Is Cathinone legal in Germany?

Legal status

Listed by name in Anlage I of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz, the non-marketable tier. Cathinone holds its own line there. The printed row reads „Cathinon | - | (S)-2-Amino-1-phenylpropan-1-on“, and the stereochemistry in the third column is the operative detail: the entry is drawn at the single S enantiomer, which is the form that occurs in the khat plant, rather than at a racemate. Placement is under BtMG § 1 Abs. 1. The entry is direct, so the substituted cathinones that Germany schedules separately are not reached through this line and each has its own row. The Neue-psychoaktive-Stoffe-Gesetz is not engaged by a named narcotics entry and is not blended into this answer.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. The dossier's penalty column records that no death-penalty regime applies. The provisions are BtMG §§ 29 bis 30a and the dossier gives the ceiling: not less than five years under § 30a Abs. 1, with the fifteen-year limit on a determinate sentence in StGB § 38 Abs. 2. No ordinary band is recorded here. Because the printed entry fixes one enantiomer, the identification carries real weight: material answering that configuration is on this line, while a ring-substituted or racemic relative is a question for whichever other row actually names it.

If prescribed or medical

Anlage I is the non-marketable tier of the three, read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026, so no German prescription route exists for this substance. The dossier records no traveller rule for narcotics carried into Germany, so this cell gives the placement and defers explicitly on the border documentation rather than describing a certificate.

Documentation

There is nothing to carry lawfully under this listing. The record that decides a case is the analysis, and specifically the configuration at the amino carbon, because the German entry is written at one enantiomer. The entry was read on 20 September 2026.

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