Is 3-MMC legal in Germany?

Also known as: metaphedrone

Legal status

3-MMC is a named entry in Anlage I of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz. The printed row reads „- | 3-Methylmethcathinon(3-MMC) | 2-(Methylamino)-1-(3-methylphenyl)propan-1-on“. The position of the methyl group on the ring is the operative fact: the third column fixes it at position three, which is what distinguishes this entry from the four-methyl cathinone that has its own separate line in the same Anlage. Placement runs through BtMG § 1 Abs. 1 and the tier is Anlage I, the non-marketable one. Because the German schedule names the positional isomers individually, the result here is a direct listing and not an inference from the cathinone entry, and the Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz is not part of the answer.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. The dossier's penalty column records no death-penalty regime, consistent with the constitutional position in Germany. The named provisions are BtMG §§ 29 bis 30a and the recorded figure is the ceiling: imprisonment of not less than five years under § 30a Abs. 1, with StGB § 38 Abs. 2 limiting a determinate sentence to fifteen years. The ordinary band is not in the dossier and is not stated here. What creates the exposure is the printed molecule, so a ring-methyl at a different position is a question for that isomer's own line, which is how the German table is built.

If prescribed or medical

Anlage I is the non-marketable tier, read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026, so there is no prescription route in Germany for this substance and a foreign prescription cannot authorise possession of it. The dossier carries no German traveller rule in any column for this row, so the cell gives the schedule position and defers on the border documentation.

Documentation

Nothing lawful is carried under this listing. The record that decides a case is the positional analysis, because the schedule separates the methylmethcathinone isomers by line rather than treating them as one family. The entry was read on 20 September 2026.

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