Can you bring cannabis or CBD to Saudi Arabia?

• Cannabis

  prohibited

  ZATCA's own traveler-facing customs guidance lists 'alcohol and drugs of all kinds' among prohibited items, warning that smuggling any prohibited item carries penalties including imprisonment and a fine — cannabis, marijuana, hashish, THC and CBD products all fall under this blanket 'drugs of all kinds' prohibition; the page does not name individual drugs or carve out any exception for CBD. Saudi Arabia's controlled-substance clearance system (Saudi Food and Drug Authority, per the traveler user manual already cited on this site's medication entries for SA) governs prescribed narcotic/psychotropic medicines specifically — cannabis and CBD are not part of that medical clearance pathway and should be treated as absolutely prohibited for personal import, including hemp-derived CBD with no measurable THC.

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

  Checked 2026-09-14 — Source: ZATCA (Saudi Zakat, Tax and Customs Authority) — prohibited items for travelers

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