Is Methylone legal in Egypt?
- Legal status
- Controlled — methylone is caught by the BLANKET clause added by the 2019 amendment to Anti-Narcotics Law 182/1960 covering synthetic substances harmful to the body/mind/nervous system, which reaches synthetic cathinones (specific named listing left to confirmation). Capital-ELIGIBLE.
- Consequences if caught
- Zero tolerance. Art. 33 (trafficking) plus the 2019 amendment expressly imposing death for importing/exporting harmful synthetic drugs; methylone is caught by that synthetic-drug capital language. Hanging is used in civilian drug capital cases.
- If prescribed or medical
- No recognised medical use; no lawful prescription route.
- Documentation
- No lawful personal import; trafficking carries the death penalty.
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