Is MDMA legal in Armenia?

Also known as: molly, ecstasy

Legal status

Controlled in Armenia. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, prints the entry «MDMA», and record ARM-54 matches it to MDMA on Chemical Abstracts number 42542-10-9. The row relied on is that printed line and not point 1 of the decision, which only directs that the list be approved and names no substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The terms this row was searched under were «MDMA» and «metilendioksimetamfetamin», all of them Latin script, and this is one of only two accepted entries in the whole dossier that the annex prints in Latin letters alone, so a Latin search could reach this line where for 39 other accepted entries it could not. This is one of a small number of lines the Armenian annex prints in Latin letters only, with no Armenian form beside it, so for this row the Latin only search recorded by the dossier was adequate where for most rows it was not.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Armenia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. The entry relied on for MDMA is «ՄԴՄԱ». The ceiling is 12 years. Criminal Code article 393(3) provides a term of six to twelve years, and articles 393 and 396 carry the principal offences. That 12 year ceiling is the lowest of any country authored in this session, and it is the figure the article itself prints rather than a reading of a range. The quantity instrument prints this row as «0.01 to 0.05 g»; «>0.05 to 0.25 g»; «>0.25 to 1.25 g; especially large >1.25 g». A printed annex figure in Armenia is a small amount, not a threshold for the offence. The statutory multipliers at article 393(4) to (6) turn it into the significant, large and especially large bands.

If prescribed or medical

Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for MDMA is the printed annex line «MDMA», at controlled lists 1 to 4, record ARM-54. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. The enquiry can be put in Latin script alone, which is true of very few rows here, because this is one of the lines the annex prints without an Armenian form.

Documentation

Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for any medicine containing MDMA, with a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and put the question to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy in writing before travelling rather than at the border. The placement carried against is the printed annex line «MDMA», record ARM-54, Chemical Abstracts number 42542-10-9. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The paperwork question does not arise in ordinary travel, and the annex line here is the bare code with no preparation limb behind it.

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