Cannabis Freedom Index

Food

Cannabis or hemp in food and drink.

12 entries, 1954–2027 · 0 moved a score · back to the whole history

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13.2 today, from 99.1 in 1860

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20271 entry0 score changes

  1. 🌐 International Hemp ✓

    The EU caps THC in hemp-leaf tea

    Commission Regulation 2026/1828, adopted on 28 July and published in the Official Journal on 29 July, amends the food-contaminant rules for hemp leaves used to make a water infusion. From 1 January 2027 the maximum for the sum of delta-9-THC and THCA, expressed as delta-9-THC equivalents, is 40 mg/kg in the leaves and 0.02 mg/kg in a ready-to-drink infusion. The label must say the leaves are only for a water infusion, that infants and young children should not drink it, and that no fatty ingredient such as cream or milk is used during steeping. Food already on the market may stay until its durability date. The regulation enters into force on the twentieth day after publication and applies from 1 January 2027. Member states may keep stricter rules on selling the leaves.

20261 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan Enforcement ✓

    Kyrgyzstan reports three arrests over cannabis teas and oils

    Police reported detaining three suspects after investigating cannabis products prepared for a festival in Tuura-Suu and searching homes and a shop. The Interior Ministry said laboratory tests found marijuana in two sample packages; searches also recovered cannabis oil, marijuana, seeds and products marketed as teas and other goods. A supply investigation was continuing when the arrests were reported.

20241 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇨🇦 Canada Other law ✓

    Canada publishes expanded guidance distinguishing edibles from extracts

    Health Canada announced that its compliance statement now included the ingestible-product classification policy shared with licence holders in December 2023. Products represented for mixing with food or drinks are treated as edibles, with a 10 mg THC limit per immediate container, rather than extracts with a 1,000 mg limit. This is commercial classification guidance under existing regulations, not a new ban on cooking at home.

20231 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇯🇴 Jordan Hemp ✓ Article

    Jordan allows hemp seed foods with THC limits and label restrictions

    Food producers could use hulled, nonviable hemp seeds and specified seed products under rules limiting THC in food and restricting labels and advertising. The source crop had to contain no more than 0.1% THC in its leaves and flowering tops; the finished-food limits ranged from 0.2 mg/kg in beverages to 10 mg/kg in seed oil. Health Minister Firas Hawari’s instructions also required seed oil to be labelled unsuitable for cooking.

20212 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇵🇾 Paraguay Hemp ✓

    Paraguay launches exports of hemp foods

    A Paraguayan company, Healthy Grains, opened a plant at Luque that had cost more than three million dollars and began shipping hemp oil, protein and other non-psychoactive products to the United States and Europe, and for the first time to Australia and Canada. The agriculture minister said small farmers had a secured buyer.

  2. 🇮🇸 Iceland Hemp ✓

    Iceland lets its food authority license imports of hemp seed

    A new article in the drug act allows the Food and Veterinary Authority to permit imports of seeds of Cannabis sativa under conditions set by regulation, as an exception to the general ban on importing and handling cannabis.

20192 entries0 score changes

  1. 🇨🇦 Canada Legalisation ✓

    Canada legalises edibles, extracts and vapes

    A year after flower and oils, the second wave of products became legal: edibles capped at 10 mg of THC per package, plus extracts, vapes and topicals.

  2. 🇧🇬 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.

20141 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇲🇪 Montenegro Hemp ✓ Article

    Montenegro sets permit rules for hemp farmers and their whole harvest

    New permit rules covered food and industrial hemp containing no more than 0.2% THC in dry plant material. Farmers had to identify their land, variety, certified seed and planned sowing and harvest, supply a whole-crop purchase-contract number, and report hemp-growing land by 1 May each year. Agriculture Minister Petar Ivanović signed the rules under the earlier drug law, which required the whole harvest to reach the contracted buyer within four months.

20091 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇮🇹 Italy Hemp ✓

    Italy allows hemp seeds in food

    Companies had asked to use hemp in baked goods, flour, sweets, oils and supplements. The health ministry answered that hemp seeds and products made from them could be used as food, because the seeds contain no THC; traces come only from flower parts clinging to them. Producers stayed responsible for safety checks, and the drug law's ban on advertising for cannabis still applied.

19811 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States · California Enforcement ✓

    Brownie Mary is arrested for selling cannabis brownies

    San Francisco authorities arrest Mary Jane Rathbun after an undercover investigation of her cannabis-brownie sales. A guilty plea leads to probation and community service. Rathbun later becomes a hospital volunteer and gives cannabis brownies to people with AIDS, linking her public campaigning to patient care. This criminal case did not itself change cannabis law.

19541 entry0 score changes

  1. 🇺🇸 United States Culture & science ✓ Article

    A hashish fudge recipe is cut from the American edition of Alice B. Toklas's cookbook

    The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, first published in 1954, included a recipe for "Haschich Fudge", made of spices, nuts, fruit and cannabis, which Toklas said her friend Brion Gysin had given her and which she called easy to whip up on a rainy day. It was removed from the first American edition and restored in later ones. The recipe became famous in its own right in the 1960s counterculture and gave its name to a 1968 film.

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  1. 🇺🇸 United States170
  2. 🇮🇳 India53
  3. 🇧🇷 Brazil51
  4. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom45
  5. 🇨🇦 Canada44
  6. 🇮🇹 Italy39
  7. 🇲🇽 Mexico39
  8. 🇩🇪 Germany34

Fewest entries

  1. 🇰🇵 North Korea3
  2. 🇬🇼 Guinea-Bissau4
  3. 🇹🇻 Tuvalu4
  4. 🇾🇪 Yemen4
  5. 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea5
  6. 🇪🇷 Eritrea5
  7. 🇲🇻 Maldives5
  8. 🇵🇼 Palau5
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