Legality · 4-AcO-DMT4-AcO-DMT in India: not individually verified
Also known as: psilacetin
Not individually verified
We have not confirmed that 4-AcO-DMT specifically is scheduled in India, 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. The name does not appear in any Indian instrument read, and whether the ester of a listed psychotropic substance is itself placed was not established; verify with India's Narcotics Control Bureau, the Central Bureau of Narcotics or your embassy before travelling.
Confirm directly with India’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.
What India HAS confirmed for related substances
These are related compounds, not 4-AcO-DMT. Their status may or may not reflect 4-AcO-DMT’s. Confirm 4-AcO-DMT directly with India's Narcotics Control Bureau, the Central Bureau of Narcotics or your embassy before travelling..
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.
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. · Verified September 21, 2026
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. DMT is listed at serial 3 by the chemical name N,N-Dimethyltryptamine. The 5-methoxy compound has an extra methoxy group and a different molecular formula, and bufotenine, the 5-hydroxy compound, does not appear in the Indian Schedule at all.
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 5-meo, methoxy-n,n-dimethyltrypt, bufotenine, 5-methoxydimethyl, 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. · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled in India. The matched entry reads «3 DMT N, N-Dimethyltryptamine», at serial 3 of the Act's Schedule, the list of psychotropic substances.
NDPS Act 1985, the Schedule serial 3 · quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) serial 129 · 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. · Verified September 21, 2026
Controlled in India. The matched entry reads «10 PSILOCYBINE 3-(2-Dimethylaminoeth)-indol-4-yl dihydrogen phosphate», at serial 10 of the Act's Schedule, the list of psychotropic substances.
NDPS Act 1985, the Schedule serial 10 · quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) serial 145 · 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. · Verified September 21, 2026
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