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Fill Kyrgyzstan history gaps and correct small-offence profile

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Kyrgyzstan puts small drug possession under fines and probation rules

date

2019-01-01

tags

thresholds, home-growing, sentencing, treatment

title

Kyrgyzstan's new codes raise fines for puts small amountsdrug possession under fines and probation rules

description

A reform presented as humanisation changed how small amounts areThe new misdemeanour code punished: small drug possession without intent to supply, and small unauthorised cultivation, with a fine for a first offenceand restrictions supervised by probation officers.[@1] For adults, five days of administrative arrestthe restriction category ran for a secondthree to six months and a much larger finerequired reporting to probation and permission for foreign travel; a third withinmisdemeanour finding did not create a yearcriminal record.[@1] Harm-reduction workers had warned that the incoming fines would be unaffordable for many users.[@2]

sources

Kyrgyzstan — Code of Misdemeanours, adopted 1 February 2017, since repealed 1 unchanged

before

possession 3 · cultivation 1 · enforcement 3 · sharing 1 · consumption 1 · access 0

related

kyrgyzstan-fines-warning-2018, kyrgyzstan-small-drug-offences-2021

Kyrgyzstan’s addiction doctor proposes a legal cannabis pilot

date

2014-01-04

title

A Kyrgyz politicianKyrgyzstan’s addiction doctor proposes legalisinga legal cannabis pilot

description

JengishbekAddiction specialist Jenishbek Nazaraliev proposed legalisation in 2014legalising cannabis for medical and recreational use, beginning with a pilot around Lake Issyk-Kul.[@1] He argued that regulation could reduce corruption, improve control of growers and Tolkunbek Abdygulov suggested it for tourism in 2017sellers and bring tax revenue. In the 1990s Felix Kulov had proposed[@1] The state drug-control ofservice opposed the cannabis fieldsidea, arguing that legalisation would leave international trafficking networks in place. None was adopted.[@2]

sources

World League Mind Free of Drugs — Nazaraliev’s cannabis legalisation proposal RFE/RL’s Kyrgyz Service — Addiction Doctor Wants Kyrgyzstan To Legalize Pot Wikipedia — Cannabis in Kyrgyzstan

tags

campaign, patients, taxes

related

kyrgyzstan-chuy-hemp-ban-1965, kyrgyzstan-fines-warning-2018

Kyrgyzstan comes under the Soviet ban on growing Indian hemp

date

19341935

title

TheKyrgyzstan comes under the Soviet ban on growing cannabis covers KyrgyzstanIndian hemp

description

TheA Soviet Union prohibited the unauthorised cultivation ofdecree began restricting Indian-hemp sowing in 1935, allowing only crops intended exclusively for medical and the opium poppyscientific needs. Kyrgyzstan[@1] Unauthorised sowing was to bring criminal responsibility and compulsory confiscation of the crop, with republics directed to amend their criminal codes.[@1] The decree had been signed in October 1934; a Soviet republiclater decision specifically targeted southern Chuy hemp from 1965.[@1,2]

sources

USSR — prohibition of opium-poppy and Indian-hemp sowing, 27 October 1934 Политика государства в сфере противодействии наркоугрозе в XX веке Wikipedia — Cannabis in Russia

tags

home-growing, hemp, eradication

related

kyrgyzstan-chuy-hemp-ban-1965

Countries and states 1 file

Kyrgyzstan countries/kg.yaml

cultivation 1 → 2

summary

Small-scale personal possession is anand small unauthorised cultivation are administrative violation with a fineoffences. Larger amounts and supply remain criminal; the dried-marijuana table sets the small-quantity ceiling at 20 grams.

segments › possession › text

Holding a small amountSmall possession without intent to sell — below the 'significant amount' thresholdsupply carries a fine of about 5 g200 calculated units or 40 hours of cannabis — is an administrative offence undercommunity work.[@offences] For dried marijuana, the Code of Misdemeanourstable includes up to 20 g in the small band, punished by a fine. Above thatover 20 g through 600 g in the large band, and over 600 g in the especially large band.[@amounts] Large personal possession iscarries a crime withfine of 1,000–2,000 units or up to five years in prison; especially large possession carries five to ten years.[@criminal]

segments › possession › sources

glephaoffences, amounts, criminal

segments › cultivation › text

Cultivation is a criminal offenceSmall unauthorised cultivation carries an administrative fine of 125 calculated units for an individual. Cannabis growsLandholders can also be fined for failing to destroy wild over hundreds of hectares around Issykcontrolled organisms.[@offences] Large-Kul and in the Chuy Valleyscale cultivation, or cultivation by a group acting by prior agreement, carries a fine of 1,000–2,000 units or up to five years in prison; especially large cultivation carries five to ten years and the state runs eradication campaigns every yearconfiscation.[@criminal]

segments › cultivation › sources

unodcoffences, criminal

segments › enforcement › text

A fine for veryThe small amounts-possession offence allows a fine or community work, but the while larger personal quantities can bring prison.[@offences,criminal threshold is low] In July 2026 police reported three arrests after testing cannabis products prepared for a festival and sentences above it are longsearching homes and a shop; a supply investigation was continuing. Fines themselves are high relative to incomes.[@festival]

segments › enforcement › sources

glephaoffences, criminal, festival

segments › sharing › text

Making orThe Supreme Court says supplying drugs for sale is a crime under section 267 of the Criminal Code in force since 2019includes gifts, with heavier categories of imprisonment for a groupswaps, a large scale, an especially large scale or sale to a minorloans and debt repayments as well as sales. Prison terms under the code run from six months[@court] Ordinary supply carries five to eight years in prison and confiscation; aggravated cases carry eight to twelve or twelve to fifteen years.[@criminal]

segments › sharing › sources

glephacourt, criminal

segments › consumption › text

UseNon-medical drug use in streets, parks, public transport and other public places carries a fine of ten calculated units or up to 20 hours of community work. Possession is treated as an administrative matter alongside small possessioncovered by a separate offence.[@offences]

segments › consumption › sources

glephaoffences

segments › access › text

No legal sourceBuying or holding a small personal amount remains an administrative offence, and supply is criminal.[@offences,criminal] The lawful-circulation rules prohibit retail trade in the banned narcotic list, which includes marijuana and other cannabis preparations.[@rules,list]

segments › access › sources

glephaoffences, criminal, rules, list

context › production › text

Reliable national information about lawful cannabisThe 2024 law includes gathering wild controlled organisms within manufacture or production was not established by the retained sourcesand requires authority for controlled-drug activities.[@law69] The implementing rules retain narrow scientific and official-use exceptions while prohibiting ordinary trade in listed cannabis preparations.[@rules,list]

context › production › sources

law69, rules, list

context › products › text

Reliable national information about legally availableThe controlled list names cannabis products was not establishedoil, resin, straw, marijuana and extracts or tinctures.[@list] The small-quantity ceilings differ by the retained sourcespreparation: dried marijuana 20 g, dried resin 3 g, oil preparation 2 g and extracts or tinctures 3 g measured as dry residue.[@amounts]

context › products › sources

list, amounts

context › medical › text

Cannabis oil, resin, plant material, marijuana and extracts or tinctures appear in narcotic list IV.[@list] The retained sources do not establish whether adrug law prohibits medical cannabis programme operatesand veterinary use of substances on that list; scientific and specified official-use exceptions are governed separately.[@law69,rules]

context › medical › sources

list, law69, rules

context › consequences › text

Administrative fines are notThe Criminal Code offers an exemption from criminal convictions; unpaid fines can escalateliability for certain drug offences when a person voluntarily surrenders the drugs and actively helps expose or stop drug crimes. Surrender during an arrest or a search does not count as voluntary.[@criminal]

context › consequences › sources

glephacriminal

context › clubs › text

NoGiving cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibitedcounts as supply under the Supreme Court’s guidance.[@court] Organising or maintaining premises for drug consumption is a separate offence carrying up to five years in prison in the basic case.[@criminal]

context › clubs › sources

unodccourt, criminal

context › planting › text

The 2024 law on narcotic drugs does not mentioncannabis-straw and marijuana definitions expressly exclude seeds at all. It controls narcotic substances and what it calls living organisms that contain them, meaning those entered on an official [@list, and covers their import, export, storage, sale and other handling. The list itself was not read. Growing cannabis] Small unauthorised growing is a criminalnevertheless an administrative offence, soand larger or group cultivation can be criminal; rooted cuttings and seedlings are covered as plants; a seed is not addressedtherefore require attention to the cultivation rules.[@offences,criminal]

context › planting › sources

law69list, offences, criminal

context › visitors › text

There is no legal recreationalVisitors face the same possession and supply for anyone. Holding less thanrules: the 'significant amount' of about 5 g of cannabis without intent to sell is an administrativesmall personal-possession offence punished bypermits a fine; above that or community work, possession is a crime with up to five yearswhile supply can bring prison.[@offences,criminal] The cannabis preparations in the prohibited narcotic list have no ordinary retail route under the lawful-circulation rules.[@rules,list]

context › visitors › sources

glephaoffences, criminal, rules, list

sources

Kyrgyzstan — Law 69 of 6 March 2024 on controlled drugs Kyrgyzstan — Code of Offences, consolidated through 9 October 2026 Kyrgyzstan — Criminal Code, consolidated through 24 July 2026 Kyrgyzstan — lawful controlled-drug circulation rules, annex 1 to Resolution 152 Kyrgyzstan — controlled-drug list, annex 2 to Resolution 152 Kyrgyzstan — quantity criteria, annex 3 to Resolution 152 Kyrgyzstan Supreme Court — Plenum resolution on drug cases, 7 November 2025 Kaktus.media — cannabis products sold as teas and oils; three suspects detained Закон Кыргызской Республики от 6 марта 2024 года № 69 «О наркотических средствах, психотропных веществах, их аналогах и прекурсорах» (Alta-Soft copy) 4 unchanged

Articles and atlas entries 5

Code, design and documents 1 file

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+# Kyrgyzstan: filling the hemp, personal-offence and court-guidance gaps
+
+Reviewed 24 October 2026. Seven new events, three rewritten events, five new
+articles and a revised country profile. The country previously had five history
+entries and no articles. New and revised text uses inline citations and tags.
+
+## Reading and source provenance
+
+Local source files, extracts and verification helpers are retained in
+`tmp/history-kyrgyzstan-gap-2026-10-24/`.
+
+- Read the original 27 October 1934 Soviet decree as reproduced from the 1948
+  collected laws on Istmat: the Indian-hemp restriction, medical/scientific
+  exception, criminal-responsibility/confiscation direction and express
+  commencement from 1935. The first search result used an obsolete certificate
+  hostname; the normal `istmat.org/node/42491` page worked.
+- Downloaded and extracted the Interior Ministry Academy’s 2024 collection.
+  Read Malabaev and Zholdoshbek kyzy Aigerim’s chapter, especially printed
+  pp. 88–90, and visually checked p. 90 against the extraction. The chapter
+  quotes the June 1964 instruction to stop southern Chuy hemp sowing from 1965
+  and describes conversion of farms and research stations. This is an attributed
+  historical account reproducing the operative quotation; the original Soviet
+  decision and local implementing decree were not retrieved. Its unrelated,
+  strongly polemical claims about the 1916 uprising and drug harms are not used.
+- Read Nazaraliev’s organisation’s 15 January 2014 statement, identifying his
+  4 January proposal, and RFE/RL’s 7 January original reporting and interviews.
+  The campaign’s prevalence and therapeutic claims are not adopted as facts.
+- Downloaded AFEW’s original report by Olga Ochneva. HTML metadata establishes
+  **8 February 2018**, so the interview warnings are dated before the reform.
+  Predictions about fines and incarceration are attributed to the interviewees.
+  Aybek is a pseudonym, and the hashish case is the lawyer’s account rather than
+  a court judgment reviewed here.
+- Read the repealed 2017 Code of Misdemeanours reproduced by Aqlex from the
+  justice ministry text: commencement note, articles 42–43, 46, 49 and 123–124.
+  It was introduced on **1 January 2019**. The source is its edition at repeal
+  in 2021, with no amendment note changing the relevant special offences.
+- Read the 2021 commencement law reproduced by CIS Legislation, including
+  article 1, the publication record and fifteen-day commencement clause.
+  New codes began **1 December 2021**, following publication on 16 November.
+- Read the FAOLEX reproduction of the Code of Offences, articles 96–97, and
+  checked the provisions against the later Zakon.kg reproduction of justice
+  ministry text, edition **9 October 2026**. The latter warns of deferred
+  amendments, including one effective 1 November; none was used to backdate
+  a drug penalty. Also read article 127 on public consumption.
+- Downloaded the Criminal Code reproduced by Zakon.kg, edition **24 July 2026**;
+  read articles 282–283, 287–288 and 290 and amendment notes. An earlier English
+  translation hosted by Nottingham was useful for orientation, but current
+  claims follow the later Russian text.
+- Read the complete relevant parts of Law 69/2024 on Aqlex, including articles
+  2, 7, 16–17, 21 and 35. It was published 12 March and began **12 September
+  2024**, six months later. The earlier 1998 law was repealed then.
+- Read Cabinet Resolution 152/2025 and relevant parts of annexes 1–3 on Aqlex.
+  The official ministry registry confirms the document identity but its live
+  page returned only an application shell. The publicly readable mirror supplied
+  statutory text, not its separate AI explanations. The narcotic list and
+  quantity annex incorporate the **14 August 2026** amendment. The cannabis
+  entries and quantity column headings appear before the list page’s truncated
+  final living-organisms section. That final section was not used to invent
+  seed rules or plant-count thresholds.
+- Read the complete Russian text of Supreme Court Plenum resolution 31 of
+  **7 November 2025**, reproduced on Aqlex’s Kyrgyz-language catalogue page.
+  Relevant paragraphs: 5–9, 16–17, 24, 36–40. The ruling says it takes effect
+  after publication on the Supreme Court website; that publication date remains
+  unverified. The event records adoption, not an invented commencement date.
+- Read Kaktus.media’s **20 July 2026** report quoting the Interior Ministry
+  about festival-product samples, searches and three suspects. The precise
+  arrest days and final outcomes were not supplied, so the event is dated to
+  the report and describes an ongoing investigation.
+
+## Corrections and the score timeline
+
+The 1934 event now uses **1935**, the decree’s express commencement year. Its
+title and account identify Indian hemp and the medical/scientific exception.
+Removed the false assertion that Kyrgyzstan was already a Soviet union republic
+in 1934; it was then autonomous within the RSFSR. Its existing unregulated
+`before` vector is unchanged. The old broad allocation of other segment drops
+to this first step still needs reconstruction from Kyrgyz republican codes and
+earlier drug legislation; this pass does not certify that all modern restrictions
+began with the Indian-hemp decree.
+
+The former 2019 description incorrectly presented the **old** first/second/third
+offence sequence from AFEW’s pre-reform interview as the new code’s rules. It
+also omitted the actual misdemeanour code. The corrected event follows articles
+123–124: category-II fine and category-I restriction of liberty are listed for
+small personal possession and small growing. For adults, category-I restriction
+means three to six months with probation reporting and travel conditions. General
+articles 42–43 distinguish these penalties from a criminal record and describe
+the court’s sentencing choices; no claim about a universal sentence imposed in
+practice is made. The article’s descriptions of available restrictions are
+statutory, not an estimate of how often probation was used.
+
+The 2021 replacement code places small possession and small cultivation in the
+administrative offences system. Possession carries a 200-calculated-unit fine
+or 40 hours of community work; an individual’s small grow carries 125 units.
+Large or group cultivation remains criminal under article 288.
+
+Current **cultivation 1→2** corrects the previous blanket criminal classification.
+Possession’s current 3 is retained, but its history now distinguishes the 2019
+penal-misdemeanour period (score 1, including liberty restrictions) from the
+2021 administrative response (score 3). The 2019 `before` snapshot uses the
+former profile vector; the new 2021 `before` changes only possession to 1.
+The reconstructed recent steps are **18→13 in 2019**, then **13→20.5 in 2021**.
+The current exact score is **20.5**, previously 18; the displayed rounded score
+is 21. Other current segment scores and both legal-status labels are preserved.
+In particular, the retained sharing/practice score is not independently verified
+as evidence of present tolerance. The public explanation now states the actual
+gift/supply rule and prison range; further practice evidence remains a task.
+
+The profile’s approximately **5 g** cannabis claim was unsupported and is removed.
+The later quantity annex specifies **up to and including 20 g** dried marijuana
+as small, over 20 through 600 g as large, and over 600 g as especially large.
+Dried resin has 3/90 g boundaries; oil preparation 2/60 g; extracts/tinctures
+3/90 g as dry residue. These are preparation-specific legal bands, not permission
+to possess or supply cannabis. The current table is not backdated as proof that
+the 2025 resolution introduced these exact cannabis amounts or increased a prior
+limit. The partially accessible August 2026 amendment could not establish such
+a comparison.
+
+Medical `none` now has direct statutory support: cannabis preparations appear
+in narcotic list IV, and the law/rules prohibit their ordinary medical use.
+Narrow research and official-use exceptions do not establish patient access.
+The seed exclusions in the cannabis-material definitions replace the earlier
+claim that only an unread list could address seeds. Import, seed trade and the
+complete living-organisms list still require review; seed/cloning statuses are
+not changed. No plant-count limit is invented.
+
+Existing seizure and all-drug prosecution statistics are preserved verbatim,
+including their source lists. They do not prove cannabis-specific arrest totals.
+
+## Remaining historical and legal retrieval tasks
+
+The 1965 crop decision is a valuable gap-filler, but original enactments are still
+needed for exact penalties and a fuller distinction between industrial southern
+Chuy hemp, Indian hemp and other cannabis varieties. Its explicit `unscored`
+reason reflects that limitation and the existing prohibited-growing score level.
+
+The 1974 USSR decree located in this search was a **1991 consolidation** containing
+1982 and 1987 amendments. It was not backdated into a new Kyrgyz event or used
+to claim that small-amount administrative rules existed in the original 1974
+text. A separate lead suggests a Kyrgyz drug-possession decree already existed
+in December 1962; obtain it and the republican code before adding a supposed
+first personal-possession offence in 1974. A KRSU historical-document compilation
+returned 403 and was not treated as read.
+
+Nazaraliev’s 2014 event now concerns his own proposal; the old composite sentence
+combining the 1990s, 2014 and 2017 was removed. The separate pre-existing December
+2024/February 2026 Bekeshev entry was not revised in this pass. It remains a
+candidate for splitting after its original parliamentary sources are retrieved.
+
+The July 2026 case involved multiple product types and a supply investigation.
+Four grams of marijuana and seeds found in one search do not prove that small
+personal possession or seeds alone led to the arrests. No convictions or product
+THC percentages are supplied. The profile avoids presenting the report as a new
+law or as a general ban on every hemp-labelled food.
+
+## Verification
+
+Batch checks validate unique IDs, categories, tags, title length, related links,
+inline citation coverage, each article’s 350–500 words and four headings, and
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