Is Methaqualone (Quaaludes) legal in Ukraine?

Legal status

Controlled in Ukraine by name. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Метаквалон» at CAS 72-44-6 and record UKR-61 accepts that printed row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. This is a substance that has been withdrawn from medical use in essentially every health system, so the listing is the whole of its legal position and there is no live prescribing practice sitting alongside it. What that means for a reader is that any material encountered under this name is either old pharmaceutical stock or an illicit preparation, and the source records no exempted preparation limb and no table assignment for the heading.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, with a ceiling of twelve years of imprisonment at its third part and no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 72-44-6 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands. Tablets circulating under this name are frequently counterfeit and contain something else entirely, often a benzodiazepine that carries its own listed heading, so the grading rests on an assay of the actual content. This source states 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 72-44-6 and there is no current authorised medicinal product containing this substance, so no prescription route exists to be relied on. The source establishes no import permit, no personal allowance and no recognition of a foreign prescription, and none was researched.

Documentation

Carry nothing in reliance on this row, since no lawful carriage arises from it. If historic pharmaceutical stock is being moved for disposal or for laboratory reference, carry the institutional authority for holding it and the inventory record rather than a personal document. A traveller carrying a prescribed sedative that might be confused with a tablet sold under this name should carry the original dispensing pack, the pharmacy label in the patient's name, the prescription and a prescriber's letter. The heading was read in the consolidated list 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.