Is 4-HO-MET legal in Belarus?

Legal status

4-HO-MET is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень print the entry «4-HO-MET» in Latin script, and registry number 77872-41-4 is what fixes which molecule that entry catches. The hydroxy tryptamine is printed by code in Latin, and its registry number is what fixes the N-ethyl N-methyl substitution that the code alone abbreviates. The terms taken to the annexes were "4-HO-MET", "metocin", and the row accepted was the printed entry itself rather than the paragraph that establishes the list, because the schedule owns the substance entries and the offence article does not. The version read was № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, record BEL-10.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale here. The figure itself is disputed and the dispute is stated rather than hidden: this repair reads Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling, the cell it replaces read the same paragraph as twelve to twenty five years, and the sources reachable here do not settle which reading is right. The earlier cell also framed the offence as articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one, a range this repair does not mention at all, so treat the article range as well as the figure as open. That term of years attaches to an offence in a listed substance, and this row is listed: the annex prints «4-HO-MET» at registry number 77872-41-4, record BEL-10. Belarus sets no lawful personal use allowance, so the size bands in the statute and the subordinate law are what decide which part of Article 328 is engaged, and they are read against this printed entry and not against a family name. An amount below every criminal band can still draw administrative or other liability, which is why there is no quantity in this cell that can be treated as safe. The band attaches to the entry as printed, and the code abbreviates a substitution pattern that only the registry number states in full, so the analysis has to reach the number.

If prescribed or medical

The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. This row's placement is the printed entry «4-HO-MET» in the республиканский перечень, record BEL-10, so any medicinal route runs through that placement. A criminal quantity band is not a lawful traveller allowance. The source states no medical route specific to 4-HO-MET and none is supplied here. The placement is a code entry whose substitution pattern is stated only by the registry number, so the number is what a declaration would have to carry.

Documentation

Carry it only with the Belarusian prescription and dispensing paperwork the medicines law requires, in the original dispensing packaging, with the substance named on any declaration the way the annex names it, «4-HO-MET», and with registry number 77872-41-4 available if the name is queried. The placement at BEL-10 was read against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. A later amendment can change an entry, so recheck the annexes before travel rather than relying on the date on this cell. Carry the registry number, because the printed code abbreviates a substitution pattern that nothing else on the row states.

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