Is THC legal in Greece?

Situación formal

Cannabis remains a criminal matter in Greece, though personal use and growing a few plants for yourself carry a much lower penalty and can be left unpunished at the court's discretion. Medical cannabis is prescribed and sold in pharmacies but not reimbursed, and the framework is built mainly around licensed production for export. A law of May 2026 raised the hemp threshold to 0.3% and banned retail sale of dried flower.

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Not at the moment.

Greece's hemp THC figure, 0.3 per cent since May 2026, is often quoted as if it were a limit for the finished product. It is not - the Greek medicines agency has said plainly that it applies to the harvested crop, and that the intention is for a finished supplement to contain effectively no THC at all.

That is a genuinely strict position. Our product is full spectrum, so it contains trace THC by design, and it would not meet a near-zero expectation for a finished supplement. Our batches test meaningfully below 0.2 per cent and we publish the certificates, but that answers the crop figure, not the finished-product one.

We still ship to Greece, because Greek enforcement in this area has been directed at products placed on the Greek market and at retailers inside the country rather than at European sellers delivering to customers. We review it weekly.

Perspectivas

Greece's near-zero expectation for THC in a finished supplement is the tightest we have found in any market we ship to, and the failure mode is administrative and predictable: it surfaces at notification rather than at a border, which means it is discoverable before it becomes an enforcement event.

Nothing suggests Greece is about to relax it. The 0.2 versus 0.3 per cent question is now settled at 0.3 per cent, so the thing still worth watching is whether the Greek medicines agency ever publishes an actual tolerance figure for the finished product rather than leaving it as a stated aim.

Timeline

June 2022

Joint Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492 published in Gazette 2712/B, setting the conditions for lawfully producing and marketing food supplements containing Cannabis sativa L.: notification to EOF with standard food supplement documentation, an analysis certificate for raw materials, a THC analysis certificate for the finished product, a certificate of lawful cultivation, and a production flow diagram.

SustChem, reporting Joint Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492 (Gazette 2712/B, 01-06-2022)

November 2022

EOF issues clarifications on the application of Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492, stating that all cannabinoids, natural and synthetic, including cannabidiol, are Novel Foods; that the only currently recognised edible parts of the plant are the seeds, seed oils and seed flours; and that the 0.2 per cent THC limit set by Article 1 of Law 4139/2013 concerns the harvested material and not the final product, with the aim that in the final product the substance be almost non-detectable.

EOF (National Organisation for Medicines)

May 2026

Law 5302/2026 published in Gazette A' 78. Article 43 prohibits throughout Greek territory the retail sale, distribution and supply to consumers, and the purchase and use by consumers, of dried flower of Cannabis sativa L. varieties with THC up to 0.3 per cent, in processed or unprocessed form. EOF implemented it on 22 May 2026 with immediate effect and no transition period. Article 43 also replaces the 0.2 per cent figure with 0.3 per cent throughout Article 1(3) of Law 4139/2013, raising the industrial hemp threshold, and states that the flower prohibition does not catch import, storage or wholesale distribution for industrial processing.

Ta Nea, reporting EOF and Law 5302/2026

June 2026

Ministry of Health circular applies the dried flower prohibition to kiosks and mini markets regardless of THC or cannabinoid content, and identifies the banned plant parts as flowers and inflorescences, fan leaves, sugar leaves and bracts bearing trichomes, glandular trichomes, and any processed form containing them. It does not extend to oils, capsules, sprays, edibles or food supplements, which it refers to separate EFET and EOF regulation.

Iatronet, reporting the Ministry of Health circular