Legality · MXEMXE in Timor-Leste: not individually verified
Also known as: mexxy
Not individually verified
We have not confirmed that MXE specifically is scheduled in Timor-Leste, 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) is not named in Table II-C or in any other table of Lei 2/2017's Anexo II, as at 25 January 2017, the date the law was published. Methoxetamine is a ketamine analogue not listed by that name in Table II-C or anywhere else. Ketamine is named at Table II-C, item 7, printed in English: "Ketamina - (±)-2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)-cyclohexanone". MXE replaces ketamine's chlorine substituent with a methoxy group and adds an ethyl group at the amine, a more extensive structural change than 2-FDCK's single fluorine-for-chlorine substitution. Table II-C's own closing clause reaches only salts, "Os sais das substâncias indicadas nesta tabela, sempre que a existência de tais sais seja possível" (English: the salts of the substances listed in this table, whenever the existence of such salts is possible), with no isomer or analogue extension of the kind Table II-A carries, so MXE, a distinct molecule rather than a salt of ketamine, is not reached by that clause. Only Decreto-Lei 2/2025 was checked as a candidate amending instrument and found not to amend Table II-C; no broader search of the Jornal da República 2017 to 2026 for a separate amending law has been completed, and no instrument closing the question the way a No Subsidiary Legislation line would has been located either. On that scope, this is NOT VERIFIED rather than a confirmed absence. Article 3, paragraph 3, claims the tables update automatically with United Nations scheduling changes; whether that self-executes is not resolved by the printed text, and the printed list's own gaps confirm it: mephedrone (Table II-A item 26) and MDPV were both placed under Schedule II of the 1971 Convention by the same Commission on Narcotic Drugs 58th session, 9 to 17 March 2015, yet only mephedrone is named in the 2017 printed text (Table IV item 54 names only Pirovalerona, MDPV's older, chemically different parent compound); that confirmed gap shows the printed text cannot be trusted as fully current even at its own enactment.
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What Timor-Leste HAS confirmed for related substances
These are related compounds, not MXE. Their status may or may not reflect MXE’s. Confirm MXE directly with Timor-Leste's national drug authority or your embassy.
Expressly excluded, which is a stronger and more citable finding than ordinary absence. Table I-A's own closing note in Anexo II to Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, reads: "O dextrometorfano (+)-3-metoxi-N-metilmorfinano e o dextrorfano (+)-3-hidroxi-N-metilmorfinano estão especificamente excluídos desta tabela." (Dextromethorphan, (+)-3-methoxy-N-methylmorphinan, and dextrorphan, (+)-3-hydroxy-N-methylmorphinan, are specifically excluded from this table.) The note exists because Table I-A's own isomer extension clause ("os isómeros das substâncias inscritas nesta tabela em todos os casos em que estes isómeros possam existir com denominação química específica") would otherwise reach dextromethorphan's (+) enantiomer through its chemical relationship to the table's controlled morphinan entries. Table I-A items 65 and 67 name the (-) stereoisomers directly, "Levometorfano - (-)-3-metoxi-N-metilmorfinano [v. nota (*)]" and "Levorfanol - (-)-3-hidroxi-N-metilmorfinano [v. nota (*)]", each carrying a cross-reference to the same closing note; the note's function is to confirm that only the levo-rotatory (-) forms are controlled table entries and that the dextro-rotatory (+) forms, dextromethorphan and dextrorphan, are carved out of the table despite being chemically close to controlled entries. Racemétorfano, item 107, "(mais ou menos)-3-metoxi-N-metilmorfinano" (the racemic, plus or minus, mixture), carries no such exclusion note and remains a named table entry in its own right.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, Anexo II, Tabela I-A closing note and items 65, 67, 107, and articles 2(d), 3(1), 7, 26 · Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 January 2017, pp. 60-82 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6, fetched 2026-10-07, read 2026-10-07) · Verified October 8, 2026
Ketamine is named at Table II-C, item 7, of Lei 2/2017's Anexo II, printed in English inside an otherwise Portuguese table: "Ketamina - (±)-2-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-(methylamino)-cyclohexanone". That is quoted exactly as printed; it is not a transcription error to be corrected to Portuguese. Article 4, paragraph 2, states Table II corresponds to Schedules I, II and III of the 1971 Convention, and article 5, paragraph 2(f), places short-acting barbiturate-type and non-barbiturate hypnotic substances, ketamine among them, in the II-C sub-table.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, Lei de Combate ao Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas, Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 de Janeiro de 2017, Anexo II Tabela II-C item 7, Anexo I item 16, articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 26 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6), read 2026-10-07 · Verified October 8, 2026
PCP is named at Table II-A, item 19, of Lei 2/2017's Anexo II, quoted exactly as printed, including the final word's unusual spelling "fenilciclo-hexi" rather than the expected "fenilciclo-hexil" (phenylcyclohexyl), which is how the gazette prints it, not a transcription error introduced here: "Fenciclidina, PCP - 1-(1-fenilciclo-hexi) piperidina" (English: phencyclidine, PCP, 1-(1-phenylcyclohexyl)piperidine). Article 4, paragraph 2, states Table II corresponds to Schedules I, II and III of the 1971 Convention. PCP is independently named, so article 5, paragraph 2(d)'s generic hallucinogen clause for Table II-A does not need to be relied on here.
Lei n.º 2/2017, de 25 de Janeiro, Lei de Combate ao Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas, Jornal da República, Série I, N.º 4, 25 de Janeiro de 2017, preamble and Anexo II Tabela II-A item 19, Anexo I item 10, articles 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 26 · https://www.mj.gov.tl/jornal/public/docs/2017/serie_1/SERIE_I_NO_4.pdf (sha256 700f7867e6cff713f06a6fcb6da245ea1186582fe66309d193080ce0b7406cd6), read 2026-10-07 · Verified October 8, 2026
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