Czech Cannabis Legalization To Take Effect On January 1, 2026
In late May 2025, the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic voted to approve a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure. The basic provisions of the measure would permit adults 21 years old and older to cultivate up to three plants in their private residences and possess up to 100 grams of dried cannabis flower.
Longtime Czech cannabis activist Lukas Hurt announced today in a social media post that the measure was also approved by the country’s Senate, and the measure will take effect at the start of 2026:
Czechia is set to join Malta, Luxembourg, and Germany on the list of European nations that have approved a national adult-use cannabis legalization measure. Uruguay, Canada, and South Africa have also approved national recreational cannabis legalization measures.
It is also worth noting that two dozen states in the United States have adopted adult-use cannabis legalization measures, although non-hemp cannabis remains prohibited at the federal level in the U.S.
Additionally, regional adult-use cannabis commerce pilot trials are operating in the Netherlands and Switzerland, and court decisions have been rendered in a handful of other nations around the globe that provide adult consumers some level of legal protection, although those policies are not the same as the legal protection afforded by an approved national legalization measure.