Is 1P-LSD legal in Macau?
- Legal status
- Not listed in Macau. 1P-LSD 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 1P-LSD, 1-propionyl and 1-丙酰 found no entry. Table II-A item 16 prints «(+)-Lisergida, LSD, LSD-25», and Table II-A's closing notes reach only «Os sais das substâncias inscritas» and isomers; 1P-LSD, the 1-propionyl derivative of LSD (a structure brought from outside the text), is neither a salt nor an isomer of LSD, and the term propionyl occurs only inside opioid chemical names in Table I-A. That is not a statement that 1P-LSD 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 1P-LSD 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 or medical
- Law 17/2009 gives no prescription route for 1P-LSD, because it does not list it. Macau's medicines legislation was not read, so whether 1P-LSD 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)
- 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
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Macau
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