Can you bring cannabis or CBD to Philippines?

• Cannabis

  prohibited

  RA 9165 (Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002), Sec. 3(j), defines 'Dangerous Drugs' as those listed in the Schedules annexed to the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (as amended by the 1972 Protocol) and the 1971 Single Convention on Psychotropic Substances — both of which schedule cannabis and its resin. The Board Regulation 1/2014 medical-travel exception cited on this site's 'controlled medication' entry for the Philippines applies to prescribed pharmaceutical drug preparations with a physician's letter and prescription; it does not extend to raw cannabis, marijuana, or unregistered CBD products, which the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) treats as prohibited dangerous drugs with no personal-travel carve-out found on the sources checked in this pass. The Philippines is well known for severe, actively-enforced penalties for dangerous-drugs offences — travelers should not assume any personal-use or small-quantity exception exists.

  Also covers: cannabis, marijuana, weed, thc, hashish, cbd, cannabidiol

  Checked 2026-09-14 — Source: Republic Act No. 9165 — Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, Sec. 3(j) (Dangerous Drugs)

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