{"brand":"Compound Laws","url":"https://compoundlaws.com/compounds/4-ho-met/maine/","compound":{"slug":"4_ho_met","name":"4-HO-MET (Metocin)","same_as":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-HO-MET"},"jurisdiction":{"code":"ME","name":"Maine"},"as_of":"2026-07-18","answer":"As of July 18, 2026, 4-HO-MET (Metocin) is legal to sell at retail in Maine. State-legal (unscheduled; federal analogue caveat). Controlling source: 17-A M.R.S. 1102 schedules (not named) + 1101 (no chemical analog).","forms":[{"form":"all","label":"All forms","status":"legal","state_status":null,"federal_overlay":false,"headline":"State-legal (unscheduled; federal analogue caveat)","rule_type":null,"tier":"unscheduled","schedule_class":null,"limit":null,"effective_date":null,"verified_at":"2026-07-18","confidence":"under_review","verbatim_excerpt":"**Schedule gap - Sec. 1102(2)(C) & (H):** \"any of the following hallucinogenic drugs, or their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers  (1) Bufotenine (2) Ibogaine (3) Mescaline  (6) Psilocybin (7) Psilocyn \" and (H): \"(5) Diethyltryptamine, DET; (6) Dimethyltryptamine, DMT; (7) Dipropyltryptamine, DPT;  (12) Alpha-ethyltryptamine, AET.\" (4-HO-MET not named; no structural tryptamine class.)\n- 17-A M.R.S. Sec. 1102, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html\n**No chemical analog - Sec. 1101(19):** \"'Imitation scheduled drug,' a substance that is not a scheduled drug  but which, by dosage unit appearance or by representations made, would lead a reasonable person to believe that the substance was a scheduled drug.\" (Appearance/representation-based, not a \"substantially similar chemical structure\" analog act. The full Sec. 1101 definitions contain no \"scheduled drug analog\" provision.) Isomer is defined narrowly at Sec. 1101(3).\n- 17-A M.R.S. Sec. 1101, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1101.html","excerpt_source_url":"https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html","citations":[{"title":"17-A M.R.S. 1102 schedules (not named) + 1101 (no chemical analog)","url":"https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html","pinpoint":null,"publisher":"Maine Legislature","type":"gov","primary":true,"official":true}],"history":[]}],"neighbors":[{"code":"NH","status":"restricted"}],"laws":[{"citation":"17-A M.R.S. § 1102 (schedules — does NOT name it); § 1101 (definitions — only appearance-based \"imitation scheduled drug,\" no chemical analog act).","title":null,"official_url":"https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html","source_label":"MIRROR","effective_date":null,"retrieved_date":"2026-06-19","text_hash":"930a47e5b9089982b55635d4e1d4ae926e82eb8e25d6c39eae28c6ab41cd6d44"}]}