Is THC legal in France?

Situación formal

Cannabis use is a criminal offence in France, and since August 2026 the fixed on-the-spot fine has been 500 euros, though the offence itself is unchanged. Growing your own is prosecuted as production of narcotics rather than as personal use. Medical cannabis has never moved past a pilot, with roughly 700 patients on transitional arrangements pending unpublished decrees. For supplements the binding constraint is the 2026 ban on ingestible cannabinoid products, not the 0.3% threshold.

¿Vendemos aquí?

Not at the moment.

The THC threshold itself isn't the concern here - our formula runs comfortably under France's limit. Trace THC is a natural part of a full-spectrum extract, so what we're actually watching is the same broader ingestible-format enforcement that applies to our CBD and CBN content.

Perspectivas

Nothing on the 0.3% threshold itself is moving, and it is comfortably met. The live question is the ingestible-cannabinoid enforcement described above, with the same autumn 2026 Conseil d'Etat merits case to watch.

Timeline

December 2021

Arrete sets finished-product THC threshold at 0.3% (up from 0.2%), aligning with EU Regulation 2021/2115; applies to oils, flowers, resins, cosmetics, e-liquids

Arrete du 30 decembre 2021, Legifrance

March 2026

Arrete du 23 mars 2026 grants French customs power to intercept small e-commerce parcels after they enter French territory, even where already cleared in another EU member state - closing the EU-transit route for cross-border sellers

Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances (also Douane, communique de presse n.488, 25 March 2026)

May 2026

DGAL 2026 national control plan takes effect: bans sale of any ingestible cannabinoid product (oils/tinctures, gummies, capsules, teas, drinks) under strict Novel Food enforcement; flower, resin, e-liquids, and topical cosmetics remain unaffected

France Cannabidiol - CBD legal en France 2026

July 2026

Conseil d'Etat rejects industry's emergency suspension request (refere), decision n.516668; ban remains in force; substantive case on the doctrine's legality pushed to autumn 2026

Conseil d'Etat, decision n. 516668