Legality
MDPV legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of MDPV 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 MDPV in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)Controlled under national law. Narcotics in Aceh are prosecuted under national Law 35/2009, and MDPV is...
- AustraliaControlled. MDPV is listed by name in Schedule 9 (prohibited substance) of the Poisons Standard (SUSMP)...
- BrazilControlled. MDPV is listed by name on Portaria SVS/MS no 344/1998, Lista F2 (proscribed psychotropics whose...
- CanadaControlled. MDPV is individually listed by name in Schedule I of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act,...
- ChinaControlled. MDPV was placed under national control by name on the Supplementary List of Controlled NPS...
- EgyptControlled. Egypt schedules psychotropics per the 1971 Convention (Law 182/1960 narcotic tables) and has...
- FranceControlled. MDPV is caught by the derives de cathinone generic definition added to the stupefiants list by...
- GermanyControlled. MDPV is individually listed by name in Anlage II BtMG (marketable but not prescribable) via the...
- GreeceControlled as a psychotropic substance. MDPV is a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic and was subjected...
- IndonesiaControlled. MDPV is listed by name as Narkotika Golongan I via Permenkes No. 2 Tahun 2017. It is...
- IranControlled as a psychotropic. MDPV is a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic controlled through the...
- IrelandControlled. MDPV is caught by the cathinone generic definition scheduled under the Misuse of Drugs Act...
- ItalyControlled. MDPV is individually listed by name in Tabella I of DPR 309/1990, added by ministerial decree...
- JapanControlled. MDPV has been controlled by name since 2012, first as a designated substance (Shitei-Yakubutsu)...
- MalaysiaControlled. MDPV is caught as a dangerous drug, cathinones being scheduled under the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952...
- MexicoControlled as a psychotropic. MDPV is a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic controlled through the Ley...
- NetherlandsControlled. MDPV was added to the Opiumwet lists following EU Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1875...
- New ZealandControlled. MDPV is caught as a controlled drug analogue of pyrovalerone (a Class C1 drug) under the analogue...
- NigeriaControlled. MDPV is controlled as a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic through NDLEA Act / NAFDAC...
- PhilippinesControlled as a dangerous drug. MDPV is controlled under RA 9165 through Dangerous Drugs Board scheduling of...
- PolandControlled. MDPV is listed by name on the controlled list under the Ustawa o przeciwdzialaniu narkomanii...
- PortugalControlled. MDPV is listed by name via new-psychoactive-substance control (Decreto-Lei 54/2013) and the...
- Saudi ArabiaControlled. As a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic, MDPV falls under Saudi Arabia's broad...
- SingaporeControlled. MDPV is captured by a synthetic-cathinone generic group in the First Schedule to the Misuse of...
- South KoreaControlled. MDPV was the first substance temporarily scheduled (end 2011) under the Act on the Control of...
- SpainControlled as a psychotropic substance. MDPV is a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic and was subjected...
- SwedenControlled. MDPV was classified by name as narkotika (added to the Swedish narcotics list) in 2010; control...
- SwitzerlandControlled. MDPV is listed by name in the controlled-substances Verzeichnis under the BetmVV-EDI (added...
- TaiwanControlled. MDPV was Taiwan's first temporarily-scheduled NPS (end 2011) and is listed by name under the...
- ThailandControlled. Thailand scheduled synthetic cathinones and MDPV sits within the Narcotics Code /...
- TurkeyControlled. MDPV was added by name by Cabinet Decree 2012/2861 (2012) to the controlled/monitored substances,...
- United Arab EmiratesControlled. UAE Federal Decree-Law 30/2021 carries detailed controlled tables covering synthetic...
- United KingdomControlled. MDPV is caught by the cathinone generic definition inserted into the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as...
- VietnamControlled as a psychotropic. MDPV is a 1971 Convention Schedule II psychotropic controlled through Vietnam's...
Not individually verified
For these 190 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that MDPV 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
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Brunei
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- Finland
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Grenada
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Iraq
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe