5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad) in Thailand: not individually verified

Also known as: the god molecule

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad) specifically is scheduled in Thailand, 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 for 5-MeO-DMT. As in force on 3 October 2026, 5-MeO-DMT, PubChem CID 1832, "2-(5-methoxy-1H-indol-3-yl)-N,N-dimethylethanamine", is not named in any Thai naming notification read, and the shared abbreviation with a named entry does not carry it. The search ran on 3 October 2026, in Thai, in Latin script and by chemical name, through every Ministry of Public Health naming notification the Thai FDA Narcotics Control Division publishes under the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564: narcotic Category 1 of B.E. 2565 as amended up to No. 5 B.E. 2568, narcotic Category 2, narcotic Category 4 of B.E. 2566 as amended up to No. 3 B.E. 2568, narcotic Category 5, and psychotropic Categories 1 to 4 of B.E. 2565, Category 1 as amended up to No. 5 B.E. 2569. DMT is item 18 of the psychotropic Category 1 list, "ดีเอ็มที (DMT)", "2-(1H-indol-3-yl)-N,N-dimethylethanamine". Clause 2 of the notification extends an entry to salts, esters and ethers, but DMT has no hydroxyl group to form an ether, so a methoxy group at the 5 position makes a new compound and not an ether of DMT. 5-MeO-DMT is the methyl ether of bufotenine, "3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-5-ol", PubChem CID 10257, and bufotenine is not named in any list read either, so the ether clause has no parent to attach to. This is not a finding that 5-MeO-DMT is uncontrolled in Thailand.

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What Thailand HAS confirmed for related substances

4-AcO-DMTa related compound, not 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)
4-AcO-DMT is controlled in Thailand as a Category 1 psychotropic substance, as an ester of psilocin and not by a named entry of its own. The Ministry of Public Health notification ประกาศกระทรวงสาธารณสุข เรื่อง ระบุชื่อวัตถุออกฤทธิ์ในประเภท ๑ พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๕, published in the Royal Gazette volume 139, special part 182 ง, on 5 August 2565 (2022), names psilocin at item 45 as "ไซโลซีน (psilocine หรือ psilotsin)", chemical name "3-(2-(dimethylamino)ethyl)-1H-indol-4-ol". Clause 2(3) of the same notification extends every entry to "เกลือ เอสเทอร์ (ester) และอีเทอร์ (ether) ใด ๆ ของวัตถุออกฤทธิ์ดังกล่าว", any salt, ester or ether of the listed substance. PubChem records 4-AcO-DMT under CID 15429212 as "[3-[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-yl] acetate", which is psilocin with its 4 hydroxyl group esterified by acetic acid, so it is an ester of item 45. Psilocybin, the phosphate ester of the same hydroxyl, is named separately at item 46 of the same list. Section 94 of the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 prohibits producing, importing, exporting, selling, possessing or transiting a psychotropic substance without a licence under section 35(5), and section 149 carries the penalties. The placement rests on reading clause 2(3) against the published structure; no Thai instrument read names 4-AcO-DMT, psilacetin or O-acetylpsilocin in words.
Thailand, Ministry of Public Health notification ระบุชื่อวัตถุออกฤทธิ์ในประเภท ๑ พ.ศ. ๒๕๖๕, clause 2(3) and item 45, Royal Gazette vol. 139 special part 182 ง, 5 August 2565 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · Category 5 narcotic notification B.E. 2565 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 sections 39, 94, 145, 149, 162 and 164, Royal Gazette vol. 138 part 73 ก, 8 November 2564 · narcotic.fda.moph.go.th · PubChem CID 15429212 and CID 4980 · pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · all read 3 October 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
DMTa related compound, not 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)
DMT is a Category 1 psychotropic substance in Thailand. The Ministry of Public Health naming notification published in the Royal Gazette in B.E. 2565 prints วัตถุออกฤทธิ์ในประเภท 1, psychotropic substances in category 1, and names DMT beneath it. The DMT entry is also what this table's ayahuasca row runs through, and it is the near entry that the 4-AcO-DMT, 4-HO-MET and 5-MeO-DMT rows each rejected as a different molecule. Section 94 of the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 is the psychotropic limb and section 149 carries the penalties. This is the criminal classification taken from the naming notification and not from a traveller permit label, and the two are different documents answering different questions.
Thailand, Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 section 94 with the penalties at section 149 and a stated maximum of 10 years · Ministry of Public Health psychotropic naming notification B.E. 2565, category 1, where DMT is reached by the entry for DMT · read in the Royal Gazette at https://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2565/E/182/T_0008.PDF on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. · Verified September 21, 2026
Psilocybina related compound, not 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)
Psilocybin is a Category 1 psychotropic substance in Thailand. The Ministry of Public Health naming notification published in the Royal Gazette in B.E. 2565 prints วัตถุออกฤทธิ์ในประเภท 1, psychotropic substances in category 1, and names psilocybin beneath it. The notification names the molecule; the mushroom that carries it is not a separate entry in what was read. Section 94 of the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 is the psychotropic limb and section 149 carries the penalties. This is the criminal classification taken from the naming notification and not from a traveller permit label, and the two are different documents answering different questions.
Thailand, Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 section 94 with the penalties at section 149 and a stated maximum of 10 years · Ministry of Public Health psychotropic naming notification B.E. 2565, category 1, where Psilocybin is reached by the entry for psilocybin · read in the Royal Gazette at https://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2565/E/182/T_0008.PDF on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. · Verified September 21, 2026

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