3rd February 2025 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Austrian Administrative Court has rejected an appeal against a decision from the Federal Finance Court that upheld an order from the Customs
24th January 2025 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Ministry of Health has presented a bill amending the Tobacco Act to explicitly include dried hemp flowers in the definition of herbal
30th September 2024 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has won the elections with 28.8% of the vote and will now have to form a coalition government. As
19th June 2024 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection has issued a health warning against the vaping products “CBD cartridge, Bedtime” and
29th April 2024 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The opposition and minority Freedom Party has tabled two motions in Parliament calling on the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Interior
17th July 2023 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Federal Ministry of Social Affairs, Health, Care and Consumer Protection has drawn up a non-exhaustive list of prohibited substances in tobacco products and
13th April 2023 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: Christian Stocker, general secretary of the governing People’s Party, has said the party is firmly against the idea of following Germany’s example in
23rd March 2023 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: Health minister Johannes Rauch’s office has confirmed to CannIntelligence that the sale of all hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) products, including leftover stock, is prohibited from today.
8th February 2023 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The opposition liberal party NEOS has put forward a motion asking the federal government to specifically include hexahydrocannabinol (HHC) in the New Psychoactive Substances Ordinance. It says: “While a reform of
20th September 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: Transport minister Leonore Gewessler, of the centre-left Green Party, is drawing up a bill to place a legal limit on THC for driving
19th July 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Constitutional Court has unanimously rejected an individual application which sought to declare the private growing and consumption of recreational cannabis "unconstitutional". According
18th July 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: Interior minister Gerhard Karner of the centre-right Austrian People’s Party has said Germany's cannabis legalisation plan was “completely the wrong way” and that any such move
14th June 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: The Constitutional Court is to consider whether the current law under which the personal cultivation, possession and consumption of cannabis are criminal offences
31st May 2022 - Austria, Europe |
Austria: A ruling by the Federal Finance Court stated that the sale of hemp flowers (under 0.3% THC) is subject to the Tobacco