a Class A drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, is not named, but paragraph 1(b) of Part I reaches "any compound (not being a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ringhydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the sidechain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent", and 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxytryptamine with a methyl and an ethyl group on that nitrogen.
Consequences if caught
As a Class A drug, 4-HO-MET is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 3 years and $100,000 on summary conviction and 7 years and $200,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to 4-HO-MET.
If prescribed / medical
No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying 4-HO-MET, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Turks and Caicos Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Turks and Caicos Islands' drug schedule; the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis and cannabis resin are Class B controlled drugs (Part II) under the same Ordinance, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Turks and Caicos Islands Control of Drugs Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Jersey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Jersey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 · jerseylaw.je · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Guernsey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guernsey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Isle of Man is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Isle of Man's drug schedule; the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Isle of Man Misuse of Drugs Act (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C) · gov.im · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Montserrat (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Montserrat is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Montserrat's drug schedule; Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Montserrat Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act / Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Anguilla (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Anguilla is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Anguilla's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) · cannabis decriminalization effective 1 December 2024 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aruba (Netherlands)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Aruba is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Aruba's drug schedule; Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Curaçao is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Curaçao's drug schedule; Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Sint Maarten is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sint Maarten's drug schedule; Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sint Maarten Opium National Ordinance of 1960 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
French Polynesia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in French Polynesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against French Polynesia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in French Polynesia · legifrance.gouv.fr · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
New Caledonia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in New Caledonia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against New Caledonia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in New Caledonia · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in the Caribbean Netherlands (BES) is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Caribbean Netherlands' drug schedule; the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Caribbean Netherlands (BES) narcotics law, old-Antillean Opium Ordinance via the WvS-BES penal framework · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aceh (Indonesia)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (applied in Aceh) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Aceh is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Aceh's drug schedule; Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (applied in Aceh) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Aceh, drugs fall under Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), which applies in the province; Aceh ADDITIONALLY applies the qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws) imposing caning for certain offences as a corporal-punishment overlay distinct from the national penal regime. Organized or large-scale trafficking of Category I narcotics is capital-eligible, the death penalty is NATIONAL (under Law 35/2009), NOT a separate Aceh statute, and Indonesia actively imposes drug death sentences. Possession and lower-level offences carry imprisonment from 4 years or court-ordered rehabilitation; the precise article and threshold are left to confirmation against the current law. This cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress, with the qanun framing corroborated in free text.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Aceh, drugs fall under Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), which applies in the province; Aceh ADDITIONALLY applies the qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws) imposing caning for certain offences as a corporal-punishment overlay distinct from the national penal regime. Organized or large-scale trafficking of Category I narcotics is capital-eligible, the death penalty is NATIONAL (under Law 35/2009), NOT a separate Aceh statute, and Indonesia actively imposes drug death sentences. Possession and lower-level offences carry imprisonment from 4 years or court-ordered rehabilitation; the precise article and threshold are left to confirmation against the current law. This cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress, with the qanun framing corroborated in free text. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Indonesia national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), applied in Aceh · Aceh qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws), corroborated free-text · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Faroe Islands (Denmark)
Legal status
Controlled in the Faroe Islands through a group entry rather than under its own name. 4-HO-MET is reached by liste B nr. 462 of bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26. maj 2026 for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, as in force on 4 October 2026, the entry headed «Tryptamin-gruppen». Bilag 1 says «Liste B, D og E omfatter stoffer, der kun må benyttes til medicinsk og videnskabelig brug», and § 3 of the order repeats that «Euforiserende midler må her i landet kun anvendes i medicinsk eller videnskabeligt øjemed».
Consequences if caught
It has no row of its own; searched as 4-HO-MET, metocin and hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamin. The group entry reads «Enhver kemisk forbindelse som strukturelt er afledt af enten tryptamin eller tryptamin med en eller flere ringbundne hydroxygrupper ved substitution på sidekædens nitrogenatom med en eller flere alkylgrupper». 4-HO-MET is tryptamine carrying one ring bound hydroxy group at the 4-position, with a methyl and an ethyl group on the side chain nitrogen, which is that description. The only compounds the group excepts to their own rows are DET, DMT, psilocin and psilocybin. The offence is not in the order. Its § 30 says a breach «straffes efter § 3 og § 3 a i lov om euforiserende stoffer, som sat i kraft for Færøerne ved kongelig anordning», and adds «Under de i § 191 i straffeloven angivne omstændigheder straffes overtrædelsen dog efter denne bestemmelse». Section 3(1) of the Act as in force for the Faroe Islands punishes a breach «med bøde eller fængsel indtil 2 år», a fine or imprisonment for up to 2 years, and requires the court to weigh «skadevirkningerne af de pågældende stoffer», the harmfulness of the substance. Section 3(2) makes it «en betydelig skærpende omstændighed» that the case concerns repeated sale of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or sale, or free transfer with a view to later sale, at restaurants, discotheques, concerts or music festivals or at other events attended mainly by children or young people. Section 3 a lets a company be held criminally liable under chapter 5 of «den for Færøerne gældende straffelovs», the penal code in force for the Faroe Islands, and this cell reads the straffelov named in § 30 as that same code. Lov nr. 740 af 13. juni 2023 cites it as «straffelov for Færøerne, jf. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 215 af 24. juni 1939». Its § 191 was not read for this cell: no consolidation of it was found on retsinformation.dk and the logir.fo search could not be driven from here. No ceiling for that tier is therefore stated, and the figures in the Danish straffelov, which is a different statute, are not carried over.
If prescribed / medical
No medicine containing it is named in the order's own Eksempelliste 1 of products sold in Denmark. Section 6 of the order allows receipt and possession of a listed substance only in named cases, such as on a prescription or as a licensed laboratory, and none of them is a traveller allowance. Nothing here authorises carrying it.
Falkland Islands (UK)
Legal status
Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, falls within the ring-hydroxy tryptamine limb in Part 1, paragraph 1(b) of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987.
Consequences if caught
Part 1, paragraph 1(b) reaches «any compound (not being a compound for the time being specified in subparagraph (a) above) structurally derived from tryptamine or from a ring-hydroxy tryptamine by substitution at the nitrogen atom of the side chain with one or more alkyl substituents but no other substituent». 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxytryptamine, a ring-hydroxy tryptamine, carrying a methyl and an ethyl group, both alkyl, on the side chain nitrogen and nothing else. The compound is not named; the nearest named entry, «Psilocin», is the N,N-dimethyl analogue. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class A drug: importing or exporting it (section 3), producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 14 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 10; possessing it (section 5(1)) carries up to 7 years and a fine at level 8. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence, and an importation charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003 carries the same 14 years and level 10 by its Schedule 1. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
If prescribed / medical
It falls within Schedule 1 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, which repeats the same structural limb, and none of the possession or supply exceptions in regulations 8 to 10 names Schedule 1. The Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 designates it under section 7(4) of the Ordinance, and section 7(4) provides that «while there is in force such an order subsection (3) shall not apply to the drug specified in the order», so the power to let doctors prescribe and supply it is switched off and there is no prescription route.
Saint Helena (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for 4 ho met in Saint Helena is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Helena's drug schedule; Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Helena misuse-of-drugs ordinance (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
United States
Legal status
Not listed in any federal schedule. Reached, if at all, only through the controlled substance analogue rule at 21 USC 802(32) and 813, and only to the extent intended for human consumption. This cell states federal law only. Every state has its own controlled substances act and several differ from the federal schedules, so check the law of the state you are in.
Consequences if caught
It is not listed in any schedule and it is not reached by any class entry. That does not make it lawful. Section 802(32)(A) defines a controlled substance analogue as one whose chemical structure is substantially similar to that of a Schedule I or II substance and which has, or is represented to have, a substantially similar or greater effect on the central nervous system, and section 813(a) provides that such a substance 'shall, to the extent intended for human consumption, be treated, for the purposes of any Federal law as a controlled substance in schedule I'. Whether a given compound is an analogue is decided case by case and this page does not assert it for any particular substance. Supply is 21 USC 841. Unless the substance appears in the weight tables of section 841(b)(1)(A) or (B), it falls to section 841(b)(1)(C), which reads that such a person 'shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not more than 20 years and if death or serious bodily injury results from the use of such substance shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than twenty years or more than life'. There is no mandatory minimum under that paragraph, which is not the same as a light penalty. Simple possession is 21 USC 844(a), up to 1 year and a fine of at least 1,000 dollars on a first offence, with higher figures after a prior conviction. The section excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'.
If prescribed / medical
No accepted medical use in treatment in the United States through the ordinary prescription channel, which is part of what puts a substance in Schedule I. Handling it outside a registered research setting is an offence under 21 USC 841 and 844.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original labelled container with the prescription. Federal law and the law of the state you are entering can differ, so confirm both before travel.
Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC 802, 812, 813, 841 and 844 (Office of the Law Revision Counsel) · 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, current as of 11 September 2026) · 91 FR 22714, 28 April 2026, for marijuana in an approved product or under a state medical licence · Updated September 15, 2026
Last updated: October 4, 2026
· the schedule text was read at https://sha.shj.ae/#:~:text=4-HO-MET and the article text at https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/ar/legislations/1540#:~:text=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9%2057, the federal legislation portal
· the instrument is written in Arabic and the English chemical rendering is the dossier's
· read as at 20 September 2026
Thailand, unresolved reach question for 4-HO-MET, read 3 October 2026 against the Ministry of Public Health naming notifications under the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564: psychotropic Category 1 B.E. 2565 clause 2 and items 12, 18, 20, 45 and 46 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · amendments https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-194, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-203, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-211, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-183 · narcotic Category 1 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · Narcotics Code sections 39, 145, 146 and 149 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · PubChem CID 21786582 · pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · lists also searched: narcotic Category 1 amendment No. 5 https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/nc_037 · narcotic Category 2 https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/nc-345, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-208 · narcotic Category 4 https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-199, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-209, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/nc_036 · narcotic Category 5 https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/nc-343 · psychotropic Categories 2 to 4 https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-186, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-187, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-188, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-212, https://narcotic.fda.moph.go.th/law-type/pc-213 · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET holds no Indonesian medicine registration and no tryptamine of this family is prescribed here.
Documentation
No narcotics or psychotropics document applies.
Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika, LN 2009/143, TLN 5062, as amended by Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2023, and Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika, LN 1997/10, TLN 3671 · empowering articles Pasal 6(3) and Pasal 2(4) respectively, both of which were checked because a finding of absence has to hold against both regimes · absence was established by reading all seven current lists in full, Narkotika Golongan I, II and III from Permenkes Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV from Permenkes Nomor 14 Tahun 2025, and both precursor tables from Lampiran II of the Act, and by reading every apparent text match in its surrounding region rather than counting it as an entry · the finding is named in none of the seven current golongan: Narkotika Golongan I, II and III of Permenkes No. 15 Tahun 2025, and Psikotropika Golongan I, II, III and IV of Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025 · All seven current golongan read in full and the tryptamine entries enumerated, with the regions searched for the compound under three names. Aceh runs a separate criminal code for some conduct and is a separate jurisdiction in this dataset · the Qanun Aceh Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 tentang Hukum Jinayat was read for this batch and mentions narkotika and psikotropika zero times, so narcotics law in Aceh is the national Act unchanged. Read 2026-09-17 · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · Placement re-derived in this pass from Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika and Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, both read at jdih.kemkes.go.id on 21 September 2026. Permenkes 15/2025 was ditetapkan 21 November 2025 and diundangkan 28 November 2025 at Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, and it repeals Permenkes 7/2025. The matched entry is quoted in the cell. Section membership is stated rather than entry number, because a watermark in the published PDF reflows the numbering. · Updated September 21, 2026
· read as at 17 September 2026
Malaysia, Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, Act 234, first enacted as Ordinance No. 30 of 1952 and revised in 1980 with effect from 17 July 1980 · read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text headed «As at 4 July 2023», latest Act amendment being the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, in force 4 July 2023 · Poisons Act 1952, Act 366, revised 1989, read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text as at 1 January 2022, latest amendment P.U. (A) 412/2021 in force 3 November 2021 · read for this substance: both schedules in full, the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 First Schedule in all five Parts and the Poisons Act 1952 Poisons List and Third Schedule, with 4-HO-MET found in neither as a controlled entry · sections 2, 11(1) and 45A of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 and sections 30(1) and 32(2) of the Poisons Act 1952 · the First Schedule has since been amended twice under section 45A, by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2024, P.U. (A) 97, gazetted 2 April 2024, which inserts Etazene, Etonitazepyne, 2-Methyl-AP-237 and Protonitazene into Part III and substitutes Proheptazine for Propheptazine, and by the Order 2025, P.U. (A) 416, gazetted 25 November 2025, which inserts Butonitazene into Part III · both orders were read in full and neither touches this substance · the publisher's own disclaimer is carried forward: this is only an updated text and not an authentic text until it is reprinted under subsection 14(1) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 · read as at 2026-09-17 from https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1840725_BI/22.11.2023%20-%20Act%20234.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1714451_BI/ACT%20366_MUKTAMAD_1%20JANUARY%202022.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1826840_BI/Akta%20846%20BI.pdf · re-derived in this pass, from the on-disk Attorney General's Chambers online updated text of Act 234 whose own header reads «As at 4 July 2023»: sections 2, 5, 6, 6B, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25, 30, 37, 38A, 38B, 39, 39A, 39B, 39C, 41, 41A, 41B, 45A and 46, and the First Schedule read line by line in all five Parts · and from the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, sections 1(2), 2, 54 and 55 · the First Schedule has five Parts and not three: Part I and Part II are the plant and prepared-opium lists, Part III the long alphabetical chemical list, Part IV a shorter codeine group carrying its own isomer clause and its own salt clause, with Part III's ester and ether clause running across the whole Schedule and not only that Part because it reads «of the drugs in this Schedule» where the other two read «this Part», and Part V is headed «PREPARATION FOR THE EXPORT OF WHICH EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED» and is an exemption list rather than a control list · section 39B carries no quantity table of its own, the weights being in section 37(da), which is a rebuttable presumption of trafficking, and in section 39A, which applies only where the offence is not punishable with death · the file the Act 234 text is served from is dated 22 November 2023 in its name while the text's own header reads «As at 4 July 2023», and the header is the version stated here · all Poisons Act 1952 material in this cell, including every Poisons List and Third Schedule entry and every figure drawn from that Act, is carried forward from the earlier reading recorded above and was not re-derived in this pass · so is every other fact in this cell that is not derivable from the two texts named above, which includes the two section 45A orders of 2024 and 2025, the commencement of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017 on 15 March 2018, and any statement here about the Single Convention or the 1971 Convention and their schedules · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
In England, Wales and Scotland the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 place it in Schedule 1, under its paragraph 1(b), the same tryptamine definition. The patient possession authority in regulation 10(2) reaches only «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2, 3 or Part I of Schedule 4 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner», so a Schedule 1 drug has no prescription route; apart from the regulation 6 authorities for police, customs officers, carriers and forensic laboratories acting in their duties, production, supply and possession are lawful only under a Home Office licence under regulation 5. On Northern Ireland the sources point two ways, and both are quoted. legislation.gov.uk tags every provision of the 2001 Regulations with the extent E+W+S+N.I. 45 such tags in its XML, while the Regulations themselves carry no extent clause; against that tag, their amending Regulations of 2023 and 2024 each state «These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.», and the 2026 temporary class drug order applies the two codes separately, saying «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» and «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» Northern Ireland has its own Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, S.R. 2002 No. 1. The legislation.gov.uk text of those Regulations states «There are outstanding changes not yet made by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team to The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.», so the Northern Ireland schedule for this row is not given here.
Documentation
The Home Office page Take medicine in or out of the UK, read at https://www.gov.uk/travelling-controlled-drugs on 2 October 2026, states «You cannot bring schedule 1 drugs into the UK without a licence. Licences for schedule 1 drugs are limited to research or other special purposes.» and «You cannot use a Schengen Certificate to bring schedule 1 drugs into the UK.» No prescription, letter or certificate makes carrying it lawful.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, ss. 2 to 8, 28 and 37 and Schedules 2 and 4, Part I para. 1(b), substituted by S.I. 2014/3271 · legislation.gov.uk · read on 2 October 2026 as the legislation.gov.uk revised text, which records no known outstanding effects · Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, S.I. 2001/3998, regs. 4, 5 and 10 and Schedule 1 para. 1(b) · legislation.gov.uk · Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, ss. 50, 68 and 170 and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.uk · Home Office, Take medicine in or out of the UK · gov.uk · S.I. 2024/1361 read as made on 2 October 2026 · legislation.gov.uk · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 · Updated October 3, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The highest penalty anywhere in Part 9.1 of the Criminal Code is imprisonment for life, and Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 provides «The punishment of death must not be imposed as the penalty for any offence referred to in subsection 3(2) or (3).» The controlled drug offences apply: Trafficking 4-HO-MET (s302.1: selling, preparing for supply, transporting, guarding or possessing with intent to sell) is s302.4, imprisonment for 10 years or 2,000 penalty units, or both. As an analogue of 4-AcO-MET it takes that drug's quantities under s301.10 to s301.12 table item 2. Trafficking a marketable quantity, 250.0 g or more under Schedule 1 item 3 of the Criminal Code Regulations, is s302.3, 25 years or 5,000 penalty units, or both. A commercial quantity, 2.0 kg or more, is s302.2, imprisonment for life or 7,500 penalty units, or both. Under s302.5 a person who prepares, transports, guards or possesses a trafficable quantity, 2.0 g or more, is taken to have intended to sell unless they prove they had neither that intention nor belief, a legal burden (s13.4). Manufacturing 4-HO-MET for a commercial purpose is s305.5, 10 years or 2,000 penalty units, or both (12 years or 2,400 penalty units if a child under 14 is exposed, s310.4); s305.4 for a marketable quantity, 25 years or 5,000 penalty units (28 years or 5,600 aggravated); s305.3 for a commercial quantity, imprisonment for life or 7,500 penalty units, or both. Under s305.6 manufacturing a trafficable quantity presumes the commercial purpose, rebuttably. Possessing 4-HO-MET as a controlled drug is s308.1, imprisonment for 2 years or 400 penalty units, or both, and s308.1(3) lets the court deal with the offender as if the offence were the state or territory possession offence, so diversion available there is available here. Supplying any quantity to a child is s309.2, 15 years or 3,000 penalty units, or both. The border offences turn on the conditional border reading. If it holds: Import and export are offences of their own in Division 307 against the border controlled drug listing (Schedule 2 item 195), by s301.4(1)(b) as an analogue of psilocine, if that reading holds: s307.3, imprisonment for 10 years or 2,000 penalty units, or both, with a defence if the person proves no intention or belief that any would be sold; s307.4, which needs no commercial intent, 2 years or 400 penalty units, or both; s307.2 for a marketable quantity (0.1 g or more), 25 years or 5,000 penalty units, or both; s307.1 for a commercial quantity (0.1 kg or more), imprisonment for life or 7,500 penalty units, or both. Possessing an unlawfully imported quantity is s307.5 to s307.7 on the same thresholds, and possessing one reasonably suspected of unlawful import is s307.8 to s307.10. The Customs Act s233(5) leaves border controlled drugs to these offences rather than to the Customs Act smuggling offence. If it does not, Division 307 does not apply, Part 9.2 is excluded because 4-HO-MET is a controlled drug (s320.2(2)(j)), and the import is reached only if regulation 5(20) makes it a drug as an isomer of 5-MeO-DMT, in which case importing it without a licence and permission contravenes Customs Act s233(1)(b), punishable under s233AB(2) by a fine only, the greater of 3 times the value of the goods or 1,000 penalty units. Part 9.1, other than the import and export offences in Division 307, does not apply to conduct justified or excused by or under a state or territory law (s313.1), which is how lawful prescribing and dispensing sit outside it. There is no Commonwealth offence of using or consuming a drug; use is left to state and territory law. A penalty unit is $364 for an offence committed on or after 1 July 2026 under the Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026 (F2026N00424), made under Crimes Act 1914 s4AA, so 400 penalty units is $145,600, 2,000 is $728,000 and 7,500 is $2,730,000; «or both» in each penalty means the prison term and the fine are available alternatively or together. Quantities are proved under s312.1 as in force on 2 October 2026, by the pure drug in a mixture. A substituted s312.1, enacted by the Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 1) Act 2026 (assented to 26 August 2026), Schedule 2 Part 2, will «treat the mixture as consisting wholly of the prohibited substance»; it commences on a day fixed by Proclamation or at the latest on 26 August 2027, and no Proclamation was found when this was read.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route: 4-HO-MET is not a medicine in any instrument read, and its analogue status makes possession a Part 9.1 matter without any medical exception.
Documentation
No traveller exemption is shown for 4-HO-MET. The Australian Border Force traveller guidance (abf.gov.au, read 2 October 2026) covers «Prescription medicines such as morphine, oxycodone, methadone, methylphenidate, Adderall®, and benzodiazepines» and nothing read for this cell treats a foreign prescription for 4-HO-MET as lawful authority for an import that Division 307 otherwise punishes. An import needs an Office of Drug Control licence and permission under regulation 5(1) of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, and regulation 5(10) lets permission be granted only where, in the cases that apply to a private person, the drug «is required by the applicant for medical or scientific purposes». The personal importation rule in Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 Schedule 5 item 1, which covers «therapeutic goods that are imported for therapeutic use in the treatment of the importer or the importer’s immediate family», does not help where the substance is a prohibited import, because it applies only where «the goods do not contain a substance the importation of which is prohibited under the Customs Act 1901».
Poisons Standard October 2026, F2026L01327 · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Act 1995, Compilation No. 174, volume 1 (s10.5) and volume 2 (Part 9.1, Part 9.2) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Regulations 2019, Compilation No. 6 (Schedules 1 and 2) · legislation.gov.au · Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, Compilation No. 147 (regulation 5, Schedule 4) · legislation.gov.au · Customs Act 1901, Compilation No. 193, volume 1 (s4) and volume 3 (Part XIII, s233 to s233BABAD) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990, Compilation No. 130 (Schedule 5 item 1) · legislation.gov.au · Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026, F2026N00424 · legislation.gov.au · Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 · legislation.gov.au · Australian Border Force, medicines and substances · abf.gov.au · Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 2 October 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to · legislation.gov.au · Federal Register of Legislation content licensed CC BY 4.0 · Australian Border Force material: Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, licensed CC BY 3.0 Australia · Updated October 3, 2026
France, Arrêté du 22 février 1990 fixant la liste des substances classées comme stupéfiants, entry « 4-HO-MET » for 4-HO-MET · the Code de la santé publique at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGITEXT000006072665 gives the ministerial orders their effect and Penal Code article 222-34 at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006417715 carries the life ceiling · the narcotics order was read at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/loda/id/JORFTEXT000000533085, Légifrance being the official publisher and the source of the amendment history · the consolidated version was followed to its terminal list material · read as at 18 September 2026. · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The Opiumwetbesluit prescription regime does not apply, because article 2 of that decree governs the prescribing of Opiumwet substances and this is not one. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription.
Documentation
No Opiumwet documentation requirement arises, because the Opiumwet documentation regime attaches to its own listed substances and this is not one. For a prescribed Opiumwet medicine on Schengen travel the route is a Schengen certificate issued via the CAK under article 75 of the Schengen Implementing Convention, valid 30 days and covering up to 4 Schengen countries, with a legalised English-language medical certificate valid 1 year for travel beyond Schengen.
Opiumwet, artt. 1, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3aa, 10, 10b, 10c and 11, and lijsten I, Ia and II · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 17-09-2026, read 22 September 2026 · Opiumwetbesluit · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 01-01-2023 · Aanwijzing Opiumwet, prosecution policy of the Openbaar Ministerie · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 01-03-2015 · Wetboek van Strafrecht art. 23, fine categories · wetten.overheid.nl · Updated October 2, 2026
Documentation
No travel document regime applies to it as a drug. Customs and product rules for the goods themselves were not read for this cell.
INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, Spanish text · incb.org · INCB Green List, 36th edition, updated December 2025 · incb.org · Ley 17/1967, de 8 de abril, article 2, BOE consolidated text last updated 13/12/2001 · boe.es · Ley Orgánica 4/2015, article 36.16, BOE consolidated text last updated 23/02/2021 · boe.es · Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995), articles 359 and 368, BOE consolidated text last updated 09/04/2026 · boe.es · Real Decreto 2829/1977, de 6 de octubre, article 1, article 4, Anexo 1 and Anexo 2, BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 21/04/2026», Anexo 1 in force from 22/04/2026, Anexo 2 last updated 06/06/1986 · boe.es · Real Decreto 1194/2011, BOE consolidated text last updated 08/06/2021 · boe.es · Based on data from the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado), https://www.boe.es · each BOE consolidated text carries the notice «Este texto consolidado es de carácter informativo y no tiene valor jurídico.» · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of Real Decreto 2829/1977 Anexo 1 under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 3, 2026
DPR 309/1990 article 14 with the Ministry of Health compilation of the narcotics tables and its ministerial amendment index, read at https://www.salute.gov.it/new/it/tema/medicinali-stupefacenti-e-precursori-di-droghe/tabelle-delle-sostanze-stupefacenti-e on 18 September 2026 · route for 4-HO-MET: the Table I or II group of the Ministry of Health compilation, as that compilation states it, entry «4-HO-MET» · DPR 309/1990 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1990/10/31/090G0363/CONSOLIDATED · Penal Code article 78 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1930/10/26/030U1398/CONSOLIDATED · penalties at DPR 309/1990 articles 73, 75 and 80 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
It has no medicine form, and the tryptamine it most resembles is in the prohibited first group. No narcotics or psychotropics prescription route follows from the Ley General de Salud, because neither of its two lists reaches this row. The special duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes are not engaged, and the group specific rules of articles 250, 251 and 252 have no group to attach to. Ordinary Mexican medicines and consumer regulation may still apply, and a foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and nothing more.
Documentation
Carry nothing on the strength of this name alone on the drug-control side, because neither article 234 nor article 245 of the Ley General de Salud reaches this row. Ordinary customs, quantity and medicines rules still apply, and a prescription and labelled packaging remain the sensible thing to carry. The group prints one 4-hydroxy tryptamine and this row is a different one. The absence was established by reading the whole of the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Mexico, not named in either of the two lists at Ley General de Salud articles 234 and 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: 4-ho-met 0, hidroxi-indol 1, metiletiltriptamina 0 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · the previous version of this cell described a whole-text search of a 376 page consolidated edition, and that page figure is carried forward and not re-derived: the consolidated file read here reports 356 pages in its own properties, the reforming decree runs to 20 pages of the Diario Oficial, and both were searched whole rather than by page · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Lista F is a proscribed list, so there is no prescription tier for it. Resolucao 81/2008, Capitulo XXXIX, Procedimento 1-A, item 6 forbids importing products subject to the special control of Portaria 344/98 that appear in lista F, as raw material, semi-finished or finished product, save where destined for teaching and research, and item 9 confines any such entry to a named set of ports and airports. For a traveller the rule is Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011. Its item 1 dispenses with sanitary authorisation at the point of entry for a finished medicine imported by an individual for his own use, item 1.1 brings goods in accompanied or unaccompanied baggage of a traveller arriving from abroad inside that dispensation, and item 1.2 defines own use as a quantity and frequency compatible with the duration and purpose of treatment and not amounting to trade. Item 1.3 takes medicines based on substances listed in Portaria 344/98 back out of the dispensation and sends them to Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008. That resolution rewrote article 34 of Portaria 344/98 to forbid purchase and sale of listed substances and their medicines by reimbursement systems through any means of communication including post and electronic channels, excepting only medicines based on lista C1 substances in presentations not registered or marketed in Brazil, bought abroad by an individual for his own use, on production of a medical prescription and a fiscal document, in a quantity for individual use, with resale forbidden. That resolution was read in full this pass, through a rendering fetcher because a direct request to the publisher is refused with a challenge page and the health ministry library returns a server error, so the reading is [Certain] and the route to it is worth stating. The prescribing chapters of Portaria SVS/MS 344/1998 itself were not read this pass, so no validity period and no quantity per prescription is stated here.
Documentation
The complete Anexo I was read on 21 September 2026, in the version published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036, de 9 de julho de 2026, whose annex heads itself Atualizacao n. 101 and whose footer records publication in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026. ANVISA's own update register numbers that resolution row 102 of its history and marks it the version in force, and both numbers are recorded because they disagree. The finding that no entry names this substance is stated as at that version and does not rule out a later one.
Brazil, Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, Anexo I, as published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026 (Atualizacao n. 101, Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026), read at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00001036&seqAto=000&valorAno=2026 on 21 September 2026 · the update register that marks it the version in force is at https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/medicamentos/controlados/lista-substancias · Lei 11.343 de 23 de agosto de 2006 at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2006/lei/l11343.htm · Constituicao da Republica Federativa do Brasil de 1988, article 5, XLVII, at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao.htm · Supremo Tribunal Federal, Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, at https://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?incidente=4034145&numeroProcesso=635659&classeProcesso=RE&numeroTema=506 · Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011, and Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008 at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00000063&seqAto=000&valorAno=2008 · Updated September 21, 2026
NDPS Act 1985, the Schedule (list of psychotropic substances) · NDPS Rules 1985 · Regulation of Controlled Substances Order 2013 · quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) · searched by name and by chemical synonym across all 264 pages of that consolidation for 4-ho-met, metocin, hydroxy-n-methyl-n-ethyl, with no match · Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, sections 2, 3 and 8, section 3 being the power under which the Central Government adds to or omits from the psychotropic Schedule by Official Gazette notification · the offence and sentencing provisions read for this cell are sections 15 to 27, with sections 31, 31A, 37, 64A, 80 and 81 · enforcement is by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), under the Department of Revenue · Central Bureau of Narcotics consolidation of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and Rules 1985 labelled updated 2026, which prints the Act's Schedule as amended through S.O. 1730(E) of 16 April 2025 · the Schedule as it stands after S.O. 906(E) of 18 February 2026 · small and commercial quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) of 19 October 2001 as amended through S.O. 1731(E) of 16 April 2025 · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · dor.gov.in · indiacode.nic.in · the publisher's own acts and rules page was read at that address on 22 September 2026 and lists no later amendment of the Schedule, which does not rule out a later notification made or commenced since. · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: death if a court reads it within item 96 of Table 1 Section 2 as an analogue of psilocin; none under Law 182/1960 if it is not listed. On the first reading, Article 34 allows death or life imprisonment for trafficking and Article 37 punishes possession for personal use by aggravated imprisonment and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 pounds. The template text this cell carried before is superseded: it cited Act 440/2018 for synthetic cannabinoids, which Decision 44's replacement of every table overtook, and gave Article 38(1) a band of three to ten years, where the article sets aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. The death penalty articles of Law 182/1960 are Article 33 and Article 34, and they reach only what the tables list. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
If prescribed / medical
Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
Documentation
Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)
Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET is at no entry of the four tables, so the narcotics prescribing chapter of Law 4139/2013 does not govern it. A separate medicines or registration rule may still apply, and a prescribing rule is never a criminal schedule. The article 2 paragraphs in this field are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass.
Documentation
No narcotics paperwork arises for this substance at a Greek border, because it is at no entry of the four tables. Carry the original container and the pharmacy label for any medicine you travel with, and a doctor's letter if it was prescribed, because a customs officer decides from what is in front of them. Where the rule comes from. The offences are in Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, and the substance lists are not in it. Article 1 paragraph 2 provides that the substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες Α΄, Β΄, Γ΄ και Δ΄, οι οποίοι αναφέρονται στην παρ. 2 του άρθρου 1 του ν. 3459/2006». Article 1 paragraph 4 gives the power that moves the list: «Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Υγείας και Δικαιοσύνης», by joint decision of the Ministers of Health and of Justice, after the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, substances may be added, removed or moved between categories. What this cell incorporates is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, read in full rather than searched, and reading it does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision. It carries 375 numbered entries, 138 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, 18 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Β, 135 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Γ and 84 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, each series running from 1 without a gap. Every entry names the gazette that placed it. Counting those gazettes by number and date gives 29, of which one, gazette 6034 B of 31 December 2018, is a correction of an error rather than a placing decision. The published Greece entry gives that figure as twenty eight, and the two counts differ by exactly that correction. The most recent placing instrument in the file is gazette 3277 B of 11 June 2026. Placement for 4-HO-MET: at no entry of any of the four tables.
Tables of substances of article 1 of Law 3459/2006 as in force under Law 4139/2013, Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, the file «Πίνακες Ναρκωτικών (Α_Β_Γ_Δ) ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2026.pdf», read in full at www.moh.gov.gr on 21 September 2026 · moh.gov.gr · moh.gov.gr · Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, articles 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29 and 30: the offence articles, the penalty figures and the article 2 prescribing paragraphs in this cell are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass · et.gr · Placement for 4-HO-MET: at no entry of any of the four tables · Updated September 21, 2026
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for 4-HO-MET: not listed, carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Switzerland, 4-HO-MET: BetmVV-EDI Annex · list e · art. 1(2), entry „4-HO-MET“, at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2011/363/de · BetmG articles 19, 19a and 19b at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1952/241_241_245/de · Swiss Criminal Code article 40 at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/54/757_781_799/de · German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read 18 September 2026. · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Czechia is that a Schengen Article 75 certificate is evidential and administrative rather than the schedule itself, so producing one changes what a traveller can show and not where a substance sits. Attached to this row: This substance has no prescribing route in Czechia through these lists, because the whole substituted tryptamine run sits in seznam č. 4.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed narcotic or psychotropic medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a Schengen Article 75 certificate, and treat that certificate as proof of lawful carriage rather than as anything that alters a list. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Czechia since 2013, and the lists keep konopí pro léčebné použití in seznam č. 1 separate from the konopí entry in seznam č. 3. For this row the provenance is the entry „4-Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyl tryptamin“ in seznam č. 4, whose second column prints „4-HO-MET“.
Czechia, nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, příloha č. 4, seznam č. 4 psychotropních látek, the entry „4-Hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyl tryptamin“ for 4-HO-MET · nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, consolidated version 17 in force from 25 June 2026 after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2013-463 on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is § 44c of zákon č. 167/1998 Sb. o návykových látkách · Criminal Code zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. §§ 251a, 283, 283a, 284, 285, 286 and 286a, consolidated version 46 in force from 1 January 2026, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2009-40 on 21 September 2026 · Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. čl. 6 odst. 3, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1993-2 on 21 September 2026 · zakonyprolidi.cz · psp.cz · the two portal links above are the live cell's own publisher references carried forward, and the CZK 15,000 misdemeanour fine, the Supreme Court greater than small quantity thresholds and the 2026 cannabis permission figures are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the official e-Sbírka route was tried and refused: e-sbirka.gov.cz, e-sbirka.cz and two of its api paths each returned the same 1040 byte application shell with no document payload, and sbirka.gov.cz did not resolve, so the consolidated text relied on is the zakonyprolidy.cz consolidation of the same nařízení · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Uruguay’s published penalties for the drug offences of Decreto-Ley 14.294 are two to ten years of penitenciaría for unauthorised production under article 30, two to twelve years under article 31 for import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale, three to twelve years where an organised criminal group is involved, two to six years under article 35 for the lower convention tiers, four to twenty years under article 32 for organising or financing, and four to fifteen or five to twenty years under article 36 for the listed aggravations, subject to the scope note below. Those are the country’s penalties and they are not this row’s exposure, because this substance could not be placed in any list. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 rewrote article 30 by its article 6 and article 31 by its article 7, and that article 7 is the source of the personal consumption exemption quoted above. It does not touch article 35, which descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020 [Certain]. The b176 cell recorded that the generic groups of Anexo II had never been read and that any absence was an absence from a superseded list. Both annexes have now been read and the substance is absent from the current one and outside all three generic groups, so the penalties recited above remain the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, and the row is held open by the derivatives limb alone.
If prescribed / medical
No schedule placement was established for this row, so no controlled medicine route attaches to it in the official text I read. Article 111 of Decreto 454/976 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad, which is a country level rule and not a rule about this substance [Certain]. The traveller question is deferred: no personal medication allowance was found in the reachable official text.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.
[Certain] Re-derived in this pass. Article 5 of Ley 23.737 opens with the words sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo, so an authorised medical channel sits outside it. Article 8 sets reclusión o prisión de tres a quince años, three to fifteen years, a fine and special disqualification for five to twelve years for a person authorised to produce, manufacture, extract, prepare, import, export, distribute or sell estupefacientes who holds them in quantities other than those authorised, or who applies, delivers or sells them sin receta médica o en cantidades mayores a las recetadas. Article 9 sets prisión de dos a seis años, two to six years, a fine and disqualification for one to five years for a doctor or other authorised prescriber who prescribes, supplies or delivers estupefacientes fuera de los casos que indica la terapéutica o en dosis mayores de las necesarias, rising to reclusión o prisión de cuatro a quince años, four to fifteen years, where the destination is illegitimate. Article 1 of the same Act replaced article 204 of the Penal Code, which sets prisión de seis meses a tres años, six months to three years, for a person authorised to sell medicinal substances who supplies them otherwise than in accordance with the prescription, or without presenting and filing it where the regulations require one. [Certain] Those articles reach this row, because the placement above makes it an estupefaciente, so an authorised medical channel is the difference between article 8 or article 9 and article 5. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier prepared for this country, not re-derived here: for an authorised medicine a traveller should hold the original labelled package, the prescription that medicine requires, and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation remain product specific, and none of those documents creates a personal use quantity or authorises an illicit preparation.
Documentation
[Likely] Carried from the live cell: medical cannabis is lawful for registered patients only, and recreational sale and purchase remain criminal offences. The instrument named for that regime, Ley 27.350, was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier: carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled package with the prescription it requires and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation are product specific. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass for this row: this substance is not named individually, and the placement is a chemical group definition in Anexo II, so what a laboratory reports about the structure decides the question rather than a name on a list.
Ley 23.737, consolidated text, InfoLEG https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/0-4999/138/texact.htm · Decreto 560/2019, consolidated text https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-326675/actualizacion · Decreto 122/2026, substituting Anexo I, published 02/03/2026 https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-423520/texto · Anexo I as substituted, the complete 886 row text-layer PDF published by the Boletín Oficial, https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/338915/20260302?anexos=1, sha256 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62, kept at research/instruments/argentina/ · Anexo II, published image https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/326675_dec560anexoII_jpg/archivo · Corte Suprema, Arriola (2009), carried from the live cell https://www.loc.gov/item/2019668143/ · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returning no hit for it, 4-Piperidona, and entry 33, 5F-AMB, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Documentation
Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and a sweep of all 469 entry names and chemical names returns no hit for it. [Certain] Corrected in this pass: an earlier version of this cell named the two entries either side of where the term would sort. That pair was computed on the assumption that the annex sorts on the printed string, and it does not. It sorts ignoring hyphens, spaces and punctuation, which an independent re-parse demonstrated on two runs of the instrument, 2C-B, 2C-E, 2-Fluorodescloroketamina, 2-Metil-AP-237, and Nicocodina, Nicodicodina, Nicomorfina, Nimetazepam, Nitrazepam, N-metilefedrina, Norcodeína. The neighbour pair is withdrawn. The absence itself is unchanged and rests on a complete reading of all 469 entries, which does not depend on the sort order. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.
Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, arts 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis, 79, 96 and 100 · icd.go.cr · Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, Alcance 78 a La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, in force 19 September 2026 · imprentanacional.go.cr · Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026, made under Reglamento 45161-S · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Circular JVD-002-2015 of 14 December 2015, Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas Estupefacientes · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Constitucion Politica de Costa Rica art 21 · constituteproject.org · Incb Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · incb.org · Incb Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · incb.org · Incb Red List, 23rd edition, July 2025 · swissmedic.ch · read as at 2026-09-21 · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Ley 50-88 governs the substances its Categorías name, so this row's prescription position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01 and the Dirección General de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Productos Sanitarios rather than for the drug law. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Documentation
The terms searched for this row were «4-HO-MET», «4-ho-met», «metilcibina» and «4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Its unsubstituted relative psilocin is listed, which shows the law names 4-hydroxytryptamines individually rather than as a group. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026
Documentation
Do not read the absence of an entry as permission. Ask the Ministry of Justice or the nearest Jamaican mission whether a Ministerial order under section 11, or any medicines or pharmacy instrument outside this Act, reaches this substance, and ask before travelling rather than on arrival. If you carry it as a medicine, bring the original packaging, the prescription and a letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period. When you confirm this row, ask the question it turns on, namely whether the answer checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name. The searches relied on here, «4-ho-met», «4-ho-met», spelling variants and the chemical name, were read on 20 September 2026.
Jamaica, the Dangerous Drugs Act, consolidated text, sections 10, 11 and 22, read at https://laws.moj.gov.jm/library/statute/the-dangerous-drugs-act/download, the Ministry of Justice laws of Jamaica library · the download is a 43 page scan of the consolidation whose latest amendment notes are L.N. 3/2001 and, on the Part IIIA pages, L.N. 192A/2017, and five of its pages carry no text layer and were read as page images. This citation is document level and not per substance: the links column of the compilation for this row holds the constructed text «4-ho-met schedule | 4-ho-met penalty» rather than an address, and the single hyperlink target in the whole document is the download named above, so no per row source exists and none is implied. The compilation's own outcome for this row is not verified, and the terms it records as searched are «4-ho-met», «4-ho-met», spelling variants and the chemical name. There is no First Schedule of substances in this Act · its Schedule is the set of licence Forms A, B and D, and the list of drugs to which Part IV applies is in section 10(1). The row boundary the read was carried out against is recorded as follows: it checks the hydroxy methyl-ethyl tryptamine and not the psilocin name. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry nothing that asserts a lawful route for 4-HO-MET, because the source read here establishes a Schedule 1 placement and records no medical or traveller route at all. What is worth carrying is the citation itself, so that any question is answered from the instrument rather than from a recollection. Provenance: the placement relied on reads: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 1 para. 1(p). It was checked on 20 September 2026. What was actually read is “structurally derived from... a ring-hydroxy tryptamine”, and nothing beyond that wording is carried here. The dossier behind this cell supplied no address for this row, so the citation carried here is to the named instrument and not to a retrieved document.
Ireland. The governing statute is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, and the provisions this row relies on are the ones printed in its own recorded lines below, with none added to them. The numbered instrument this row relies on is S.I. No. 210 of 2022, made under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. The instrument and section string recorded in full for 4-HO-MET is: Schedule 1 · S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 1 para. 1(p) · 1977 Act ss. 2, 3, 15 · row-specific search for 4-HO-MET (4-ho-met). The entry or wording read is “structurally derived from... a ring-hydroxy tryptamine”, quoted here as the dossier prints it. The exact search recorded against that instrument is: "4-HO-MET" / "4-ho-met" in the instrument named in column 3. The ceiling and the provision carrying it are recorded as: For 4-ho-met, 1977 Act s. 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years for possession on indictment · s. 27(3) permits life for s. 15 supply · s. 15A applies at €13,000 with the s. 27(3C)-(3D) ten-year rule · 2010 Act excluded by s. 2(1)(f). Read as at 20 September 2026. The second statute is named in the dossier only as the 2010 Act, with no short title given, so it is cited here in the dossier's own words and no title has been supplied for it. No address is given here because the dossier supplied none. Its address column carried only the words "Official text" for this row, and no address of any kind appears anywhere in the dossier, so this citation is to the named instrument rather than to a retrieved document. Nothing has been supplied in place of the missing address. · Updated September 21, 2026
Austria's traveller rule is the authorized purpose rule and there is no other. SMG §5(1) allows a Suchtmittel to be acquired, possessed, produced, processed, carried, imported, exported, offered, transferred or procured only for medical, dental, veterinary or scientific purposes and only as that Act provides, and professional licensing, medical dispensing and travel exemptions each remain subject to their own particular provisions rather than to any general allowance. Because this substance is reached by the new psychoactive substances regime rather than by the narcotics or psychotrope lists, neither the SMG §30(3) medicine exception nor the psychotrope travel certificate applies to it. NPSG §2 excludes lawful medicinal channels from that regime, which is a carve out for products that already hold a medicinal authorisation and not a route a traveller can claim for themselves. 4-HO-MET has no medicinal listing in Austria, so no dispensed product of it can exist.
Documentation
Carry a written record of what the substance actually is, because the instrument that applies and the ceiling that follows both depend on the structural identification rather than on the name it was sold under. 4-HO-MET is not treated as a psilocin isomer, which is the finding that decides its instrument. The NPS structural annexes were read at their 18 September 2026 consolidation, with Annexes II and III last amended by BGBl II 106/2024 of 18 April 2024 and Annex I last amended by BGBl II 168/2019.
Austria, Neue-Psychoaktive-Substanzen-Verordnung, Annex II group 6, the tryptamine base structure definition read with NPSV §1(2), applied to 4-HO-MET, the structural definitions read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40261441/II_106_2024_Anlage_II.pdf and the illustrations at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokumente/Bundesnormen/NOR40261442/II_106_2024_Anlage_III.pdf, the regulation itself at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20007642 · the offence and the definitions of substance and scope are Neue-Psychoaktive-Substanzen-Gesetz §§1 to 5, read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=20007605 · RIS is the official publisher · its open data notice at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Ogd.aspx places the reused material under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and requires attribution, and its imprint at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Impressum.aspx identifies the signed authentic gazette instruments as the binding text and disclaims accuracy, currency and completeness for the consolidated versions · the structural amendment applied is BGBl II 106/2024 at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/II/2024/106 · at that placement the reading also covered this: the psilocin entry in the narcotics instrument was read against this structure, and the extra carbon on the amino nitrogen is what prevents the isomer rule from reaching it · read as at 18 September 2026. · the section 27, 35, 28 and 28a penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Austria entry, which cites the Suchtmittelgesetz and the Suchtgift-Grenzmengenverordnung. They were not re-derived from either instrument in this pass, and that entry's own framing, depenalised and not legalised and no legal minimum quantity, is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
· Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 30 kwietnia 2025 r. zmieniające to rozporządzenie, Dz.U. 2025 poz. 598, w mocy od 22 maja 2025 r.
· the regulation, both amending regulations and the Act were read at api.sejm.gov.pl on 21 September 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Croatia is that carriage of a medicine containing a listed drug is set by Articles 24 and 24.a of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga rather than by the schedule, so paperwork changes what a traveller may hold and not where a substance sits. At the state border a traveller may hold such a medicine only on medical documentation and only in the quantity needed for personal use for at most 5 days. A person on substitution therapy for addiction, or on symptomatic therapy in the terminal phase of a malignant disease, may hold up to 15 days on the same documentation. Article 24.a of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga lets «osobe s prebivalištem, odnosno boravištem u Republici Hrvatskoj koje putuju u države Šengenskoga prostora», and since NN 39/2019 also «državljani Šengenskog prostora kada putuju u Republiku Hrvatsku», hold up to 30 days of such a medicine on a certificate issued on the prescribed form by «ovlašteni liječnik», an authorised doctor, whose content and appearance the health minister sets by pravilnik. Article 75 of the Schengen Convention lets a traveller carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances «that are necessary for their medical treatment» on «a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence», which turns on residence and not nationality: under Croatian law the authorised doctor's certificate is the document for a Croatian resident, and Article 75 points a visitor resident in another Schengen state to the certificate of the state where they live; which of the two governs a visitor who is a Schengen national resident elsewhere was not settled by anything read. Attached to this row: No authorised medicine contains this tryptamine, so no dispensing record can support carriage of it. The live cell recorded for this row: If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Under Article 24(3) the name and quantity of the medicine must be declared to customs on crossing the European Union border, with the medical documentation produced. Article 59 of the control Act makes each of those failures a misdemeanour for a natural person punishable by a fine of 1.000,00 to 10.000,00 kuna, which is roughly 133 to 1,327 euro at the fixed conversion rate, and the four failures it names are carrying without documentation or beyond the 5 day quantity, the substitution and terminal care case beyond 15 days, failing to declare to customs, and travelling within Schengen beyond 30 days or without the certificate. Medical cannabis has been legal in Croatia since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents, which is carried forward from the live cell. Claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded, which is also carried forward. The hydroxyl ring substituent limb of the class entry is the wording that reaches this row. For this row the provenance is the entry »triptamini« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. which reaches this row without naming it.
Croatia, Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, psychotropic list, Odjeljak 1. the entry »triptamini« reached without naming this row · the terms searched across all three lists of the Popis for this row were 4-HO-MET, metilcibin, hidroksi-metiletiltriptamin, triptamini · the live cell's recital that this substance was not named in the cited Croatian sources is superseded here by a search of the operative Popis itself, which is the instrument those cited sources point at · the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026 · its only amendment, Izmjene i dopune Popisa, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2024_12_154_2555.html on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is Article 2(2) of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Narodne novine 107/01, 87/02, 163/03, 141/04, 40/07, 149/09, 84/11, 80/13 and 39/19 · Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Articles 2, 3, 13, 24, 24.a, 54 and 59, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/293/zakon-o-suzbijanju-zlouporabe-droga on 21 September 2026 · Kazneni zakon, Articles 41, 44, 46 and 190, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/98/kazneni-zakon on 21 September 2026 · the current three to twelve year band in Article 190(2) was set by Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2025_11_136_2018.html on 21 September 2026, against which the private consolidation was checked · Ustav Republike Hrvatske, Article 21, read at https://www.zakon.hr/z/94/Ustav-Republike-Hrvatske on 21 September 2026 · the live cell's own references, the Drug Abuse Prevention Act (Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Official Gazette 107/2001, as amended) and the Criminal Code, carried forward · euda.europa.eu · the 2013 reclassification, the 660 to 2,650 euro fine, the 90 day detention, the no statutory quantity rule, the six months to five years, three to twelve years and fifteen to twenty year figures and the October 2015 medical cannabis permission with its 0,75 g monthly cap are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There may be a lawful medical route for 4-HO-MET in Hungary and this row does not settle it. What is settled is the placement: the row this cell relies on is inside the definition section 459(1a) carries into the Criminal Code, so any supply runs inside the control regime rather than around it. The prescribing, dispensing and import conditions sit in the Hungarian medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. The Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition is the body that states them, and the reporting and licensing forms in the mellékletek to 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet are headed with its Hungarian abbreviation, NNGYK. The row this cell relies on is not a row at all: it is the structural description in the 3. melléklet set out above. Do not read this row as a statement that 4-HO-MET cannot be a prescribed medicine, because that is a different question and this row does not reach it. Treat the route as unread rather than as absent. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for 4-HO-MET, and get the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition or the relevant embassy to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer, and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for this substance appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. No printed row is relied on for this cell. What is relied on is a structural description in the 3. melléklet, read against the molecule. Provenance follows. The controlling text is 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026. Its section 1 puts the kábítószer jegyzékek in the 1. melléklet, the pszichotróp anyag jegyzékek in the 2. melléklet, «A 2. melléklet tartalmazza a pszichotróp anyagnak minősülő anyagok jegyzékeit.», and the új pszichoaktív anyag jegyzék in the 3. melléklet. The Criminal Code was read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 26 August 2026, and that rendering stops at section 339, so sections 459(1a) and 461 were read instead in the Act that enacted them, 2025. évi XIX. törvény sections 26 and 27, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0. The Criminal Code page carries a footnote recording that section 461 is the text established by section 27 of that Act, so the two readings agree. On the instrument itself: the schedules are not in 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet. That decree survives as the activities, licensing and definitions instrument, its 1. melléklet was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, and 78/2022 has carried the jegyzékek since 1 January 2023.
Hungary, 4-HO-MET, not itself a named entry, reached through a named entry or a structural description of 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról as the legal status field sets out · the entry or the search record is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the rendelet, consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 · 2012. évi C. törvény a Büntető Törvénykönyvről, sections 176 to 180, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 · sections 459(1a) and 461 of that Act as established by sections 26 and 27 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0 on 21 September 2026, because the Nemzeti Jogszabálytár rendering of the Criminal Code stops at section 339 · 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet, the activities and definitions decree whose 1. melléklet formerly carried the jegyzékek and was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-66-20-22 · every Criminal Code figure in this cell was re-derived from the Act in this pass and the live Hungary figure is printed beside it in the street field · read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET has no registration and no prescribing route, and nothing in the hydroxytryptamine family is registered here.
Documentation
No documentation route. There is no lawful supply to document.
Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218), as last amended by Act No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026 · Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III were substituted by section 6 of Act No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022, and the entry relied on is read from that Act · the entry relied on is Third Schedule, Part I, Group B, Section 3, clause 6, the tryptamine analogue clause · Section 3 clause 6 read for the tryptamine analogues, limb (a) and the ring hydroxy opening words. Principal Ordinance read from the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board's own copy. Read 2026-09-17 · nddcb.gov.lk · nddcb.gov.lk · parliament.lk · Updated September 21, 2026
Dahir portant loi n° 1-73-282 du 28 rebia II 1394 (21 mai 1974) relatif à la répression de la toxicomanie et la prévention des toxicomanes, Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 to 929, read from the page image on 22 September 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1974/bo_3214_fr.pdf | Dahir du 12 rebia II 1341 (2 décembre 1922) portant règlement sur l'importation, le commerce, la détention et l'usage des substances vénéneuses, article 1 as modified 17 March 1953 and the annexed tableaux A, B and C as annexed in 1922, ONSSA consolidated text, read from the page image on 22 September 2026 | placement for 4-ho-met: in no entry of tableaux A, B or C as annexed in 1922 and in no entry of the 1971 Convention tableaux as printed in 1981 · the operative arrêté was not read · Updated October 2, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route arises under Law No. 9 of 1987 for a substance that Law does not carry. If the material is a medicine it sits in the medicines and pharmacy regime, which is registration, import permission and dispensing rules administered by the Pharmacy and Drug Control Department, and this row did not audit that regime. Read the absence as an absence from the drug schedules and not as permission to carry the thing.
Documentation
No Qatari carriage permit, declaration form or traveller allowance for this substance was found in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. If you carry it as a medicine, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging and ask the Pharmacy and Drug Control Department at the Ministry of Public Health in writing before you travel rather than at the border, because the Department decides release at the point of entry. Tables 1 to 5 were read page by page and the three Ministry lists were searched for this name, its abbreviations and its chemical name on 22 September 2026.
the table and item placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier checked against this batch, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a table or item marker for any of its 88 rows, measured at 0 of 88 on 22 September 2026 · it was read instead in the Official Gazette annex named above · the statute amendment chain carried in the consolidated text and re-derived from it on 22 September 2026 is Law No. 7 of 1998, Law No. 20 of 2003, Law No. 1 of 2006, Law No. 3 of 2020 and Law No. 16 of 2023, which that text marks on 5, 1, 28, 33 and 1 articles respectively, article 41 bis having been repealed by Law No. 1 of 2006 · the separate medicines regime is Law No. 19 of 1993, whose article 14 gives the Minister the parallel power over its own schedules · Qatar, 4-HO-MET, searched in Tables 1 to 5 of Law No. 9 of 1987 and in the three Ministry of Public Health controlled lists, no matching entry · Qatar, Law No. 9 of 1987 on the control of narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances, consolidated Arabic text read at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=3989&language=ar on 22 September 2026, where the portal states its material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 · the attached annex, which the Al Meezan schedule note returns empty, was read instead in the Official Gazette scan at https://encyclop.sjc.gov.qa/Portal3/ahkam/OpenpdfFile.aspx?id=8, all thirty pages, a scan carrying no text layer, so it was rendered and read as images and the Latin entry column was transcribed by optical character recognition and confirmed against the page image · the Supreme Judicial Council site reserves all rights and no open-reuse licence was located, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced · the schedule amendments read in full, each through its last article, are Ministerial Decision 22 of 2015 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=6806&language=ar, Decision 6 of 2024 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9649&language=ar, Decision 2 of 2025 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9855&language=ar and Decision 8 of 2026 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=10296&language=ar · the Ministry of Public Health Pharmacy and Drug Control Department guideline Controls and Regulations for the release of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and psychoactive drugs, signed by the Director of that Department, read on 22 September 2026 from a mirror because the Ministry host www.moph.gov.qa refused programmatic retrieval behind a challenge page on that date, so this list is cited as an administrative Ministry list and never as proof of a numbered table placement · the penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the consolidated article text on 22 September 2026 and are not carried forward from any earlier cell or summary · Updated September 21, 2026
Decree Law 159 of 2025, articles 40 to 53, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm 1 December 2025, in force 15 December 2025 · https://alwifaqkw.com/2025/12/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81/ | Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026, made 24 May 2026 under article 40, annexing the complete updated schedules, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026 · https://mesferlaw.com/ | placement for 4-HO-MET: in no table of Group 1 or Group 2. Serial P1-39 is alpha methyltryptamine and P1-23 is etryptamine, both different substances · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this run, provides that "La pena de muerte sólo puede aplicarse por el delito de traición a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Perú es parte obligada". The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the articles themselves, every offence among Codigo Penal articles 296 to 302 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range, article 299 declares a possession not punishable and sets no penalty, article 303 provides expulsion, article 296-D is derogated, and none of them states death. Read the penalties that follow with this in front of them. They are Peru's published penalties and they are not this row's exposure, because whether the trafficking offence reaches this substance at all is exactly what the listing did not establish. They are set out in full rather than dropped, so that nothing sourced is lost, but no figure below is asserted against this substance. With that said, these are the published figures. The trafficking offence is article 296 of the Codigo Penal in the wording given it by article 3 of Decreto Legislativo 1592, published on 14 December 2023, which names "drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years, 180 to 365 dias-multa and disqualification for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years and 120 to 180 dias-multa for possession "para usos ilegales", the words Decreto Legislativo 1592 put in place of the earlier "para su tráfico ilícito", so the possession limb no longer turns on proof of an intent to traffic; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not, destined for the illegal elaboration of those drugs; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations, among them commission by three or more persons or inside a criminal organisation, sale to minors, and commission in or near a school, health centre, sports venue or place of detention. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity, and, in the final paragraph Ley 32250 added on 19 January 2025, applies it again where drug trafficking activity violates or seeks to violate the life, physical or mental integrity, liberty or property of one or more persons. Article 297 numeral 7, as reworded by Ley 32250, sets the quantity aggravation at 20 kg of pasta basica de cocaina, 10 kg of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, 15 g of extasis, or three milligrams of fentanilo or its analogues. Article 298, retitled by Decreto Legislativo 1592 as the formas atenuadas and reworded again by Ley 32250, sets 3 to 7 years where the toxic drug elaborated, manufactured, prepared, traded, handed to others or possessed para usos ilegales does not exceed 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, 2 g of extasis, or up to one milligram of fentanilo, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 299, in the wording given it by Decreto Legislativo 1592, makes possession of a toxic drug destined for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis, and its second paragraph excludes from that protection the possession of two or more kinds of toxic drugs, "sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas". The lineage of these articles, kept so that nothing sourced is lost: Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003 derogated article 296-D; Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007 replaced articles 296, 296-A, 297, 298 and 299; Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015 replaced articles 296, 296-B and 297, the wording of 296 and 297 the previous cell quoted as current; Decreto Legislativo 1592 of 14 December 2023 replaced articles 296, 298 and 299; and Ley 32250 of 19 January 2025 replaced article 297 numeral 7, added its final paragraph and replaced article 298 numeral 1. The last two are the current text read in this run. Articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 were read in the Congreso compendio. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Article 15 letter d of Decreto Legislativo 1241, read in the consolidated text in this run, lets the Policia Nacional detain a person caught in flagrante for up to fifteen calendar days. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that "para los efectos de la represión penal, se considera únicamente las listas I y II A", and article 296 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592 reaches drogas tóxicas, sean estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas o nuevas sustancias psicoactivas; neither brings in a substance that no list names, which is why no figure above is asserted here. What was not established on this row is the placement itself. The search run over Anexo N. 2 under 4-HO-MET, metilcina and 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina returned no entry, and nothing among the 244 numbered entries answered it.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in: article 23 requires the special numbered prescription forms distributed by the Ministerio de Salud for Listas II A, III A, III B and III C, and article 27 allows an ordinary medical prescription for Listas II B, IV A, IV B and VI, both read in this run; article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishes a health professional who improperly prescribes, administers or dispenses a medicine containing a toxic drug with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance has no Anexo N. 2 placement to attach, so there is no list to set the form of the receta and no controlled medicines route the Reglamento provides for it. Whether it is a registered medicine in Peru at all is a medicines registration question that sits outside the schedule and was not examined here, so no carriage rule is stated for it.
Documentation
Provenance: this row stays unplaced after this run's searches of the annex to Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN, of the INCB Green List 36th edition and Yellow List 65th edition, and of Anexo N. 2 in its 9 March 2026 Wayback capture, all on 3 October 2026. The offence articles set out are Codigo Penal article 296 and articles 298 and 299 as worded by Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 297 as reworded by Ley 32250, and articles 297 numerals 1 to 6 and 300 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio. The previous pass's provenance, carried: the finding relied on is a negative search of all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, whose address is given in full in the source field, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, together with the 1978 annex to Decreto Ley 22095, and every list was followed to its final numbered item. The terms carried into that search over Anexo N. 2 were 4-HO-MET, metilcina and 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. None of them reached an entry. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this run: medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the Lista II A cannabis entries, items 12 and 13; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, carried from the cell settled on 21 September 2026 and not re-read in this run: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The previous cell gave article 60 as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, which is right, but described under it the 1978 text that Decreto Legislativo 122 repealed, as Decreto Ley 22095, read in this run, shows. Article 60 as enacted in 1978 set 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without registration or beyond the registered extent, for paying for personal services in coca leaf, for an owner, tenant, administrator, guard or person in charge who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, and for selling leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122, published on 15 June 1981, repealed that text and put in its place an offence of shielding a person from prosecution or punishment for drug trafficking, 5 to 8 years, or 10 to 15 years where the one who shields is an official charged with the investigation of the offence or the custody of the offender, and the consolidated text refers the reader to Section II, Chapter III of the Codigo Penal approved by Decreto Legislativo 635. The premises offence the previous cell called the one most likely to reach a visitor is therefore the repealed 1978 text and is not stated here as law; permitting drug use on premises is not shown by anything read in this run to be an offence of its own, and article 296 reaches promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption only through acts of manufacture or trafficking. Nothing read in the 21 September 2026 pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.
Peru, Resolucion Ministerial 0804-2026-IN of the Ministerio del Interior approving the Lista de Nuevas Sustancias Psicoactivas (NSP), in El Peruano at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2526706-1 and on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/mininter/normas-legales/8278257-0804-2026-in, resolution https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174756/8278257-0804-2026-in.pdf and annex https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/10174757/8278257-anexo-0804-2026-in.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1241 as consolidated by the Congreso, with article 14 as replaced by Decreto Legislativo 1592, at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/DEEDF5BA81015EF805258AB40052BA3C/$FILE/dec_leg_1241.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 1592, article 3 on Codigo Penal articles 296, 298 and 299, at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2244234-2 · Ley 32250 on Codigo Penal articles 297 and 298 at https://busquedas.elperuano.pe/dispositivo/NL/2363369-3 · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas of the Congreso at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf · Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, read in the capture https://web.archive.org/web/20260309092330/https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf · the Reglamento itself on gob.pe at https://www.gob.pe/institucion/minsa/normas-legales/255646-023-2001-sa · Decreto Ley 22095 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · the Constitution, articles 55 and 140, at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2026/2510307E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026 at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/65th_Edition/YL_65th_EN_unedited.pdf, with the editions the previous cell read, the Green List 35th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the Yellow List 64th edition at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf, fetched as well · all fetched on 3 October 2026. The previous cell's sources, carried: Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The finding for this row is an absence from all 244 entries of Anexo N. 2 rather than an entry in it, recorded against the Spanish terms 4-HO-MET, metilcina, 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Chile controls medicines carrying these substances through the pharmacy rules as well as the drug law, and the live cell this replaces carried the instruction to travel with the prescription and to confirm with the embassy [Likely, carried]. Artículo 6 of Ley 20.000 punishes a doctor, dentist or vet who prescribes without medical or therapeutic need with presidio mayor en sus grados mínimo a medio and a fine of forty to four hundred unidades tributarias mensuales, and artículo 7 punishes an authorised supplier who supplies against the rules with the same band [Certain]. Artículo 50 treats use for a medical treatment as justified [Certain].
Documentation
Personal use of a small quantity, proximate in time and exclusive, is a falta under artículo 50 and not a crime, punished by a fine, a prevention or treatment programme, or community work [Certain]. That is not the same as saying prison cannot follow. Under artículo 52 the substitute penalties require the convicted person's agreement, and without it the court must convert the unpaid fine into reclusion at one day per third of a unidad tributaria mensual, which on the one to ten unidad range of artículo 50 reaches thirty days [Certain]. A traveller who declines the substitute programme and does not pay is the case this reaches. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. Public consumption and agreed group consumption in private are both caught [Certain]. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Chile since 2015 under Decreto Supremo 84 [Likely, carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass]. Home cultivation is governed by artículo 8 of Ley 20.000, which sets no plant count; the six plant figure that circulates comes from reform bills and not from the law in force, a correction carried from the live cell and confirmed here in that artículo 8 states no number [Certain]. The live cell also carried a note that a 2025 to 2026 reform tightening penalties was before the Constitutional Court. What I can state is narrower: Ley 21.817 was published on 23 May 2026 and amended artículos 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 43 of Ley 20.000, it did not touch artículo 50, and whether it is the instrument that note described is not established. Travel with any controlled medicine in its packaging with the prescription.
Decreto Supremo 867 de 2007 del Ministerio del Interior, reglamento of Ley 20.000, artículos 1, 2, 4 and 5, consolidated text read 21 September 2026 (listas as amended by Decreto 220 de 2022) · Ley 20.000 artículos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bis, 8, 19, 50, 51, 52 and 55 to 59, consolidated text of 23 May 2026 · Ley 21.817 of 23 May 2026 · Código Penal artículo 21 · leychile.cl · leychile.cl · bcn.cl · unodc.org · Updated September 21, 2026
Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, Schedules 1 to 5, at https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1975/116/en/latest/, read as at 20 September 2026. The power that moves the list is section 4, which authorises the Governor General by Order in Council to amend Schedules 1 to 5 subject to statutory approval and commencement machinery, so the schedules are not fixed by the Act's own date. The chain the source records as checked is the current consolidation, the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, and the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment. A 2026 Order exists and the source records it as uncommenced at that date, so this reading does not rule out a later amendment that had commenced or been made after it. The published URL resolves to the latest consolidation rather than to a fixed version, so the read date above is what identifies the text, not the link. · Updated September 21, 2026
Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, Schedule 2 open homologue limb, nearest tryptamine entry read and rejected on chain length · Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, ss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 17 and 19, with Schedules 1 and 2 · justice.gov.za · read from the cached text at research/instruments/south-africa/za-drugs-act-140-1992.txt, 84,091 bytes, against the.pdf beside it at 127,460 bytes · the consolidation is dated 29 May 2025 and carries the Act 14 of 2022 substitution of both schedules with effect from 14 December 2022 · Updated September 21, 2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245 (No. 4 of 1994), text as at 31 December 2022 revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), incorporating the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), commenced 21 March 2022 · ss. 2, 3, 4, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 13, 16, 87 and the First to Fourth Schedules · new.kenyalaw.org · Updated October 2, 2026
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Carry the reasoning rather than a schedule number. The hydroxy substituent printed in Annex IVA group 5 is what reaches 4-HO-MET, so the identity of the material decides the result. The generic family at Annex IVA group 5 was read on 18 September 2026. The annex text read is the non official consolidated version published by the AFMPS; it is informative and the Moniteur belge controls. The annex consolidation relied on here is valid from 29 March 2026, following the amending Royal Decree published on 19 March 2026, and carries a correction dated 16 July 2026.
Belgium, Royal Decree of 6 September 2017, Annex IVA group 5, the tryptamine derivatives family, with articles 2, 8 and 61 of that decree and article 2bis of the Law of 24 February 1921 carrying the offence and the penalties · the basis relied on is the generic tryptamine definition in Annex IVA group 5, reached through the hydroxy substituent it prints · read at https://www.afmps.be/sites/default/files/content/INSP/NARC/annex%20IV_non%20official%20consolidated%20version.pdf on 18 September 2026 · the decree is at https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/arrete/2017/09/06/2017031231/justel and the 1921 Law bilingual consolidation at https://afmps.be/sites/default/files/downloads/LOI-WET-1921-02-24.pdf · the annex text is the AFMPS non official consolidated version, valid from 29 March 2026 with a correction dated 16 July 2026, and the Moniteur belge controls · Updated September 20, 2026
For a prescribed controlled medicine on Schengen travel, carry a certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, together with the original packaging and the prescription. The live cell said that no controlled drug documentation requirement arises under the drug law. That followed from the premise corrected in this cell, and it is superseded: the substance is named in the narcotics lists.
Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026 · 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika · Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name · lakemedelsverket.se · lakemedelsverket.se · Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), 1 §, 2 §, 3 § and 8 § · Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived · riksdagen.se · the row read at line 1234 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text · Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass · Lag (1999:42) om förbud mot vissa hälsofarliga varor, 1 to 4 §§, carried forward from the live cell · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, and INCB Green List, 36th edition 2025, carried forward from the live cell as read on 16 September 2026 · riksdagen.se · incb.org · Updated September 21, 2026
Norway, forskrift 14. februar 2013 nr. 199 om narkotika (narkotikaforskriften), narkotikalisten and sections 3, 5 and 19
· legemiddelloven (LOV-1992-12-04-132) sections 22, 24 and 31
· straffeloven (LOV-2005-05-20-28) sections 231 and 232
There is a lawful medical route. Section 3 of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 says euphoriants may be used in Denmark only for medical or scientific purposes, and section 6(1)(1) allows receipt and possession only by a person who receives the substance on a prescription or requisition issued under the rules in force. The route that would apply is the general liste B one, and no product containing this compound is authorised in Denmark.
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Declare any controlled medicine on arrival, carry it in its original dispensed container, and carry the prescription or a doctor's letter naming the substance, the dose and the patient. Article 75 of the Schengen Convention lets a traveller carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances «that are necessary for their medical treatment» on «a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence». For residents of Denmark the issuer is a pharmacy, in sundhed.dk's words «I Danmark udstedes Schengen-attester på apoteket.»; a visitor resident in another Schengen state also needs the certificate of the state where they live, because a doctor's letter on its own is not that certificate. Confirm requirements with the Danish Medicines Agency and with your embassy before travel.
A substance banned from the consumer market is by definition not a medicine, which is what section 3 subsection 3 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 says, so no prescription route follows from this listing. Where a substance is a medicinal ingredient rather than a listed narcotic, it is handled through the Medicines Act 395/1987, in particular the conduct and import rules in section 3 and the medicinal substances list, and its status turns on individual product classification. This row in particular. Section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 writes its traveller carve out by reference to the convention lists and this row is in neither decree's convention annexes at all, so the carve out has nothing to attach to. The route in for this category is section 23 b instead, which reads «Elinkeinonharjoittaja saa tuoda maahan ja varastoida kuluttajamarkkinoilta kiellettyjä psykoaktiivisia aineita perustellusta syystä teollista toimintaansa varten, jos aineesta ja toiminnasta on tehty ennen maahantuontia ilmoitus Lääkealan turvallisuus- ja kehittämiskeskukselle.», and that is a research and industry route, not a prescription route.
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The traveller carve out in section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 is written for medicinal products containing convention listed narcotics and does not describe this row. Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Finland's personal import rules for medicines sit in the Medicines Act 395/1987 and were not read for this cell, so no traveller allowance is stated here. This row in particular. What a traveller is carrying, if this row is in the bag, is a substance banned from the consumer market by name at printed line 619 of the annex to 1130/2014, reading «4-HO-MET (3-{2-[etyyli(metyyli)amino]etyyli}-1H-indol-4-oli)», and import into Finland is one of the acts section 5 subsection 2 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 forbids. There is no traveller allowance to state for this row because the Act provides none for this category: the only import routes are the university and the industry notifications in section 23 b. Provenance for this row. The consolidated 543/2008 read here is the Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version Finlex identifies as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin, in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; the consolidated 1130/2014 read here is the Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; and where the medicines list is cited it is the Finnish annex text to decision 230/2025 served by Finlex, read on 21 September 2026.
Finland, 4-HO-MET, a named entry of the annex to valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014 at printed line 619 of the Finnish annex text, that annex as substituted by 650/2026 · the entry text, the closing extension clause of its list and the statutory wording are quoted in the other fields and are not repeated here, because this field is split into citation chips on every semicolon · Valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008, section 1 and annexes I to V · Valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014, section 1 and its annex · Huumausainelaki 373/2008, sections 3, 5, 7, 23, 23 b and 24 · Rikoslaki 39/1889, chapter 44 sections 5 and 5 a and chapter 50 sections 1, 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 4 a, 5 and 7 · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · 543/2008 read in the consolidated Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version identified as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin and in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · 1130/2014 read in the consolidated Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · Finlex is the Ministry of Justice public legal database, its data is published under CC BY 4.0 and the statutes themselves are outside copyright under section 9 of the Copyright Act 404/1961 · read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is Ley 913 article 20, which puts a medicine containing a sustancia controlada of Listas I to IV behind an authorised pharmacy and a doctor's prescription or a Ministry of Health form, and article 21 I, which obliges a carrier to require a Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation before such a substance crosses the customs frontier. Attached to this row: neither article attaches on the reading made here, because both are keyed to a place in the Anexo and no place for this substance was established. That is not a statement that it may be carried freely. It is a statement that the controlled medicines route was not shown to reach it. What the search did return on this row was this. Lista I names PSILOCINA, which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine. This substance differs at the nitrogen substituents and is a separate compound that the entry does not name. A band that article 20 does govern therefore exists close by, and this substance was not found in it or in any other.
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Provenance. The Anexo was read in the Gaceta Oficial edition of Ley 913, edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, downloaded from the Gaceta at gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo, and cross checked line by line against the copy the Dirección General de Sustancias Controladas publishes at dgsc.gob.bo. The two copies carry the same entries and differ only in line breaks and in a handful of characters where a capital letter I is set as a lowercase letter l in the text layer. The Anexo says on its own face that it reproduces the 1961 and 1971 convention lists as amended in force from 19 September 1987, so it is an old list re enacted in 2017 and it is materially the same list Ley 1008 annexed. Which instrument governs, re derived this pass. Ley 913 did not replace Ley 1008. Its first derogatory disposition derogates article 33 incisos a), q) and r), articles 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 44 of Título II, and Títulos VI, VII and VIII, and nothing else. Título III, the offences and penalties at articles 46 to 55, was left standing and is still the law, and Ley 913 itself contains no criminal penalty at all. What did move is the schedule. Article 33(a), the inciso that defined sustancias controladas by pointing at the Ley 1008 annex, is derogated, and Ley 913 article 5(c) with its own Anexo took its place. Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 separately abrogated the coca title of Ley 1008. So a cell that cites Law 1008 for the list is citing a derogated inciso, while a cell that cites it for the penalty is right. One loose end sits in the statute itself: article 46 still reads plantas señaladas por el anexo a que se refiere el inciso a) del artículo 33, and that inciso no longer exists. [Certain] Carriage. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect a carrier to ask for the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation that article 21 I of Ley 913 obliges it to require before a substance of the Anexo lists crosses the customs frontier.
Bolivia. Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, Ley de Lucha contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Sustancias Controladas, article 5(c) and its Anexo, Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, read at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/913 and cross checked against https://dgsc.gob.bo/normativa/leyes/Ley913.pdf, complete read of Listas I to V with no entry found for 4-ho-met · Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988, Título III, articles 46 to 55 and article 33(m), read in the Gaceta Oficial edition at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/1008 and against the Ministerio de Gobierno consolidated text at https://web.mingobierno.gob.bo/ · Constitution of 2009 articles 15 and 384 at https://www.senarecom.gob.bo/files/transparencia/CONSTITUCION_POLITICA_DEL_ESTADO.pdf · Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 article 16 at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/906 · all read as at 21 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Deferred. Because the placement of this row was not established, no prescription route can be stated for it. 4-HO-MET and metocina returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. Paraguay's general rule is that a medicine containing a scheduled substance is dispensed only on the numbered quadruplicate prescription form required by article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 and article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005, valid for eight days and capped at 30 days of treatment, through a pharmacy licensed by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social. That is the country's rule and not a statement that this substance is dispensed under it.
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Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Search result for this row. 4-HO-MET and metocina returned nothing anywhere in the schedule. Psilocina is in Lista I, but this row is its N-ethyl, N-methyl homologue rather than a stereoisomer of it, so the Lista I stereoisomer rule does not reach it. [Certain] that this is what the December 2025 schedule holds. Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019), official parliamentary text, read at https://repository.parliament.gh/bitstreams/2ae84af6-4f3f-49e5-aae1-b340fe350cb8/download on 3 October 2026, Fifth to Eighth Schedules, definition of narcotic drug, section 112 · Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2023, https://repository.parliament.gh/server/api/core/bitstreams/bddf7867-d1e8-4c0c-a44d-bc984aa53ec8/content · consolidation note «Amended by Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100 of 2023)», https://www.judy.legal/legislation/akn/gh/act/2020/1019 · Narcotics Control Commission (Cultivation and Management of Cannabis) Regulations, 2023 (L.I. 2475), https://www.judy.legal/legislation/akn/gh/act/li/2023/2475 · Food and Drugs Authority, Guidelines for the Sale, Supply and Use of Controlled Substances, FDA/DRI/TSA/GL-SSCS/2020/07, version 01, effective 1 January 2021, read at https://fdaghana.gov.gh/final-guidelines-for-the-sale-supply-and-use-of-controlled-drugs-4 on 3 October 2026, sections 2 and 3.1 and appendix 9 · Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851), read at https://www.moh.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Public-Health-Act-851.pdf on 3 October 2026, sections 118, 122, 126 and 129 · INCB Green List, 35th edition 2024, read at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Not named in the First Schedule as read, so sections 11 and 12 of the Ordinance are not engaged by name for it. Medicines are separately regulated in Israel under the Pharmacists Ordinance and the regulations made under it, and that body of law was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carry the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm with an Israeli mission before travelling.
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[Certain] Placement read in this pass: not named; the פרט 6 derivative clause is the only candidate route. The reading is of the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה), and a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. Carried from the published entry and from the b162 staging, not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: cannabis is decriminalised by policy rather than legalised. Since 1 April 2019, under a temporary order following the July 2018 Knesset approval, adult personal use or possession of a small amount, 15 g or less, is handled administratively rather than as a criminal offence; private home use is said to be no offence at all, while public use draws a graduated fine, the first about NIS 1,000 or about USD 275, doubled on the second, with the third triggering a criminal investigation or licence loss and the fourth prosecution. Per NIDA and the Anti-Drug Authority cannabis use is still forbidden. Soldiers, prisoners, minors and police are excluded from that framework and remain criminal. The framework is cannabis only and does not extend to other drugs. Also carried and flagged as draft rather than enacted: a 2020 bill to decriminalise up to 50 g did not pass; 2022 Sa'ar draft regulations to make personal use purely administrative and expunge records; a February 2024 redefinition of dangerous drug to only cannabis above 0.3% THC, which would place low-THC CBD outside the Ordinance. The b162 staging also carried an 8 year asset seizure exposure on the trafficking route, which was not re-derived here and is not in the sections read in this pass. Medical cannabis is one of the world's oldest and largest programmes, run by the Israel Medical Cannabis Agency under the Ministry of Health, with a figure of about 130,000 to 140,000 patients and a January 2024 reform that dropped the last resort requirement. None of those figures was verified against a primary source in this pass. [Certain] Re-derived here instead: section 7(c1) of the Ordinance keys its special fine offence expressly to פרטים 1 ו־2 בסימן א' בחלק א', that is to cannabis and cannabis resin and to nothing else among these 88 rows, and sets the fine at NIS 1,000 for a first offence and NIS 2,000 for a second. The Ordinance's own footnote to that subsection states that it came into force on 1.4.2019 and applies for 3 years from that date, which on its face runs to 1.4.2022; the text read here does not record an extension and does not record a lapse, so neither is asserted. Israel has no capital provision for any drug offence.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973, פקודת הסמים המסוכנים [נוסח חדש], התשל"ג-1973, First Schedule and sections 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 to 21, 25 and 31, plus the Second Schedule · consolidated text read on 21 September 2026 from the copy held at research/instruments/israel/israel.txt, 191,538 bytes, which is 138,676 characters and 130,172 once the bidi controls are stripped, sourced from israel2.pdf, whose amendment citation list ends at ק"ת 2746 התשע"ח of 26.7.2018 · the b162 staging attributed the same text to chamber.org.il, carried here and not fetched in this pass. [Certain] The Ordinance's own title page reads התשל"ג-1973 and התשל"ג is 5733, not 5732. [Certain] The First Schedule read here has two סימנים in חלק א' and three live plus one repealed in חלק ב', which the Schedule's own conditions clause confirms by referring to סימן ב' של חלק א' ובסימנים ב' ו־ג' לחלק ב'. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025, sets Panama's Listado Oficial under Ley 14 of 19 May 2016 and Decreto Ejecutivo 183 of 8 June 2018. It is a list of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, not a criminal schedule, so absence from it is not lawfulness and presence on it is not a defence. It does not appear on Panama's medical list. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
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Recreational drug use is illegal in Panama and there is no formal decriminalisation threshold, so Panama should not be treated as a decriminalised country. The exact strings searched for this row were «4-HO-MET, metocin, methylcin and 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine». It is sold as a research chemical, usually without packaging or any statement of strength. The live cell attributed the offences to Ley 23 of 1986 read with Law 13 of 1994. Those citations are carried forward here, with the correction that the articles the live cell then quotes are Penal Code articles, and the Penal Code adopted by Ley 14 of 2007 repealed the 1982 Code together with the offences defined elsewhere that it covers. The Penal Code was read in the Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 as updated to December 2020 and published by the Órgano Judicial, cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019; the two agree word for word on articles 312 to 324, whose last amendment was Ley 40 of 4 July 2012. Every law amending the Penal Code that the Órgano Judicial lists after that consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324. The substance lists were read in Resolución 200 of 2025 as published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A, in the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and in the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. All of it was read as at 21 September 2026. Medicinal cannabis is lawful under Law 242 of 13 October 2021 and hemp under Law 464 of 2025 at a concentration not above 1% by dry weight, and neither route is a general permission for any other substance. Panama has no death penalty for drugs.
Panama, Código Penal, Título IX, Capítulo V, articles 312 to 324, the drug chapter, with article 324 carrying the definition of droga · Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 updated to December 2020, published by the Órgano Judicial · organojudicial.gob.pa · cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019, which agrees word for word on articles 312 to 324 · ministeriopublico.gob.pa · MINSA Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, the Listado Oficial of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, which repeals Resolutions 410 of 2018, 691 of 2020, 782 of 2020 and 176 of 2021, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025 · dnfd.minsa.gob.pa · searched in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 and no entry was returned, which is a finding about those lists and not about the dependence limb of article 324 · the penalty figures, the citation of Ley 23 of 1986 with Ley 13 of 1994 and the citation of Decreto 25 of 16 January 2024 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived, except where this cell states a correction · every law the Órgano Judicial lists as amending the Penal Code after the December 2020 consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324 · no identification code is cited for this row because no entry for 4-HO-MET was matched in either convention list, and the national list prints entries without codes · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 9(3) takes a narcotic outside the section 9 prohibitions where it is needed for making an approved medicine, for industrial use, for treatment, for scientific research or for a lawful activity approved by the Director General, and then only under an instrument issued under section 13: a licence to cultivate, produce, carry, import, export, supply, buy, sell, possess, store or display it, a permit to consume, apply or use it, and a pass to carry or transport it. Section 12(1) provides that no person other than a doctor may prescribe a narcotic as a medicine, and section 12(2) that a narcotic may not be bought more than once on the same prescription. Section 2(27) defines a prescription as the written list of medicines, directions for use or instructions given for the purpose of curing disease by a doctor recognised by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
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Section 9(5) is the only traveller allowance the Act contains, and it is not a personal one: a passenger vessel, aircraft or land vehicle may keep, carry, transport, administer and use medicine-grade narcotics in its first aid box under a doctor's control for emergency treatment, in the quantity fixed by the Government by notification in the official Gazette. No such quantity notification was located for this cell, so no figure is stated. There is no personal allowance for a traveller's own supply anywhere in the Act, and the licence, permit and pass of section 13 are issued by the Director General of the Department of Narcotics Control on conditions fixed by rules. Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, and note that section 36(4) lets a court divert a person who appears to be an addict and nothing more into treatment, with 6 months to 5 years if they refuse it.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule read in full, all three classes, and section 36 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Updated September 21, 2026
What would settle 4-HO-MET, and where to look for it. A notification under section 74A, which lets the Federal Government 'amend the Schedules so as to add any entry thereto', or one under section 2(za) declaring a substance to be a psychotropic substance, would settle it in a line. Neither is present in what I could reach, and Schedule-I has carried the same substance list since 1997. Provincial law is a live route too and was not read here: Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa each passed their own narcotics Acts in 2024 and 2025. The Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979 does not reach it either: the Schedule to that Order lists only hemp, charas, mixtures of the two, opium and opium derivatives, coca leaf and coca derivatives, and hashish.
No licensed medicine and no prescribing route in Taiwan. Nothing in the hydroxy tryptamine run at 附表三第318項 to 第322項 is a licensed product.
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No documentation route. There is no lawful supply to document.
毒品危害防制條例 (Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act), last amended 4 May 2022, articles 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 11-1 and 15, with 附表三 第三級毒品, 附表三 item 320. The four schedules and the Act text were read as at the national law database's own data cut of 11 September 2026 · the item lists stand as amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026. Read 2026-09-17. · law.moj.gov.tw · law.moj.gov.tw · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for this substance in the text read. The medical provisions of the Ordinance, section 22 for practitioners, section 25 for patients and section 31 for supply on prescription, authorise possession only of a dangerous drug lawfully supplied by or on the prescription of a registered practitioner.
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Section 4 makes import part of trafficking unless done «under and in accordance with this Ordinance or a licence granted by the Director», and section 10(1) provides «The Director may issue an import licence authorizing the person named therein to import into Hong Kong, within the period specified therein, such quantity of a dangerous drug as may be specified therein». The text read describes no licence or exemption for a traveller carrying this substance. Do not carry it into or out of Hong Kong.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), Department of Justice XML, dc:date 2026-06-12 · elegislation.gov.hk · data.gov.hk · Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Cap. 221), Schedule 8, dc:date 2026-05-14 · Import and Export (General) Regulations (Cap. 60A), regulation 6, dc:date 2026-05-14 · Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2026, annexed to LegCo Brief NCR 2/1/8 S/F(31), https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202609/30/P2026093000422_557186_1_1790752796048.pdf · info.gov.hk · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the First Schedule under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Medicines containing estupefacientes or sustancias psicotrópicas may be sold to the public only by pharmacies, and only through the talonario oficial, the official prescription book, under article 62. Article 63 requires every prescription to be written on a special numbered form of a specific colour distributed by the health ministry, legibly and by hand, carrying the prescriber's names, consulting room address, identity number and health registration number, the name of the medicine, the quantity in figures and in words without alteration, the patient's and the purchaser's identification, the prescriber's signature and date, and the prescriber's wet seal. Article 53 provides that importing or exporting these substances, pure or contained in pharmaceutical specialities, by parcel, postal package or correspondence is met with confiscation and the customs law. Article 37 makes lawful only what duly authorised persons do, limits the existence and use of these substances strictly to the quantities needed for medical treatment, the legal manufacture of medicines or scientific research, and declares any other activity, use or destination illicit. Because the placement was not established, which of the two article 62 routes would apply to a speciality containing this substance was not established either. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm the current position with a Venezuelan mission before travel.
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Consolidation read: Ley Orgánica de Drogas, sanctioned 18 August 2010, published in Gaceta Oficial 39.510 of 15 September 2010 and reprinted, the reprint read here being the one ordered under article 4 of the Ley de Publicaciones Oficiales to correct Gaceta Oficial 39.535 of 21 October 2010, which was carried in Gaceta Oficial 39.546 of 5 November 2010. The 39.510 scan and the reprint text were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153 and agree on every figure and range. [Certain] that the reprint text read here is the 39.546 one, resolved in this pass against the gazette itself rather than inferred from the reprint order. Gaceta Oficial number 39.546 was read: its masthead is "Numero 39.546" over "Caracas, viernes 5 de noviembre de 2010", its sumario carries the "Aviso Oficial mediante el cual se corrige por error material la Ley Organica de Drogas, sancionada el 18 de agosto de 2010". The issue is a 21 page scan with no text layer and was read through Spanish optical character recognition, so everything below the masthead was matched on recognised text and not on the image. Measured against the reprint text read here, in 24 character blocks: article 153 matches on 22 of 23, article 149 on 20 of 23 and article 134 on 15 of 24, the shortfall in each being optical recognition noise on the scanned side. [Certain as to the masthead and the sumario, which are large print and unambiguous, and therefore as to the issue number and its date and subject.] [Likely as to the per article comparison, which cannot be stronger than the optical recognition it runs on.] Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Article 2 applies the Law's control, vigilance and fiscalisation provisions to “el conjunto de sustancias incorporadas en las listas y anexos de los convenios y tratados suscritos y ratificados por la República”, and to further substances determined by the ministries with competence in health and in intermediate industries. Article 3 numeral 12 defines estupefacientes as “cualesquiera de las sustancias, naturales o sintéticas, que figuran en la lista I o la lista II de la Convención Única de 1961, Sobre Estupefacientes, Enmendada por el Protocolo de 1972”, and numeral 29 defines a sustancia psicotrópica as “cualquier sustancia, natural o sintética, o cualquier material natural que figure en las listas I, II, III o IV del Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotrópicas de 1971”. The Law's own Anexo I, Lista I and Lista II, is a list of controlled chemicals and precursors, not of drugs: it runs from Ácido N-acetilantranilico and Ácido Lisérgico through Efedrina, Ergometrina, Ergotamina, Isosafrol, Piperonal, Safrol and Seudoefedrina to Permanganato de potasio and Anhídrido acético. There is therefore no Venezuelan chemical schedule of drugs to read; the schedule is the Convention schedule. No anchored entry was found for this row. The term list was built from the name columns of the two incorporated INCB lists and from the 2026-09-20 Venezuela dossier's quotation column, matched anchored at the start of the entry name and never as a free substring, and every candidate was read before it was accepted or discarded. Search record: Terms searched in both incorporated lists: 4-HO-MET (green 0, yellow 0), metocin (0, 0), 4-hidroxi-MET (0, 0). Nearest entry read and rejected: psilocine, code PP 012, 1971 Convention Schedule I, printed as “psilocine, psilotsin, 3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol”. That is the 4-hydroxy compound carrying two N-methyl groups. This row is the N-methyl N-ethyl homologue, which the entry does not name and which no homologue clause reaches. Read as at the INCB Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, for the 1961 Convention schedules and the INCB Green List, 36th edition of 2025, for the 1971 Convention schedules. That does not rule out a later edition, and article 2 of the Law lets the health and intermediate industries ministries determine further substances, so this is an unresolved row and not a proved absence. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Venezuela dossier was used only as the slug list and as a term list source. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence, and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed: desomorphine, ethylmorphine, nicomorphine, nicocodine, norcodeine and dihydrocodeine are separate entries that anchored matching correctly did not return for the morphine or codeine rows, and brolamfetamine is a separate entry that did not return for the amphetamine row. Carried from the live cell and not re derived here: that there is no medical cannabis programme in Venezuela, that CBD and hemp are treated as illegal, and that only limited scientific research licences exist. [Likely], source is the live 2cb cell dated 2026-06-26, none of it is in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. Correction carried into every cell of this batch: the gram figures are in article 153 and in article 149, not in article 131. The live cells attributed them to article 131, which prints no quantity at all. The ceiling of this Law is thirty years under the final paragraph of article 149, not twenty five. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. The Asamblea Nacional URL cited on every row of the 2026-09-20 dossier returned HTTP 404 and 5,734 bytes of HTML, so that register is not usable. The UNODC SHERLOC copy returned HTTP 200 and a 9.9 MB scan of the Gaceta Oficial of 15 September 2010, which was read with pdftotext. oas.org redirected every juridico path to its unavailable page. A clean digital text of the reprint was obtained from a Venezuelan law firm reproduction and the two were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153, which agree.
Ley Orgánica de Drogas, arts 2, 3, 34, 37, 53, 60, 62, 63, 130, 131, 139, 141, 142, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154 to 158 and 163, and Anexo I · sherloc.unodc.org · lablabor.com.ve · Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela arts 43 and 44 · cgr.gob.ve · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · INCB Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · asambleanacional.gob.ve · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Guatemala's traveller rule is article 3 of Decreto 48-92: "Solamente podrá autorizarse la importación, producción, fabricación, extracción, posesión y uso de las drogas en las cantidades estrictamente necesarias, exclusivamente por personas legalmente facultadas y bajo su estricta responsabilidad, para el tratamiento médico, los análisis toxicológicos y farmacológicos, la investigación científica y la elaboración de medicamentos", and "En los centros de comercialización para particulares, su venta requerirá receta médica". No schedule placement was established for this substance, so no controlled-medicine route is stated for it.
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Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". This row was searched under "4-HO-MET", "metocin", and with mechanical spelling variants of those, 5 candidate terms in all, matched anchored at the start of an entry name so that a longer entry containing the term could not be read as this row. None of them began an entry. The nearest entry read is PP 012 in Schedule I of the 1971 Convention, "psilocine, psilotsin", chemical name "3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]indol-4-ol". That is the 4-hydroxy tryptamine the list does carry, and it is the N,N-dimethyl compound. This row is the N-methyl-N-ethyl compound, which is not named. A similarity search also offered NM 001, "METAZOCINE", which was read and is a benzomorphan with no relation to this row at all. The lists read were the INCB Yellow List, 64th edition of July 2025, for the 1961 Convention, the INCB Green List, 35th edition of 2024, for the 1971 Convention, the INCB Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, for Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, and Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003. Those are the three treaties MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 section 2 names, so limb one is now read in full; an earlier version of this cell had read two of the three and substituted a national Acuerdo for the 1988 tables. The Código de Salud and the "demás disposiciones que se emitan" were not obtained, so this row is unresolved rather than absent, and as at those editions the position does not rule out a later national provision reaching this substance. Acuerdo Ministerial 239-2022 amended Listado I of Acuerdo Gubernativo 54-2003, which is direct evidence that these lists move. What follows is Guatemala's published penalty scheme, and it is the country's scheme and not this row's exposure, because whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One figure in the superseded cell is corrected here. It put cultivation or manufacture at up to about twenty to twenty five years. Read from the gazette, article 36 sets five to twenty years and article 37 eight to twenty years, so twenty years is the ceiling on those two conduct articles and twenty five was never in the law [Certain, re-derived this pass]. Twenty years is not the maximum term this statute can impose: article 52 still provides thirty years where a death results, now that the words "muerte o" have gone from it. Carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: Guatemala has no medical cannabis, a 2016 bill having been rejected, and extradition to the United States is possible under a 1940 treaty.
Decreto 48-92, Ley contra la Narcoactividad, Diario de Centro América, 8 October 1992, arts 1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 36, 37, 38, 39, 52 · congreso.gob.gt · senabed.gob.gt · MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 secs 2 and 5, https://medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt/index.php/legislacion-vigente/normas-tecnicas?download=79%3Ano-22-2001 · INCB Yellow List 64th edition July 2025, read from the Universal Postal Union mirror at https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/postalSolutions/programmesAndServices/postalSupplyChain/customs/listCustomsNarcoticDrugsUnderInternationalControlEn.pdf rather than from incb.org · INCB Green List 35th edition 2024, https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf · INCB Red List 23rd edition July 2025, Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, https://www.incb.org/documents/PRECURSORS/RED_LIST/RED_LIST_E.pdf · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry nothing on the strength of this row, and put the question to the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices or the nearest Romania embassy before you travel with 4-HO-MET. That is the carriage answer, and it is the shortest one in the set because the row is unresolved rather than negative. Provenance follows. The instrument searched was Legea 143/2000, whose Tables I to IV article 1(a) makes integral to the Act itself, on Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text on 18 September 2026, and the search is recorded in the legal status field above.
Romania, 4-HO-MET, read from Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · searched in Legea 143/2000, tabelele I-III · Legea 194/2011, arts. 2, 16-17 without reaching a settled answer · outcome recorded by the source: NOT VERIFIED, which this cell carries as a deferral rather than as a status · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · anm.ro · Updated September 20, 2026
Slovakia, 4-HO-MET, read from Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal of the Slovak Republic · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · searched through every group of Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998, its extension clauses and its final line, and no matching listed substance was found · aliases searched: 4-HO-MET · metocin · no controlled-substance threshold is given and the section 173(5) life ceiling is not assigned on this record · this absence is stated as at the Act 139 consolidation effective 1 January 2026 and the Criminal Code consolidation effective 18 August 2026 · two of the four links below are the commercial mirror zakonypreludi.sk rather than Slov-Lex · slov-lex.sk · slov-lex.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · Updated September 20, 2026
· Act No. 24 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108733?type=amendment, in operation from 23 December 2019 by Legal Notice No. 397 of 2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108756?type=amendment
· and Act No. 10 of 2020, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110087?type=amendment, Dangerous Drugs part only. Terms searched: 4-ho, ho-met, hydroxy-n-methyl, metocin, ethyl-n-methyl, methylethyltryptamine, psilo and tryptamine. Read and rejected: the DET, DMT, etryptamine, psilocine and psilocybine rows of the Schedule I table. Read 3 October 2026, as the Schedules stand after Legal Notice No. 293 of 2026
· no entry was found, so no instrument here supports a placement.
If prescribed / medical
None. The heading of the list that carries this row says circulation is prohibited, «обіг яких заборонено», so no prescription, licence or foreign prescription can make carriage lawful in Ukraine. This run read no medicines or licensing law, and a prohibited heading leaves nothing for such law to authorise.
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VERIFIED against the instrument. Instrument: Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770, перелік наркотичних засобів, психотропних речовин і прекурсорів. Sections: Таблиця I, Список № 2, both rows. Searched this run against the full list in both scripts. «HO-MET» in Latin matched the second row only. The same string with a Cyrillic final letter, and «Metocin», matched the first row only. «етил(метил)аміно» in the chemical name column matched both rows and the acetate «4-AcO-MET», which was read and set aside as a different compound. The penalty statements were written from articles 51, 305, 307, 309, 310 and 316 of Кримінальний кодекс України in the redaction of 18 September 2026, basis 4986-IX, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20261001134802/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14/print on 3 October 2026 with the publisher's currency line of 1 October 2026, all read in full in this run before the capital statement was written. A traveller should carry nothing in reliance on this row, and anyone carrying a prescribed medicine should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, strength and dose.
Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770 від 6 травня 2000 року, перелік наркотичних засобів, психотропних речовин і прекурсорів, redaction of 13 September 2025, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20260112104514/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF/print on 3 October 2026 · amending Постанова № 146 від 5 лютого 2026 року, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20260212034633/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/146-2026-%D0%BF/print on 3 October 2026 · current redaction 7 June 2026 named by the publisher's card at https://web.archive.org/web/20260816050801/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF · named rows «4-hydroxy MET (4-HO-MEТ · Metocin)» and «4-HO-MET» in Таблиця I, Список № 2 · penalties, Кримінальний кодекс України, articles 51, 305, 307, 309, 310 and 316, redaction of 18 September 2026, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20261001134802/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14/print · administrative penalty, Code of Administrative Offenses article 44, secondary publisher https://urst.com.ua/kupap/st-44 · quantity sizes, Ministry of Health Order No. 188, Table 1, read at https://web.archive.org/web/20240814180400/https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0512-00/print · publisher addresses https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF · zakon.rada.gov.ua · zakon.rada.gov.ua · zakon.rada.gov.ua · Updated October 3, 2026
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The version read for this cell is the annex to Law 15 of 2007 as printed in Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007 at pages 20 to 34, together with the publisher's amendment register for the Law, which on 22 September 2026 listed exactly three amendments and showed a site update of 17 September 2026. The register does not certify that no other instrument exists, so the consolidation is silent on that stronger point. The power that moves these tables is article 4 of the Law, which lets the Council of Ministers add to the attached schedules or change their percentages on the Minister's proposal after a committee of specialists approves, so the list can move without a new Law and all three amendments so far were made that way. The twelve tables reproduce the convention lists: the Group I Schedule 3 heading names Schedule III of the 1961 Convention in its English line and the 1971 Convention in its Arabic line, which is a mismatch inside the Gazette itself, Group II carries the four schedules of the 1971 Convention, and Group III mirrors the two tables of the 1988 Convention down to the note excluding the salts of hydrochloric and sulphuric acid. All twelve tables were read: Group I Schedules 1 to 6, Group II Schedules 1 to 4 and Group III Schedules 1 and 2, ending with the salts clause on the last annex page. The terms searched for this row were 4-HO-MET, metocin, 3-[2-(ethylmethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-ol. None of them returned an entry, and the annex carries no general analogue clause: the only class entries anywhere are the Synthetic Cannabinoids and Synthetic CATHINONE entries that Decision 39 of 2016 added to Group I Schedule 1. This absence is stated as those schedules stand after Decision 14 of 2020, the last of the three amendments on the publisher's register for this Law, read on 22 September 2026. The group and schedule placement stated here is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier this lane was given: that column carries a bare entry name on its placement rows and a synthesised Arabic search record on its absence rows, and no group marker on any of its 88 rows, so every placement in this batch was read from the Gazette annex page instead. Bahrain's drug law carries capital exposure, and which offences reach it is set out in the street section of this cell rather than recited as a general fact about the country.
lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007, annex at pages 20 to 34, read 22 September 2026 · Decision 39 of 2016, Official Gazette 3276 of 25 August 2016 · Decision 11 of 2020, Official Gazette 3480 of 16 July 2020 · Decision 14 of 2020, Official Gazette 3492 of 8 October 2020 · Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, Articles 49 and 50 · the 2019 drug death sentence and the commutation practice are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013). The list of controlled drugs sits in the First Schedule to the Act, not in subsidiary legislation, and the empowering section is section 35: "His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the First and Third Schedules". That power reaches the First and Third Schedules only, so the capital thresholds in the Second Schedule cannot be changed by order. The schedules were last amended by S 12/2012 and consolidated into this Revised Edition · the publisher's own page for Chapter 27 lists five amendment orders ending there, and every later gazette notification under the Act concerns approved institutions and appointments rather than any schedule. This cell was recorded as a measured absence across every part of both schedules and the Regulations. Read from the Attorney General's Chambers copy at https://www.agc.gov.bn/brulaw/misuse-of-drugs-act/ together with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Chapter 27, Rg 1. For 4-HO-MET the reading turned on the searches "4-HO-MET" and "hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine". · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Treat it as an unclassified item. Carry the original packaging and any prescription, keep the quantity to personal use, and confirm the position with the Iranian embassy before travel. Iran’s own entry in the INCB Country Regulations for Travellers, 2025 sheet, admits only original and intact drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, carried with a prescription and in quantities covering the stay, and it says that beyond 6 months you must see a physician in Iran. The contact it gives is ICSA at fda.gov.ir.
Documentation
The end of each recovered list was read rather than sampled. The 1338 decree ends with its group 2 entries and its preparation rule, and the four schedules end at entry 62 of Schedule 4, zolpidem, with 28, 17, 9 and 62 entries and 116 in all. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established. Version read for this cell: the Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, which is 25 October 1988, as the publisher’s consolidation carries it, with its 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments, meaning 1997, 2001, 2010, 2017 and 2020, and the fine revision of 1403/03/30, which is 19 June 2024, and the four psychotropic schedules as those schedules stand after the Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13, which is 4 December 2005, both read on 22 September 2026, together with the narcotics-list decree of 1338/05/02, which is July 1959, whose Article 5 carries an amendment of 1352/12/28, meaning 19 March 1974, and the Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08, which is 28 April 1975. Item 419 of the health invalidation law of 1399/08/05, meaning 26 October 2020, names annexes 1 to 4 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law, and Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09, meaning 30 November 2021, reads that as reaching the 1354 Law’s own original annexes, which later Cabinet decisions had already displaced, so the 1384/09/13 schedules stand. Article 1 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law lets the Ministry revise these four schedules on a recommendation of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, but only with Cabinet approval, publication and a further fifteen days, so a change to the 1971 Psychotropic Substances Convention does not enter Iranian law by itself, and the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules are not the Iranian list. Provenance of the placement: the schedule and entry number stated for this row was read in the instrument itself and was not taken from the project dossier, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a schedule marker for any substance, measured across all 88 of its quotation cells on 22 September 2026. Older bands survive inside the same articles and are what Article 45 converts. Article 4 band 4 reads death and confiscation above 5 kilograms, with a note giving life imprisonment, 74 lashes and confiscation for a first offence of 20 kilograms or less that was not distributed or sold. Article 8 band 6 reads death and confiscation above 30 grams, with a note giving life imprisonment for a first offence of no more than 100 grams that was not distributed or sold. Before the 1396 Act, meaning before 2017, the reported capital thresholds were far lower, at more than 30 grams of heroin or cocaine and more than 5 kilograms of opium or cannabis. The Anti-Narcotics Law itself dates from 1988 and the substances it incorporates by definition come from the narcotics list decree of 1959. Article 41 excludes authorised medical, research and industrial activity: «ساخت، تولید، خرید، فروش، ارسال، نگهداری، ورود، صدور، مصرف و حمل مواد ممنوع حسب مورد برای مصارف پزشکی، تحقیقاتی و صنعتی با مجوز وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی از شمول این قانون مستثنی است», so a medicinal use or a trade name does not by itself establish that the Ministry of Health permission exists. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, consolidated with the 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments and the 1403/03/30 fine revision · davoudabadi.ir · Act adding Article 45, 1396/07/12 · davoudabadi.ir · Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16 · davoudabadi.ir · Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13 adopting the four updated psychotropic schedules, replacing those attached to decision 15372/T30726 of 1383/04/28 · davoudabadi.ir · solh.ir · Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08 · davoudabadi.ir · Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09 · davoudabadi.ir · Cabinet narcotics-list decree of 1338/05/02, Article 5 as amended 1352/12/28 · davoudabadi.ir · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 28 of the Law, which is the exemption for medical and research use, is not engaged for 4-HO-MET, because an exemption only bites on something the Law caught in the first place. No notification entry places 4-HO-MET among the narcotic drugs or the psychotropic substances, so the question the Law asks does not arise for it. That is a narcotics-law answer only. If 4-HO-MET reaches Myanmar as a medicine it is governed by the medicines and import regimes instead, and those were not audited for this cell.
Documentation
This Law asks for no document for 4-HO-MET, because it never catches it, so there is nothing to carry or show under the narcotics regime. That is not the whole travel question. Medicines, import, customs and product rules sit outside this Law, they can ask for paperwork of their own, and they were not audited for this cell. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, State Law and Order Restoration Council Law 1/93, as amended by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018. The substance lists are not in the Law itself. Section 2(a)(i) makes the poppy, coca and cannabis plants, and substances and drugs derived or extracted from them, narcotic drugs on the Law's own words, and section 2(a)(ii) adds what the Ministry of Health declares by notification, section 2(b) does the same for a psychotropic substance, and section 30(b), as substituted in 2018, is the power: the Central Body and the Ministries concerned may issue notifications, orders, directives, and procedures. The live lists are Notification 24/2025 for narcotic drugs and Notification 25/2025 for psychotropic substances. Checked 17 September 2026. Placement for 4-HO-MET: none established in either notification. The list names DMT separately and names psilocin separately, but not 4-HO-MET, whose N-ethyl substitution differs from both, and no tryptamine catch-all was recovered. The Law was further amended by the Second Amendment to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, National Defence and Security Council Law 17/2025, enacted on 31 December 2025, whose English text was published in the Global New Light of Myanmar on 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5. That text carries no separate commencement clause. Among other changes, it replaced section 26, the deemed sale quantities, restored the expression «the Ministry of Health», replaced «Coca tree» with «Coca» in sections 2(a)(i) and 16(a), replaced the expression «life imprisonment without limit» in sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», which its new section 2(i) defines, leaving the death alternative in section 20 in place, and raised the age in section 22(c) from 16 to 18; the other fields of this cell apply the Law as amended by it. The English text read is a newspaper publication of the law, not the official Burmese text.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, SLORC Law 1/93, sections 2, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 28 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344 | The Law Amending the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018, items 3, 20, 22, 25 and 27 · https://www.mfiu.gov.mm/sites/default/files/document/files/The%20Law%20Amending%20the%20Narcotic%20Drugs%20and%20Psychotropic%20Substances%20Law%202018.pdf | Notification 24/2025 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/en/legal/503 | Notification 25/2025 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/en/legal/504 | placement for 4-HO-MET: searched in both notifications, no entry established · National Defence and Security Council Law 17/2025, English text, Global New Light of Myanmar, 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5 · moi.gov.mm · Updated October 4, 2026
the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026, annex Groups I to IV searched for 4-HO-MET, as recorded in the 20 September 2026 dossier · https://qanoon.om/p/2026/rd2026067/ (HTTP 403, a Cloudflare challenge, on 3 October 2026 · read through the 20 September 2026 dossier's verbatim quotations) · Royal Decree 67/2026, decree Articles I to IV, Oman News Agency, 3 September 2026 · omannews.gov.om · Royal Decree 67/2026, Articles I to IV and Gazette reference, Decree.om · decree.om · Royal Decree 17/99, article 4, as superseded, as the live page quoted it · Updated October 3, 2026
Documentation
The наредба has no consolidated text at an official publisher. What was read instead is the official file set: the наредба as adopted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011, then every one of the fourteen amending Постановления in order, each downloaded as the Word file the Council of Ministers legal information system publishes. Приложение № 1 was replaced whole by Постановление № 253 of 2013, so the 2013 text and not the 2011 one is the base for Списък I. The row relied on for this cell is in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. One § of Постановление № 184 of 2023 amends a different instrument, Постановление № 23 of 1998 on the prices of narcotic substances for court proceedings, and its rows were excluded from the search rather than read as schedule entries. The Penal Code figures in the street paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived here, so the Penal Code itself was not read for this row. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bulgaria, Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, Приложение № 1, Списък I, the entry for 4-HO-MET · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · the наредба as adopted, with its full amendment chain, at https://pris.government.bg/document/65505dc00d92c4be0a95ef8ecc4e8bbd · Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите, чл. 3, ал. 2, чл. 4, ал. 2, чл. 58 and чл. 60, in the consolidated text published by the Ministry of Health at https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/normativni-aktove/zakoni/kontrol-varhu-narkotichni-veshtestva-i-prekursori/ · the Penal Code figures in consequences_street are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the live cell's own citation for those figures is Penal Code Arts 354a, 354b and 354c with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors (ZKNVP) · the lists were read as they stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025 and read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for 4-HO-MET, and get the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for 4-HO-MET appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The instruments were read on the Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal, both official, on 18 September 2026: Health Minister Order No. 5, Health Minister Order V-239, the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law and the Criminal Code. The basis recorded for this row is a printed group entry rather than a name of its own.
Lithuania, 4-HO-MET, read from the official Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Health Minister Order No. 5, with no V-239 item number recorded · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is a printed group entry rather than a name of its own · printed quantities: small not more than 0,2 g, large more than 20 g, very large more than 100 g · Control Law article 4 delegates the list, Criminal Code article 269(1) adopts it as the Code's drug definition and article 269(2) sends the quantity question to Order V-239 · Order No. 5 and Order V-239 consolidations both begin 18 June 2025 · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-seimas.lrs.lt · Updated September 20, 2026
Estonia, 4-HO-MET, read from Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette of the Republic of Estonia, and from the State Agency of Medicines · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located at Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73 as «4-hüdroksü-N-metüül-N-etüültrüptamiin (4-HO-MET)» · the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act section 3(1)(3) supplies the large quantity test and Penal Code sections 183 and 184 supply the penalties · schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024 · riigiteataja.ee · riigiteataja.ee · ravimiamet.ee · Updated September 20, 2026
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for 4-HO-MET, and get the State Agency of Medicines of Latvia to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for 4-HO-MET appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The controlling text was read on likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of Latvia, on 18 September 2026: Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, the Circulation Law, and the Criminal Law itself. The basis recorded for this row is a group entry rather than a named one. The instrument pages carry no separate reuse licence, so this row uses short attributed quotation and a link to the official text.
Latvia, 4-HO-MET, read from likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of the Republic of Latvia · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, at item 11(8), in Schedule I, which covers prohibited especially dangerous narcotic and equivalent psychotropic substances and plants · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is a group entry rather than a named one · printed quantities: small up to 0,02 g, large from 1 g · Circulation Law section 3(2) points to Annex 2, and Criminal Law section 253 with its superscript one and superscript two variants supplies the penalties · Annex 2 is the 29 April 2021 text as amended to 13 November 2025 · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · Updated September 20, 2026
Slovenia, Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog, article 2 and the annex in Groups I, II and III · read at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=URED7970 with the annex at https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/403462486 on 20 September 2026. The entry relied on for this row is at Group I, row 377 of the annex. The Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, article 33, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO1388 · the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, articles 186 and 187, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO5050. Annex entry headings are printed in capitals in the original and are re-voiced here in normal case. The fifteen year ceiling at article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, and the absence of any death penalty, are stated by the dossier read for this cell. The fine band of roughly 42 to 209 euro under article 33, the one to ten and three to fifteen year ranges under article 186 and the six months to twelve years under article 187 are carried forward from the Slovenia entry already published and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass · they do not contradict the ceiling the dossier states. The register publishes the Uredba, its annex, the Act and the Criminal Code for public reading, which is not an unrestricted licence to republish, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced. No judicial ruling is relied on, and product composition, structural identity, medicinal authorisation and intent all remain fact sensitive. The dossier names no edition or amendment date for the annex, and this does not rule out a later amendment. · the group stated for this row was confirmed against the annex itself, read at the Slovenian legal information system on 21 September 2026: the entry printed as 4-HO-MET stands under the heading SKUPINA I at its row 377. The group is a heading above the rows rather than a column on them, which is why no quotation of a single row can carry it, and this reading supersedes the earlier statement that the group rests on a locator column alone · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The dossier carries no prescription information and no traveller rule for Serbia at all, so this cell defers rather than inventing one. The country level question, meaning which Serbian body authorises a controlled medicine carried in, what paperwork it wants, what quantity it allows and how long an authorisation runs, was not established by the source behind this batch and has to be settled with the Serbian authorities before travel. What can be attached to the deferral is this substance's placement. 4-HO-MET sits on the Spisak at Lista 4, red 196, under CAS 77872-41-4, and that is a controlled substance listing rather than an entry under the Serbian medicines law, so any lawful holding runs through the controlled substance regime and a prescription written in another country is not a Serbian authorisation and does not become one at the border.
Documentation
Treat the placement as the checkable fact and the quantity as the open one. The row cited here, Lista 4, red 196, under CAS 77872-41-4, with the systematic name recorded as «3-(2-(etil(metil)amino)etil)-1H-indol-4-ol», was checked on 20 September 2026 against the Spisak at Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026. Carry any medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and ask the Serbian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Do not carry a gram figure into Serbia from another country's law. The Spisak row and Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a give none, and a number taken from somewhere else will not be the one a Serbian court applies. The citation behind this cell is document level and is the same link for all 88 Serbian substances.
Serbia, Pravilnik o utvrđivanju Spiska psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, Član 2, Spisak Lista 4, red 196, under CAS 77872-41-4, with Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a carrying the conduct and art. 246(5) read with art. 45(1) carrying the 20 year ceiling the dossier records · read at https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/pravilnik-o-utvrdjivanju-spiska-psihoaktivnih-kontrolisanih-supstanci.html for the Spisak and https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/krivicni-zakonik-2019.html for the Criminal Code, a commercial republication in Latin script rather than the Cyrillic text of the Službeni glasnik RS. The dossier holds one link value for all 88 Serbian substances, so this citation is document level and not per substance, and nothing in it should be read as a source pinned to this substance alone. The dossier's own link field ran the two addresses together into one string with no separator between them. Read as at 20 September 2026. · the article 246, 246a and 247 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 246, 246a and 247 and the Law on Psychoactive Controlled Substances. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and that entry's own statement that small quantity is not numerically defined is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4446 of 8 May 2017, Law No. 50 of 2017 with its annexed schedules: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4446.pdf · Ministry of Health Statement 197 of 2021 adopting updated schedules in replacement, al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4651 of 25 October 2021: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4651.pdf · Statement 33 of 2023, No. 4711 of 13 March 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4711.pdf · Statement 238 of 2023, No. 4737 of 18 September 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4737_331.pdf · Statement 348 of 2024, No. 4804 of 2 December 2024: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4804_compressed_161.pdf · Statement 347 of 2025, No. 4849 of 17 November 2025: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/1b8a5aada31e000a_4849_compressed.pdf · the 2024 death-sentence count and the 15 year personal-use figure are carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived, per the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region · secondary references carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived: https://sherloc.unodc.org/ · unodc.org · hri.global · travel.state.gov · 2017-2021.state.gov · incb.org · euda.europa.eu · refworld.org · this project's Iraq substance dossier was checked on 20 September 2026 and its post-enactment amendment route is superseded here by the five Official Gazette statements named above · the Washington Institute · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescribing consequence can be drawn from Law No. 23 of 2016 for 4-HO-MET, because the control status that would drive it is not established. That is not a finding that the substance is free of medical regulation, and 4-HO-MET has no recognised therapeutic route in any event. The one near neighbour the search surfaced, 4-HO-MiPT, is not a medicine either and its own status was not established, so there is no prescribing route to borrow from it in any direction. The country-level position is that Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes control status and does not fix prescribing or dispensing conditions. Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route here is unread rather than absent.
Documentation
No carriage instruction can be drawn from this Law for 4-HO-MET, because a document requirement is something a control imposes and the control status could not be closed. Do not read the missing instruction as permission to carry the substance. Substituted tryptamines of this family are sold interchangeably and mislabelled routinely, and several of them, psilocybin and DMT among them, are expressly scheduled here, so a sample can be read onto the scheduled branch without anything about your own intention changing. The Jordan Food and Drug Administration is the body that can settle a specific case, in writing and before you fly rather than at the airport. The search recorded above was run against the schedules consolidation updated 29 December 2025 and read on 17 September 2026.
Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, schedule status not closed for 4-HO-MET after a substance-specific search whose log is set out in the legal status field of this cell · article 14(a) is the fallback route if the substance is genuinely unscheduled, and articles 19, 20 and 37 are the provisions that would apply if a later Council of Ministers decision has scheduled it · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026
· corroborated by the Advocates for Human Rights, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International
Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is a completed negative search on «4-HO-MET; metocin» through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, which settled nothing, so the traveller rule is stated at country level and the medical question for 4-HO-MET is deferred with it rather than answered.
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The record read for this row is a completed negative search on «4-HO-MET; metocin» through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, with the tables read as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and no printed entry accepted. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Because the placement is unsettled, ask the Albanian authorities about 4-HO-MET specifically rather than relying on its absence from the search. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.
Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · this cell rests on a completed negative search on 4-HO-MET, metocin, run through the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara and through to the final page of Ligji nr. 17/2026, which accepted no printed row and no bounded class match · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The source carries no prescription column, so no per substance medical route is asserted here. The country level rule it does state is that scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to Закон за лековите и медицинските средства and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and that a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. Placement for this row: no printed entry was accepted, so there is no listing to attach a medical route to. Whether there is a lawful medical route in North Macedonia for 4-HO-MET is deferred on both limbs, the placement and the route, because the source settles neither.
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and expect the prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements under Закон за лековите и медицинските средства to be the measure, because the source states no separate traveller permit and no import certificate scheme of its own. A brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient, so carry paperwork that names the active ingredient and not only the product name. Because the placement is unsettled, paperwork is the only thing a traveller can control here, and paperwork that names the active ingredient is what a border officer can check against a list. The placement read for this row, a complete list negative search for 4-HO-MET; metocin returning no accepted entry, was read as at 20 September 2026 in the classification list at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021.
North Macedonia, Листи за класификација на супстанции и растенија, Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, no substance row accepted · complete list negative search for 4-HO-MET · metocin · terminal check over all 23 gazette pages including the signature page · the lists are made under член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, so the minister of health owns the substance names and the statute does not · penalties at Кривичен законик, Article 215(1) for the ten year ceiling and Article 215(2) for the reduced offence · lists read at https://malmed.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/Listi_za_klasifikacija-opoji-drogi_i_psihotropni_supstanci-Sl.Vesnik-.br_.104_od_2021.pdf and the consolidated control Act read at https://diz.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ZAKON-ZA-KONTROLA-NA-OPOJNI-DROGI-I-PSIHOTROPNI-SUPSTANCII.pdf · the publisher makes these available without granting an unrestricted republication licence, so only what verification requires is reproduced here · read as at 20 September 2026 · carried forward and not sourced in this pass: the three to ten year band at Article 215, the six months to three years band for the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 for facilitating or enabling use, Article 217 for severe bodily injury or health damage through those offences, the absence of a separate personal-possession offence, and the reported prosecutorial working thresholds of about 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis are taken from the published 2cb entry for North Macedonia. They were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass, no web source was consulted, and the thresholds remain reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory. The chapter 21 locator is corroborated by that published entry and is still unverified against the Кривичен законик itself. The dossier read for this pass supports only the ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2) · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No traveller rule for Bosnia and Herzegovina is stated in the sources read at all, so the medical route is deferred here rather than described: nothing in the material read says what a visitor must hold to bring a controlled medicine in, who authorises it, or whether a foreign prescription counts. What is settled is this substance's placement, and it is this: this reading did not establish that the list reaches this hydroxylated tryptamine, so its status is unsettled in both directions, and the family entry the list does print names one substance and no group. Do not read a placement as a medical permission, and do not read the missing rule as the absence of one.
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A family resemblance to a listed substance settles nothing in a list that schedules by name. The reading behind this answer was made on 20 September 2026 against the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, and that date is the whole horizon of the claim: a later amendment is not ruled out. Because the no traveller rule is stated, the documents to carry for any controlled medicine are not listed in the material read and have to be settled with the authorities before travel.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, Tables I to III · no entry established for the identifier 4-ho-met on this pass · no near entry was recorded for this substance, the only search string the record names is the Latin identifier, and it names no Bosnian language form that was tried · list read at https://www.sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/Xy4oDjohz4nh78h772k1Q= · separate quantity instrument read at https://sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/BWhSA8RjiKk=, which returned no entry for this substance · Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, articles 43 and 238, read at https://www.paragraf.ba/propisi/fbih/krivicni-zakon-federacije-bosne-i-hercegovine · the article 195 penalty detail, the misdemeanour track and the Brčko fine figures stated above are carried forward from this substance's published 2cb.com entry as it stood at its last_updated of 2026-07-14, with the caveats that entry attached to them, and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment · Updated September 21, 2026
· none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is not verified.
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Carry nothing on the strength of this row. It records a search rather than an answer, so it is neither permission nor prohibition, and the question belongs to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy before you travel rather than to a border officer after you arrive. The placement carried against is an unresolved annex position held as ARM-10, and nothing else. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. Any written answer should say how close a tryptamine must be before the printed line reaches it.
Armenia, version specific absence record ARM-10, no accepted annex entry · the annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, controlled lists 1 to 4 · version read is the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026 · penalties at the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, Article 393(3) for the 12 year ceiling and Article 393(4) to (6) for the significant, large and especially large bands measured from the Government's minimum small amount figure · search set as recorded in the source, «4-HO-MET» and «metocin», all Latin script · official current incorporation of Decision N 1129-Ն at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/205965 · official amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026 at https://www.arlis.am/en/acts/222947 · official Criminal Code Article 393 at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/153080 · official narcotics law «Թմրամիջոցների և հոգեմետ նյութերի մասին» at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/181155 · read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Montenegro's traveller rule in this reading is a country level one and not a substance level one: scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to the Zakon o ljekovima and to prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. There is no placement to attach on this row, because the search for «4-HO-MET; metocin» returned no Prilog entry and no separate product regime was identified for it either, so both halves of the question are open, which is a stronger warning than either half alone. The dossier carries no prescription column at all, which was confirmed by tools/check-dossier.py, so no per substance medical route was established here: no import permit route, no personal quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement was read for this row, and none has been invented for it. The reading behind this row is a completed negative search for «4-HO-MET; metocin» with no accepted entry.
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Carry the specific molecule into any further check rather than the slug, and search the Prilog under the name printed on the product: the terms searched here were «4-HO-MET; metocin» and the reading was taken on 20 September 2026. Treat the result as a negative search against a named version of the list rather than as permission. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The record this advice rests on is a completed negative search for «4-HO-MET; metocin» with no accepted entry.
Montenegro, Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, Član 1 and Prilog, complete list negative search for 4-HO-MET and metocin with the amended Prilog and its final plant table as the terminal check and no accepted entry · Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga is the empowering provision, and the fifteen year ceiling at Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik is the drug offence maximum this dossier prints on every row rather than a figure established for this one. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The Prilog was read as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, and this does not rule out a later amendment made under Član 4 · the reading this row rests on is a completed negative search for 4-HO-MET and metocin with no accepted entry · the Article 300 penalty bands stated in consequences_street are carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry, which cites the Criminal Code at Official Gazette 70/2003 consolidated through 110/2023, attributes the roughly two to fifteen year figure to the United States State Department narcotics report and records that the Article 300(1) to (5) paragraph ranges are not individually pinned there · they were not re-derived from the Krivični zakonik in this pass · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Because the Resolution does not reach 4-HO-MET, it supplies no prescribing rule for it and none is invented here. Kazakhstan runs a separate category of сильнодействующие и ядовитые вещества, potent and poisonous substances, which Criminal Code Article 301 punishes and which is fixed by its own list. That list was not read in this pass, so silence in Resolution No. 470 is not a finding that 4-HO-MET is unregulated in Kazakhstan, only that this instrument does not schedule it.
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Provenance. All three lists approved by Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes were read in full from the consolidated text at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470 on 2026-09-21, with the tables parsed by column position, and the searches for this substance were anchored at the start of each entry name rather than run as free substring matches, because unanchored matching in this document returns false hits. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text. This cell asserts an absence, so it names the version it read and does not rule out a later one adding 4-HO-MET.
Kazakhstan, Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, together with the substituent list approved by the same Resolution, read at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470 on 2026-09-21 · the copy states с изменениями на 24.02.2026. Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Code No. 226-V of 3 July 2014, articles 296, 297 and 297-1, read at https://prg.kz/Document/?doc_id=31575252 · the death penalty was removed from that Code by the Law of 29 December 2021 No. 89-VII. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
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Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Updated September 21, 2026
· that discrepancy is recorded rather than resolved. Read as at 20 September 2026.
· Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024, an unexecuted draft that the Bahamas legislation portal serves from its Bills directory, read but not relied on
Law 673 gives this row no prescription route because the prescribing and dispensing articles, 80 to 95, are written for the substances listed in Tables 2 and 3. Law 673 carries no traveller allowance and no personal importation permit for a patient arriving with medicine: article 57, as amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, routes every import and export through a prior authorisation from the Minister of Public Health via the Ministry's Narcotics Department, and no lighter traveller route was found.
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The version read for this cell is the four tables annexed to Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, in two State published consolidations read on 22 September 2026: the Ministry of Public Health file Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, whose name carries the seventh modification of January 2019 and which the Ministry's narcotics page offers in Arabic as the updated version of the tables annexed to narcotics law 673/98, and the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics note on the annexed tables, which carries the decree by decree amendment history. Article 7 is the power that moves these tables: it makes the four annexes a regulatory instrument that may be changed by adding an entry, striking one out or moving an entry from one table to another, by decree issued on the proposal of the Minister of Health, so the lists can move without a new Law. Article 8 requires an entry to be printed under the substance's international common name, or its scientific name where there is no common one, which is why a brand, a plant or a street name is not itself an entry. Article 5 sets the tiers the penalties follow: Table 1 is the plants and substances of high danger with no medical use, Table 2 is the plants and substances of high danger that do have a medical use, Table 3 is the dangerous plants and substances that have a use in medicine, and article 6 puts the precursors in Table 4. Lebanon names four tryptamines and one tryptamine pair across the whole annex. A family that is reached five entries at a time is not reached by class, and the zero for this row was checked against every one of those entries by reading them. The two consolidations do not agree and the union of them is the only defensible reading, so this cell names which one printed the entry it relies on. The Ministry file carries entries the University note lacks, among them Ketamine at the end of the Table 2 list of the 1961 Convention Schedule I, Etizolam and Phenazepam at the end of the Table 3 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule IV, Flubromazolam in Table 1, and the mephedrone, methoxetamine, para-methoxymethylamphetamine and 4,4-dimethylaminorex entries in the Table 1 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule I. The University note carries what the Ministry file cannot, because it is six years older: the two decrees of 16 May 2025. The two also disagree on a heading. The Ministry file heads the first block of Table 1 as Schedule I of the 1961 Convention while the University note heads the same block as Schedule IV, and the six opening entries, acetorphine, cannabis and cannabis resin, cetobemidone, desomorphine, etorphine and heroin, are the 1961 Schedule IV set. That mismatch sits inside the State's own texts and is recorded here rather than resolved. Every entry quoted in this cell is quoted from the Latin and French column that the annex itself prints beside the Arabic. The Arabic column of the Ministry file does not extract to reliable text for the older pages, where the embedded font maps to the wrong code points, so no Arabic is quoted from it here and no Arabic was retyped from a rendered page. The serial numbers in that file are unsafe for the same reason, because the Arabic-Indic digits come out transposed, which is why this cell locates an entry by the names printed on either side of it rather than by its number. The placement stated here is not printed in the dossier this lane was given. That dossier's quotation column carries a synthesised search record on 52 of its 88 rows, a sentence of the shape an exact local-language term, Latin name, common synonym, salts and isomers wording and post-enactment amendment route searched for this slug, which is printed in no instrument; on its remaining 36 rows it carries a bare Arabic substance name with no table, no schedule and no article. No row of it names a table: 0 of 88 quotations carry a table or schedule number, and its instrument column says Tables 1-5 on all 88 rows. Its URL column is the publisher's home page with a text fragment appended. Its paragraph 4 states that no single consolidated annex current to 20 September 2026 was located, and the Ministry of Public Health publishes exactly such a consolidation on the narcotics page the dossier itself cites. Its paragraph 3 states that no death sentence was established in Law 673, which is right about the drug offences and wrong as written, because article 140 does carry the death penalty for killing an official enforcing the Law. Every placement in this batch was therefore read in the annex rather than taken from that column. Law 673 has been amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, which rewrote articles 15, 17, 29, 34, 44, 57 and 88, by Law 272 of 5 January 2001, which added a paragraph exempting licensed industrial establishments holding an industrial certificate from the Ministry of Industry in respect of Table 4 substances, and by Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132. What could not be established for this cell is the text of the two decrees of 16 May 2025 themselves. The University note records them and gives no Official Gazette citation for them, and three routes were tried on 22 September 2026: a search of the Official Gazette index for issue 23 of May 2025, which lists decrees 223, 331, 333 and 334 and not 342 or 343; a query by number and year against the Lebanese University legislation search, which answered HTTP 500 on both numbers; and open search in Arabic and English on the decree numbers and on the substance names, which returned no primary text. The consolidation is also silent on the stronger point, that no decree later than 16 May 2025 has moved these tables.
moph.gov.lb · unodc.org · moph.gov.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, Official Gazette 14 of 26 March 1998 at pages 975 to 1016, 252 articles, consolidated text of the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics, read 22 September 2026 in the copy that Centre prints and that UNODC hosts at the address above · the tables annexed to that Law as consolidated by the Ministry of Public Health in Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, the file carrying the seventh modification of January 2019, read 22 September 2026 · the Lebanese University consolidation note on the annexed tables, which records Decree 2432 of 11 February 2000, Decree 6608 of 23 October 2001, Decree 8065 of 20 June 2002, Decree 12137 of 7 March 2004, Decree 1189 of 8 January 2009, Decree 6221 of 27 August 2011, Decree 11051 of 11 January 2014, Decree 3403 of 12 May 2016, Decree 3610 of 2 June 2016, Decree 2591 of 23 March 2018 and Decrees 342 and 343 of 16 May 2025 · Law 193 of 24 May 2000, Official Gazette 23 of 1 June 2000 · Law 272 of 5 January 2001, Official Gazette 3 of 11 January 2001 · Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132 · the description of enforcement as uneven, the treatment diversion as only partly implemented and the about 6 months figure are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET has no prescription route in any instrument read for this cell, and nothing here authorises carrying or possessing it in Cyprus.
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Part I paragraph 5 reaches «Οποιαδήποτε ουσία η οποία δεν καθορίζεται στις παραγράφους 1 έως 3 και έχει δομικό σκελετό την τρυπταμίνη ή τρυπταμίνη με υδροξύλιο στο δακτύλιο του βενζολίου», any substance not named in paragraphs 1 to 3 with the skeleton of tryptamine or of tryptamine hydroxylated on the benzene ring, with any substitution on the aromatic rings (i), alkyl or alkenyl substitution on the side chain (ii) or alkyl, cycloalkyl or alkenyl substitution on the side chain nitrogen (iii). 4-HO-MET is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, tryptamine hydroxylated on the benzene ring with a methyl and an ethyl on the side chain nitrogen, within (iii). Searching the 2025 Schedule for «4-HO-MET» and «metocin» returned no entry. «Tryptamine» itself is named in Part I with the comment that it falls within paragraph 5. The Law is cited as Law 29/1977 because that is how the CyLaw consolidation and the Gazette print it; earlier text on this page gave it as 29(I)/1977. The CyLaw consolidation runs to Law 159(I)/2020, and K.Δ.Π. 367/2025 recites the Laws of 1977 to 2020. The First Schedule printed inside that consolidation is still the 1977 text and is not the list in force. This is stated as at K.Δ.Π. 367/2025, published on 5 December 2025. Paragraph 3 of that Order replaces the whole First Schedule and paragraph 4 revokes every earlier Controlled Drugs Order. It is the latest Controlled Drugs Order in the CyLaw index of regulatory administrative acts read on 4 October 2026, which lists acts published up to 25 September 2026, and section 3(2) of the Law lets the Council of Ministers amend the First Schedule by Order, so this does not rule out a later amendment.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law 29/1977), CyLaw consolidation to Law 159(I)/2020, sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 30 and 30A and Third Schedule, read on 4 October 2026 · cylaw.org · Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Controlled Drugs) (Amending) Order of 2025, K.Δ.Π. 367/2025, Official Gazette No. 5985, 5 December 2025, First Schedule Parts I to IV · cylaw.org · CyLaw index of regulatory administrative acts for 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · cylaw.org · EMCDDA, Cyprus Country Drug Report 2019 · naac.org.cy · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
This row sits inside the 2. gr. prohibition, so a lawful medical route exists only through one of the exceptions that article prints, an Icelandic marketing authorisation being the ordinary one, and the traveller rule then applies on top of it. Iceland puts the traveller rule in reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 um innflutning einstaklinga á lyfjum til eigin nota, and its 5. gr. governs every medicine that contains, even in part, a substance printed in Fylgiskjal I of reglugerð nr. 233/2001, which is where this row sits. A traveller with no registered domicile in Iceland may carry 30 days at the defined daily dose. A person whose registered domicile is in Iceland may carry 30 days if the medicine was obtained in Iceland and can produce documents showing that, but only 7 days at the defined daily dose if it was obtained abroad, extended to 30 days by a declaration from a doctor holding a valid Icelandic licence stating that the medicine is medically necessary. A traveller moving within the Schengen area may instead present a certificate issued or confirmed by the competent authority of the country of residence under article 75 of the Schengen Convention, and such a certificate is valid for at most 30 days from its issue. Narcotic medicines may not be sent to Iceland by post or by freight at all, and where an import falls outside these permissions 5. gr. routes it back to lög nr. 65/1974. Lyfjastofnun may exempt under 7. gr. but for a medicine under 5. gr. that exemption has to be in hand before the traveller arrives.
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Customs must be shown a doctor's certificate or the prescription together with its directions for use, or the dispensing label, proving both that the medicine was lawfully obtained and that the quantity carried is necessary, and 3. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 lets customs seek an opinion from a public body or a health professional where it suspects the document is wrong or forged. Because this row sits inside the 2. gr. prohibition, the paperwork is doing more work than usual: it is what shows the medicine falls within one of the exceptions in that article rather than inside the ban, so carry it in the dispensed packaging with the label intact and the prescription or a doctor's declaration with it. Where Lyfjastofnun's permission under 7. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 is needed, it has to be obtained before travelling rather than at the border, and nothing may be sent ahead by post or freight.
Iceland, reglugerð nr. 233/2001 um ávana- og fíkniefni og önnur eftirlitsskyld efni, Fylgiskjal I and Fylgiskjal II with articles 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 · lög nr. 65/1974 um ávana- og fíkniefni, articles 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 5 and 6 · almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, article 173 a · lög nr. 32/2001, article 1 · reglugerð nr. 879/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1036/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1277/2022, articles 3, 4, 5 and 7 · island.is · Updated October 2, 2026
Malta, 4-HO-MET, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · no entry verified after substance-specific searches of the Chapter 31 Third Schedule and the Chapter 101 First, Third and Fifth Schedules · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET reaches people as a powder, a liquid, a blotter or a pressed tablet rather than as a dispensed medicine, so there is no prescription document to carry for it, and the name a Salvadoran laboratory report would use is 4-HO-MET. Article 3's final paragraph permits a listed substance to be held only in the quantities strictly necessary for scientific research, for making medicines, for medical treatment or for industrial products, and only with the health regulator's authorisation, so there is no lawful personal quantity of it.
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The instrument read for this cell is the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, published in Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003, in the consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa. That text carries its own reform schedule: five reforms, the last of them Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018 in Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, so the consolidation read here is current to that reform. The same reform schedule was confirmed against a second publisher, the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which prints the identical list of five. The text also carries four rulings of the Sala de lo Constitucional, three of which strike the fine in Articles 31, 33 and 34 and the fourth of which struck the rule in Article 52 that equated preparatory acts with completed offences before that article was reformed in 2018. The substance list read for this cell is the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria. That document states its own currency in its Disposiciones generales: it was approved by that acuerdo and is «vigente hasta el 31 de marzo de 2027, o hasta que se emita un nuevo listado por parte de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria». It was read as at 21 September 2026, and the 2025 edition of the same list was fetched first and set aside once the 2026 edition was found on the regulator's own page. The list is the one Article 13 of the Ley requires, «una lista de drogas y de todas las preparaciones y especialidades farmaceuticas que las contengan de acuerdo a las categorias establecidas en la presente Ley», which Article 13 also requires to be sent to the Corte Suprema de Justicia, the Fiscalia General de la Republica and the Policia Nacional Civil so that judges and prosecutors know it. Article 13 names the Consejo Superior de Salud Publica as the body that makes it; the 2013 Reglamento names the Direccion Nacional de Medicamentos as the governing authority, and the Ley de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria dissolved that Direccion and moved its functions to the Superintendencia with effect from August 2024. That succession is stated from the Reglamento and from reporting of the Superintendencia law, whose own gazette text was not read for this cell. Article 2 defines droga in its own words: «Art. 2.- Para los efectos de esta Ley se consideran drogas las sustancias especificadas como tales en los Convenios Internacionales ratificados por El Salvador, las que se mencionan en el Código de Salud y demás leyes del país; y en general, las que indistintamente de su grado de pureza, actúan sobre el sistema nervioso central y tienen la capacidad de producir transformaciones, bien sea aumentando o disminuyendo su funcionamiento o modificando los estados de conciencia y que su uso indebido puede causar dependencia o sujeción física y psicológica.» Article 3 then prohibits activity relating to five named categories and, in letter f, «f) Cualquier otra sustancia que sea considerada droga tan nociva que amerite ser prohibida por el Consejo Superior de Salud Pública o por los convenios internacionales ratificados por el país.» The names searched across the list, in Spanish and in English, were 4-HO-MET, metocina, 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. No entry was returned for any of them, and none of them produced an occurrence of any kind in the list. Three routes were tried for the instrument and all three returned a document: the Asamblea Legislativa decree file, which returned the consolidated text; the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which returned the same consolidation; and the regulator's own listado page, which returned the 2026 list. Two routes returned nothing usable: the Asamblea decree index and law search paths both returned a not found page, and a fetch of the Asamblea search page failed on certificate verification. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Salvadoran embassy or consulate before you travel.
Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, Articles 2, 3, 13, 31, 32, 33, 34, 54 and 55, consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa, Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003 · Consolidation: current to Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018, Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, the last of the five reforms the text's own schedule prints, confirmed against the Fiscalia General de la Republica transparency copy · Unconstitutionality of the fine: Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments, Diario Oficial 196, Tomo 377, of 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments, Diario Oficial 152, Tomo 384, of 19 August 2009, and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010, Diario Oficial 197, Tomo 401, of 23 October 2013 · Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria, read as at 21 September 2026, the document stating its own currency to 31 March 2027 or until a new listado is issued · Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Sicotropicos, Precursores, Sustancias y Productos Quimicos y Agregados, Decreto Ejecutivo 20, Diario Oficial of 13 February 2013, Articles 5, 26, 36, 37 and 40 · Placement: no entry returned in the listado, and the open limb of Article 2 not resolved for this row · Penalty figures for the 2 gram line and the year bands in Articles 31, 33 and 34 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived from a new source, then re-read against the Asamblea text. The Article 34 graver offence proviso, Articles 54 and 55 and the three unconstitutionality rulings are read from that text and are new to this cell · asamblea.gob.sv · srs.gob.sv · portaldetransparencia.fgr.gob.sv · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
4-HO-MET reaches people as a powder, a blotter or a pressed tablet rather than as a dispensed medicine, so there is no prescription document to carry for it, and the name a laboratory report would use is 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine. Article 12 of Decreto 126/89 governs medicines that contain a controlled substance, and this row is not one of them.
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The instrument read for this cell is the consolidated text of the Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, which carries its own footnote to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993, together with the Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, as printed in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019. Articles 16 to 30 and 41 of Decreto 126/89 were repealed by Article 632 of that Code, so the 1989 law now supplies definitions and administrative prohibitions and the Code supplies every offence. The live cell dated the Code to 10 November 2019, which is the date Article 635 as enacted would have produced from a publication of 10 May 2019; commencement was postponed twice and the Code took effect on 25 June 2020. That last date is carried from the reported amendment of Article 635 published in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette for this cell. The schedules Article 321 adopts were read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026. The names searched across the three lists and across the Honduran text were 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, metocina and 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina. No entry was returned for any of them, and none of them returned an occurrence of any kind. Article 11 of Decreto 126/89 survives and still reads «Se prohíbe a toda persona mantener en su poder ya sea en sus ropas o valijas, en su domicilio, lugar de trabajo, automóvil o cualquier otro lugar bajo su orden y responsabilidad, sin autorización legal, cantidad alguna de estupefacientes y sustancias controladas», and Article 6 still routes the definitions through the conventions and the Reglamento de Control de Estupefacientes y otras Drogas Peligrosas, but the article that carried the penalty for breaching them is repealed, so that prohibition now stands without a sanction of its own. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Honduran consulate before you travel.
Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, consolidated text published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, carrying its own footnotes to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993 · Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, Arts 311/312, with Arts 313, 314, 321 and 632, as published in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019 · Commencement: Art. 635 as enacted set six months from that publication, and the move to 25 June 2020 is carried from the reported amendment of Art. 635 in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette · Penalty figures for Art. 311, Art. 312 and Art. 26 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from that Gaceta text · Placement: no entry found in the 1961, 1971 or 1988 lists for 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine, metocina, 4-hidroxi-N-metil-N-etiltriptamina · Lists read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026 · tsc.gob.hn · tsc.gob.hn · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry it only with the Belarusian prescription and dispensing paperwork the medicines law requires, in the original dispensing packaging, with the substance named on any declaration the way the annex names it, «4-HO-MET», and with registry number 77872-41-4 available if the name is queried. The placement at BEL-10 was read against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. A later amendment can change an entry, so recheck the annexes before travel rather than relying on the date on this cell. Carry the registry number, because the printed code abbreviates a substitution pattern that nothing else on the row states.
Belarus, Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень, приложение, списки 1 to 4, record BEL-10 · printed entry «4-HO-MET», registry number 77872-41-4 · Criminal Code Article 328 supplies the offence and the ceiling, Article 328(5) · version read: № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments · read as at 20 September 2026 · pravo.by · pravo.by · pravo.by · national legal portal https://pravo.by/ · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is read. Table I is headed as substances «interzise, inutilizabile în scopuri medicale», Law 201/2025 Article 6(2) prohibits their circulation except for scientific or expert use, and the 30 day carriage allowance in Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) depends on «dovezii prescripției medicale»; a substance unusable in medicine is read as unable to have one. Article 37(1) prohibits import and export by individuals of medicines containing narcotic and psychotropic substances.
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There is no carriage route: no prescription exists for a substance in Table I, and Law 201/2025 Article 37(1) prohibits individuals importing or exporting medicines containing narcotic or psychotropic substances. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is superseded for this row.
Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026
Ley No. 735 consolidated text, articles 1 and 101, published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024 under the Digesto Juridico of Ley No. 1159 · Ley No. 1220, reforming article 1, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 171 of 13 September 2024 · Ley No. 641 Codigo Penal, Titulo XIV, articles 348 to 362, in that same consolidated text · Ley No. 1216, reforming article 358 and adding articles 362 bis and 362 ter, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 166 of 6 September 2024 · lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 70 of 16 April 1999, incorporated by article 101 of Ley No. 735 · pgr.gob.ni · pgr.gob.ni · uaf.gob.ni · Penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the articles named above and were NOT carried forward from the entry this replaces. The figures in that entry traced to the 1994 text of Ley No. 177, which article 101 of Ley No. 735 derogates, and they are displaced rather than preserved. · Updated September 21, 2026
National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект» · akn.tj · Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 200, 201 and 206, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · carried from the previous version of this cell: Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List, as the dossier read it on 18 September 2026 · akn.tj · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Appendix 1, Table 1 and arts 200 to 204, cited by the dossier row with no URL of its own · Updated October 3, 2026
· Law 18/2023, Boletim Oficial I Série n.º 47 of 20 November 2023, Annex III replacing Tables I to VI, https://web.archive.org/web/20250418031704/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2023/47/lei18.asp
· Law 16/2024, n.º 35 of 26 August 2024, https://web.archive.org/web/20250806075706/https://bo.io.gov.mo/bo/i/2024/35/lei16.asp
· Law 2/2025, n.º 25 of 23 June 2025, https://web.archive.org/web/20251103094855/https://bo.dsaj.gov.mo/bo/i/2025/25/lei02.asp
· Law 12/2026, n.º 33 of 17 August 2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/314576a825e0128f70.pdf
· justification note for Law 12/2026, https://al.gov.mo/uploads/attachment/2026-08/626596a72e34513220.pdf
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for this row, because a prescribing rule in these Regulations attaches to a schedule and this substance is in none of them. Regulation 4 is the rule a traveller would want, and it operates only on Schedules IV and V: it lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for both, and the section 7(1) possession prohibition for a Schedule IV drug in a medicinal product and for a Schedule V preparation outright. Whether this substance is reached by the Act's own Second Schedule, and so is a controlled drug taking none of those exemptions, was not settled here.
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There is nothing to carry for this row on the strength of the volume read, because the volume neither names the substance nor rules it out. If you are travelling with a prescribed medicine, carry it in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period; that evidences a therapeutic purpose and nothing more. What was actually checked for this row: 4-HO-MET, 4-hydroxy-N-methyl-N-ethyltryptamine and metocin returned nothing in either file. The nearest printed entries are Psilocin in Schedule I paragraph 1(a), which is 4-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine, and the paragraph 1(b) generic clause. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103, the Subsidiary Laws volume, Revised Edition 2020, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, searched in full across the Misuse of Drugs Regulations and their Schedules I to V, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations · agm.gov.bz · the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text runs from section 1 to partway through section 28 and carries none of its First, Second or Third Schedules, so the list that decides control was not read · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended 2020 and 2021) (Tonga)
No medicinal use of it was found in the sources read, so the exemptions below are of no practical help to a traveller. Lijst III has no prescription route of its own. Article 5 lid 1, which allows a middel to be prescribed op recept only where the recept meets requirements set by or under Staatsbesluit, still speaks only of 'enig middel, in de artikelen 3 en 4 bedoeld', and S.B. 2018 no. 64 did not extend it to article 8a. What the 2018 Act did extend are the exemptions. Article 7 lid 1 as amended lets the Minister lift limbs B, C and D of article 8a lid 1, generally or by written permission. Article 7 lid 2 as amended disapplies limbs B and C for gevestigde apothekers en apotheekhoudende geneeskundigen and for gevestigde dierenartsen who handle the substance only for a medical purpose. Article 7 lid 3 as amended disapplies the transport part of limb B and the whole of limb C for a person who shows that they need it, in de bevonden hoeveelheid, in the quantity found, for the practice of medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine or voor eigen geneeskundig gebruik, for their own medical use, and obtained it langs wettige weg, by lawful means. Whether the Staatsbesluiten that article 7 contemplates have been made was not established.
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Products sold online as research chemicals or not for human consumption are not exempt on that account. Neither article 7 lid 1 nor article 7 lid 3 touches limb A of article 8a lid 1, the import, export and transit limb, so the own medical use exemption covers possession and carriage inside Suriname and not bringing the substance in or taking it out. Article 6 lid 1, as replaced by S.B. 2018 no. 64, is the only route across the border: it disapplies article 8a lid 1 under A where the movement is made 'met toestemming van de Minister, na goedkeuring door de Procureur-generaal bij het Hof van Justitie', with the permission of the Minister after approval by the Procurator General at the Court of Justice. Article 11a, inserted in 2018, fines the user, tenant or owner of a vessel, aircraft, vehicle, building or yard where a middel of articles 2, 3 or 4 or a chemische stof of article 8a is found unlawfully with a fine of the first category, SRD 3,500 under the 2015 figures, unless they took all suitable measures to prevent it; whether a Tabel III substance is a chemische stof in the sense of definition u, a substance used for the illicit production of drugs, is not settled by the text. Article 10 gives investigating officers powers to search the body and clothing of a suspect and to seize. The memorie van toelichting to S.B. 2018 no. 64 says article 8a lid 1 would take effect six months after the Act, but Artikel II brings the whole Act into force on the day after publication and contains no separate date, and both dates passed in 2018 or 2019.
Wet verdovende middelen, S.B. 1998 no. 14, text as amended by S.B. 2002 no. 68, articles 1 to 14 and the annexed lijst I and lijst II, https://www.dna.sr/media/34ygwacb/wet_verdovende_middelen.pdf · Wet van 13 juli 2018, S.B. 2018 no. 64, houdende nadere wijziging van de Wet Verdovende Middelen, articles I and II and the annexed lijst III, https://www.dna.sr/media/bn3hqm5l/sb_2018___64.pdf · Wet van 6 september 2018, S.B. 2018 no. 65, https://www.dna.sr/media/j5pdybrl/sb_2018___65.pdf · Wet Industriële Hennepteelt, S.B. 2023 no. 137, articles 1, 19, 26, 27 and 29, https://www.sris.sr/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/S.B.-2023-no.-137-Wet-Industriele-Hennepteelt.pdf · Wetboek van Strafrecht as replaced by S.B. 2015 no. 44, articles 9, 11 and 40, https://www.sris.sr/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/23.S.B._2015_no._44_wet_van_30_mrt_15_wijz._wetboek_van_strafrecht.pdf · all read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 4, 2026
State of Palestine, applicable penal law (Gaza Strip military orders · West Bank PA framework) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Section 9 builds the prescribing and dispensing regime around a controlled drug, and this substance is not one on the text read here, so no section 9 route applies to it. Any medicines control on it would come from the Medical Act and the pharmacy law rather than from Cap. 283, and neither was read for this cell. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription.
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Antigua and Barbuda is not in the Schengen area, so a Schengen certificate is not the relevant document, and no local traveller certificate was established from Cap. 283. Carry a prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescribing document.
Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283, Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, Revised Edition, First Schedule Parts I to IV and Second Schedule, with sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 26 · laws.gov.ag · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
There is no controlled drug documentation to carry for this one under this Act, and the useful precaution is a different one: carry whatever shows what the substance actually is, because every route that could bite here starts with identification rather than with paperwork. If it is a prescribed medicine, carry it in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription anyway, since Barbados medicines and pharmacy law was not read for this cell and this cell does not speak to it. The absence was established by reading every indole row in Part II, and by reading the four extension paragraphs that could otherwise carry a substance in without naming it. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule, none of which names it · the check that establishes this read every indole row in Part II, with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was established and a ceiling carried across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and 4-HO-MET is not among the five, so no quantity presumption could attach to it even if an Order were later to place it. If such an Order or an analytical identification were to bring this material within Part I, section 7(2) would carry eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and section 7(3) three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment; within Part II or Part III the figures would be the Class B or Class C columns of the Fourth Schedule instead. None of that is asserted here. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class A entry «Pislocin».
If prescribed / medical
Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter set out the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. None of that machinery reaches this row, because nothing in Parts I to III was shown to place 4-HO-MET and the Regulations operate on controlled drugs as section 4 defines them. So the Act does not tell a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The question that has to be settled first is the one this row is drawn around: the Class A entry «Pislocin» was the nearest printed text and it was read and rejected.
Documentation
Do not read an absence from a schedule authorised in 1991 as permission. Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission whether an Order under section 4(3) has added this substance to the Third Schedule since that authorisation, and whether any medicines or pharmacy instrument outside this Act reaches it, and ask before you travel rather than on arrival. If you carry it as a medicine, bring the original dispensing packaging, the prescription and a letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so identification is settled by analysis. The nearest printed entry read and rejected for this row was the Class A entry «Pislocin». The instrument was read on 22 September 2026. Ask also whether the generic clauses in the Fourth Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations reflect an amendment to the Act's Third Schedule, because the Regulations name compounds the printed Act does not.
Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7 and 27 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The absence stated here rests on a visual reading of the complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 as page images, not on a text search: the text layer of this scan drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts, and the revised edition itself prints several entries with transposed letters, so a search of the text layer alone would return a false zero for any name the printer mangled. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class A entry «Pislocin». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «4-ho-met national source» rather than an address. The compilation read for this row recorded no printed entry claim, so nothing from it was carried across. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. Further text read for this row on 3 October 2026: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to Chapter 40:07, Fourth Schedule, paragraph 1(a), (b) and (c), on printed pages 59 and 60, read as page images from the same scanned chapter, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30 · page 59 carries the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
Documentation
Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part I paragraph 1(b) and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · ecfr.gov · 21 U.S.C. 802(32) · 21 U.S.C. 813 · law.cornell.edu · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026
4-HO-MET is reached through paragraph 1(b), the tryptamine generic, which is the same clause that reaches the N,N-dialkyl tryptamines not named in Part I. Psilocin, its N,N-dimethyl neighbour, is named. Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16 and 28 and Schedules 2 and 3, read on 3 October 2026 · laws.gov.vg · the same file, identical by sha256, at the Financial Services Commission · bvifsc.vg · the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013, compared word by word · bvifsc.vg · the laws.gov.vg page for the Act and its subsidiary legislation · laws.gov.vg · S.I. 2022 No. 111, proclamation for the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2005 · laws.gov.vg · Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2020, bill as gazetted · laws.gov.vg · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020, listed on laws.gov.vg as a bill only · laws.gov.vg · Updated October 4, 2026
Documentation
The order read is bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26. maj 2026 for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, as in force on 4 October 2026. Its § 33 puts it in force on 15 June 2026 and repeals bekendtgørelse nr. 90 af 31. januar 2025. A retsinformation.dk search run on 4 October 2026 returned no later order amending it, which does not rule out a later amendment. The order was made by Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet under §§ 1 and 2 of lov om euforiserende stoffer as put in force for the Faroe Islands by royal decree, the decree text being consolidated in anordningsbekendtgørelse nr. 1349 af 23. november 2015. It is a Danish ministerial order made for the Faroe Islands, and the licences it provides for are granted by Lægemiddelstyrelsen «efter forhandling med Landsapotekeren». Customs also has a role. Under § 9 of the order an import certificate for a consignment from outside the European Economic Area is shown to «de statslige told- og skattemyndigheder». The customs legislation itself, the Customs Act regime, was not read for this cell and nothing in it rests on that legislation. Carry any medicine in its original packaging with its prescription, and confirm the current rule with the Faroese authorities before travel.
Bekendtgørelse for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, BEK nr 495 af 26/05/2026, §§ 1 to 3, 6, 9, 22, 30 and 33 and Bilag 1 · retsinformation.dk · Bekendtgørelse af anordning for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, nr 1349 af 23/11/2015, §§ 1 to 3 a · retsinformation.dk · Lov nr 740 af 13/06/2023, § 1, read only for its citation of the Faroese penal code · retsinformation.dk · Bekendtgørelse for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, BEK nr 90 af 31/01/2025, repealed, read to confirm the renumbering · retsinformation.dk · Updated October 4, 2026
Documentation
The controlling law for 4-HO-MET in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.
Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026
