Is CBD legal in Slovakia?

CBD's status across the EU has been fixed since January 2019: an unauthorised novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, and no member state has granted the authorisation that would change that. EFSA's February 2026 provisional safe intake figure (roughly 2mg/day for a 70kg adult) is a safety opinion, not an authorisation.

Slovakia has moved further on CBD than any other member state, because it started from further behind. Until 2021 it was the only EU country that listed cannabidiol as a psychotropic substance. That entry was deleted with effect from 1 May 2021, and the public health authority now states plainly that cannabidiol has not been a psychotropic substance in Slovakia since that date.

What remains scheduled is cannabis material, in the strictest group of narcotic substances: dry extract, plants, ethanolic tincture and resin of the genus Cannabis. Each of those four entries carries the same carve-out, for seeds and for varieties of Cannabis sativa listed in a special regulation, which points to the rules on registration of plant varieties and through them to the EU Common Catalogue. The exemption is therefore varietal. It attaches to the provenance of the plant, not to an assay of the bottle. Slovak drug law contains no THC percentage at all; the percentage lives entirely in the EU variety rules incorporated by reference.

Neither cannabidiol nor cannabinol is listed anywhere in the current schedules.

The operative Slovak bar on a CBD supplement is food law. The public health authority states that CBD and other cannabinoids are unauthorised novel foods absent from the Union list, and cannot be placed on the market in Slovakia or the EU as a food or food ingredient. Doing so is an administrative offence under the Food Act. Official control of food supplements and novel foods belongs to the public health authorities, not to the state veterinary and food administration.