Is DOM legal in Italy?
- Legal status
- DOM (STP) is a Tabella I controlled substance under Presidential Decree DPR 309/1990, Italy's transposition of DOM's individual Schedule I listing under the 1971 UN Convention.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking of a Tabella I substance is punished under Art. 73 DPR 309/1990 (6-20 years); personal use is an administrative sanction under Art. 75.
- If prescribed or medical
- Tabella I: no therapeutic use; not prescribable.
- Documentation
- DPR 9 ottobre 1990 n. 309, Tabella I delle sostanze stupefacenti e psicotrope.
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