Methylone in Tonga: not individually verified

Also known as: bk-MDMA

We have not confirmed that Methylone specifically is scheduled in Tonga, 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. Methylone is not named in Schedule 1. Schedule 1, Class A, from Schedule I of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971 (page 21), names "MDMA". methylone differs from MDMA by the two hydrogens on the side chain's beta carbon replaced with a single oxo (ketone) group, the standard beta keto relationship, the kind of change limb (a)(i) calls a functional group replacement. The analogue drugs clause inserted by the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act 15 of 2020, section 2(a), describes a structure modification, homologue, or derivative of an illicit drug in terms this relationship could fit; whether the clause in fact reaches Methylone is not settled on the text read, because section 2(f) of the same amendment inserts the words "illicit drug analogue" into the definition of "illicit drug" in section 2, not the term the Act actually defines, which is "analogue drugs", and the two phrasings are not shown to be the same thing on the text read. Even if Methylone is an illicit drug analogue in that sense, sections 3 and 4 impose a penalty only "in respect of a Class A drug" or "in respect of a Class B drug"; nothing in Act 15 of 2020 or the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2021, Act 19 of 2021, assigns an analogue drug to either class, so no band in either section is shown to reach it, the same prohibition-without-penalty gap as Germany's NpSG. So whether Methylone is controlled, and under what penalty, is not established on the text read. Two further amending Acts dated 2024 could not be retrieved this session (see documentation); if either resolves this gap or names Methylone directly, that is not verified here. Schedule 1 is amended by Act of the Legislative Assembly; the cached text is the 2020 Revised Edition, consolidated to 31 October 2020. The Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act 15 of 2020, assented 26 November 2020, and the Illicit Drugs Control (Amendment) Act 2021, Act 19 of 2021, were each fetched and read separately this session; both post-date the Revised Edition's own cutoff and neither amends Schedule 1 itself, only sections 2 to 5. Section 2's definition of "illicit drug" also reaches "anything prescribed by regulation to be an illicit drug", a delegated power; no regulation made under it was searched this session, so whether that power has been exercised is not verified. This absence is stated current as of the 2020 Revised Edition and does not rule out a later Schedule 1 amendment, an unlocated regulation under that delegated power, or either of the two 2024 Acts that could not be retrieved this session.

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