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Is cannabis legal in Finland?

Medical cannabis is legal in Finland and adult-use is illegal. Below: a free market overview, with the full sizing, regulation and trade data available from PP.

Medical: LegalAdult-use: Illegal
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Market size

Medical cannabis sales and registered patients in Finland, 2025 actuals and the 2027 forecast. Forecasts to 2030 are in the Finland data pack.

Medical sales, EUR

€454k2025€497.9k2026€541.7k2027202820292030
Metric202520262027202820292030
Medical sales€454k€497.9k€541.7k
Patients310340370

Forecasts to 2030 — sales, patients and the full Finland series — are in the Finland data pack, or scoped to your question in a bespoke brief.

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Source: Prohibition Partners — Global Medical Cannabis Market Review (2026, updated April 2026) & The European Cannabis Report (2025)

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Medical cannabis — overview

Medical cannabis (flower & oil products) is an unlicensed medicine and is strictly controlled in Finland, requiring a special permit granted by the Finnish Medicines Agency (Fimea).

Doctors who are pain management specialists at university hospitals, as well as health centre doctors, can prescribe medical cannabis with a special permit application. To prescribe unlicensed medical cannabis products, doctors must justify that the patient has exhausted all other authorised medicines and that a prescription would be beneficial for treatment.

The treatable pathologies for which unlicensed medical cannabis products have been prescribed in Finland include multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, severe rheumatism, spinal cord injuries, fibromyalgia, and nervous and chronic pain.

The number of prescriptions of unlicensed medical cannabis products has dropped in Finland as health agencies have warned doctors off the prescription of Bedrocan, highlighting that Sativex, which has a marketing authorisation, should be prescribed.