Is Mephedrone (4-MMC) legal in China?
- Legal status
- Controlled — NAMED. Mephedrone is individually listed as a Category I psychotropic in the national controlled-substances list, effective 1 Sep 2010 (pre-dating the international listing). Capital reach is left to confirmation: art. 347 permits the death penalty for 'large quantities of other drugs' but there is no published mephedrone-specific gram threshold, so capital is not excluded in principle.
- Consequences if caught
- Category I psychotropic: trafficking severely penalised and capital not excluded at scale via the art. 347 catch-all (no confirmable threshold). Extreme risk.
- If prescribed or medical
- Category I psychotropic with no recognised medical use and no lawful prescription route.
- Documentation
- No licit personal-carry or import route for a Category I psychotropic.
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