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Legality · 3-MMC

3-MMC in Samoa: not individually verified

Also known as: metaphedrone

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that 3-MMC specifically is scheduled in Samoa, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record
Not confirmed. 3-MMC (3-methylmethcathinone) is not named by that name. Second Schedule item 2 names "Methcathinone" as a Class B narcotic, and 3-MMC is methcathinone with a ring methyl group added, giving it a different molecular formula (methcathinone is C10H13NO; 3-MMC is C11H15NO), so it is not an isomer of the named entry and the Second Schedule's isomer, ester, ether, salt and proportion clauses (B to E) do not reach it on that structural reasoning. Separately, 3-MMC shares its molecular formula, C11H15NO, with PHENMETRAZINE (Second Schedule item 112, Class B), an unrelated morpholine-ring stimulant. Whether the Second Schedule's isomer clause, which reaches isomers "within the specific chemical designation", covers any same-formula compound or only variants of the one named structure is not settled by the text, and that question is left open rather than resolved by assumption.

Confirm directly with Samoa’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

What Samoa HAS confirmed for related substances

These are related compounds, not 3-MMC. Their status may or may not reflect 3-MMC’s. Confirm 3-MMC directly with Samoa's national drug authority or your embassy.

  • Cathinonea related compound, not 3-MMC

    Controlled as a Class B narcotic. Second Schedule item 8 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names "CATHINONE (2-amino-1-phenylpropan-1-one)" directly. No later consolidation or section 5 amending order, through 7 October 2026, was located, so this finding rests on the version read.

    Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Second Schedule item 8, printed p24, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Verified October 8, 2026

  • Khata related compound, not 3-MMC

    Controlled as a Class C narcotic. Third Schedule item 1 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31 December 2023) names «CATHA EDULIS PLANT» directly, by plant name, with no chemical formula needed. Catha edulis is not on the section 2 "prohibited plant" list (cannabis, opium poppy, coca-genus plants, Lophophora species and specified fungi only), so sections 6 and 10(1), which apply only to a section 2 prohibited plant, do not reach khat; its import, export, possession, supply and use are instead governed by the general narcotic provisions at sections 10(2), 17 and 18, at the Class C band fixed for the Third Schedule. The leaf naturally contains cathinone and cathine, separately named at Second Schedule items 8 and 21 ("NORPSEUDOEPHEDRINE... including cathine") as Class B narcotics; the specifically named plant entry governs the whole leaf at Class C, while cathinone or cathine isolated or extracted from the leaf would carry the heavier Class B band under the Second Schedule. Section 18A(2) excludes the cultivation of a plant from the definition of manufacture, so growing khat is not itself unlawful manufacture under section 18A, but possessing, dealing in, supplying or using the growing or harvested plant remains caught by section 18.

    Narcotics Act 1967 (1967 No.3), official version as at 31 December 2023, Third Schedule item 1, printed p30, Second Schedule items 8 and 21, printed p24 and p25, and sections 6, 10, 18 and 18A, printed p5 to p17, https://www.ag.gov.ws/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Narcotics-Act-1967.pdf, read 2026-10-07 · Verified October 8, 2026

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