Legality
Mitragynine legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of Mitragynine has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
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- Aceh (Indonesia)Neither mitragynine nor kratom is scheduled as a narcotic in Aceh: mitragynine, the principal alkaloid of...
- Antigua and BarbudaNot listed, and no indole alkaloid of its type is. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral....
- ArgentinaControlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 645 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026,...
- AustraliaProhibited under the Poisons Standard and a prohibited import; not a Criminal Code drug. F2026L01327 names...
- BahamasNot listed in the Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994 (S.I. 77 of 1994) as those...
- BahrainNot a controlled drug on the text read. Mitragynine is not named in any of the twelve tables annexed to...
- BangladeshMitragynine is named in Class 'ka' at serial 4 of the First Schedule, between Ketamine and Mitraphylline,...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 in Barbados. Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap....
- BelgiumMitragynine is a controlled substance in Belgium because it is listed. The Royal Decree of 6 September 2017...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 38 of lista F1, narcotic substances within lista F, the list of...
- BruneiClass D controlled drug. It sits in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of...
- BulgariaControlled in part. Mitragynine has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear...
- CanadaNeither mitragynine nor kratom is scheduled under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act: mitragynine, the...
- ChileControlled. Decreto 867 artículo 1, the lista of substances capable of grave toxic effects or considerable...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for mitraginina or mitragynine as at...
- CroatiaMitragynine is a psihotropna tvar, a psychotropic substance, in Croatia. The Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari...
- CyprusControlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29/1977, as amended;...
- CzechiaMitragynine is a psychomodulační látka, a psychomodulatory substance, in Czechia, and unlawful dealing in it...
- DenmarkControlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation. Named on liste B of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts...
- Dominican RepublicNot listed. The alkaloid has no entry. It is a corynanthe type indole alkaloid, and the indole entries in the...
- EgyptNot listed in any table of Egypt's Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, as at 3 October 2026. Mitragynine, the...
- EstoniaMitragynine is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social...
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)Controlled in the Faroe Islands. Mitragynine is named on liste B nr. 334 of bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26. maj...
- FinlandControlled, though not as a narcotic. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä...
- FranceMitragynine is classified as a narcotic in France. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the list...
- GermanyMitragynine is not printed in the German lists, and the dossier is careful about the inference that would...
- GreeceControlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. Mitragynine is entry 131 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, the first table, an entry...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. Mitragynine, searched also...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in...
- HungaryNot listed. Mitragynine is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3...
- IcelandControlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Mitragynine", and the row identifies it by the...
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IranMitragynine has no entry of its own in Iran’s recovered drug instruments: it is not named in the...
- IraqNot listed as at 22 September 2026. The alkaloid appears nowhere in the ten schedules, and neither does its...
- IrelandMitragynine is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 1; S.I....
- IsraelControlled. Named in the First Schedule of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973 at חלק ב'...
- ItalyControlled. The Ministry of Health compilation of the DPR 309/1990 tables carries «mitraginina» as an...
- JapanMitragynine is listed in Japan as a 指定薬物, a designated substance, under the pharmaceuticals Act, which allows...
- JordanWhether Mitragynine is currently scheduled under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and...
- KazakhstanMitragynine is named in Kazakhstan's controlled list. The first of the three documents Government Resolution...
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitControlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. Mitragynine is listed at Group 1, table 5, serial N5-7,...
- KyrgyzstanControlled in Kyrgyzstan. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 names mitragynine in its...
- LatviaMitragynine is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaMitragynine is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names mitragynine. The entry relied on reads...
- MacauNot listed in Macau. Mitragynine is named in none of Tables I to VI of Law 17/2009 as replaced in full by Law...
- MalaysiaMitragynine is the named controlled entity for kratom in Malaysia, and it is controlled under the Poisons Act...
- MaltaWhich Maltese ordinance governs mitragynine is not established. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell...
- MexicoMitragynine is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley...
- MoldovaControlled in Moldova. Mitragynine is in Table II, «Tabelul național II. Substanțe, plante și medicamente...
- MyanmarIllegal in Myanmar. Mitragynine is listed at the Myanmar-specific portion of Notification 24/2025, and that...
- NetherlandsMitragynine is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II, and nor is the plant it comes from. No Opiumwet...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. Mitragynine, the...
- NorwayControlled in Norway. Mitragynine is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the...
- OmanNot listed in the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree...
- PeruThis substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule through the list of nuevas sustancias psicoactivas...
- PhilippinesNot a dangerous drug on the text read: mitragynine is not listed in the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists...
- PolandControlled. Poland names the isolated alkaloid in its own national list, separately from the plant....
- PortugalMitragynine, the principal alkaloid of kratom, has no separate legal identity in Portugal: it is named...
- QatarMitragynine is not named in Table 1, Table 2 or Table 4 of Law No. 9 of 1987, and it is on none of the three...
- RomaniaMitragynine is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Mitragynina», located at Legea 143/2000,...
- RussiaControlled in Russia. Decree 681 lists mitragynine at the entry «Митрагинин (9-метокси-коринантеидин) и его...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- Saudi ArabiaMitragynine is a controlled psychotropic substance in Saudi Arabia, placed at Schedule II Category E of the...
- SerbiaMitragynine is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak...
- SingaporeClass A controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 1 (Class A Drugs), entry...
- SlovakiaMitragynine is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one...
- SloveniaControlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names mitraginin at Group I,...
- South KoreaMitragynine, the principal alkaloid of kratom, is controlled together with the plant in South Korea: kratom...
- SpainNot a controlled substance on the text read: Mitragynine is not named in Anexo 1 or Anexo 2 of Real Decreto...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule,...
- SwedenControlled. Mitragynin is named in Förteckning I of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are...
- SwitzerlandControlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries mitragynine in list a, where the entry reads...
- TaiwanCategory 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at...
- ThailandNeither mitragynine nor kratom is separately scheduled in Thailand: kratom was removed from Narcotics...
- UkraineControlled in Ukraine by its own name as a narcotic drug whose circulation is restricted. The list prints...
- United Arab EmiratesMitragynine is placed in Schedule 5 of Decision No. 158 of 2025 at item 20, the printed entry being...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. Mitragynine, the principal alkaloid of kratom, is not named in Schedule 2 to the...
- United StatesNot a federally controlled substance. It is in no schedule of 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 and no federal drug...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Mitragynine is not...
- VietnamNot named in the danh mục. Mitragynine itself is absent from the current narcotic and precursor schedules,...
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Not individually verified
For these 141 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that Mitragynine specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla (UK)
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe