Legality
CBD legal status by country
Countries where the legal status of CBD has been confirmed against a primary source. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.
Confirmed legal status
Each row links to the full detail for CBD in that country, including consequences and the primary source.
- Aceh (Indonesia)CBD (cannabidiol) is a Narcotics Group I (Golongan I) substance under Indonesia's Law No. 35 of 2009, which...
- AngolaControlled through what it contains rather than under its own name. Cannabidiol is not named in the tables...
- Antigua and BarbudaControlled. It reads as a Class B cannabis derivative, and no percentage saves it. No entry names it, and it...
- AustraliaPrescription only medicine, with a pharmacist only tier, and a border controlled drug. F2026L01327 places...
- AustriaNot a designated drug in Austria, and the reason is a finding rather than a silence. Pure cannabidiol is not...
- BahrainControlled. CBD is reached, where it is obtained from the plant, through the extracts and tinctures of...
- BarbadosNot a controlled drug within section 3 as an isolated compound, but plant material remains controlled however...
- BelgiumCBD (cannabidiol) is not a named controlled drug in Belgium, and the position that applies to it is a...
- BrazilControlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 25 of lista C1, the list of other substances subject to special...
- BruneiNot a controlled drug in Brunei. Absent from Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IIIA of the First Schedule to...
- BulgariaNot listed. CBD is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за...
- CambodiaCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis, cannabis and its derivatives are listed narcotic substances in...
- CanadaCBD (cannabidiol) is a controlled phytocannabinoid under the Cannabis Act 2018 regardless of source or THC...
- ChinaCBD (cannabidiol) is not approved for any consumer use, the NMPA removed CBD from permitted cosmetic...
- ColombiaNot listed. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026 carries no entry for cannabidiol, canabidiol or CBD as...
- CroatiaControlled in Croatia only through the material it comes from, and named in the Popis only to be taken out of...
- CubaProhibited in Cuba when it is cannabis plant material, and [Likely] prohibited at the border and in the post...
- CzechiaNot listed. CBD is not printed as an entry in any of the eight seznamy of nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o...
- DenmarkNot a placed substance under the Danish euphoriants legislation: it is not named in liste A, B, C, D or E of...
- EgyptControlled in Egypt, and named. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the...
- EstoniaCBD is not listed in the Estonian narcotic and psychotropic schedule. No entry for CBD was located in Lists I...
- FinlandNot a narcotic in Finland. Cannabidiol is not named in any annex of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina...
- FranceCBD is not carried by either French closed list. The dossier's finding for this row is recorded in the...
- GermanyCannabidiol is expressly outside the statutory definition of Cannabis. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass:...
- GhanaControlled under the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019). The entry relied on for CBD is Sixth...
- GrenadaNot listed in the First Schedule to the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A, as that...
- HondurasNot a controlled drug for the purposes of Articles 311 to 313 of the Código Penal. CBD, searched also as...
- Hong KongA dangerous drug in Hong Kong. Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in...
- HungaryNot listed. CBD is not a named entry of the K1 or K2 jegyzék in the 1. melléklet, of the P1, P2, P3 or P4...
- IcelandNot a controlled substance in Iceland in its own right, and the qualification is the whole answer....
- IndiaNo Indian placement was found for it: it is not named in the Act's Schedule (list of psychotropic...
- IndonesiaNot a narkotika and not a psikotropika under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika...
- IraqControlled in the cannabis forms Schedule One names, and as cannabidiol it is not named in any Iraqi...
- IrelandNot a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: No controlled-drug schedule as pure...
- ItalyNot scheduled. A search of the closed tables I to IV and the table of medicinal products under article 14 of...
- JapanCBD is not a controlled substance in Japan. Cannabidiol is not named in 別表第一, in the Cabinet Order's...
- JordanCBD is conditional under Law No. 23 of 2016, and the condition is printed rather than inferred. Cannabidiol...
- KazakhstanCBD is not controlled by Kazakhstan's Resolution No. 470, on the version of the lists read for this row....
- KenyaNot a controlled drug under Cap. 245 on the text read: it is not named in the First Schedule of narcotic...
- KuwaitNot a controlled narcotic or psychotropic substance in Kuwait. CBD is in no table of Group 1 or Group 2 of...
- LaosCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis, cannabis is a scheduled narcotic on the Ministry of Public...
- LatviaCBD is excluded by name from the entry that would otherwise control it in Latvia, so it is not itself a...
- LebanonNot a controlled substance under Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on the version read: it is not named in the four...
- LithuaniaCBD is not listed in the Lithuanian narcotic and psychotropic lists. Health Minister Order No. 5 is the list...
- MalaysiaCannabidiol is named nowhere in either Act, and in Malaysia that is not the question. Section 2 of the...
- MaldivesCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis and among the strictest regimes, the Drugs Act (Law No. 17/2011)...
- MaltaCBD is dealt with by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 101, and the way it is dealt with is an exclusion...
- MexicoCBD is not a controlled substance by name in Mexico. It is not named in article 234 of the Ley General de...
- NetherlandsCannabidiol is not named in lijst I, lijst IA or lijst II. What the lists do name is the plant material and...
- New ZealandNot a controlled drug on the text cited, and the absence was tested rather than assumed. CBD, the...
- NigeriaCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis. The NDLEA Act (Cap. N30, 2004) and Indian Hemp Act 1966 ban any...
- NorwayNot controlled as narkotika in Norway in itself, and the qualification is the whole answer. Cannabidiol is...
- PakistanA cannabidiol extract is a narcotic drug under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, even though...
- PhilippinesControlled as a cannabis extract, with one narrow medical exception. Entry 29, cannabis resin, extracts and...
- PolandNot named in the Polish national list. Cannabidiol appears in none of the three annexes, so the isolated...
- PortugalCBD (cannabidiol) from cannabis extract, tincture or resin is not permitted in consumer cosmetics or food;...
- QatarControlled in Qatar where the material answers a limb that names it by description rather than by name, and...
- RomaniaCBD is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The search...
- Saint LuciaNot a named entry in Schedule 2 to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02, in any of Part I, Part II...
- Saudi ArabiaCBD of herbal origin is broadly prohibited in Saudi Arabia, with exceptions that the rule itself prints. CBD...
- SlovakiaCBD is not listed in the Slovak narcotic and psychotropic schedule. Act No. 139/1998 carries one closed...
- South KoreaCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under the Narcotics Control Act, whose 'cannabis' definition...
- Sri LankaDangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Third Schedule,...
- SwedenNot named in the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om...
- SwitzerlandNot scheduled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI records no entry for CBD. The German search term...
- SyriaCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under Narcotic Drugs Legislative Decree No. 2 of 1993, cannabis...
- TaiwanNot controlled as a narcotic under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例): absent by name from...
- TanzaniaControlled as a cannabis extract, and not named as a compound. Cannabidiol is not named in the First or...
- ThailandCBD is not answered in Thailand by the label on the bottle. The Ministry of Public Health Category V...
- TurkeyCBD is absent from Turkey's closed narcotics list. The dossier ran a completed list search, «Arama kaydı:...
- United KingdomNot a controlled drug. CBD, cannabidiol, is not named in Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as in...
- United StatesNot listed in any federal schedule under its own name, but the source decides. Under 21 USC 802(16)(A) every...
- UruguayNot placed, and the finding now rests on the current list rather than a superseded one. Cannabidiol is not...
- YemenCBD (cannabidiol) is controlled as cannabis under the Law on Control of Narcotics and Psychotropic...
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Not individually verified
For these 151 countries the governing national drug law is known and cited, but we have not verified that CBD specifically is scheduled under it. These are not legal answers and are deliberately not published as their own pages. Confirm with the country’s drug authority or your embassy.
- Afghanistan
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa (US)
- Andorra
- Anguilla (UK)
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba (Netherlands)
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda (UK)
- Bhutan
- Bolivia
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- British Virgin Islands (UK)
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
- Cayman Islands (UK)
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Chile
- Comoros
- Congo
- Cook Islands
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Curaçao (Netherlands)
- Cyprus
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- DR Congo
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (UK)
- Faroe Islands (Denmark)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia (France)
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Gibraltar (UK)
- Greece
- Guam (US)
- Guatemala
- Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Holy See
- Iran
- Isle of Man (UK Crown Dependency)
- Israel
- Jamaica
- Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Luxembourg
- Macau
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Micronesia
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat (UK)
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- New Caledonia (France)
- Nicaragua
- Niger
- North Korea
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (US)
- Oman
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico (US)
- Russia
- Rwanda
- Saint Helena (UK)
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten (Netherlands)
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Spain
- State of Palestine
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tajikistan
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
- Tuvalu
- U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe