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Legality · Methylone

Methylone in Bolivia: not individually verified

Also known as: bk-MDMA

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Methylone specifically is scheduled in Bolivia, so this page gives no legal status. Publishing a guess here would be worse than publishing nothing. What we do know is the governing national drug law, below.

What is on record
Not confirmed. No individual status was established for this row. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, the list article 5(c) of that Law makes operative, does not name it anywhere in Listas I to V. The nearest entries are MDMA in Lista I and CATINA in Lista III. Methylone is the beta keto analogue of MDMA and is named by neither, and the Anexo carries no analogue clause. The version read is the Anexo as published in Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC on 23 March 2017, read as at 21 September 2026, and reading it does not rule out a later addition, because article 5(c) closes with las que sean incorporadas por Ley, incorporation by Law. That is an unresolved row and not a permission. [Certain] on the search, [Likely] that the substance is outside the list, because a list can be amended and a name can be printed in a form the search did not anticipate.

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What Bolivia HAS confirmed for related substances

These are related compounds, not Methylone. Their status may or may not reflect Methylone’s. Confirm Methylone directly with Bolivia's national drug authority or your embassy.

  • Khata related compound, not Methylone

    Resolved through its constituents rather than through an entry of its own. Of the two khat alkaloids, Lista III names CATINA, which is cathine. Cathinone is named nowhere in the Anexo and neither is the leaf itself. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017 is the operative list, made so by article 5(c) of that Law, and the offences stayed in Ley 1008 Título III. [Certain]

    Bolivia. Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, Ley de Lucha contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Sustancias Controladas, article 5(c) and its Anexo, Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, read at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/913 and cross checked against https://dgsc.gob.bo/normativa/leyes/Ley913.pdf, read for khat through its constituents · Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988, Título III, articles 46 to 55 and article 33(m), read in the Gaceta Oficial edition at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/1008 and against the Ministerio de Gobierno consolidated text at https://web.mingobierno.gob.bo/ · Constitution of 2009 articles 15 and 384 at https://www.senarecom.gob.bo/files/transparencia/CONSTITUCION_POLITICA_DEL_ESTADO.pdf · Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 article 16 at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/906 · all read as at 21 September 2026. · Verified September 21, 2026

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