Is Mitragynine legal in Colombia?

Legal status

Not listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for mitraginina or mitragynine as at 27 January 2026, and that does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] as to this list. This row is a finding and not a deferral, and it is written to index as an answer for that reason. The absence was not merely searched for: an independent re-parse of Anexo Técnico 1 from the page geometry reproduced 469 entries numbered 1 to 469 with no gap and no duplicate, and this substance appears in neither the name column nor the chemical-name column of any of them. What the row does not say, and cannot, is that the substance is permitted: it says the current annex does not carry it, as at 27 January 2026, and article 3 of the same resolution provides for substances included in Anexo Técnico 1 for the first time, so a later resolution is not ruled out.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, naming marihuana, hachís, cocaine, derivados de la amapola, droga sintética, nitrato de amilo and ketamina y GHB, and this substance is not among them by name. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain] Those are Colombia's published penalties. They are the country's penalties and not this row's exposure, because article 376 defines its object as a substance contemplated in schedules one to four of the 1971 Convention and no entry for this substance was found in Anexo Técnico 1 at all. Whether the offence reaches this substance is exactly what was not established here. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 27 January 2026 was read entry by entry, all 469 numbered entries, and it carries no entry for mitraginina or mitragynine. Anexo Técnico 1 is alphabetical, so the absence was read positionally as well as searched: the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA. Anexo Técnico 4, which extends each list to salts, isomers, esters, ethers, hydrates and stereoisomers, reaches nothing here either, because the rules extend a listed substance and no parent entry for this one was found. This is the list as at 27 January 2026 and it does not rule out a later resolution. [Certain] The K block was also read and carries no kratom entry between entry 268, Ketazolam, and entry 269, Lefetamina.

If prescribed or medical

Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. It has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1, the entries either side of where it would sort being entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA, and it is on none of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so it is not a controlled medicine on the face of Resolución 116 de 2026 as at 27 January 2026. That does not rule out a later resolution. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.

Documentation

Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance has no entry in Anexo Técnico 1 as at 27 January 2026, and the entries either side of where it would sort are entry 321, Mirtazapina, and entry 322, MMDA. [Certain] The second limb was swept as well as the first, and saying so matters because Penal Code article 376 does not reach a substance by way of Anexo Técnico 1. It reaches one contemplado en los cuadros uno, dos, tres y cuatro del Convenio de las Naciones Unidas sobre Sustancias Sicotrópicas, which is a reference to the Convention itself, so an absence from the Colombian annex alone would not settle the question. Both cached editions were searched free-substring rather than anchored, because an anchored zero on these lists is unreliable where a name wraps across two printed lines: the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and the Yellow List 65th edition of July 2026. The search returned no hit at all, so the second limb is clean for this row as well as the first. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.

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