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Legality · 4-AcO-DMT

4-AcO-DMT in Philippines: not individually verified

Also known as: psilacetin

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that 4-AcO-DMT specifically is scheduled in Philippines, 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. 4-AcO-DMT is not named in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025: searched in all 24 pages, "4-AcO-DMT" 0 hits; "acetoxy" 0 hits. The nearest entries, "DMT" on page 12 and psilocine on page 14, do not include the acetate ester. Section 11 of RA 9165 speaks of "those similarly designed or newly introduced drugs and their derivatives" within its other dangerous drugs limb, and whether that reaches an unlisted analogue was not established, so absence from the list is not treated as an answer. This is stated as at the Board's list of 06 July 2025 and the Board's regulations register read at https://ddb.gov.ph/board-regulations/ on 2 October 2026, whose newest entry is Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026 and which lists no Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2026, and it does not rule out a later amendment.

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

What Philippines 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 Philippines's national drug authority or your embassy.

  • DMTa related compound, not 4-AcO-DMT

    A dangerous drug under RA 9165. DMT is printed as "DMT" on page 12 of the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, in its 1971 Schedule I section. It is also listed in the annex to RA 9165, which section 3(j) makes "an integral part of this Act". The entry is N,N-dimethyltryptamine and does not itself list 5-MeO-DMT or 4-AcO-DMT.

    Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, enrolled text as published by the Dangerous Drugs Board, sections 3(j), 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 93 and its annex · ddb.gov.ph · Dangerous Drugs Board, Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, page 12, read on 2 October 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Republic Act No. 9346, sections 1 and 2, text read at lawphil.net on 2 October 2026 because the Official Gazette refused the request · lawphil.net · Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014, adopted 19 June 2014, sections 6(16), 31 and 35, and its Annex A · ddb.gov.ph · ddb.gov.ph · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the Board's list under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Verified October 2, 2026

  • Psilocybina related compound, not 4-AcO-DMT

    A dangerous drug under RA 9165. Psilocybin is printed as "PSILOCYBINE" on page 14 of the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, in its 1971 Schedule I section. It is also listed in the annex to RA 9165, which section 3(j) makes "an integral part of this Act". Psilocine is printed as a separate entry on the same page.

    Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, enrolled text as published by the Dangerous Drugs Board, sections 3(j), 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 93 and its annex · ddb.gov.ph · Dangerous Drugs Board, Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, page 14, read on 2 October 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Republic Act No. 9346, sections 1 and 2, text read at lawphil.net on 2 October 2026 because the Official Gazette refused the request · lawphil.net · Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014, adopted 19 June 2014, sections 6(16), 31 and 35, and its Annex A · ddb.gov.ph · ddb.gov.ph · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the Board's list under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Verified October 2, 2026

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