5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad) in Timor-Leste: 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 Timor-Leste, 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. Lei n.º 2/2017 carries no closing statement that would let an absence read as a settled negative, so the finding below is reported as unconfirmed rather than closed. 5-MeO-DMT is not named by that name anywhere in Lei n.º 2/2017's tables. Two related tryptamines are named in Table II-A: DMT at item 12 ("DMT - N-N-dimetiltriptamina", N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and bufotenine at item 7 ("Bufotenina - 5-hidroxi-N-N-dimetiltripptamina", 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine). Table II-A's closing clause extends control to "os isómeros das substâncias inscritas nesta tabela em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com designação química específica, salvo se forem expressamente excluídos" (the isomers of the substances listed in this table, in every case in which those isomers can exist with a specific chemical designation, unless expressly excluded). Working through that clause the same way as for 3-MMC, but reaching the opposite result here: an isomer, in the ordinary chemical sense the word carries, is a compound that shares the identical molecular formula with a different arrangement of the same atoms. DMT's molecular formula is C12H16N2. Bufotenine, DMT's 5-hydroxy derivative, is C12H16N2O, one oxygen atom heavier than DMT; it is a hydroxylated derivative of DMT, not DMT's isomer, since the atom counts differ. 5-MeO-DMT is the 5-methoxy derivative, C13H18N2O, one carbon and two hydrogens heavier again than bufotenine, because a methoxy group (-OCH3) replaces bufotenine's hydroxyl (-OH). 5-MeO-DMT therefore does not share DMT's formula and does not share bufotenine's formula either; it is a chemical homologue, a close synthetic relative built by substituting a larger group onto the same tryptamine core, but it is not an isomer of either named entry under the plain chemical meaning of that word, because none of the three compounds (DMT, bufotenine, 5-MeO-DMT) has the same atom count as either of the other two. On that reasoning, the isomer clause's own wording does not extend to 5-MeO-DMT, and it is absent from Table II-A by both name and chemical-isomer extension. This reading is as printed 25 January 2017, read on 7 October 2026; no later amending law has been found (see the search recorded below).

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What Timor-Leste HAS confirmed for related substances

DMTa related compound, not 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)
DMT is named directly in Table II-A of Lei n.º 2/2017's Anexo II, item 12: "DMT - N-N-dimetiltriptamina" (N,N-dimethyltryptamine), alongside five other named tryptamines in the same table (DET, DPT, Etriptamina, Bufotenina and the psilocybin/psilocin pair). Table II-A's closing clauses also reach DMT's salts and its chemical-specific isomers. Whether a plant preparation containing DMT, such as ayahuasca, is itself reached is a separate question answered on ayahuasca's own page, turning on the fact that Table II-A, unlike Table II-B, carries no preparations clause; that question does not affect DMT's own status, which is named outright. Article 2, paragraph 1, subparagraph d, defines "droga" as any plant, substance or preparation covered by Tables I to IV; article 3 makes the tables integral to the law. This reading is as printed 25 January 2017, read on 7 October 2026.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, "Lei de Combate ao Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas", Anexo II, Tabela II-A item 12 · articles 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 and 26 · preamble lines naming Lei n.º 5/1997 da Indonésia and Lei n.º 5/2013 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pages 59 to 82. https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6). Read on 7 October 2026. · Verified October 8, 2026
Psilocybina related compound, not 5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)
Named. Tabela II-A of Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, carries two separate entries: item 31, "Psilocibina - fosfatodiidrogenado de 3-(2-dimetila-minoetil)-4-indolilo" (Psilocybin, dihydrogen phosphate ester of 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-indolyl), and item 32, "Psilocina - 3-(-2-dimetilaminoetil)-4-(hidroxi-indol)" (Psilocin, 3-(2-dimethylaminoethyl)-4-(hydroxyindole)). Both the phosphorylated prodrug and its active dephosphorylated metabolite are named directly, a related but separate finding worth stating together rather than treating as one entry. The mushroom itself, as plant or fungal material, is not separately named in either table; Table II-A's closing clause reaches salts and isomers of its listed entries, not preparations, so a psilocybin mushroom or a preparation of one is a separate, unreached question from the two named compounds, the same structural distinction that closing clause produces for ayahuasca, khat and peyote under this law. The mushroom's absence from a separate named entry is stated as in force on 25 January 2017, Lei n.º 2/2017's own enactment date, and does not rule out a later amendment this session did not find.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, preamble and Anexo II, Tabela II-A items 31, 32 and closing clause, and articles 2(d), 3(1), 6, 7, 9, 26 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pp. 60-82 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6, fetched 2026-10-07, read 2026-10-07) · Verified October 8, 2026

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