Kratom is prohibited in Iceland. The plant, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine each appear in Annex I of the Icelandic regulation on narcotic and addictive substances, and each carries a mark in the column that triggers the prohibition.
Iceland is not on the EU Drugs Agency’s list of countries reported to control kratom. That list covers the agency’s reporting countries, and its absence from it says nothing about Icelandic law. The regulation is the answer, and the regulation lists kratom.
The instrument
Icelandic control sits in regulation number 233/2001 on narcotic and addictive substances and other substances subject to supervision, originally published on 26 March 2001 and first in force from 1 April 2001. It has been amended twenty times since; the instruments number themselves, and the most recent is the twentieth.
The version this page rests on is the consolidated text as published on Ísland.is, whose last applied amendment is regulation number 879/2025 of 9 August 2025. That consolidation is one amendment behind the law. Regulation number 1036/2025 has been in force since 1 November 2025 and has not yet been incorporated into it. We read that amendment separately: it replaces article 5 and retitles article 7, and leaves article 1, article 2 and Annex I untouched, so nothing on this page turns on it.
Article 1 sets out what the regulation covers. Substances in schedules I to IV of the 1961 Single Convention are marked N I to N IV in Annex I. Substances in schedules I to IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances are marked P I to P IV in the same annex. Precursor substances under the 1988 convention are marked D I and D II in Annex II. The regulation then extends to salts, esters, amides, peptides and derivatives of the listed substances, to dosage forms of them, and to other medicines and substances that can be misused in a similar way and are harmful to health.
Three entries in Annex I concern kratom:
Kratom, with Mitragyna speciosa given as the botanical name.
Mitragynine, with its full chemical name.
7-hydroxymitragynine, listed with the synonym mitragynine hydroxyindolenine.
The kratom entry sits immediately below khat, which the annex gives as Catha edulis, allir hlutar plöntunnar, all parts of the plant. Neither entry carries a convention marking, so both are Icelandic listings rather than treaty ones.
What the mark in column B does
Article 2 of the regulation is headed Bannákvæði, the prohibition provision. It provides that the import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession of narcotic substances marked with an “x” in column B of Annex I is unlawful in Icelandic territory.
All three kratom entries carry that mark.
The article then sets out what the prohibition does not reach: substances that have been granted an exemption under the Narcotics Act 65/1974; medicines holding a marketing authorisation from the Icelandic Medicines Agency; medicines otherwise permitted under the Medicines Act; and substances that may lawfully be imported, exported, produced or sold wholesale under article 6(1). The first of those exceptions points specifically at article 2(3) of the Narcotics Act, not at the Act generally. The Medicines Agency may also grant an exemption for scientific research or for other special reasons, and may withdraw or restrict such an exemption where its conditions are not met.
None of those routes is open to a person buying kratom to take. Scientific research is not what a webshop order is. Of the two medicine exceptions, only one turns on a product holding an Icelandic marketing authorisation; the other covers medicines otherwise permitted under the Medicines Act, which needs no authorisation. Neither reaches an unauthorised botanical sold as a consumer product, and we did not check any medicines register.
What this means in practice
There is no lawful retail market for kratom in Iceland, and no Icelandic shop can sell it.
Ordering it from abroad is importing a prohibited substance, and possession is separately named in article 2, so the prohibition does not depend on proving how the material arrived.
Because the annex names the plant as well as both alkaloids, and because article 1 extends the regulation to derivatives and dosage forms, leaf, powder, capsules and extracts are all covered.
How current this is, and what we did not check
Regulation 233/2001 is amended frequently, and the amendments are published separately in the Icelandic gazette before being consolidated. This page rests on the consolidated text as published on Ísland.is, read on the verification date at the top.
The listing dates from 6 September 2018, when regulation number 808/2018 came into force carrying a replacement annex with all three entries marked in column B. They are absent from the consolidated version of February 2017 and present in the one of September 2018.
We did not read the Narcotics Act 65/1974 itself, and this page states no sentences. Article 14 of the regulation does deal with penalties, but only by pointing at article 5 of that Act, which is where the sentences are.
One note for anyone checking the annex. It has five columns, and only the last of them carries “x” marks; the international-conventions column carries N and P codes instead. So the mark is unambiguous once you have the right table, and article 2 is explicit that column B is the one that matters.
If a later amendment changes any of this, write to editorial@wikikratom.com and we will update the page and credit the correction.