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

We have not confirmed that 7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH) specifically is scheduled in Panama, 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. Whether Panama's criminal definition of a drug reaches 7-hydroxymitragynine was not established by the instruments read here. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025 and no entry for it was read in the schedules of the 1961 or 1971 Conventions. Article 324 of the Código Penal defines the criminal object for the whole drug chapter, and it does so functionally and by incorporation rather than by a closed national list: «droga es toda sustancia que produzca dependencia física o síquica, como los narcóticos, fármacos, estupefacientes y todos aquellos productos, precursores y sustancias químicas esenciales que sirven para su elaboración, transformación o preparación, de conformidad con las disposiciones legales en materia de salud, convenios y acuerdos internacionales vigentes en la República de Panamá.». Panama therefore has no closed criminal schedule of its own. A substance is reached where it produces physical or psychic dependence and where the health legislation and the international conventions in force in Panama place it, so a reader looking for a Panamanian chemical annex to be absent from is looking for a document the criminal law does not use. Because the definition opens with a functional test rather than a list, an absence from the lists that were read does not close the question, and nothing read here shows the dependence limb being applied to this row. The oxidised metabolite has no separate entry anywhere in the lists read here, and neither does the parent alkaloid, so a reader cannot rely on the parent being placed and the metabolite following it.

Confirm directly with Panama’s national drug authority or your own embassy before you rely on anything.

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