Is 4-AcO-DMT legal in Oman?

Legal status

Not listed in the Omani schedules. 4-AcO-DMT is in no table read, taking Group 1 and Group 3 as annexed in 1999 and Group 2 tables 1, 2 and 3 as replaced in 2020.

Consequences if caught

Conduct distinction. Articles 44, 46 and 47 punish trafficking, supply and personal use respectively, and each is written about a substance drawn from a named table. None of them reaches a substance that is in no table. That is not a finding that it is lawful in Oman. Article 4 lets the Minister of Health add a substance to any group by decision at any time, and one such decision, number 131 of 2020, has already moved the amfetamines into the table that carries the death penalty. A list read today is a snapshot of a power that is exercised. Capital and life exposure. None established. Articles 43, 44, 46 and 47 are each written about مواد مخدرة أو مؤثرات عقلية drawn from named tables, and article 1 defines both terms purely by reference to those annexed tables. 4-AcO-DMT is in none of them, so there is no table entry for any of those articles to attach to, and the mandatory death paragraph of article 43 operates only on article 43 offences. That is the reason exposure is absent rather than merely the fact of it. No quantity arises, because no penalty article is engaged.

If prescribed or medical

4-AcO-DMT is not in the annexed tables, so the licensing and prescribing chapters of the law do not govern it. A separate medicines registration rule may still apply, and a medicines rule is never a criminal schedule.

Documentation

There is no narcotics paperwork for this substance, because it is in none of the annexed tables. Carry the original container, the pharmacy label and a doctor's letter for any medicine you travel with, because an officer decides from what is in front of them and an unlabelled substance invites a laboratory test rather than a reading of the schedules. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, issued by Royal Decree 17/99 on 6 March 1999 and published in Official Gazette issue 643 of 15 March 1999. Seventy two articles, read here in the amended consolidation. The schedules are annexed to the law, but they do not stay there untouched. Article 4 provides يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك, the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing the proportions whenever circumstances require, and article 1 defines that Minister as the Minister of Health. Two Royal Decrees have amended the law itself. Royal Decree 34/2015 of 5 October 2015, Gazette 1118, replaced articles 5, 6, 43, 47, 49, 56, 59 and 66. Royal Decree 24/2023 of 19 April 2023, Gazette 1490, replaced article 5, renamed the national committee and repealed article 6, and it touched no penalty and no schedule. The schedules themselves were last amended by Ministerial Decision 131 of 2020, made on 28 September 2020 and published in Gazette 1360 of 4 October 2020, which replaced Group 2 tables 1, 2 and 3. Placement for 4-AcO-DMT: in no table read.

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