7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) in Ghana: not individually verified

We have not confirmed that 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) specifically is scheduled in Ghana, 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. 7-Hydroxymitragynine is not named in the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019). The search, in English, for hydroxymitragynine, 7-OH and Mitragyna returned no entry; the nearest text read was Seventh Schedule Part 1, «Catha edulis Forsk., its preparations, derivatives, alkaloids and salts», which is khat. It is a minor alkaloid of kratom and an oxidation product of mitragynine, a chemical fact from outside the text. Act 1019 defines «"narcotic plant" means vegetation that has psychotropic qualities», and sections 39 to 42 attach cultivation, import, possession and business offences to a narcotic plant with no list behind the definition. Read literally that phrase would also take in coffee and tobacco, and no instrument or decision applying it to kratom was found, so whether kratom is a narcotic plant is not settled. An extracted or semi-synthetic alkaloid is not vegetation, so the plant definition would not itself reach a concentrated product. It is not on the Green List 2024. This is stated as the Schedules stand after the Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100), which the judy.legal consolidation records as the Act's only amendment and whose Bill substitutes section 43 alone; the enacted text of Act 1100 was not itself read. The power to move the lists is in section 112: its subsection (1) gave a power to revise the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Schedules within twelve months of commencement, and its subsection (2)(b) gives a continuing power to make Regulations specifying «the classification of drugs and the appropriate penalties». The only Regulations found under the Act, L.I. 2475 of 2023 on cannabis cultivation, revise no Schedule on their table of contents, and this does not rule out a later instrument that was not found.

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