Is CBD legal in Poland?

24 August 2026

A flag of Poland, next to the chemical structure of CBD

Situación formal

CBD's EU-wide status hasn't changed since January 2019: an unauthorised novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, with no member state holding the authorisation that would settle the question. EFSA's February 2026 provisional safe intake figure (roughly 2mg/day for a 70kg adult) is a safety opinion, not an authorisation.

Cannabidiol is not a controlled substance in Poland. It is named nowhere in the schedules, and neither is cannabinol. Poland's schedules have not been annexed to the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction since 2018, when they were moved into a Minister of Health regulation.

What that regulation does schedule is cannabis material, and the qualifier matters. The cannabis entry covers cannabis herb other than fibrous, together with extracts, pharmaceutical tinctures and all other extracts from cannabis other than fibrous. The words other than fibrous appear twice within the entry, attaching to the herb and again to the extracts, so an extract derived from compliant fibrous hemp falls outside it by the entry's own terms. Cannabis resin is a separate entry carrying no such qualifier.

Fibrous hemp is defined by the Act as Cannabis sativa L. in which combined delta-9-THC and THC acid does not exceed 0.3 per cent of dry mass, a figure raised from 0.20 per cent with effect from 7 May 2022. The carve-out is keyed to that percentage and to the species, not to a registered variety, which distinguishes Poland from Austria, Estonia, Slovakia and Lithuania.

The real Polish constraint on a CBD supplement is therefore food law rather than drug law. The chief sanitary inspectorate treats CBD as an unauthorised novel food and has issued public warnings and withdrawal orders on that basis, alongside objections to THC content. Notifications of new supplements operate on tacit consent with a power to open an investigation, and the national audit office has found that only a small fraction are ever examined and that investigations regularly run for years.

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Yes, we ship to Poland.

Cannabidiol is not a controlled substance in Poland and never appears in its drug schedules. What Poland does schedule is cannabis material other than fibrous hemp, and the exclusion for fibrous hemp is written into the entry itself, extracts included. Hemp is fibrous in Poland when it contains no more than 0.3 per cent THC in dry mass, which our extract does comfortably and which our published batch tests show.

The honest part is this. Like every other EU country, Poland treats CBD as a novel food that has not yet been authorised, and its sanitary inspectorate has acted against Polish companies selling hemp supplements, usually over THC content. That enforcement is real. It has consistently reached businesses established in Poland rather than sellers shipping in from elsewhere in the EU, and it has not changed how comparable European sellers operate.

We keep this under review and we will say so if that changes.

Perspectivas

A draft amendment published in January 2025 would have banned hemp flower and hemp e-liquids intended for smoking or inhalation while expressly leaving oils, foods and cosmetics permitted. It had not been adopted as of early 2026 and the parliamentary working group on the subject suspended its work at the end of 2025. It is worth tracking, but on its published text it points away from products like ours rather than towards them.

The more interesting Polish development is judicial. The Supreme Administrative Court has already told the sanitary inspectorate that the Novel Food Catalogue is indicative rather than binding, in a judgment concerning hemp herb. Whether that reasoning is ever extended from herb to extracts is the single question most likely to change the Polish picture.

An EU novel food authorisation for CBD would resolve the Polish food-law objection more cleanly here than in most member states, because Poland has no separate national prohibition sitting behind it.

Timeline

August 2018

Poland moves its narcotic and psychotropic substance schedules out of the annexes to the Act on Counteracting Drug Addiction and into a Minister of Health regulation, where the cannabis entries are qualified throughout as cannabis other than fibrous

ISAP, Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1139 (tekst jednolity)

January 2021

The chief sanitary inspectorate issues a public warning over a 5 per cent CBD oil placed on the market by a Polish company, citing both an impermissible fibre hemp extract and detected delta-9-THC, and orders suspension of sales and recall

Glowny Inspektorat Sanitarny, reported by food-law.pl

May 2021

The chief sanitary inspectorate warns over hemp oils from a Polish company containing THC at 0.9 to 1.5 grams per kilogram, describing them as not permitted for human consumption and capable of posing a significant risk to consumer health

Glowny Inspektorat Sanitarny, reported by FoodFakty

November 2021

The Supreme Administrative Court quashes the sanitary inspectorate's automatic treatment of fibre hemp herb as novel food, holding that the Novel Food Catalogue is an open collection giving indicative information only and describing the inspectorate's reasoning as arbitrary

Naczelny Sad Administracyjny, II GSK 1192/21

March 2022

Poland raises the THC ceiling in its statutory definition of fibrous hemp from 0.20 to 0.3 per cent of dry mass, measured as combined delta-9-THC and THCA, with effect from 7 May 2022, widening the carve-out on which the scheduling of cannabis material turns

Ustawa o zmianie ustawy o przeciwdzialaniu narkomanii, Dz.U. 2022 poz. 763

May 2026

The state sanitary inspection prohibits the marketing of and orders the withdrawal of six hemp food supplements sold by a Polish company, including oral sprays and shots, on the basis of their THC content

Glowny Inspektorat Sanitarny public warning

Ingredientes

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