Kratom is a List I narcotic substance in Estonia. The plant, both of its named alkaloids, and any medicine containing them are covered. Under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances and their Precursors Act, handling a narcotic or psychotropic substance is prohibited except for medical or scientific purposes, for the prevention, detection and suppression of drug-related crime, or for educational use as prescribed by the Act. That is a closed list of four exceptions, not an open one.
None of those exceptions is available to a person buying kratom to take.
Where the entries are
Estonia’s schedules are not in the Act. They are in annex 1 to a ministerial regulation, regulation number 73 of 18 May 2005 on the lists of narcotic and psychotropic substances and their handling for medical and scientific purposes. The annex sets out Lists I to VI and is replaced wholesale each time it is revised. The version this page rests on is the wording given by regulation number 33 of 6 August 2026, in force since 14 August 2026.
Three entries in List I concern kratom. The annex prints each substance in Estonian and in English:
7-hüdroksümitragüniin, given in English as 7-hydroxymitragynine.
Eriline abuurapuu, given in English as Mitragyna speciosa (Kratom). Eriline abuurapuu is the Estonian botanical name.
Mitragüniin, given in the English column as Mitragynine. Earlier versions of this page recorded that the English column read “Mytragynine”, which was a typographical error in the annex rather than an alternative name. That was accurate for the annex as it stood in February 2026. The annex in force since 14 August 2026 spells it correctly, so the note no longer applies to the document you will open.
Section 3 of the regulation extends the lists beyond the named substances themselves: a narcotic or psychotropic substance means the listed substances, substances belonging to the listed groups, and their isomers, esters, ethers and salts, together with medicines containing them.
What List I placement carries
The Act sets a general prohibition on handling narcotic and psychotropic substances, subject to the four exceptions above. On top of that, List I placement pulls in the stricter administrative controls. Under section 3(3) of the regulation, substances on Lists I and II are subject to special accounting, along with the group substances in List VI and pure codeine and ethylmorphine. Under the Act, importing or exporting a List I substance for a permitted purpose requires a licence from the State Agency of Medicines, and handling a List I substance must meet the requirements that apply to List II substances.
The practical reading for a consumer is short. There is no permitted purpose that covers buying kratom, so there is no licence you could hold and no route by which the material could lawfully reach you.
What this means in practice
There is no lawful retail market for kratom in Estonia, and no Estonian shop can sell it.
Ordering it from a Dutch, German or other foreign webshop means importing a List I narcotic substance without the licence the Act requires.
Because the plant is named alongside both alkaloids, and because the regulation reaches salts, esters, ethers and isomers, leaf, powder, capsules and extracts are all covered. Note that this rests on the two alkaloid entries rather than on the plant entry. The plant is listed bare, with no clause about processing products, unlike the cannabis entry in the same annex which spells out hashish, resin, extracts and tinctures.
How current this is, and one trap
The annex in force is the one given by regulation number 33 of 6 August 2026. That is the adoption date; it was published on 11 August and entered into force on 14 August 2026. The three dates are worth keeping apart, because a schedule that has been adopted is not yet a schedule that binds anyone. The annex is replaced rather than amended in place, so there is a single document to read rather than a chain of amendments.
That replacement happens often. The annex this page cited until 12 September 2026 was the February 2026 one, which the August annex superseded six weeks later. The three kratom entries survived the change unaltered, and the only difference that touches this page is the corrected spelling noted above.
The trap is where that document lives. Riigi Teataja shows the regulation’s articles on the page, but the substance lists are not on that page. They are attached as a separate PDF, and a search of the regulation page for kratom finds nothing whether or not kratom is listed. We have made that mistake elsewhere in this project, so it is worth naming: if you check our work, check that you are searching the annex and not the regulation that refers to it.
This page does not state the penalties. Estonian drug offences sit in the Penal Code and in the Act itself, and we did not read those provisions.
One citation caveat. Riigi Teataja serves the Act under an address that displays whichever text is currently in force, so the URL below does not pin a version. The wording we read was the one in force on the verification date at the top of this page.
If a later annex changes any of this, write to editorial@wikikratom.com and we will update the page and credit the correction.