Kratom has been prohibited from the Finnish consumer market since 1 April 2016. Manufacturing it, importing it into Finland, storing it, keeping it for sale and supplying it are all unlawful. There is no Finnish shop that can sell it and no lawful way to have it sent to you.
Possession and personal use are not on that list, and the omission is deliberate: the government bill behind the regime says so. Finland runs two separate general prohibitions, and the one that catches kratom is narrower than the one that catches narcotics.
Read on before drawing comfort from that. The same bill says, in the same breath, that possession can still be punished in certain situations as handling unlawfully imported goods, and the provision it points to is real. We set that out below.
Kratom is also not a narcotic in Finland. It is absent from the narcotics decree entirely, so the offences, the language and the penalties that surround a drug case in Finland are not the ones that apply here.
The instrument
The Narcotics Act, huumausainelaki 373/2008, lets the government prohibit a substance from the consumer market where it is psychoactive and dangerous but has not been scheduled as a narcotic. The list of those substances is the annex to government decree 1130/2014.
Kratom was put on it by government decree 166/2016, published on 14 March 2016 and in force from 1 April 2016, which inserted the entry Kratom (Mitragyna Speciosa).
Two alkaloids were named separately later. The version of the annex in force from 29 December 2025, substituted by decree 1101/2025, carries Mitragyniini and 7-Hydroksimitragyniini (7-OH) as their own entries, each with its full chemical name, alongside the plant.
The annex now in force was substituted again by decree 650/2026, given on 25 June 2026, published on 1 July 2026 and in force from 10 July 2026. All three entries are in it. The annex is an alphabetical list and its entries are not numbered, so there is no item number to quote.
What the prohibition actually covers
Section 5 of the Narcotics Act sets out two general prohibitions, and the difference between them decides this page.
For a narcotic, the prohibition covers handling, possession and use, along with production, import and supply. For a substance prohibited from the consumer market, it covers manufacture, import into Finland, storage, keeping for sale and supply, and it stops there. Possession and use do not appear in it.
Both prohibitions admit exceptions, but not the same ones. A narcotic can be handled for medical, research, supervisory and industrial purposes. A consumer-market-prohibited substance can be handled only for research and industrial use. There is no medical route for kratom in Finland.
Section 48 of the Act sends the two regimes to different places in the Criminal Code. Drug offences are in chapter 50. Breaching the consumer-market prohibition is dealt with in chapter 44, section 5 a. That section punishes intentional or grossly negligent manufacture, import, storage, keeping for sale or supply with a fine or up to one year in prison, and it applies only where no more severe penalty is provided elsewhere in law.
That last clause matters, because importing goods subject to an import prohibition can be smuggling under chapter 46, section 4, which carries a fine or up to two years.
Why this is easy to get wrong
Finland keeps three separate lists, made under three different powers, and a substance can sit on one without appearing on the others.
The narcotics decree, 543/2008, is the one people check first, because it is the list that makes something a drug. Its consolidated annexes name cocaine, psilocybin, MDPV and Catha edulis. They do not name kratom or either alkaloid.
Fimea’s medicines list, decision 230/2025 in force from 19 May 2025, runs to annexes of medicinal substances, analogues and pro-hormones, and herbal drugs. Morphine and caffeine are in it. Kratom is not. That absence is not evidence of a gap, because the consumer-market list is a separate instrument made under a separate power, and a substance does not need to appear on both.
So two of the three obvious places to look return nothing, and only the third one answers the question.
What this means in practice
Ordering kratom from a Dutch, German or other foreign webshop is importing it into Finland, which is the prohibited act. The fact that the seller acted lawfully where the parcel was posted does not change that.
Selling it in Finland, holding stock for sale, or storing it for those purposes is prohibited in the same provision.
Having some, and using it, are not acts the consumer-market prohibition names. That is a statement about one provision, not about your position, and the difference is where readers of other coverage go wrong.
Possession of kratom that was unlawfully imported can be prosecuted under chapter 46, section 6 of the Criminal Code, which punishes taking possession of property that was imported in breach of an import prohibition, knowing that it was, with a fine or up to one year and six months. The government bill that created the consumer-market regime says in terms that this route remains open. So a person who orders kratom from abroad and then has it is not in the position the bare wording of the prohibition suggests.
Whether that provision would be used against a private buyer of a small quantity is a question about Finnish prosecution practice, and we have not examined it. What we will not do is leave you with the first half of the sentence.
How we checked, and a warning about checking it yourself
Finlex’s consolidated page for decree 1130/2014 does not show the annex in the body of the page. Open it, search the text for kratom, and you will find nothing, because the substance list is not there. It is attached as a separate PDF, and it is easy to miss. An earlier draft of this page concluded that Finland did not control kratom at all, on exactly that false negative, and was corrected before publication.
The safe way to read the list is from the säädöskokoelma PDF of whichever decree last substituted the annex, which is 650/2026 as of the verification date at the top. If you are checking our work, check what you are searching before you trust an absence.
If a later decree changes any of this, write to editorial@wikikratom.com and we will update the page and credit the correction.