Is Kratom legal in Czechia?

Legal status

Kratom is a psychomodulační látka, a psychomodulatory substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 456/2025 Sb. o seznamu psychomodulačních látek carries it at its annex, the seznam psychomodulačních látek, and the printed entry is „Kratom“, in the international non proprietary name column. The second column of the same row prints „Mitragyna speciosa“. The annex has only two rows. This is the first, printed immediately above „Kratom extrakt“, whose description column reads „Přípravek vyrobený z kratomu“. The second column prints „Mitragyna speciosa“, the third names the active substances „Mitragynin 7-hydroxymitragynin“, and the description column reads „Rostlinná směs původem z listů rostliny Mitragyna speciosa, obsahující alkaloidy mitragynin nebo 7-hydroxymitragynin“. Separately, the zařazené psychoaktivní látky list carries „Rostliny rodu Mitragyna“ with the note „S výjimkou rostliny Mitragyna speciosa a výrobků z ní vyrobených.“, so the genus is caught by the other instrument and this species is carved out of it precisely because it is dealt with here. The placement rests on that printed entry read in place together with the rows on either side of it, and not on a substring match or on family resemblance. This placement is read as that list stands in consolidated version 1 of the nařízení, in force from 12 November 2025, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2025-456 on 21 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Article 6(3) of the Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. reads „Trest smrti se nepřipouští“, the death penalty is not permitted, so no Czech drug provision carries one. The ceiling that does run on this row is two to eight years under § 251a odst. 3 of the Criminal Code, zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. the offence of unlawful dealing in psychomodulační látky, which is far below the eighteen years that § 283 odst. 4 carries for an omamná or psychotropní látka. In the instrument this row is identified by the plant species printed in the second column, Mitragyna speciosa, and by a description column that defines the listed material as a plant mixture originating from the leaves of that species and containing the named alkaloids, so the exposure attaches to leaf material and to extract by two separate rows. On quantity, no greater than small figure was published for this row in the sources reachable for it, and none is invented here. The fine is separate from every custodial band above. Holding no more than a small amount for personal use is an administrative misdemeanour rather than a crime, and the live cell records the penalty for that misdemeanour as a fine of up to CZK 15,000. Read in the consolidated Criminal Code, § 283 odst. 1 sets one to five years for unlawful production, import, offer, sale or holding for another, § 283 odst. 2 sets two to ten years for the first aggravated tier and § 283 odst. 4 sets eight to eighteen years for the gravest. Possession above a small amount for one's own use is § 284, up to two years at odst. 1, six months to five years at odst. 2 and two to eight years at odst. 3. Growing or processing a plant or fungus for one's own use, and other dealing with it for one's own use, is § 285, whose odst. 2 is cannabis possession at more than 200 g in the dwelling or more than 50 g away from it, and whose bands are up to six months at odst. 1 and odst. 2, up to three years at odst. 4 and six months to five years at odst. 5. Making, obtaining or holding a precursor or other object intended for unlawful manufacture is § 286, up to five years at odst. 1 and two to ten years at odst. 2. The live cell stated these as up to one year for cannabis and up to two years for other drugs under § 284, six months to five years under § 285, and one to ten years under § 283 rising to eighteen in aggravated cases, and those live figures are carried forward here beside the bands re-derived from the consolidated text. Those bands and that fine are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.

If prescribed or medical

The country level rule in Czechia is that a Schengen Article 75 certificate is evidential and administrative rather than the schedule itself, so producing one changes what a traveller can show and not where a substance sits. Attached to this row: Kratom is a psychomodulační látka, a category Czech law created by zákon č. 321/2024 Sb. and populated by this nařízení, and its regulated supply rules are not a medical prescribing route.

Documentation

Carry any prescribed narcotic or psychotropic medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a Schengen Article 75 certificate, and treat that certificate as proof of lawful carriage rather than as anything that alters a list. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Czechia since 2013, and the lists keep konopí pro léčebné použití in seznam č. 1 separate from the konopí entry in seznam č. 3. For this row the provenance is the entry „Kratom“ in the annex to nařízení vlády č. 456/2025 Sb. read together with the genus entry in the separate psychoactive list.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Czechia’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.