Is THC legal in Finland?

Formal status

At EU level the reference figure for hemp is 0.3 per cent THC, set for agricultural purposes by Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, and separate maximum levels apply to hemp seed foods as contaminants.

Finland sets no THC threshold at all. Neither the narcotics act nor any annex of the government decree on substances regarded as narcotics contains a percentage, a milligram-per-kilogram figure, or an industrial hemp carve-out. The narcotics act prohibits the production, manufacture, importation into Finnish territory, exportation, transport, transit, distribution, trade, handling, possession and use of a narcotic. Tetrahydrocannabinol and its isomers are listed, and separately the first annex lists cannabis, cannabis resin, and cannabis extracts and tinctures, with no THC qualifier and no hemp exception. A full-spectrum hemp extract is textually a cannabis extract.

The only THC figures operating in Finland are the EU contaminant maxima applied by the food authority to permitted hemp seed foods. Those are food safety limits for a lawful product category; they are not a narcotics tolerance and they do not make anything lawful that would otherwise not be.

The Supreme Court confirmed the practical consequence in December 2023, upholding narcotics convictions on cannabis flower testing between 0.2 and 0.3 per cent THC - at or below the EU field threshold - and convicting the recipient of the postal consignments alongside the importer.

Do we sell here?

Yes, for now: Sleep spray, Sleep capsules.

Yes, we ship to Finland.

Finland is stricter than most of Europe here: it sets no permitted THC level at all, where EU agricultural rules use 0.3 per cent and several member states apply that figure to finished products. Finnish law lists cannabis extracts without a hemp exception, and in 2023 the Supreme Court upheld convictions involving material testing at 0.2 to 0.3 per cent.

Our own batches are third-party tested and published, and test meaningfully below 0.2 per cent. We are not relying on a threshold to be comfortable in Finland; we are relying on the fact that Finnish enforcement in this area has been directed at businesses operating inside Finland, and that comparable EU sellers deliver there without impediment.

We check this weekly and would say so here if the picture changed.

Outlook

A case has been reported as pending before Finland's Supreme Court on whether low-THC cannabis material is a narcotic under the criminal code. We have not been able to confirm it from the court's own records, so it is not recorded in the timeline, but it is the single most consequential thing on the Finnish horizon for this ingredient. A ruling in either direction would settle a question that currently rests on a 2023 precedent about flower rather than about finished supplements.

Short of that, we do not expect Finland to introduce a tolerance figure. It has had ample opportunity and has consistently declined to.

Timeline

December 2023

Korkein oikeus upholds narcotics convictions for postal importation and onward supply of cannabis flower testing between 0.2 and 0.3 per cent THC, and raises the sentences from fines to conditional imprisonment. The recipient of four postal consignments was among those convicted (KKO:2023:94).

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