Is CBD legal in Latvia?

Situación formal

EU-wide, CBD is an unauthorised novel food. That's been the position since Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 took effect in January 2019, and no country in the Union has since granted authorisation. EFSA's February 2026 provisional safe intake figure (roughly 2mg/day for a 70kg adult) is a safety opinion, not an authorisation.

Cannabidiol is expressly excepted from control in Latvia. The most restricted schedule carves it out by name, and the State Agency of Medicines confirmed in 2024 that cannabidiol as a pure substance is not subject to control in Latvia.

What Latvia does prohibit is selling it as food. The medicines agency, the food and veterinary service and the consumer rights protection centre have all stated, jointly in December 2020 and repeatedly since, that CBD-containing products may not be distributed on the EU market as foods, food ingredients or food supplements, and that offering CBD for oral use is an unfair commercial practice; permitted uses are cosmetics and e-liquids.

Separately, and decisively for a full-spectrum product, what sits alongside CBD in a hemp extract is controlled: cannabinol has been in the most restricted schedule since 1 December 2025, cannabis extracts and oils are there in their own right, and so is any mixture containing delta-9-THC in any quantity.

¿Vendemos aquí?

No.

No, we do not ship to Latvia - but not because of CBD.

Cannabidiol is one of the very few substances Latvian law expressly excludes from narcotics control, and the Latvian medicines agency has said so in writing. The obstacle is what else a full-spectrum hemp extract contains. Latvia added cannabinol to its most restricted list with effect from 1 December 2025, treats cannabis extracts and oils as prohibited in their own right, and recognises no minimum level of THC.

See our CBN page for Latvia for the fuller picture.

Perspectivas

The Latvian change to the narcotics schedules is very recent and has not yet been tested by any agency or court, so the next year may bring a clarification either way.

An EU novel-food authorisation for CBD would resolve Latvia's food-law objection but would not change our position, because that position rests on the narcotics schedules and on the other constituents of the extract rather than on CBD.

Timeline

December 2020

Consumer rights, food safety and health inspection authorities jointly state that CBD products may not be placed on the EU market as foods and that offering CBD for oral use is an unfair commercial practice

PTAC, with PVD and Veselības inspekcija

May 2021

The food and veterinary service opens a case against a Latvian e-shop selling CBD oils and flowers as food supplements, neither the company nor the products being on the supplement register

LSM.lv

June 2021

Latvia's controlled-substance schedules move into primary legislation as the second annex to the Criminal Law implementation statute, and Cabinet Regulation No. 847 is repealed

Likums Par Krimināllikuma spēkā stāšanās un piemērošanas kārtību, 2. pielikums