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Article 296 of the Criminal Code covers acquiring, keeping, making or carrying drugs witho … or 50 days; an especially large amount brings three to seven years in prison.[@cc296] The amounts are set in a government table, which sets herbal cannabis at 0.5–50 g for the sources read did not reproducesmall band, so50 g–1 kg for the tablelarge band and over 1 kg for the especially large band; hashish is 0.5–5 g, 5–200 g and over 200 g.[@amounts470] Possession below uses0.5 g is below the codetable's bands rather than gram linessmall band and is not expressly addressed by the code.[@cc296amounts470] A person who voluntarily hands over drugs acquired for personal use, or seeks medical help, is released from criminal liability.[@cc296]
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Article 297 of the Criminal Code punishes acquiring, storing or transporting drugs for sal … n to twenty for a criminal group, an official, or sale in a school or to a minor.[@cc297] A separate 2025 offence covers illegal manufacture, processing or production for sale: five to ten years, rising to fifteen to twenty years or life for a criminal group, an official or illegal production.[@cc2971]
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label Acquisition, keeping or transport for sale, or sale · treatment criminal · term Arti … Article 297(3) · prison min 7 years · prison 12 years · note Property confiscated, label Manufacture or production for sale (Article 297-1) · treatment criminal · term Production · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years · note Higher bands reach fifteen to twenty years or life, label Criminal group, official, school or minor · treatment criminal · term Article 297(4) · prison min 15 years · prison 20 years · note Property confiscated
Using drugs for non-medical purposes in a public place is an offence under the first part … .[@cc296] A person who voluntarily seeks medical help is released from liability.[@cc296] Since January 2025, private or other non-criminal use is an administrative offence under article 440-1: 40 calculation indices or ten days' arrest, doubled on a repeat.[@koap440] Officials have proposed softening the treatment of users.[@nt]
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No approved cannabis medicine or patient-access programme was found in the sources read.[@ … escribed as scientific study and industrial hemp, not medicine for patients.[@current279] In 2019 investors proposed a $15m clinic and greenhouse near Kapshagay; the Interior Ministry refused, citing prison terms and the UN conventions, and said it had shut an Almaty research lab in 2017.[@clinic19] Medical status stays none.
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The Code of Administrative Offences punishes driving "in a state of alcoholic, narcotic or … r damage results, 20 days.[@koap608] A repeat within a year brings 20 days and eight years; a repeat with harm brings 25 days and nine years.[@koap608] The article names a state of intoxication, not a measured level, and the Constitutional Court upheld it in October 2023.[@koap608]
In the interior ministry's operation Karasora-2024, between 1 June and 31 October 2024, po … ctares of wild hemp in the Shu district of Zhambyl region.[@inbiz24] The ministry gave no national arrest total for arrests; in the Turkestan region's Karasora operation police arrested 86 people, and in Zhetysu 135 people aged 17–30 were detained, of whom 127 were convicted.[@inbiz24polisia25]
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Licensed companies may grow approved industrial hemp with no more than 0.3% THC by dry mas … ts during growth and before harvest. Crops above the ceiling must be destroyed.[@hemp797] By 2026, 218 varieties from 20 countries had been approved, and HHC was added to the prohibited psychotropic list on 24 February 2026, in force 9 March.[@hemp797,hhc26]
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Kazakhstan — HHC scheduling, 24 February 2026 Kazakhstan — Criminal Code, Article 297-1 (manufacture or production for sale) Kazakhstan — Administrative Code, Article 440-1 (non-medical use) Polisia.kz — 86 arrested in Turkestan's Karasora operation (7 November 2025) Tengrinews — Kazakhstan proposed legalising cannabis cultivation (2 May 2019) 18 unchanged