Is Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) Legal in Arkansas? (2026)

Rule type

permanent

Tier

schedule i

Schedule

schedule 1

Effective

2015-11-08

Effectively prohibitive

AR schedules mitragynine itself; all whole leaf is contraband

Controlling language, verbatim

(24) Mitragynine -- (11-2015) [Arkansas Schedule I]

Source of excerpt

Citations

No citation on file for this row yet.

Change history

• 2026-07-25Effective date changed from 2015-11-01 to 2015-11-08.

Where Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) stands across the country

Among Arkansas's 6 neighbors, Louisiana and Tennessee are illegal; Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas are restricted; Missouri is gray area.

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Federal posture

Not federally scheduled. Kratom leaf / mitragynine not federally scheduled; DEA 7-OH re-notice (Nov 13+) reaches extracts under 100:1 mitragynine to 7-OH Federal detail

Pending deadlines

• 2026-11-13 · Federal · DEA 7-OH threshold order would reach kratom extracts under 100:1 mitragynine to 7-OH (DEA-1570 / FR 2026-20943)
  On or after Nov 13, 2026: kratom products whose mitragynine is less than 100 times their 7-OH (or 7-OH plus pseudoindoxyl), or above 1 mg/g or 1 mg/mL of those, would be Schedule I. Plain leaf and typical extracts sit above 100:1; enhanced 7-OH kratom does not. Kratom leaf and mitragynine are not scheduled.

Verbatim law on file for Arkansas

1 instrument on file for this compound's framework in Arkansas; 0 of 0 citations above are official sources. Each text carries its source and a fingerprint that changes when the law does.

Arkansas Dept. of Health, List of Controlled Substances (rule; auth. Ark. Code Ann. 5-64-216 & 5-64-101 et seq.), Schedule I:
(c) Opium derivatives (Narcotic Drugs) - governing chapeau for the mitragynine listing:
"(c) Opium derivatives: (Narcotic Drugs) Unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following opium derivatives, its salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of such salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:"
Entries:
"(24) Mitragynine (11-2015)"
"(25) 7-Hydroxymitragynine (11-2015)"

(d) Hallucinogenic substances chapeau - the optical/positional/geometric limiter, expressly scoped to (d) ONLY (does NOT govern the (c) mitragynine listing):
"...(for purposes of this paragraph only, the term \"isomer\" includes the optical, position and geometric isomers):"

Ark. Code Ann. 5-64-101 (Definitions): no general definition of "isomer."

Related

Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in neighboring states

• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Louisiana Illegal
• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Missouri Gray area
• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Mississippi Restricted
• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Oklahoma Restricted
• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Tennessee Illegal
• Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in Texas Restricted

Kratom (Whole Leaf / Mitragynine) in other states

Same framework in Arkansas

• Mitragynine Pseudoindoxyl in Arkansas Illegal
• 7-OH (7-Hydroxymitragynine) in Arkansas Illegal
• Speciociliatine in Arkansas Illegal

Other compounds in Arkansas

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