MXE in Belize: not individually verified

Also known as: mexxy

Not individually verified

We have not confirmed that MXE specifically is scheduled in Belize, 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. MXE, methoxetamine and methoxetamine spelling variants returned nothing in either file, and neither did ketamine. The nearest printed entries are the four named arylcyclohexylamines, Eticylidine, Rolicyclidine and Tenocyclidine in Schedule I and Phencyclidine in Schedule II. This compound is an analogue of a parent the volume does not name, so the route through the parent is closed before the analogue question is reached. This row is a ketamine analogue in a volume where ketamine itself has no entry, which is the same dead end as the 2-FDCK row and is recorded separately for that reason. Nothing in this cell rests on an absence being the whole answer: the Misuse of Drugs Regulations are subsidiary law, and the list that decides whether a substance is a controlled drug at all is the Act's own Second Schedule, which section 4 divides into Parts I, II and III for Class A, Class B and Class C. That schedule is in the Substantive Laws volume of Chapter 103 and was not among the four instruments in the subsidiary volume read, so this row is left open rather than answered. The search recorded above covers the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, the Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations and the Industrial Hemp Regulations as the Revised Edition 2020 volume prints them, showing the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020, together with the 1990 Act text. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.

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What Belize HAS confirmed for related substances

DXMa related compound, not MXE
Dextromethorphan is expressly excepted from Belize's list of controlled drugs. Schedule II Part I paragraph 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, prints «Levomethorphan.» and «Racemethorphan.», and Part I paragraph 2, which would otherwise bring in every stereoisomer, reads «Any stereoisomeric form of a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 1 not being dextromethorphan or dextrophan.» PubChem gives racemethorphan and dextromethorphan the same formula, C18H25NO, with dextromethorphan as the single (1S,9S,10S) isomer, so the exception is the only thing keeping it out, and it is printed. The Misuse of Drugs Regulations repeat the words «not being dextromethorphan or dextrophan» in their own Schedule II. Dextromethorphan returns nothing in the Chemists and Druggists Act Poisons List, Chapter 311, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020. The Act read is Chapter 103 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, whose Schedule II carries the footnote «This Schedule was amended by Statutory Instrument No. 5 of 2014 and Statutory Instrument No 132 of 2020.» The two later amending Acts, No. 25 of 2023 and No. 26 of 2024, were read too: the first amends section 48(4) and the second repeals section 28B, and neither touches section 4, section 7, section 18, section 28 or any Schedule.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 103, Schedule II Part I paragraphs 1 and 2 and section 18(4), in the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, showing the substantive laws as at 31 December 2020, with sections 4, 7, 18 and 28 and Schedule III of the same volume · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II, in the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020 · agm.gov.bz · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment of Second Schedule) Order 2020, S.I. 132 of 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/6a67dbac595cd_SI_No._132_of_2020_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment_of_Second_Schedule__Order__2020.pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 25 of 2023, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/64baeb84e3181_Act_No._25_of_2023_Misuse_of_Drugs__Amendment__Act__2023..pdf · Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Act No. 26 of 2024, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67fe7a0e1645c_Act_No._26_of_2024_Misuse_of_Drugs_Amendment_Act-2024.pdf · Senior Courts of Belize, Practice Direction No. 7 of 2025, Sentencing Guidelines for Drug Offences, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/67991ef1f0520_Practice_Direction_No._7_of_2025_Sentencing_Guidelines_for__Drug_Offences.pdf · for comparison only, the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · Belize, Chemists and Druggists Act, Chapter 311, Schedule 1 Poisons List, Revised Edition 2020, https://www.agm.gov.bz/uploads/laws/639770a1bf206_Cap_311_Chemists_and_Druggists_Act.pdf · PubChem, dextromethorphan CID 5360696, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5360696 · PubChem, racemethorphan CID 3008, https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/3008 · read as at 3 October 2026 · Verified October 3, 2026
PCPa related compound, not MXE
Phencyclidine is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Phenazocine and Phenomorphan. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 AND 26.» The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. Three further arylcyclohexylamines are in Schedule I paragraph 1(a) rather than here: Eticylidine, Rolicyclidine and Tenocyclidine. So the family is split between two schedules, and the row for phencyclidine itself rests on the Schedule II entry alone. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule II paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Verified September 21, 2026

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