Is Kratom Legal in Michigan?

What law covers kratom in Michigan?

No law names it. Michigan lists its controlled substances in five schedules in the Public Health Code. Schedule 1 is the strictest. Kratom isn’t in any of the five. Neither are mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine, the leaf’s two main alkaloids.

The state Board of Pharmacy can add drugs by rule. Its schedules rule, R 338.3111, adopts the federal list of controlled substances and adds a few of its own, such as Salvia divinorum and tianeptine. Kratom isn’t on either list.

So the state has no possession offense for kratom. It has no kratom rule on age, labels or testing either.

Does Michigan require anything of a kratom seller?

Not under any kratom law. No Michigan statute sets a buying age, a label or a lab test for kratom. Two bills in the Legislature would write those rules. A third, House Bill 5537, would end legal sales instead.

What would House Bill 5537 do?

It would ban kratom sales in Michigan. Representative Cam Cavitt filed House Bill 5537 on February 19, 2026. As the House passed it, the bill would make it a misdemeanor to grow, make, sell, offer for sale, give away, import or distribute kratom. It wouldn’t make having kratom a crime.

The bill defines kratom as any part of the Mitragyna speciosa plant and anything made from it, extracts included. It covers a “synthetic variant of kratom” too, and names 7-hydroxymitragynine as one example. The penalties would climb with each offense:

• a first offense: up to 90 days in jail, a fine of up to $5,000, or both
• a repeat offense: up to 180 days, a fine of up to $10,000, or both
• selling or giving kratom to anyone under 18: up to a year, a fine of up to $10,000, or both
• a repeat offense involving anyone under 18: up to a year, a fine of up to $20,000, or both

The bill exempts kratom the FDA approves as a drug or for use in food. That exemption doesn’t cover synthetic forms. The ban would take effect 90 days after the bill became law.

How did House Bill 5537 pass the House?

In a single day. The bill went to the Regulatory Reform Committee when it was filed, and the committee never voted on it. On March 18, 2026, representatives voted to pull it out of committee. That same day, they adopted a rewritten version and passed it, 56 to 48. Six didn’t vote.

The rewrite added giving away, importing and distributing to the banned acts. It also added the FDA exemption.

The Senate sent the bill to its Government Operations Committee on March 24, 2026. The Legislature’s record shows no action there since.

Which other kratom bills are pending in Michigan?

Two, and both would regulate kratom rather than ban it. Each is called the Kratom Consumer Protection Act.

House Bill 4969 came first. Representative Cavitt filed it on September 17, 2025, five months before his ban bill. As filed, it would have licensed every seller through the Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs, online sellers included, and barred sales to anyone under 21. The Regulatory Reform Committee took testimony on October 30 and November 13, 2025. On November 13, it approved a rewrite that dropped the licenses and the sales age. On June 10, 2026, the House sent the bill back to committee.

Senate Bill 1181 is the newest. Senator John Cherry filed it on September 22, 2026, and it went to the Regulatory Affairs Committee. Its text follows the rewritten House bill. As written, both would:

• require labels warning against use by anyone under 21, or while pregnant or breastfeeding, and saying kratom may be habit-forming
• require labels listing the serving size, the servings in each package and the mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine in each serving
• bar any product whose 7-hydroxymitragynine runs above 2 percent of its alkaloids
• bar any product holding a lab-made alkaloid, and extracts made with unsafe levels of leftover solvent
• require a test by an accredited lab before a product is sold
• set civil fines of up to $1,000 for a first offense and $5,000 after, collected by the attorney general or a county prosecutor

Two state agencies weighed in on House Bill 4969. The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development took no side on the rewrite. The Cannabis Regulatory Agency opposed the bill as filed.

The House Fiscal Agency, the House’s nonpartisan staff, wrote that the bill appeared aimed at products with lab-made alkaloids and unnaturally high 7-hydroxymitragynine. We have never sold 7-OH products and we do not defend them.

Which Michigan kratom bills failed?

Six, going back to 2014. None reached the governor.

• House Bill 5707. Representative George Darany filed it on July 16, 2014. It would have added kratom to Schedule 5, the mildest of the five. It never left the Health Policy Committee.
• House Bill 5736. Darany filed it on August 27, 2014. It would have made selling kratom to anyone under 18 a misdemeanor. It never left committee.
• Senate Bill 1236. Senator Rick Jones filed it on November 29, 2018. It was a Kratom Consumer Protection Act with a buying age of 18. It never left the Agriculture Committee.
• Senate Bill 433. Senator John Bizon filed it on August 20, 2019. It would have put kratom in Schedule 2, one step below the strictest. It never left committee.
• House Bill 5477. Representative Lori Stone filed it on October 21, 2021. It would have licensed sellers and set the buying age at 21. The House passed it 88 to 19 on May 25, 2022. It stopped in the Senate Regulatory Reform Committee.
• House Bill 4061. Stone filed the same text again on February 1, 2023. It never left committee.

The legislative record doesn’t say why any of them stopped.

What have Michigan health officials said about kratom?

The Department of Health and Human Services warned residents in 2018. On April 13 that year, during a national Salmonella outbreak, it advised Michigan residents not to consume any product containing kratom.

More than 130 people in 38 states got sick. Three lived in Michigan, in Kent, Livingston and Monroe counties. The department’s lab found Salmonella in four kratom products bought online from a seller in Idaho.

Could Michigan kratom law change?

Yes. House Bill 5537 needs a Senate committee vote, a full Senate vote and the governor’s signature. The two regulation bills each need votes in both chambers and the governor’s signature.

Time is short. Under the state constitution, a bill pending at the end of a session’s first year carries into its second. Nothing carries past the second. A bill that isn’t law when the 2026 session ends has to be filed again. The constitution has the new Legislature meet on the second Wednesday in January, which in 2027 is January 13.

Federal action sits above all of it. On October 14, 2026, the DEA published a federal proposal on 7-hydroxymitragynine. It’s a proposal, not a rule, and this page doesn’t state federal law. Michigan’s Board of Pharmacy rule, covered above, takes in the federal schedules by reference. Our page on whether kratom is legal federally tracks the proposal, and the Kratom Legality hub carries every state.

If a Michigan bill moves, the Legislature’s own site shows it first. Not a store’s website. Ours included.

Can you order kratom online in Michigan?

Yes, if you’re 21 or older and your address isn’t in Sterling Heights. We don’t ship there. No Michigan law names kratom, so none sets rules for buying it online.

We’re based in Arlington, Texas, and Michigan is the seventh-largest state for our orders. We verify age at checkout. Every lab report we publish for our Whole Earth line measures 7-hydroxymitragynine, and you can read them on our lab tests page. We carry kratom powder and kratom capsules from Whole Earth and other brands.

Is kratom legal in the states around Michigan?

In one of the three, and only in part. Michigan shares a land border with Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin.

• Ohio allows natural leaf, but it has listed kratom extracts in Schedule I since May 19, 2026.
• Indiana has banned kratom since March 15, 2012. It counts the leaf’s two main alkaloids as a synthetic drug.
• Wisconsin has listed both alkaloids in Schedule I since April 25, 2014. It borders the Upper Peninsula.

That means every drive into a neighboring state crosses into stricter kratom law. Kratom bought legally in Michigan falls under Indiana or Wisconsin drug law the moment you cross the line. An extract does the same in Ohio. The law reaches you where you are, not where you bought it. Traveling with kratom covers what that means on a drive and in an airport.

Can a city or county in Michigan ban kratom?

Yes. One has, and we’ve confirmed it in the city’s own records.

• Sterling Heights. The City Council voted 6 to 1 on May 19, 2026, to adopt an ordinance banning the sale and distribution of kratom in the city. It had been introduced two weeks earlier, on May 5.

Our shipping page keeps the full list of places we don’t ship.

This page covers state law. Cities and counties can add rules of their own, and those rules differ and change.

There’s no reliable way to track every local rule in the country, and we are not going to pretend there is. Check your own city and county before you buy, carry or travel.