Is MDA legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine under a Cyrillic abbreviation. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «МДА» at CAS 4764-17-4 and record UKR-53 accepts that printed row. The list handles this family by printing the individual members rather than by a class clause, and it prints the methylated homologue separately at CAS 42542-10-9, which is why a match here is not a match there and the reverse. It is also why record UKR-12 in this source, on a benzofuran analogue that shares this molecule's side chain, was left unresolved: nobody read whether this heading is written to one compound or to a bounded group.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, twelve years of imprisonment at the ceiling of its third part, no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 4764-17-4 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule specifically. Tablets and powders sold under this name are frequently mixtures of several members of the family, and each member carries its own heading and its own band, so an assay decides the grading. The source reproduces no figures and names no separate possession article. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

Ukraine allows no personal use quantity, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 4764-17-4 and there is no authorised Ukrainian medicine built on this molecule, so no prescription route arises. Research or clinical trial supply abroad creates no Ukrainian authorisation. The source establishes no import permit, no allowance and no foreign prescription rule, and none was researched.

Documentation

Carry no expectation that a supplier or vendor document assists here. The Ukrainian heading is keyed to CAS 4764-17-4 and the list prints each member of the family separately, so identification of the actual molecule is what an officer will pursue. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine that has been confused with a tablet of this kind should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the ingredient, strength, dose and treatment period. The heading was read on 20 September 2026.

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