Is 4-HO-MET (Metocin) Legal in Maine? (2026)

Tier

unscheduled

What the record says

Not named/class in 17-A M.R.S. 1102 (isomer-only per 1101(3)). No chemical analog act (only appearance-based imitation scheduled drug 1101(19)). State-legal; federal floor applies. Mechanism: unscheduled. Official Maine Legislature.

Controlling language, verbatim

**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.) - 17-A M.R.S. Sec. 1102, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html **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). - 17-A M.R.S. Sec. 1101, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1101.html

Source of excerpt

Citations

1. 17-A M.R.S. 1102 schedules (not named) + 1101 (no chemical analog) (Maine Legislature) PRIMARYOFFICIAL

Where 4-HO-MET (Metocin) stands across the country

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Federal posture

Federal gray area. 4-HO-MET (metocin) - not federally scheduled by name; Schedule I by the Federal Analogue Act when intended for human consumption Federal detail

Verbatim law on file for Maine

1 instrument on file for this compound's framework in Maine; 1 of 1 citations above are official sources. Each text carries its source and a fingerprint that changes when the law does.

**Schedule gap — § 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.)
— 17-A M.R.S. § 1102, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1102.html
**No chemical analog — § 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 § 1101 definitions contain no "scheduled drug analog" provision.) Isomer is defined narrowly at § 1101(3).
— 17-A M.R.S. § 1101, official Maine Legislature: https://www.mainelegislature.org/legis/statutes/17-a/title17-Asec1101.html

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