Is Methylone legal in Portugal?
Also known as: bk-MDMA
- Legal status
- Controlled under the drug tables, not under the new psychoactive substances regime. Methylone, metilona was removed from the list made under Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013 by article 2(1) of Portaria n.º 232/2022, de 7 de setembro, because it had been added to table II-A of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93. The move took effect on 8 September 2022.
- Consequences if caught
- article 2(1) of Portaria n.º 232/2022 states that the substances it lists are removed from the list of new psychoactive substances "por terem sido aditadas à tabela II-A do Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93", that is because they had been added to table II-A of the drug law, and Methylone, metilona is one of them. The regime changed, not only the citation. While a substance sits on the new psychoactive substances list the consequence is the administrative offence in article 10 of Decreto-Lei n.º 54/2013. Once it is in a table of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 the drug law applies instead: the trafficking offence in article 21 is available, and holding for personal consumption falls under Lei n.º 30/2000 as amended by Lei n.º 55/2023, with the ten day quantity and the commissions for the dissuasion of drug addiction. The specific quantity and penalty band for this substance in table II-A was not read here and no figure is stated for it. The list was read as republished in full by Portaria n.º 232/2022, de 7 de setembro, which entered into force on 8 September 2022. Anything added after that date was not available here.
- If prescribed or medical
- There is no traveller prescription route for this substance. A foreign prescription does not authorise possession of it in Portugal.
- Documentation
- Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. No documentation authorises carrying this substance.
- Portaria n.º 232/2022, de 7 de setembro, art. 2.º
- Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, de 22 de janeiro, table II-A
- Lei n.º 30/2000, de 29 de novembro
- Lei n.º 55/2023, de 8 de setembro
- files.dre.pt
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