Is THC legal in Portugal?

Situación formal

Portugal decriminalised personal possession in 2001, so using or holding up to about 25g of cannabis is an administrative matter handled by a dissuasion commission rather than a court. Growing your own was deliberately left out of that reform and stays a crime. Medical cannabis is legal but barely used, with a few pharmacy products, no reimbursement and under a thousand patients, while Portugal exports on a large scale. Supplement extracts have no compliant route at all.

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Not at the moment.

Yes, we ship to Portugal.

Our Sleep formula uses a full-spectrum hemp extract, so it contains THC only as an incidental trace, and every batch is third-party tested. Our published certificates of analysis show tested content comfortably below every Portuguese threshold - the 0.3% set for hemp cultivation and the 0.2% applied to hemp seed foods alike.

The wider question in Portugal is not about THC levels at all: the authorities' position is that cannabinoid extracts should not be sold as foods, whatever they contain. See our CBD page for Portugal for how we think about that.

Perspectivas

The 2026 enforcement operations mark a shift from published guidance to criminal proceedings against domestic sellers, including online ones. The direction of travel is clearly toward more enforcement, not less.

One thing to watch specifically on THC is the published inconsistency described above between the 0.2% figure still carried in food guidance and the 0.3% cultivation figure. Neither figure is what actually determines the position, since the objection taken is to cannabinoid extracts as a category rather than to their THC content, but a tidy-up of the guidance would make the Portuguese position easier to read.

Timeline

March 2023

Portaria n.º 64/2023 amends Portaria n.º 83/2021, raising the national hemp cultivation THC threshold from 0.2% to 0.3% in line with Regulation (EU) 2021/2115

Portaria n.º 64/2023, de 3 de março, Diário da República

January 2026

ASAE inspects six food-supplement operators in Porto, Braga, Aveiro and Guimarães, seizes 3,588 articles and opens six criminal proceedings under Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 and Decreto-Lei n.º 28/84

ASAE, comunicado de imprensa

May 2026

ASAE's national Operação Euforia inspects 53 operators including websites selling online, seizes 6,822 articles and opens 19 criminal proceedings; all operators reached were established in Portugal

ASAE, comunicado de imprensa