Is 3-MMC legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a Cyrillic abbreviation rather than a spelled out chemical name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints the heading «3-ММС» and fixes it at CAS 1246911-71-6, and record UKR-08 accepts that printed row. The abbreviation matters here because the list also prints a separate heading for the ring isomer of this cathinone, so the two are distinguished by position on the ring rather than left to a class clause. Substance identity in Ukraine belongs to the Перелік, approved under стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори»; the criminal code supplies offences and never names a molecule. This source does not state which of таблиці I to IV the heading occupies.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. There is no death penalty in Ukrainian law. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment at its third part and no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 1246911-71-6 is matched by name, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule and those bands, not the code, decide which part of стаття 307 is engaged. This source does not reproduce the numeric figures for the heading, so no gram or milligram amount is asserted here. The separate possession offence is not named by the source and is not stated. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, 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. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. 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 Ukrainian list brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

No personal use quantity is lawful in Ukraine, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing a traveller, and any scheduled medicine must also satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 1246911-71-6 and there is no authorised medicinal product in Ukraine containing this cathinone, so the prescription limb does not arise. Beyond that country rule the source states no import permit, no personal allowance and no recognition of a foreign prescription, and none was researched. Nothing about a legal market elsewhere carries into Ukraine.

Documentation

Carry no reliance on a supplier's paperwork. The Ukrainian heading is keyed to CAS 1246911-71-6 and an officer will test identity against the printed abbreviation, which distinguishes this cathinone from its ring isomer by position rather than by class. A traveller carrying a prescribed stimulant that could be confused with a cathinone should carry the original dispensing pack, the dispensing label in the patient's name, the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the treatment period, and should keep the quantity within that period. The heading was read on 20 September 2026 in the consolidated text.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Ukraine’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.