Is MGM-15 (dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine) Legal in Maine? (2026)

Is MGM-15 Legal? Every state and federal law

Maine MGM-15 ban status: ban in force

Federal

Federal Schedule I (DEA temporary order, drug code 9673), effective 2026-08-26 to 2028-08-26 (effective 2026-08-26). State-law reading underneath: Legal.

Rule type

permanent

Tier

Unscheduled

What the record says

This state row reports Maine law only; MGM-15 is federally Schedule I. Maine’s scheduled drugs are those named or described in 17-A M.R.S. 1102 (schedules W, X, Y and Z), and the statute contains no entry for MGM-15, dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine, 7-hydroxymitragynine, mitragynine or kratom. Checked and absent: no named listing; no provision adopting federal scheduling (Maine’s schedules are statutory, and the statute search of the Maine Revised Statutes, current through October 1, 2026, returns no kratom or mitragynine text); no 7-OH listing to carry derivative language; no kratom consumer protection act; no whole-plant ban; no controlled-substance-analog statute. Schedule W, paragraph I of 17-A M.R.S. 1102 covers compounds containing narcotic drugs in any quantity, and 17-A M.R.S. 1101(6)-(7) defines narcotic drug to include any opiate, meaning a substance with analgesic and addiction-forming liability similar to morphine. That reading was considered and is not applied: the federal schedule has the same structure (21 CFR 1308.12(b)(1), 'opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate', with the effect-based opiate definition in 21 U.S.C. 802(18)), yet DEA schedules new opioid-acting substances individually, including this compound family by temporary order, so the open-ended opiate entry is not treated as reaching an unnamed substance. The state reading is legal; no Maine authority has applied Schedule W to it. Federally, the compound is Schedule I under the DEA temporary scheduling order (DEA-1644, FR Doc. 2026-17429, effective 2026-08-26 to 2028-08-26); that federal control applies regardless of this state row.

Controlling language, verbatim

Unless listed or described in another schedule, any compound, mixture or preparation containing narcotic drugs in any quantity, including, but not limited to, the following narcotic drugs or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers: heroin (diacetylmorphine); methadone; methadone hydrochloride; levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol, or LAAM; pethidine; opium; morphine; oxycodone; hydrocodone; hydromorphone; buprenorphine; U-47700; W-18; W-15; AH-7921; carfentanil; sufentanil; fentanyl powder; and any derivative of fentanyl powder by any substitution on or replacement of the phenethyl group, any substitution on the piperidine ring, any substitution on or replacement of the propanamide group, any substitution on the phenyl group or any combination thereof, including, but not limited to, despropionyl fentanyl, furanylfentanyl, fluorofentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, acetylfentanyl and any methylfentanyl derivatives;

Source of excerpt

Citations

1. 17-A M.R.S. 1102 (Schedules W, X, Y and Z) (Maine Revisor of Statutes, 2026-10-28) PRIMARYOFFICIAL
2. 17-A M.R.S. 1101 (definitions) (Maine Revisor of Statutes, 2026-10-28)OFFICIAL

Where MGM-15 (dihydro-7-hydroxymitragynine) stands across the country

Among Maine’s one neighbor, New Hampshire is illegal, the same posture as Maine.

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Federal posture

Federally scheduled or prohibited. Federal Schedule I (DEA temporary order, drug code 9673), effective 2026-08-26 to 2028-08-26 Federal detail

Verbatim law on file for Maine

1 instrument on file for this compound’s framework in Maine; 2 of 2 citations above are official sources. Each text carries its source and a fingerprint that changes when the law does.

§1102. Schedules W, X, Y and Z

For the purposes of defining crimes under this chapter and of determining the penalties therefor, there are hereby established the following schedules, designated W, X, Y and Z.
                                     

[PL 2001, c. 419, §2 (AMD).]

1. 

Schedule W:
                                     

A.

Unless listed or described in another schedule, any amphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers, including but not limited to methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers;
                                     

[PL 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

B.

Unless listed or described in another schedule, or unless made a nonprescription drug by federal law, barbituric acid or any derivative of barbituric acid, or any salt of barbituric acid or of a derivative of barbituric acid, including but not limited to amobarbital, butabarbital, pentobarbital, secobarbital, thiopental, and methohexital;
                                     

[PL 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

C.

                                     

[PL 1975, c. 740, §98 (RP).]

D.

                                     

[PL 1975, c. 740, §98 (RP).]

E.

                                     

[PL 1975, c. 740, §98 (RP).]

F.

Cocaine;
                                     

[PL 2017, c. 432, Pt. E, §2 (RPR).]

G.

Phenmetrazine and its salts;
                                     

[PL 1975, c. 499, §1 (NEW).]

H.

Methylphenidate or its salts;
                                     

[PL 1975, c. 740, §99 (RPR).]

I.

Unless listed or described in another schedule, any compound, mixture or preparation containing narcotic drugs in any quantity, including, but not limited to, the following narcotic drugs or their salts, isomers or salts of isomers: heroin (diacetylmorphine); methadone; methadone hydrochloride; levo-alpha-acetyl-methadol, or LAAM; pethidine; opium; morphine; oxycodone; hydrocodone; hydromorphone; buprenorphine; U-47700; W-18; W-15; AH-7921; carfentanil; sufentanil; fentanyl powder; and any derivative of fentanyl powder by any substitution on or replacement of the phenethyl group, any substitution on the piperidine ring, any substitution on or replacement of the propanamide group, any substitution on the phenyl group or any combination thereof, including, but not limited to, despropionyl fentanyl, furanylfentanyl, fluorofentanyl, 4-fluoroisobutyryl fentanyl, acetylfentanyl and any methylfentanyl derivatives;

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