Is THC legal in Greece?

Formal status

The EU's general threshold for THC in hemp is 0.3 per cent (Regulation (EU) 2021/2115), applied to the crop rather than to a finished supplement.

Greece's own figure is lower and is expressly a crop figure. EOF's circular of 8 November 2022 states that the 0.2 per cent limit set by Article 1 of Law 4139/2013 concerns the harvested material and not the final product, with the aim that in the final product the substance be almost non-detectable. Law 5302/2026 refers to a 0.3 per cent figure in the context of its prohibition on dried flower, and amends the definition of cannabis products in Law 4139/2013. We have not been able to read that amending text, so we record the 0.2 and 0.3 per cent readings as unresolved rather than pick one.

Separately, Joint Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492 requires an analytical certificate for THC in the finished product as part of the EOF notification dossier for a cannabis-containing food supplement. A consultancy reading of that decision states that the finished product must not contain THC. We have not been able to read the decision's own text, so we record that as a reported requirement rather than assert it.

On either reading, Greece expects effectively no THC in a finished supplement, which is a materially different thing from the crop threshold.

Do we sell here?

Yes, for now: Sleep spray, Sleep capsules.

Greece's 0.2 per cent figure is often quoted as if it were a limit for the finished product. It is not - the Greek medicines agency has said plainly that it applies to the harvested crop, and that the intention is for a finished supplement to contain effectively no THC at all.

That is a genuinely strict position and we want to be straightforward about it. Our product is full spectrum, so it contains trace THC by design, and it would not meet a near-zero expectation for a finished supplement. Our batches test meaningfully below 0.2 per cent and we publish the certificates, but that answers the crop figure, not the finished-product one.

We still ship to Greece, because Greek enforcement in this area has been directed at products placed on the Greek market and at retailers inside the country rather than at European sellers delivering to customers. We review it weekly.

Outlook

Greece's near-zero expectation for THC in a finished supplement is the tightest we have found in any market we ship to, and the failure mode is administrative and predictable: it surfaces at EOF notification rather than at a border, which means it is discoverable before it becomes an enforcement event.

Nothing suggests Greece is about to relax it. The useful things to watch are whether the amended definition of cannabis products in Law 5302/2026 settles the 0.2 versus 0.3 per cent question, and whether EOF ever publishes an actual tolerance figure for the finished product rather than leaving it as a stated aim.

Timeline

June 2022

Joint Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492 published in Gazette 2712/B, setting the conditions for lawfully producing and marketing food supplements containing Cannabis sativa L.: notification to EOF with standard food supplement documentation, an analysis certificate for raw materials, a THC analysis certificate for the finished product, a certificate of lawful cultivation, and a production flow diagram.

SustChem, reporting Joint Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492 (Gazette 2712/B, 01-06-2022)

November 2022

EOF issues clarifications on the application of Ministerial Decision D3(a)20492, stating that all cannabinoids, natural and synthetic, including cannabidiol, are Novel Foods; that the only currently recognised edible parts of the plant are the seeds, seed oils and seed flours; and that the 0.2 per cent THC limit set by Article 1 of Law 4139/2013 concerns the harvested material and not the final product, with the aim that in the final product the substance be almost non-detectable.

EOF (National Organisation for Medicines)

May 2026

Law 5302/2026 published in Gazette A' 78. Article 43 prohibits throughout Greek territory the retail sale, distribution and supply to consumers, and the purchase and use by consumers, of dried flower of Cannabis sativa L. varieties with THC up to 0.3 per cent, in processed or unprocessed form. EOF implemented it on 22 May 2026 with immediate effect and no transition period.

Ta Nea, reporting EOF and Law 5302/2026

June 2026

Ministry of Health circular applies the dried flower prohibition to kiosks and mini markets regardless of THC or cannabinoid content, and identifies the banned plant parts as flowers and inflorescences, fan leaves, sugar leaves and bracts bearing trichomes, glandular trichomes, and any processed form containing them. It does not extend to oils, capsules, sprays, edibles or food supplements, which it refers to separate EFET and EOF regulation.

Iatronet, reporting the Ministry of Health circular