Is MDA legal in Maldives?

Legal status

Controlled under the Drug Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025). MDA is a 1971 Convention Schedule I substance; the Act's Schedule 1 list is not reproduced in the ratification record, so MDA's Schedule 1 placement is left to confirmation.

Consequences if caught

The Third Amendment raises Schedule 1 trafficking to 20 years' imprisonment and a fine of MVR 75,000 to MVR 7,500,000, and permits elevation to the death penalty where the quantity brought into the country at the point of entry exceeds 350 g of cannabis, 250 g of diamorphine or 100 g of any other Schedule 1 drug. Execution requires every justice of the Supreme Court, sitting as a full bench, to agree unanimously, and such offences are excluded from clemency and from plea agreements under the Criminal Procedure Code (Act No. 12/2016).

If prescribed or medical

No lawful prescription route. MDA is a Schedule I substance under the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances - the schedule reserved for substances with no recognised medical use - and no country anywhere furnished INCB an MDA assessment for 2026, while the closely related MDMA and MDPV each appear dozens of times in the same return. There is no licit MDA supply to prescribe from.

Documentation

No lawful personal import. The Maldives Food and Drug Authority publishes the national medicines rules but is not an allowlisted source for this project, so nothing is quoted from it here.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Maldives’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.