Is Mitragynine legal in Greece?

Legal status

Controlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. Mitragynine is listed at Table A, serial 131.

Consequences if caught

Mitragynine is listed at Table A, serial 131, so every one of the conducts below is available against it in Greece. Conduct distinction. Greece sorts these offences by what was done, not by which table the substance sits in. Article 29 paragraph 1 punishes obtaining, holding, using or growing for the offender's own exclusive use with φυλάκιση μέχρι πέντε (5) μηνών, imprisonment of up to five months. There is no fixed gram threshold anywhere in the law; the court weighs the type, the purity, the quantity, the frequency and duration of use, the daily dose and the particular needs of the user. Article 29 paragraph 2 allows the court to leave the offender ατιμώρητος, unpunished, where the act was entirely occasional and unlikely to be repeated, and paragraph 3 keeps such a conviction off the copies of the criminal record that are issued. Article 20 paragraph 1 punishes trafficking with κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον οκτώ (8) ετών, at least eight years, plus a fine of up to three hundred thousand euro. Article 22 raises that to at least ten years and a fine of fifty thousand to five hundred thousand euro where the offence is committed by an official, inside a school, barracks, police cell, prison or sports ground, within a criminal organisation, or by a repeat offender. Article 21 drops it to up to three years for a dependent person trafficking small amounts to cover their own use, or for supplying a relative without profit. Article 30 paragraph 4 treats dependence as a separate track: an article 29 offence goes unpunished, an article 20 offence falls to at least one year, and an article 22 offence falls to at most ten years. The table letter decides the licensing and prescribing regime under article 2 of Law 4139/2013. It does not change the sentence, because articles 20 to 23 are written about ναρκωτικά and draw no distinction between the four tables. Capital and life exposure. Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and none of these offences carries it. The ceiling is life imprisonment, and it is article 23 of Law 4139/2013 that carries it. Article 23 paragraph 1 opens Με ισόβια κάθειρξη ή με πρόσκαιρη κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον δέκα ετών, life imprisonment or a determinate sentence of at least ten years, with a fine of fifty thousand to six hundred thousand euro, and it applies where the substance can cause grievous bodily harm and did cause grievous harm or death to another or endangered the health of many, or where an adult acts professionally to bring a minor into use. Article 23 paragraph 2 opens Με ισόβια κάθειρξη, καθώς και με χρηματική ποινή από πενήντα χιλιάδες ευρώ μέχρι ένα εκατομμύριο ευρώ τιμωρείται, and states no lesser alternative, so life is the only sentence the article offers. It applies to professional financing or professional trafficking where the expected gain exceeds seventy five thousand euro, and to using weapons during the offence or to escape. There is no quantity threshold in any of those articles. What moves conduct from article 29 to article 20 is the purpose behind it, and what moves it to article 23 is professional dealing, gain above seventy five thousand euro, weapons, or harm caused.

If prescribed or medical

Mitragynine sits in Table A. Table A substances have no ordinary therapeutic route. Import and export of any substance in the tables of article 1 requires a decision of the Ministry of Health on the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, under article 2 paragraph 5 of Law 4139/2013.

Documentation

There is no paperwork that makes carrying this substance lawful in Greece. It has no ordinary therapeutic route, so no Schengen certificate exists for it and no prescription can be written for it. The documentation question here is the reverse of the usual one: nothing you carry will help, and a certificate presented for it would itself be a problem. Where the rule comes from. The offences are in Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013. The substance lists are not in it. Article 1 paragraph 2 provides that the substances περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες Α΄, Β΄, Γ΄ και Δ΄, οι οποίοι αναφέρονται στην παρ. 2 του άρθρου 1 του ν. 3459/2006, and article 1 paragraph 4 gives the power to change them: Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Υγείας και Δικαιοσύνης, by joint decision of the Ministers of Health and of Justice, after the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, substances may be added, removed or moved between categories. The table read for this cell is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, which carries 375 entries across the four tables and names, against every single entry, the gazette that placed it there. Twenty eight instruments appear in it. The most recent is gazette 3277 B of 11 June 2026. Placement for Mitragynine: Table A, serial 131.

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