Is Delta-8-THC legal in Georgia?
- Legal status
- Delta-8-THC is a controlled substance in Georgia. The dossier places it on the annexes to Law No. 624, matched to the entry «ტეტრაჰიდროკანაბინოლი», with CAS 5957-75-5 as the identifier the dossier attaches to that match. The entry is recorded in Georgian, which is the language Law No. 624 is written in, so the string and the instrument agree. The dossier matches this isomer to an entry that carries the generic tetrahydrocannabinol name and then attaches a delta-8 CAS number to it, so the row rests on the generic name being read as covering the isomer rather than on an isomer-specific entry. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so the placement is established at the level of the annexes and not of a numbered list. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.
- Consequences if caught
- Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. The ceiling is life imprisonment, under Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia for aggravated illegal circulation, and life is where the scale stops. Because «ტეტრაჰიდროკანაბინოლი» is an accepted entry, the circulation offence reaches conduct in this substance through that entry. If the generic entry carries the isomers, the offence reaches this one through it, and that reading is the load-bearing step in this row rather than anything the entry itself spells out. The official quantity table assigns a small, a large and an especially large quantity by substance, and the dossier records that the table is applied through the matched entry without reproducing any of its figures, so no weight is stated in this cell and none should be inferred from one. There is no general lawful personal use allowance, and the absence of a small quantity figure for a substance is not permission to hold it.
- If prescribed or medical
- The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. What this row does attach to that deferral is the placement: «ტეტრაჰიდროკანაბინოლი» is an accepted entry on the annexes to Law No. 624 rather than under the medicines law. No medicinal preparation of this isomer is recorded in the dossier.
- Documentation
- The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row does fix is the identity that everything else turns on: the entry «ტეტრაჰიდროკანაბინოლი», with CAS 5957-75-5. This is the row to treat most carefully, because the match is by generic name and CAS number rather than by an entry that names the isomer, and the dossier does not record an isomers limb that would settle it. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
- Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling
- this row rests on the entry «ტეტრაჰიდროკანაბინოლი» at record GEO-33, identified by CAS 5957-75-5. Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The citation rests on a generically named cannabinoid entry with an isomer specific CAS number attached to it by the dossier, so the link between entry and slug is the dossier's reading rather than the entry's own words. The set that produced this record used two genuinely different names for the substance rather than one name in two cases. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given
- none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.
Court records
We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.
Other substances confirmed in Georgia
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