CBD
CBD and low-THC products.
35 entries, 2013–2026 · 2 moved a score · back to the whole history
World average score and CBD entries per decade
13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860
World average score, every country counted the same Entries that moved a score Context only
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🇻🇮 US Virgin Islands Easing ✓
US Virgin Islands replace a hemp inventory freeze with a sales window
Governor Albert Bryan Jr. approved a replacement rule telling retailers to report their intoxicating-cannabinoid inventory within 60 days and sell or otherwise dispose of it within 75 days of the act’s effective date. The cannabis regulator was then to plan the lawful disposal of remaining stock. This replaced the January law’s ban on selling or distributing existing inventory until regulations and retail licences were in place.
🇬🇭 Ghana Hemp ✓ Article
Ghana opens licensing for low-THC cannabis
The interior minister launched the programme for growing low-THC cannabis for medical and industrial use, under the 2023 amendment act and regulations. Applicants must be Ghanaian citizens or permanent residents aged 18 or over, and companies at least half Ghanaian-owned.
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🇲🇨 Monaco Enforcement ✓
A Monaco court convicts a pensioner over 15 g of cannabis and CBD products
A Monegasque man born in 1956, with a clean record, was tried for possession and use of narcotics after a search of his home found 15.62 g of cannabis, a CBD spray and CBD chewing gum. The prosecutor cited a ministerial order banning cannabis and its derivatives, including CBD, even at low THC levels, and asked for three months suspended. The defence argued that CBD is legal in the neighbouring countries. The court gave one month in prison, suspended, with two years' probation and an obligation to undergo care.
🇮🇹 Italy Tightening ✓
Italy bans the hemp flower trade
A security decree prohibited selling hemp flowers whatever their THC content, closing the "cannabis light" shops that had spread since 2017.
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🇨🇳 China Tightening ✓
China puts cannabidiol under its precursor-chemical rules
Six government departments issued an announcement on seven substances, cannabidiol among them, bringing their production, trade and transport under the Regulations on the Administration of Precursor Chemicals.
🇨🇻 Cabo Verde Hemp ✓ Article
Cabo Verde’s health regulator clarifies its ban on cannabinoid cosmetics
ERIS circular 012/ERIS-CA/2024 reiterated its prohibition on cannabis-related preparations and CBD or other cannabinoid ingredients in cosmetic products under the framework described. It warned that an inventory entry without a listed restriction did not establish permission. The circular was a regulatory clarification, not a general ruling on all CBD uses.
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🇲🇽 Mexico Tightening ✓
Mexico's health regulator moves against a CBD shop chain
COFEPRIS inspected six Mexico City branches of Paradise, a chain with shops in 25 states linked to former president Vicente Fox, seized 1,811 products and suspended one branch. It said the health law still lists cannabis, its preparations and its seeds as narcotics. The government had said in April that 63 permits to sell cannabis products were issued in the last days of the previous administration.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong Enforcement ✓
Hong Kong jails a traveller in its first CBD imprisonment case
A traveller received two months overall after convictions for possessing CBD, possessing ketamine and having injection equipment. Officers had found two personal-care bottles containing about 5 g of CBD, about 2.2 g of ketamine and ten syringes after her arrival from the United States in March. Customs described the July sentence as the first imprisonment since CBD became a dangerous drug in February 2023.
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🇫🇷 France Hemp ✓ Article
France's top administrative court legalises CBD flower
The Council of State struck down a government ban on selling hemp flowers and leaves with less than 0.3% THC, ruling that they pose no risk that would justify it.
🇱🇦 Laos Medical ✓
Laos opens a licensed route for low-THC hemp medicines
Companies could seek approval to grow, process and sell low-THC hemp under a health ministry decision issued on 28 December 2022. The decision specified a thirty-day transition after signing. Its permissions covered prescribed dried hemp flower and low-THC medicines, alongside registered consumer products; the narcotics law and Penal Code still awaited alignment.
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe Medical ✓ Article
Zimbabwe opens applications for hemp-based CBD medicines
The medicines regulator began accepting applications to register hemp-based CBD products as complementary medicines in the second quarter of 2022. A July circular explained the requirements to licensed producers, manufacturers, traders and retail pharmacists. The regulator’s annual report records two manufacturing applications and one manufacturer licensed after inspections in early 2023.
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🇨🇳 China Tightening ✓
China bans cannabis ingredients in cosmetics
New catalogues of prohibited cosmetic ingredients listed cannabis sativa fruit, seed oil and leaf extract, and prohibited cannabidiol in cosmetics, the main legal outlet for Chinese- made CBD.
🇸🇰 Slovakia Hemp ✓
Slovakia takes CBD off its drug list
Slovakia had been the last EU country to class CBD as a psychotropic substance.
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🇰🇷 South Korea Hemp ✓
South Korea creates a hemp zone in Andong
A government committee chaired by the prime minister designated two districts of Andong, in North Gyeongsang, as a regulation-free zone for industrial hemp: hemp with less than 0.3% THC may be grown there in smart farms and CBD extracted from it as a pharmaceutical raw material. The province said the food and drug ministry had been strongly against it. Hemp had been grown for cloth in every Korean province as late as the 1930s.
🇸🇨 Seychelles Medical ✓ Article
Seychelles allows cannabidiol medicines
Patients could apply for approval to obtain prescribed CBD medicines from 1 July 2020, after a specialist assessed their condition and the failure of earlier treatment. The rules followed litigation by Ralph Volcere seeking access for his mother, who had Alzheimer’s disease. They allowed only tightly defined CBD products through authorised pharmacies, with a 30-day supply limit; smoking and growing cannabis remained forbidden.
1112+1 point
🇹🇼 Taiwan Hemp ✓
Taiwan allows CBD with almost no THC, on prescription
The health ministry said cannabidiol is legal for medical and personal use if it contains no more than 10 parts per million of THC. It is classed as a pharmaceutical, so a prescription is needed, and since no Taiwanese company sells it, buyers must apply to import it; a seller said nine in ten applications without a prescription were refused.
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🇭🇰 Hong Kong Medical ✓
Hong Kong makes CBD medicines prescription-only
CBD pharmaceutical products came under prescription-only medicine controls, with supply through authorised practitioners or a pharmacy dispensing a prescription. The government’s later legislative brief recorded 13 December 2019 as the start date and said no CBD pharmaceutical product had been registered in Hong Kong by October 2022.
🇪🇪 Estonia Medical ✓
Epidyolex gains authorisation in Estonia
The European Commission authorised the prescription cannabidiol medicine Epidyolex throughout the EU. Estonia also permits doctors to request unauthorised cannabinoid medicines or standardised cannabis for individual patients.
1920+1 point
🇧🇬 Bulgaria Hemp ✓
Bulgaria certifies CBD food supplements for open sale
The agriculture ministry and the food safety agency issued a free-sale certificate to the Californian firm Kannaway for its hemp-derived CBD products, classing them as traditional food supplements. It was reported as the first such decision in the European Union, three months after the European Commission had classed CBD as a novel food needing approval before sale. Under Bulgarian law CBD may be imported and sold but not produced in the country.