
The subject of the paper is a logical analysis of the characteristics of the crime of possession of new psychoactive substances in terms of the constitutional standards of criminal law. The apaper indicates what new psychoactive substances are, what their potential effect is, and discusses the normative complex devoted to them. Based on semantic, syntactic, legal-criminal and constitutional analysis, the authors critically analyze the current legislation. The constitutional and international standards of criminal law that the regulations in question will not meet, both from a formal-legal perspective and in terms of human rights, were indicated. The paper uses the following methods: formal-dogmatic, comparative and logical analysis.