Legality
MDA legal status by country
Also known as: sass, sally
Countries where the legal status of MDA has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for MDA in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)Controlled, MDA is a Golongan I narcotic under national Law 35/2009 (narcotics are federal; Aceh's Qanun...
- AlbaniaMDA is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant...
- American Samoa (US)MDA is controlled federally and locally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR...
- AngolaControlled. Tenanfetamina-MDA is in table II-A of Lei n.º 3/99. Trafficking carries 8 to 12 years. Personal...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no methylenedioxy compound is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The...
- ArgentinaControlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 578 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026,...
- ArmeniaControlled in Armenia. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to...
- AustraliaProhibited. MDA is named in Schedule 9 of F2026L01327 as «3,4-METHYLENEDIOXYAMFETAMINE *(MDA).». Criminal...
- AustriaThis is a Suchtgift in Austria, which is the heavier of the country's two drug designations. In the...
- BahamasControlled, under the international non proprietary name rather than the initialism. The 1994 Application...
- BahrainControlled. MDA is placed in Group II Schedule 1 of the annex, in Bahrain's Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs...
- BangladeshMDA is named in Class 'kha' at serial 4 of the First Schedule as «MDA...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelarusMDA is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля...
- BelgiumMDA is a controlled substance in Belgium because it is listed. The Royal Decree of 6 September 2017 prints it...
- BelizeMDA is a Class A controlled drug in Belize. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act,...
- BoliviaControlled. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017 carries the entry MDA in Lista I under the heading...
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaControlled. The list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 178 of lista F2, psychotropic substances within lista F, the...
- BruneiClass A controlled drug. It sits in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of...
- BulgariaControlled. MDA is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и...
- Cabo VerdeControlled. MDA is in Table I, part B of Lei n.º 78/IV/93, printed on page 532 of Boletim Oficial I Série n.º...
- CambodiaControlled, MDA is a scheduled narcotic (Table I) under the Law on Drug Control 2012 (1971 Schedule I...
- CanadaControlled, MDA (methylenedioxyamphetamine) is enumerated by name among amphetamines in Schedule I of the...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 1, the lista of substances capable of grave toxic effects or considerable...
- ChinaControlled, MDA is a listed controlled psychotropic in the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances...
- ColombiaControlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026...
- Costa RicaControlled. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes the scope by reference to the...
- Côte d'IvoireControlled under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45: MDA is...
- CroatiaControlled in Croatia through a bounded entry rather than under its own name. MDA is not named in the Popis...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaMDA is a psychotropní látka, a psychotropic substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation. Named on liste B of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts...
- Dominican RepublicControlled. MDA is the entry «3,4, metilenodioxi-anfetamina» at number 6 of acápite III of Categoría I of...
- EcuadorControlled, MDA is a scheduled psychotropic substance in Ecuador under Codigo Organico Integral Penal (COIP)...
- EgyptControlled as a narcotic substance in the first section of Egypt's Table 1. «الجدول رقم (١) - الجواهر...
- El SalvadorControlled under the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2...
- EstoniaMDA is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs...
- Falkland Islands (UK)Class A controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. MDA, tenamphetamine, falls within Part 1, paragraph 1(c) of...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands under its international name. MDA is placed on liste B nr. 427 of...
- FinlandControlled. MDA is a narcotic in Finland by name. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceMDA is classified as a narcotic in France. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the list of...
- GeorgiaMDA is a controlled substance in Georgia. The dossier places it on the annexes to Law No. 624, matched to the...
- GermanyMDA is listed in Anlage I of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz under a name most readers will not recognise. The...
- GhanaControlled under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019). The entry relied on for MDA is Fifth...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. MDA is entry 27 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, the first table, an entry that opens...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- GuatemalaIllegal under the Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92), articles 38 and 39.
- HondurasControlled. MDA is named in Lista I del Convenio de 1971, and Article 321 of the Código Penal (Decreto...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. It is not named in Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs...
- HungaryControlled. MDA is a named entry of the P1 jegyzék carried in the 2. melléklet to 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Tenamphetamine", with...
- IndiaControlled in India. The matched entry reads «15 MDA 3,4,-methylenedioxy amphetamine», at serial 15 of the...
- IndonesiaNarkotika Golongan I under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika: Narkotika...
- IranMDA is placed at entry 25 of Schedule 1 of the four psychotropic schedules adopted 1384/09/13, printed as...
- IraqControlled. MDA is carried twice: Schedule One serial 128 as «TENAMFETAMINE MDA», and Schedule Five serial 10...
- IrelandMDA is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch....
- IsraelControlled. Named in the First Schedule of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973 at חלק א'...
- ItalyControlled. The Ministry of Health compilation of the DPR 309/1990 tables carries «MDA» as an operative...
- JapanMDA is a 麻薬, a narcotic, designated by Cabinet Order in Japan under 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法別表第一第七十七号. The entry is...
- JordanMDA is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic...
- KazakhstanMDA is named in Kazakhstan's controlled list. The first of the three documents Government Resolution No. 470...
- KenyaControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245, by name in the...
- KuwaitControlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. MDA is listed at Group 2, table 1, serial P1-15,...
- KyrgyzstanControlled in Kyrgyzstan. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 names MDA in its...
- LaosControlled, MDA is caught by the amphetamine-type-stimulant / 'other psychotropic substances' class language...
- LatviaMDA is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and...
- LebanonControlled. MDA is placed in Table 1 of the annex to Law 673 of 16 March 1998, in the 1971 Convention...
- LibyaControlled. MDA is a 1971 Convention Schedule I substance. Libya's statute is Law No. (7) of 1990 on...
- LithuaniaMDA is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names MDA. The entry relied on reads «Tenamfetaminas...
- MacauControlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table II-A, item 17, prints «替苯丙胺 / Tenanfetamina, MDA». The tables are read...
- MalaysiaMDA is named in Part III of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 as «Methylenedioxy-amphetamine...
- MaldivesControlled under the Drug Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025)....
- MaltaMDA is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs...
- MexicoMDA is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the first of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. MDA is in Table I, «Tabelul național I. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin...
- MontenegroControlled in Montenegro. The operative list is the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih...
- MyanmarIllegal in Myanmar. MDA is listed at Notification 25/2025, List 1, and that listing is the whole of what...
- NetherlandsControlled as a hard drug. MDA is named in lijst I of the Opiumwet, the hard drug list, and the row prints...
- New ZealandControlled, and named rather than inferred. Schedule 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 names or describes...
- NicaraguaControlled in Nicaragua. The entry relied on is «Tenamifetamina», printed among the lists and tables annexed...
- NigeriaControlled. The Nigeria dossier places MDA under sections 11, 20 and 52 of the National Drug Law Enforcement...
- North MacedoniaControlled in North Macedonia. The classification list made under the control Act prints a row for...
- NorwayControlled in Norway. MDA is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the Forskrift 14...
- OmanControlled, and inside the death penalty article. MDA is named in Group II, Table 1, serial 30 of the annex...
- PakistanMDA is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the...
- PanamaControlled. MDA is reached by the Panamanian criminal definition of a drug, not by a national chemical annex....
- ParaguayControlled. Named in Lista I of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley...
- PeruThis substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto...
- PhilippinesA dangerous drug under RA 9165. MDA is printed as "TENAMFETAMINE" on page 13 of the Dangerous Drugs Board's...
- PolandControlled. Poland names this substance in its own national list. «TENAMFETAMINA» is entry lp. 91 in group...
- PortugalControlled, MDA is named in Tabela II-A of Decreto-Lei 15/93. NAMED mechanism. Personal-quantity...
- QatarControlled in Qatar at Table 1-B item 19 of Law No. 9 of 1987. The annex prints the entry as «19 - MDA...
- RomaniaMDA is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Tenamfetamine (MDA) =...
- Saint LuciaControlled. Class A drug under section 4(1)(b), by Part I paragraph 1(c) of Schedule 2. The abbreviation MDA...
- SamoaControlled as a Class A narcotic. First Schedule item 18 of the Narcotics Act 1967 (official version as at 31...
- Saudi ArabiaMDA is a controlled psychotropic substance in Saudi Arabia, placed at Schedule II Category A of the schedules...
- SerbiaMDA is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak psihoaktivnih...
- SingaporeClass A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry...
- SlovakiaMDA is controlled in Slovakia. Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 names MDA. The entry relied on reads...
- SloveniaControlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names metilendioksiamfetamin...
- South AfricaControlled as an undesirable dependence-producing substance under Schedule 2 Part III of the Drugs and Drug...
- South KoreaControlled, MDA is a psychotropic (hyangjeongsingseong) under the Act on the Control of Narcotics, etc. NAMED...
- SpainControlled in Spain as a sustancia psicotrópica under Real Decreto 2829/1977. MDA is entry 18 of Lista I in...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section...
- State of PalestineControlled, MDA is scheduled under the PA's inherited (Jordanian/Egyptian-derived) narcotics law. Scheduled...
- SudanControlled. MDA is a 1971 Convention Schedule I substance and Sudan files psychotropic assessments with INCB....
- SurinameIllegal. Lijst I onderdeel C prints the entry as 'MDA (tenamfetamine)', giving the international...
- SwedenControlled. Tenamfetamin is named in Förteckning I of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are...
- SwitzerlandControlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries MDA in list d, where the entry reads „MDA“....
- SyriaControlled. MDA is a 1971 Convention Schedule I substance and Syria is a party, filing psychotropic...
- TaiwanCategory 2 narcotic (第二級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- TajikistanControlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
- TanzaniaControlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the...
- ThailandMDA is a Category I narcotic in Thailand. The Thai FDA table of controlled narcotic drugs updated 15...
- Timor-LesteMDA is named directly in Table II-A of Lei n.º 2/2017's Anexo II, item 34: "Tenanfetamina-MDA - (mais ou...
- TongaNAMED. Schedule 1, Class A, from Schedule I of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 (page 21),...
- Trinidad and TobagoMDA is in the Second Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, in the table «PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES...
- TurkeyMDA is a controlled substance in Turkey and the dossier carries it under the schedule name mda, a VERIFIED...
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)MDA is controlled federally. Federal Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(10),...
- UkraineControlled in Ukraine under a Cyrillic abbreviation. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read...
- United Arab EmiratesTenamfetamine is placed in Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025 at the printed entry «MDA؛ ميثيلين ديوكسي...
- United KingdomControlled as a Class A drug through a generic definition. It is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of...
- United StatesControlled. Schedule I under the Controlled Substances Act, at 21 CFR 1308.11(d)(10). Listed by name. This...
- UruguayControlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025,...
- UzbekistanControlled in Uzbekistan. MDA is named in its own row of the quantity annexes to Cabinet of Ministers...
- VenezuelaControlled. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies estupefacientes as the substances figuring in lista I...
- VietnamControlled. MDA is printed in List IB of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January...
- YemenControlled, MDA is a scheduled narcotic under the national narcotics law. NAMED/scheduled mechanism....
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Not individually verified
For these 96 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that MDA specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Andorra
- Anguilla (UK)
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Niger
- North Korea
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Vanuatu
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe