Is MXE legal in Spain?
- Legal status
- MXE (methoxetamine) is controlled throughout the EU, and thus in Spain, under Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2015/1875 (8 October 2015), which required member states to subject MXE to control measures and criminal penalties; Spain incorporates it into its psychotropic-substances control framework.
- Consequences if caught
- Trafficking and supply of a controlled substance such as MXE are criminal offences carrying imprisonment; personal possession in public is primarily an administrative sanction under the Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana, as with other controlled drugs.
- If prescribed or medical
- MXE has no authorised medicinal use in Spain and is not prescribable; it is a substance of abuse with no clinical indication.
- Documentation
- No legal supply channel exists; MXE purchased online is an illicit import liable to seizure by customs.
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