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Greece raised its industrial-hemp threshold in May 2026, bringing it from 0.2% to 0.3% THC. In the same article, it shut dried hemp flower out of the consumer market.
The threshold rises
Article 43 of Law 5302/2026 amended the drug law’s definition provisions. Raw harvested products from approved Cannabis sativa L. varieties containing no more than 0.3% THC are excluded from the controlled substances covered by those provisions.
The previous threshold was 0.2%. The article also retains routes for regulated foods, cosmetics and food supplements containing THC, subject to ministerial rules and maximum limits.
The cultivation rule has an enforcement margin. If an approved industrial-hemp crop tests above 0.3% but no higher than 0.6%, the prosecutor is notified and the crop is destroyed at the grower’s expense. Above 0.6%, criminal proceedings also begin under the drug law.
Flower is carved back out
The law then creates a specific exception to the hemp exclusion. Dried flower at or below 0.3% THC is not treated as an exempt raw harvested product when it is intended for retail sale or distribution to consumers.
That distinction is written into a new paragraph 3A added to Article 1 of Greece’s drug law, Law 4139/2013.
For that flower, the prohibition is comprehensive. It covers retail sale, circulation and supply to the public, as well as purchase and use by consumers. It applies to processed and unprocessed flower throughout Greece.
The text therefore separates agricultural hemp from a dried flower offered as a consumer product. Raising the crop threshold did not legalise low-THC flower on shop shelves.
What remains possible
The ban does not cover importing, storing, wholesaling or moving dried flower when it is intended exclusively for industrial processing. The statute gives cosmetics as an example.
Two months later Greece adopted a separate ban on plant products with cannabinoids added for smoking or vaping. That later measure is covered in the July 2026 entry.
In the index
The index scores ordinary cannabis law, while the May measure concerns hemp flower within the low-THC threshold. Greece’s six scores therefore do not move, even though lawful consumer access to this particular product was tightened.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Greece here.
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