Is Cathinone legal in Syria?
- Legal status
- Illegal, cathinone (khat's natural principal alkaloid) is a 1971 Convention SCHEDULE I psychotropic and is caught by Syria's psychotropics law incorporating the 1971 Convention. Mechanism: 1971 Sch-I transposition, named. As the parent compound it is DISTINCT from the khat PLANT (Catha edulis, not traditionally consumed) and from the synthetic cathinones (mephedrone etc.) that derive from it; cathinone is the named Sch-I alkaloid, cathine the milder metabolite (1971 Schedule III). The death penalty exists for trafficking, but cathinone as an isolated alkaloid realistically draws imprisonment, no realistic capital exposure.
- Consequences if caught
- Controlled substance: treated as a scheduled psychotropic drawing imprisonment for the alkaloid.
- If prescribed or medical
- 1971 Schedule I substance with no accepted medical use and no lawful prescription route for the isolated alkaloid.
- Documentation
- No licit personal-import route for a controlled substance.
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