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Legality · Methylone

Methylone in Pakistan: not individually verified

Also known as: bk-MDMA

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that Methylone specifically is scheduled in Pakistan, 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 for Pakistan. Methylone is named in no schedule of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone. It sits between two scheduled families and belongs to neither entry: the methylenedioxy amphetamines at serial 82 and the unnumbered MDMA row, and the cathinones at serials 12 and 13. The beta-keto group is what separates it from MDMA, and no entry in either instrument carries it.

Confirm directly with Pakistan’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

What Pakistan HAS confirmed for related substances

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

  • Cathinonea related compound, not Methylone

    Cathinone is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 12 of Schedule-I, 'CATHINONE', with cathine at serial 13 as '(+)-norpseudo ephedrine'. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '(-)-(S)-2 aminopropiophenone'.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

  • Khata related compound, not Methylone

    Split answer, and the split is in the schedules rather than in my reading. The alkaloid that khat is taken for is scheduled and khat itself is not. The scheduled alkaloid is cathinone at serial 12 of Schedule-I, '(-)-(S)-2 aminopropiophenone', and cathine at serial 13, '(+)-norpseudo ephedrine'. The shrub itself, Catha edulis, is named in no schedule of the Act, in no schedule of the Rules 2001, and in no entry of the Schedule to the Hadd Order.

    pakistancode.gov.pk · Verified September 21, 2026

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