possession 1 → 2cultivation 0 → 1
summaryPossessionSmall personal cannabis holdings can bring a fine or up to fifteen days of administrative detention. Larger holdings without intent to sell is asupply remain criminal offence under article 276, with a fine or up to three years in prison. Intent to sell is a separate for the basic offence under article 273, with longer sentences. Growing and supplying cannabis are criminal offences.
segments › possession › textHolding a drugSmall quantities held without intent to sell is a criminal offencesupply fall under administrative article 27656: a fine of one to two basic calculation units or up to fifteen days of detention, with confiscation.[@admin56] The basic offence can bringSupreme Court confirms that small personal holdings belong under administrative law.[@court17] Above that band, article 276 allows a fine of up to fifty basic calculation units, community service, corrective work, restriction of liberty for one to three years, or imprisonment for up to three years. A large quantity,Large quantities or a repeat offence,offending can bring restriction of liberty or imprisonment for three to five years. A person who turns themself in and hands over the drugs is released fromVoluntary surrender can remove punishment for the basic offence. Five to seven years, and ten to twenty years, are sentences under articleArticle 273, which requires covers intent to sellsupply or an actual sale. The official quantity table was not readsupply, so no gramwith longer sentences in its higher bands are stated.[@cc276]
segments › possession › sourcesadmin56, court17, cc276
segments › cultivation › textCultivationUnauthorised cannabis growing is criminal. The ordinary offence carries a crimefine of twenty-five to fifty basic calculation units, community service, corrective work, restriction of liberty for one to three years or imprisonment for up to three years. Repeat offending, acting with prisonothers by prior agreement or a medium-sized growing area can bring a fine of fifty to one hundred units or three to five years of restriction of liberty or imprisonment. Organised or large-area growing carries five to ten years.[@cc276] The Supreme Court puts growing areas below 250 square metres in the ordinary band and says sowing is a completed offence even before germination.[@court17]
segments › cultivation › sourcesecoicc276, court17
segments › enforcement › textArticle 276 allows a fine for possession without intentEven small personal holdings can bring up to sellfifteen days of administrative detention.[@admin56] Above the small-quantity band, and it alsoarticle 276 allows both non-custodial penalties and up to three years in prison for the basic offence; aggravated possession carries three to five years of restriction of liberty or imprisonment. Article 273, which requires intent[@cc276] The Supreme Court instructs judges to sell, carries the longer consider non-prison termssentences for people holding drugs for themselves and for certain growers whose rehabilitation is possible without imprisonment.[@court17]
segments › enforcement › sourcesadmin56, cc276, court17
segments › sharing › textGiving drugs away, lending them and using them to repay a debt count as supply under Supreme Court guidance.[@court17] Article 273 punishes handling drugscovers supply and holding with intent to sell, and selling themsupply. AboveIts penalties range from a small quantity the sentence is fivefine or up to seventhree years. A large quantity can bring in prison in the lowest band to fifteen to twenty years, and aggravating circumstances sit between those bands for large quantities or organised supply across borders or through telecommunications or the internet.[@cc276]
segments › sharing › sourcescc276court17, kuncc276
segments › consumption › textUseSince 12 June 2026, public drug use is ana separate administrative offence and leads. Citizens face a fine of twenty to registration and compulsory treatmentforty basic calculation units or up to fifteen days of detention, with confiscation. Prescribed medical use is excepted.[@admin56]
segments › consumption › sourcesecoiadmin56
context › visitors › textThere is no legal recreational supply for anyone. Possession without intent to sell isSmall personal holdings can bring a criminal offencefine of one to two basic calculation units or up to fifteen days of administrative detention.[@admin56] Larger personal holdings fall under criminal article 276 and can bring, with a fine or up to three years in prison for the basic offence. IntentSupplying cannabis or holding it with intent to sell issupply falls under article 273, with longer sentences and carries higher penalties in its upper bands. No current gram table was read for this entry.[@cc276]
context › visitors › sourcesadmin56, cc276
context › arrests › textThe Supreme Court's press service reported that courts convicted 2,889 people of drug offences in the first eleven months of 2025. Almost all, 2,875, were convicted under article 273 of the Criminal Code, which covers making, acquiring, keeping and sellinghandling drugs with intent to supply or supplying them, and 2,650 of them were sent to prison; 225 received fines, corrective labour or other alternatives. Only 14 people were convicted under article 271, the lesser offence of illegal acquisition or possessionunlawfully taking drugs from others, 13 of whom were imprisoned. In 2024 the courts convicted 3,020 people under article 273. The figures are not split by drug. Article 271 concerns taking drugs by theft, fraud and other forms of appropriation; personal possession without intent to supply is article 276.[@anhor25, cc276]
context › arrests › sourcesanhor25, cc276
sourcesUzbekistan — Code of Administrative Responsibility, articles 56 and 187¹, September 2026 edition
Uzbekistan — Criminal Code, articles 270–276, edition effective 15 October 2026
Uzbekistan — Supreme Court Plenum Resolution 12 of 28 April 2017, consolidated text
Uzbekistan — Code of Administrative Responsibility, Article 131 (Lex.uz)
Uzbekistan — Criminal Code, articles 273 and 276, Russian text on Lex.uz
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