Is MDPV legal in Germany?

Also known as: monkey dust

Legal status

MDPV sits in Anlage II of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz, the middle tier, which is an uncommon placement worth stating precisely. The dossier records the row as „- | 3,4-Methylendioxypyrovaleron (MDPV) | 1-(Benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-2-(pyrrolidin-1-yl)pentan-1-on“. The third column shows the two features that define it, the pyrrolidine ring on the alpha carbon and the pentanone chain, which is what separates the pyrovalerone cathinones from the simpler substituted cathinones listed elsewhere. Placement is under BtMG § 1 Abs. 1. Anlage II is the marketable but not prescribable tier, so the substance can lawfully exist in trade for the purposes the Act permits while remaining outside any prescription.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. The dossier's penalty column records that no death-penalty regime applies. The penal provisions are BtMG §§ 29 bis 30a with the ceiling at not less than five years under § 30a Abs. 1, and a determinate sentence capped at fifteen years by StGB § 38 Abs. 2; no ordinary band is recorded and none is stated. The tier makes a difference to how the offence is framed rather than to the maximum: because the substance is marketable but not prescribable, a lawful handling can only rest on a permit for a permitted purpose, and a prescription is not one of the available answers.

If prescribed or medical

Anlage II is the marketable but not prescribable tier of the three, read at gesetze-im-internet.de on 21 September 2026, and that is the whole of the prescription answer: no German prescription can be written for this substance even though it is not in the wholly non-marketable tier, and a foreign prescription therefore has nothing to correspond to. The dossier records no German traveller rule, so this cell states the tier and defers on the border documentation.

Documentation

There is no prescription to carry, by definition of the tier. Any lawful holding rests on a permit for a permitted purpose rather than on a medical document, and that is the paperwork a question about this substance would turn on. The entry was read on 20 September 2026.

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