Is THC legal in Bulgaria?

Situación formal

Bulgaria is one of the EU's most restrictive. Possession carries one to six years with no allowance for personal use, the single-dose exemption having been removed in 2004, and growing plants is a separate offence carrying two to five years. There is no medical cannabis framework of any kind, since cannabis sits on a schedule that bars medical use outright. For supplements Bulgaria publishes no finished-product THC rule, applying its 0.2% hemp threshold in practice.

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Bulgaria's threshold is 0.2%, tighter than the general EU figure, and our extract is specified below it. There's no margin to spare at that level, so we test the finished product rather than relying on the ingredient specification alone. Trace THC is a natural part of a full-spectrum extract.

Perspectivas

The real exposure here is batch variance rather than the legal position: 0.2% leaves no analytical margin, and the parcel-screening posture established in 2026 makes an out-of-spec batch more likely to be noticed than a year ago. Testing the finished product rather than relying on an ingredient specification is the practical answer.

A separate question worth watching is how Bulgaria treats hemp once it has been harvested. Parliament rejected a bill in 2024 that would have allowed industrial hemp to be processed domestically, which leaves the status of extracts less settled here than the cultivation threshold alone would suggest.

Timeline

April 2024

Parliament rejects a bill that would have permitted industrial hemp to be processed in Bulgaria in addition to being grown. The Customs Agency objected to a proposed 1% THC threshold below which hemp would not be treated as a narcotic. Cultivation remains lawful; domestic processing does not.

Cannabis Law Report

July 2024

A regional directorate of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency halts the sale of hemp-flavoured gums and energy drinks in a Sofia shop, recording THC content above the 0.2% threshold. An official states that cannabinoids are forbidden as ingredients in food and that the abbreviation "CBD" should not appear on a food label.

Tribune.bg

May 2026

The Customs Agency reports Operation Hydra: more than 1,000 courier parcels containing narcotics, ordered online via EU-based platforms, intercepted in under two weeks across express courier terminals. Officials state that all parcels ordered through online platforms are inspected. The seizures were narcotics concealed in vapes, sweets and baked goods; no cannabinoid supplement was reported among them.

National Customs Agency