Portugal Cannabis Consultants for INFARMED Licenses and EU Exports
Portugal cannabis consulting starts with a yes: INFARMED takes cultivation, manufacturing and export applications now, through its Licenciamento+ portal. Investors face a two-stage review and a police-inspected security build; growers face GACP inspections and an export market that reached 79,883 kg in 2025. Our records: 58+ licenses secured.
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INFARMED and DGAV Dates Ahead
Updated: 10/9/2026. Portugal is a medical-only market. Law 33/2018 put the use of cannabis-based medicines, preparations and substances for medical purposes under INFARMED, the national medicines authority, which regulates cultivation, manufacture, wholesale, import and export (Lei n.º 33/2018, art. 9).Patients buy these products only in pharmacies, on a doctor’s prescription, and selling or growing cannabis without authorization is a crime under the drug law. Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019 and Portaria n.º 83/2021 set out how companies are authorized.
Three dates matter in the next year. Decreto Regulamentar n.º 61/94 still says that anyone seeking authorization to extract, transform or manufacture controlled substances must apply by October 31 for the following year, so ask INFARMED how it applies that date before relying on a later filing. Authorized companies send INFARMED a yearly report by January 31 on entries, exits, sales and stock, and manufacturers also report within 15 days of each quarter’s end (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, art. 41). Industrial hemp growers apply to DGAV, the agriculture and veterinary authority, by July 31 of each growing year and at least 20 days before sowing.
Meet Catalyst BC's Founders
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Leif Olsen
Chief Executive Officer
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Michael Williamson
Chief Operating Officer
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Ian Miller
Executive Chair
Our partners bring multi-faceted expertise across business strategy, licensing, facility development, finance, and commercial operations. That breadth is complemented by subject matter experts across the wider Catalyst BC team, allowing us to bring the right combination of experience to each client and project. The result is bespoke, collaborative support shaped around your business, priorities, and goals - with the right expertise brought to the table when it matters most.
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What a Portugal Cannabis Consultant Does That INFARMED Will Not
INFARMED licenses and inspects; it does not design your company, your grow rooms or your export contracts. A Portugal cannabis consultant works for the owner, from the project file and security plan that pass review to the inspection records and buyer qualification that keep an authorization renewed.
Investing in Portugal Medical Cannabis: Who Can Own, How Long It Takes and What It Costs
Portaria 83/2021 sets no residency or nationality test; it screens people. Every application carries criminal-record certificates for the applicant and for everyone who can bind the company, issued for the stated purpose of the licit narcotics market, and a project file with feasibility studies, investment and financing plans and projected results for the three years after the investment (Portaria 83/2021, arts. 2–5 and 8 and annex). IAPMEI, the competitiveness agency, gives an opinion on the investment, and without a favorable opinion from SICAD (now ICAD), the addiction-intervention service, INFARMED must refuse.
Two rules shape a deal. Authorizations cannot be transferred or used by anyone else. When a licensed company changes its corporate name or legal representative, or its authorization holder is replaced or dies, a request to keep the authorization must reach INFARMED within 60 days; a late request is rejected and the authorization lapses (Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, arts. 6 and 8; Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, art. 9). In our view, buying shares in a licensed company is therefore the practical route in, but only after diligence on its inspection history, because INFARMED suspended, revoked or refused to renew authorizations in 2025 and 2026 where companies broke the rules. Export revenue also has paperwork behind it: the application must include letters of interest from buyers or suppliers abroad and proof that they are authorized, and each shipment needs its own INFARMED certificate, issued against the destination country’s import authorization (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, art. 23).
For investors: structure and site screening through cannabis business strategy, a Portugal cannabis business plan with the INFARMED fee budget through cannabis financial planning, the project file and document set through cannabis license application support, and cannabis startup support from the aptitude decision to the final inspection.
Already Licensed by INFARMED: GACP Inspections, Export Buyers and Yield per Square Meter
INFARMED ran 57 inspections in 2025, 41 of them at cultivation sites, and 32 in the first half of 2026 (INFARMED, Canábis Medicinal: Evolução de atividade, 2026 1st half). Its stated focus is the reliability of records and traceability along the whole chain, and the qualification of customers and suppliers, which it says rests entirely on the company under the good distribution practice rules.
In our view, export buyers pay for consistent cannabinoid content and clean microbial results, so revenue depends on yield per square meter and on how many batches pass release testing, not on adding rooms. INFARMED itself expects the market to stabilize after its strong expansion, which in our view puts pressure on cost per gram. Manufacturers and wholesalers also receive an EU-model authorization and good-practice certificate in the EudraGMDP database, open to the public, so in our view a buyer can check a supplier’s status before signing.
For Portugal rooms we offer Portugal cannabis facility design with HVACD (heating, ventilation, air conditioning and dehumidification) sized to a GACP (good agricultural and collection practice) room plan, controlled environment agriculture targets by room, cannabis vertical farming to add yield inside an existing footprint, operational optimization of batch records and labor and, when export prices fall below cost, a cannabis turnaround plan. Michael Williamson, our Chief Operating Officer and a co-founder, is GAP (good agricultural practices) certified, co-founded Greenhaus Industries, which patented stackable cultivation trays, and has 25,000+ hours in cultivation and dispensary operations.
Our Portugal record and team: our records list Portugal client work in 2020; none of it is current, and we have no Portugal office. We work on-site and remotely. Leif Olsen, our Chief Executive Officer and a co-founder, leads our licensing work, and Ian Miller, our Executive Chair and a co-founder, raised $22 million in private equity for a greenfield cultivation and processing operation. The same team runs Catalyst BC’s international cannabis consulting practice.
A word against our own interest: INFARMED publishes its forms and templates, Portaria 83/2021 lists every document, and the authorization fees run to a few thousand euros, so a company with an experienced technical director and security director can file without us. To talk through a Portugal plan, contact us or call +1 303-305-3787.
Investing in Portugal cannabis
- Cannabis Business Strategy ConsultingCompany structure and site screening
- Cannabis Financial Planning & ModelingFees, build budget and export pricing
- Cannabis Licensing & Application SupportThe INFARMED project file
- Cannabis Startup SupportAptitude decision to final inspection
Already licensed in Portugal
- Cannabis Facility Design & HVAC / HVACD EngineeringHVACD sized to a GACP room plan
- Cannabis Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA)Room targets for clean batch results
- Cannabis Vertical Farming ConsultingMore yield in the same building
- Cannabis Operational OptimizationBatch records, labor and traceability
- Cannabis Business Turnaround & Operational RecoveryCosts back under export prices
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Square Feet of Cultivation, Production, and Retail Facilities Designed
Licenses Secured
Can You Apply in Portugal? Yes, Through Licenciamento+
Yes. Companies that want to cultivate, manufacture, trade wholesale, import or export cannabis for medical, veterinary or research purposes submit their requests electronically through INFARMED’s Licenciamento+ portal, where they also pay fees, answer requests for information and receive decisions (INFARMED licensing page). No authorization is automatic: Decreto Regulamentar 61/94 says authorizations are granted only if grounded in the needs of the country, giving priority to medical, veterinary, scientific and teaching interests, and INFARMED may set quantity limits for controlled substances.
Many companies already hold authorizations. On June 2, 2026, 43 companies held valid authorizations, including 27 for cultivation and 24 for manufacture, after a 2025 peak of 38 cultivation authorizations; INFARMED’s public register listed 25 companies under cultivation when we read it on October 9, 2026 (INFARMED register of authorized entities).
Valid INFARMED authorizations by activity, 2022 to June 2026
| Activity | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | June 2026 |
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| Cultivation | 20 | 29 | 37 | 38 | 27 |
| Manufacture | 9 | 19 | 23 | 28 | 24 |
| Import and export | 27 | 37 | 47 | 49 | 38 |
| Wholesale | 12 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 15 |
INFARMED activity report, first half of 2026, Table 1 (data as of June 2, 2026). One company can hold several authorizations.
Key items every INFARMED application must include
| Item | What the rule asks for |
|---|---|
| Company | Commercial registry certificate and a request signed by whoever binds the company |
| People | Criminal-record certificates for the applicant and everyone who binds it, issued for the licit narcotics market |
| Project file | Feasibility studies, investment and financing plans, projected results for three years after the investment and the experience of all parties |
| Technical director | Qualifications, a signed employment contract and responsibility for all cannabis records |
| Trade partners | Letters of interest and proof that suppliers or buyers abroad are authorized |
| Security and records | Proof of the security measures and a tracking system from sowing to harvest and final destination |
| Premises and fee | Lease or land-registry access code, and payment of the fee |
Portaria n.º 83/2021, art. 2 and annex, as amended by Portaria 14/2022.
Key extra items for a cultivation request
| Item | What the rule asks for |
|---|---|
| Security director | Certified by the police private-security department, with a signed contract and statement of responsibility |
| Municipal letter | A document from the municipal council stating there is no restriction on growing cannabis at the site |
| Site | Location plan and coordinates for the grow and for product storage |
| Crop plan | Growth stages with dates, quantities to sow or plant by variety, expected harvest and its destination |
| Written procedures | Receipt, storage, growing, harvest, packing, shipping, transport, traceability and site security |
Portaria n.º 83/2021, art. 3(1).
Investors checking who may hold an authorization should jump to ownership rules.
INFARMED Activity Authorizations, Plus the Product Permit That Reaches Pharmacies
INFARMED authorizes activities and products separately. Activity authorizations cover cultivation, manufacture, wholesale trade including transport, import, export and transit; each must meet good agricultural and collection practice (GACP), good manufacturing practice (GMP) or good distribution practice (GDP) as the activity requires (Decreto-Lei 8/2019, arts. 3–4). Only companies authorized to cultivate, manufacture or trade wholesale may ask to import or export, and every shipment also needs INFARMED’s prior certificate for that operation (Portaria 83/2021, art. 6).
A manufacturing request normally needs proof of industrial licensing, but not for primary processing limited to cutting and drying under the EU good manufacturing practice rules for active substances (Portaria 83/2021, art. 10). A preparation or substance sold to Portuguese patients needs its own placing-on-the-market authorization (ACM), which INFARMED decides within 90 days of admitting the request, with the clock stopped while it waits for information; a finished medicine needs a marketing authorization (AIM) instead. Sixteen ACMs existed in the first half of 2026, held by four companies, and doctors may prescribe them only for indications INFARMED has approved.
An ACM request goes to INFARMED by email with its form, proof of the fee and proposed labels and instructions in Portuguese; the quality documentation goes through the CESP submission platform in the common technical document (CTD) format (INFARMED ACM page). After an ACM is granted, its holder reports the price through INFARMED’s SiATS pricing portal; INFARMED may object within 15 working days, and the holder must then propose a new price.
Activity authorizations and the standard each must meet
| Activity | Standard | Who checks |
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| Cultivation | GACP (European Medicines Agency guideline) | INFARMED inspections; police security inspection |
| Manufacture | GMP for medicines or for active substances | INFARMED inspections; police security inspection; EudraGMDP certificate |
| Wholesale, transport and circulation | GDP | INFARMED inspections; police security inspection; EudraGMDP certificate |
| Import and export | Per-shipment prior certificate | INFARMED, for authorized cultivators, manufacturers or wholesalers only |
| Placing a preparation on the market (ACM) | Quality dossier, labels and instructions in Portuguese | INFARMED decision within 90 days of admission |
Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019, arts. 4 and 6–8 and annexes I–II; Portaria n.º 83/2021, arts. 6, 7, 10 and 11.
The seven indications approved for cannabis preparations
| Indication | Scope |
|---|---|
| Spasticity | Linked to multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury |
| Nausea and vomiting | From chemotherapy, radiotherapy, combination HIV therapy and hepatitis C medication |
| Appetite stimulation | Palliative care for patients in cancer treatment or with AIDS |
| Chronic pain | Linked to cancer or the nervous system, such as neuropathic pain |
| Gilles de la Tourette syndrome | No further limit stated in the list |
| Epilepsy | Epilepsy, and severe childhood seizure disorders such as Dravet and Lennox-Gastaut syndromes |
| Glaucoma | Resistant to therapy |
INFARMED Deliberação n.º 11/CD/2019, annex. Prescription is allowed only when conventional treatment has failed or caused relevant adverse effects.
A generic authorization runs for one year and renews automatically for another year unless INFARMED objects up to 90 days before it ends (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, art. 8), but Decree-Law 8/2019 also requires a yearly request to keep it, filing all updates to the original application; without that request the authorization lapses. An ACM lasts five years; its renewal must be filed at least nine months before expiry and is decided within 60 days of admission. After the first renewal the ACM is valid without a time limit, unless INFARMED limits the renewal to five years for pharmacovigilance reasons.
INFARMED and DGAV Fees in Euros, From €50 Hemp Requests to €3,000 Grow Authorizations
Fees are fixed in the regulation, waived for public bodies, and paid to INFARMED when a request is submitted; the hemp fee goes to DGAV, with the cost of any control analysis paid to the laboratory. Two costs sit outside the table: the police service fee for the security inspection, set in a separate rule, and the 0.4% marketing fee on ACM sales, explained with the GACP rules below.
INFARMED and DGAV activity fees
| Request | Fee |
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| Cultivation (medical, veterinary or research) | €3,000 |
| Manufacture | €3,000 |
| Changes to, or maintenance of, a cultivation or manufacture authorization | €1,000 |
| Import | €1,200 |
| Export | €1,200 |
| Wholesale, including transport and circulation | €1,000 |
| Transit | €1,000 |
| Import or export certificate | €33.69 |
| Industrial hemp (paid to DGAV) | €50 plus the cost of control analysis, when applicable |
Decreto Regulamentar n.º 61/94, art. 43(1), as amended by Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019 and Decreto Regulamentar n.º 2/2020; art. 44.
Product (ACM) fees
| Request | Fee |
|---|---|
| ACM application | €1,800 |
| ACM renewal | €1,000 |
| ACM change | €500 |
Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019, art. 16(1).
Sample first-year INFARMED fees (our arithmetic)
| Plan | First-year fees | Each later year |
|---|---|---|
| Grow and export flower | €4,200 (€3,000 + €1,200) | €1,000 maintenance for the cultivation authorization |
| Grow, manufacture and export | €7,200 (€3,000 + €3,000 + €1,200) | €2,000 maintenance for cultivation and manufacture |
| Add an ACM for pharmacy sales | + €1,800 | + 0.4% marketing fee on sales |
Fees from Decreto Regulamentar n.º 61/94, art. 43 and Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019, art. 16. Article 43 sets no maintenance fee for import or export authorizations. Excludes the police inspection fee, certificates per shipment, build-out and staff.
Budget against the export market, not the fees. Cultivation and manufacturing sites exported 79,883 kg in 2025 and 66,305 kg in the first half of 2026, about 83% of the 2025 total, and INFARMED says the main destination is the European Union (INFARMED activity report 2025; 2026 first-half report). At home, doctors wrote 7,023 prescriptions (counted in packs) for ACM products in 2025 and 5,413 in the first half of 2026, so in our view the domestic market alone cannot carry a large grow.
How to Get an INFARMED Cultivation Authorization in Five Steps
Under Portaria 83/2021, arts. 2, 3 and 7 to 10, the path from an empty site to an authorized grow runs in five steps:
- Build the file: company registry certificate, criminal records for everyone who binds the company, a technical director under contract, a police-certified security director, the municipal no-restriction letter and the project file with feasibility and financing plans.
- Submit through Licenciamento+ and pay the €3,000 cultivation fee. INFARMED asks SICAD for an opinion, due within 30 days, and GPP (the agriculture planning office), DGAV, IAPMEI and the judicial police for opinions due within 10 days; only SICAD’s binds.
- Receive the documentary aptitude decision. It authorizes no cultivation, import or export, apart from exceptional trials INFARMED may allow ahead of the site inspection.
- Build to the security standard and ask INFARMED for the site inspection within six months of the aptitude decision, extendable at most twice by the same period with justification; after it, INFARMED tells you to request the national police security inspection, which carries a service fee.
- Receive the authorization, which INFARMED publishes in the Diário da República and notifies to the police; from then on, GACP inspections and the yearly maintenance request keep it alive.
In our view, files stall on the security build and the municipal letter more often than on forms, so our cannabis licensing and application team plans both before the project file is written.
Who Can Hold a Portugal Cannabis Authorization, and What Happens When Owners Change
INFARMED judges suitability from the applicant’s criminal record, its record of administrative fines and information from the addiction authority; the applicant may see that information and challenge it (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, arts. 7 and 10; Decreto-Lei 15/93, art. 8). An authorization is revoked as soon as the requirements behind it stop being met, and keeping it after a change of holder or corporate name again depends on moral and professional suitability. INFARMED also reports every authorization granted, extended, suspended or revoked to the addiction authority, which tells the judicial police, the public security police, the national guard and customs of each authorization granted.
In our view, investors should map who can bind the company before signing, because each of those people must produce a criminal-record certificate for the licit narcotics market and pass INFARMED’s suitability check, and each yearly maintenance filing must update the original application.
For a product, the ACM applicant must have its domicile or registered seat in Portugal or another European Union member state, and the holder takes on running duties, including to market the product and answer for it legally, help keep the market adequately supplied, notify INFARMED when sales start or stop, and keep a technical officer and the means to analyze suspected adverse reactions (Decreto-Lei 8/2019, arts. 12 and 15).
Diverting product carries criminal risk as well as licensing risk: under the drug law, anyone who, against the authorization, puts cannabis into trade, or grows plants other than those in the authorization, faces five to fifteen years in prison (Decreto-Lei 15/93, art. 21).
Where a Portugal Grow Can Go: Municipal Sign-Off, Grade 3 Alarms and Tracked Vehicles
Site choice starts at the town hall. A cultivation request must include a document from the municipal council stating there is no restriction on growing cannabis on the land or in the building, plus a location plan and coordinates, and a lease or land-registry access for the premises (Portaria 83/2021, arts. 2 and 3).
Security then shapes the building. Sites for cultivation, manufacture, related storage or wholesale distribution need restricted access and a physical and electronic system with at least video surveillance of the perimeter and access areas, intrusion detection rated at least grade 3 under EN 50131-1, the European intrusion-alarm standard, on every access to the grow or production area, and connection to a permanently operating monitoring center, the company’s own or a private security firm’s, with a guard on permanent duty if the center is the company’s own. Cultivation and manufacturing companies also need a security director who meets the security-director requirements of the private security law (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, art. 36-A). Video is kept for 30 days, entries to and exits from cannabis areas are logged by date and time, and vehicles carrying plant material need GPS route tracking (Portaria 83/2021, art. 7).
Our cannabis facility design work screens the municipal position, power and security layout before a site is optioned.
GACP Inspections, Cannabis Waste, the 0.4% Fee and Industrial Hemp
INFARMED checks GACP compliance at regular inspections of cultivation sites, and GMP at manufacturing sites. A grower must keep current records of every entry and exit of plant material that trace the product, may carry a surplus of up to 10% of the authorized quantity if it reports it to INFARMED within 15 days, and the surplus counts against the next year’s quantity (Decreto Regulamentar 61/94, arts. 13 and 14).
Cannabis waste is classified, transported and treated under a May 2026 technical note from INFARMED and APA, the environment agency (APA/INFARMED waste technical note). Plant waste should preferably be composted, anaerobically digested or used directly on farmland, on site where possible, under a waste-treatment license; landfill or incineration is for exceptional cases, after shredding, at least 15 days in a ventilated restricted area and a 50/50 mix with other waste. Waste sent for landfill or incineration travels in sealed, tamper-evident packaging opened only before a witness named by the producer, who attests its destruction; every transport carries an electronic waste-transport guide (e-GAR), and extract and preparation waste goes to incineration unless treated on site by a manufacturer also licensed for that waste treatment, or by a cultivator in the same group licensed by INFARMED for cultivation and for that waste treatment.
Our Portugal cannabis compliance consulting review checks batch records, security logs, buyer qualification files and waste records before an inspector does.
Sales carry a marketing fee: whoever first sells an ACM product in Portugal pays INFARMED 0.4% of sales volume, calculated on a reference retail price and collected monthly (Decreto-Lei n.º 282/95, art. 1).
Breaking ACM, advertising, prescription or dispensing rules is an administrative offense; for companies fines run from €3,000 to €44,891.81, and INFARMED may also suspend authorizations or bar the activity for up to two years.
Industrial Hemp in Portugal: DGAV Permits, 0.3% THC and a Half-Hectare Minimum
Hemp for fiber, and for seed not meant for sowing, including for food or animal feed, is authorized by DGAV, not INFARMED (DGAV hemp cultivation page). Only varieties in the EU Common Catalogue with no more than 0.3% THC may be grown, from certified seed whose invoices and official labels are kept for at least a year; each request names who will receive the crop and what will be made, and DGAV decides within 10 days. Each grower applies individually, attaching the farm’s iE holding record and P3 parcel map from the iSIP parcel system. Growing must be outdoors, sown rather than transplanted, with no stage in greenhouses or similar structures, on at least 0.5 ha per farm at a sowing rate of no less than 30 kg of seed per hectare, and flowering tops may not leave the farm (Portaria 83/2021, arts. 3, 3-A and 11).
Correction to published guidance (October 9, 2026): a law-firm guide to Portuguese cannabis law, last updated June 18, 2024, says hemp may be grown only on at least five hectares. Portaria 83/2021, art. 3-A(1)(b), sets the minimum at 0.5 ha across a farm’s plots, a tenth of that figure.
Two Ways to Start: An INFARMED File Review or a GACP Yield Audit
Investors get a file review before money moves: who binds the company, the municipal position, the security budget and a Portugal cannabis business plan with INFARMED fees, export pricing and the two-stage timeline built in. Licensed growers get a GACP yield audit: grams per square meter, batch release results, HVACD performance, records and buyer qualification files against what INFARMED inspects. We deliver both on-site in Portugal or remotely. Send your company chart or your room and batch data for a review, and we will tell you plainly if another firm suits you better.
INFARMED Licensing Questions We Hear From Investors and Growers
Can a new company apply for a medical cannabis authorization in Portugal today?
Yes. Cultivation, manufacturing, wholesale, import and export requests go to INFARMED electronically through the Licenciamento+ portal. Approval is not automatic: a binding SICAD opinion, a documentary review, a site inspection and a police security inspection come first.
Do foreign investors need Portuguese residency to own a cannabis company?
Not under Portaria 83/2021, which sets no residency or nationality test. It asks for criminal records for the applicant and everyone who binds the company, and INFARMED checks suitability. A product authorization (ACM) needs a domicile or registered seat in Portugal or another European Union member state.
How much does an INFARMED cannabis authorization cost?
Cultivation and manufacture cost €3,000 each, import and export €1,200 each, and wholesale €1,000. Changes to, or maintenance of, a cultivation or manufacture authorization cost €1,000, and an ACM application costs €1,800. The police security inspection carries a separate service fee.
Can I buy an existing INFARMED cannabis authorization?
No. Authorizations cannot be transferred or used by anyone else. A change of holder, legal representative or corporate name needs a maintenance request to INFARMED within 60 days, or the authorization lapses, and keeping it depends on the suitability of the new people.
How long does INFARMED take to approve a cultivation site?
The rules give the binding SICAD opinion 30 days and other opinions 10 days. After the documentary aptitude decision, the applicant has six months, extendable twice, to request the site inspection; the police security inspection follows before INFARMED decides. Decreto Regulamentar 61/94 gives INFARMED 60 days to decide, but does not say when that period starts in the two-stage process.
What do INFARMED inspectors look for at a grow?
GACP compliance, records that trace plant material from sowing to harvest and destination, security systems, and the qualification of customers and suppliers. Inspections rose from 38 in 2024 to 57 in 2025, and INFARMED suspended, revoked or refused to renew authorizations in 2025 and 2026 for breaches.
Can medical cannabis be sold to patients outside pharmacies?
No. Products are dispensed only in pharmacies, on a prescription, and only for indications INFARMED has approved when conventional treatment has failed or caused relevant adverse effects. Selling cannabis without authorization is a crime under the drug law.
Who licenses industrial hemp in Portugal, and what are the limits?
DGAV, not INFARMED. Varieties must be in the EU Common Catalogue with no more than 0.3% THC, grown outdoors from certified seed on at least 0.5 ha per farm, and requests are due by July 31 of each growing year, at least 20 days before sowing.
Grow and Extraction Builds That Inform Our Portugal Work
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Portugal Sources: Laws, Regulations, INFARMED and DGAV
Provenance. Figures checked against the law, regulation and agency text by Catalyst BC on October 9, 2026. Laws and regulations were read in Portuguese on the Diário da República website, using the consolidated versions where one is published; INFARMED pages, reports and deliberations and the DGAV hemp page were read on the agencies’ own websites, and PDFs by text extraction. English wording on this page is our translation. Fee totals marked as our arithmetic are our own. Company figures come from Catalyst BC’s own records. Where this page and the official text differ, the official text governs.
Portuguese laws and regulations
- Lei n.º 33/2018, de 18 de julho (medical cannabis law)
- Decreto-Lei n.º 8/2019, de 15 de janeiro (implementing decree)
- Portaria n.º 83/2021, de 15 de abril, consolidated (authorization requirements and security)
- Portaria n.º 14/2022, de 5 de janeiro (first amendment; industrial hemp rules)
- Portaria n.º 64/2023, de 3 de março (second amendment; 0.3% THC)
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 61/94, consolidated (authorizations, terms and fees)
- Decreto Regulamentar n.º 2/2020, de 4 de agosto (hemp authorization by DGAV)
- Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, consolidated (drug law)
- Decreto-Lei n.º 282/95, consolidated (marketing fee)
INFARMED and DGAV
- INFARMED, Canábis para fins medicinais
- INFARMED, Licenciamento de atividades
- INFARMED, Autorização de colocação no mercado
- INFARMED, About Infarmed
- INFARMED register of authorized entities (cultivation filter)
- INFARMED, Canábis Medicinal: Evolução da Atividade 2025
- INFARMED, Canábis Medicinal: Evolução de atividade, 2026 1st half
- INFARMED, Deliberação n.º 11/CD/2019 (approved indications)
- APA and INFARMED, cannabis waste technical note (May 2026)
- DGAV, Cultivo de Cânhamo
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