🇦🇺 Cannabis status in Australia
Recreational use illegal nationally; ACT and South Australia have decriminalised personal possession. Medical cannabis legal since 2016 through the SAS Authorised Prescriber pathway. CBD over-the-counter from 2021.
Legal status (4 axes)
- Recreational
- illegal-decriminalised-some-states
- Medical
- legal
- CBD / hemp
- legal-with-prescription
- THC limit
- 0.005% THC for OTC CBD
Cross-border carriage
Cross-border carriage of cannabis is illegal under the UN Single Convention 1961 in every signatory country regardless of domestic legal status. Even where domestic possession is legal, taking cannabis across the border is a separate prosecutable offence.
Last verified 2026-04-28.