Cannabis — Hungary
What travelers need to know about cannabis in Hungary. What is legal at home can be a serious crime here — each rule links to its official source.
Cannabis in Hungary: prohibited — what is legal at home can be a serious crime here.
Cannabis is illegal in Hungary. Consuming it, or acquiring or keeping a small quantity in order to consume it, is a misdemeanour carrying up to two years in prison (Criminal Code s. 178(6)); any other acquiring, keeping, growing, importing, exporting or ordering from abroad for delivery into Hungary is a felony carrying two to eight years (s. 178(1)). "Small quantity" is defined by potency, not by plant weight: up to 6 grams of total THC, or up to five cannabis plants (s. 461). The treatment route that avoids punishment (s. 180) now requires you to confess, to prove six months of continuous treatment by document, and to reveal who sold you the drug, and it is closed to anyone who has already used it twice.
Consumption, or a small quantity held for consumption: up to 2 years' imprisonment (s. 178(6)). Other possession, cultivation or importation: 2 to 8 years (s. 178(1)). Substantial quantity: 5 to 15 years; particularly substantial quantity: 5 to 20 years (s. 178(2)). Substantial means more than twenty times the small-quantity ceiling, particularly substantial more than two hundred times it (s. 461(3)).
§ Magyar Közlöny (Hungary's Official Gazette, Ministry of Justice) 2025/55, 12 May 2025 — Act XIX of 2025 amending the Criminal Code (Act C of 2012), ss. 178, 179, 180 and 461, in force 15 June 2025; gazette text read in full this run. Hungary's own consolidation register njt.hu is down (empty reply on root and on the document), so currency was proved against the Wolters Kluwer Jogtár consolidated Btk. at net.jogtar.hu, stamped "Hatály: (2026.X.1. - )", whose ss. 178, 180 and 461 are word-for-word the gazette textVerified Oct 6, 2026