The legality of Owning/Importing/Buying/Selling Cannabis Seeds

Hi everyone.

For the past few weeks, there have been numerous posts asking the same questions regarding the legality of cannabis seeds/flowers.

I will not go into the flower part as the posts available were answered correctly, i.e. buying only from cannabis clubs that are not yet established. For the seeds, however, most are wrongfully saying they are illegal.

Cannabis seeds are not psychoactive and were never illegal, not even before any law changes. The law also catered to allowing cannabis products (Such as CBD) as long as the THC content was less than 0.2%.

I will be quoting the following legislation: https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/101/eng

Page 2: " "Cannabis" means the inflorescence and leaves of any plant of thegenus Cannabis and includes any resin obtained from the said plant and the genus any preparations derived from the said plant, but does not include seeds, or cannabinoid products containing not more than zero point two (0.2) percent of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC); "

Page 4: " PART III Substituted by: LXVI.2021.25.CANNABIS Prohibition of importation and exportation of the resin from the plant Cannabis. Amended by: XXIII. 1980.6;LXVI.2021.25.7.No person shall import or bring into, or export from, Maltaany resin obtained from the plant Cannabis. Penalty for dealing in, etc., the plant Cannabis. Substituted by: XXIII. 1980.3.8.If any person -(a) has in his possession (otherwise than in the course of transit through Malta or the territorial waters thereof the resin obtained from the plant Cannabis or any preparations of which such resin formed the base; or(b) produces, sells or otherwise deals in the resin obtained from the plant Cannabis or any preparations of which such resin formed the base; or(c) cultivates the plant Cannabis; or(d) has in his possession (otherwise than in the course oftransit through Malta or the territorial waters thereof)the whole or any portion of the plant Cannabis(excluding its medicinal preparations); or(e) sells or otherwise deals in the whole or any portion of the plant Cannabis (excluding its medicinal preparations of transit), he shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance. 2

Note on page 4: It is only intended for the asellingnd distribution of the actual plant and not personal use. For personal use, this law is superseded by: https://legislation.mt/eli/cap/537/eng [Page 7]

If mods see this, please pin.