Cannabis Freedom Index

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Uzbekistan: supply alternatives, drug-driving repeat and death-penalty section

Add corrective labour and restriction of liberty to the basic supply tier, the February 2025 criminal repeat drug-driving offence, the drug-den offence, the 3,000-BCU hemp licence fee and the Schedule II medical clarification. Add a death-penalty section confirming the 2008 abolition and 15 entries from 1974 to 2026; explain that 2,889 is a sum, not a stated total.

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Uzbekistan countries/uz.yaml

context › medical › text

No approved cannabis medicine or patient-access programme was found.[@sputnik2019] Cannabis is in Schedule II of the narcotics law, so a registered medicine could in principle be prescribed, but none exists.[@l813] A 2019 report said the sale of medical cannabis was prohibited and that only one state-lin … ne or patient route followed in the sources read.[@azattyq2020] Medical status stays none.

context › medical › sources

l813, sputnik2019, azattyq2020

context › hemp › text

Industrial hemp may be grown only under licence, with a THC ceiling of 0.2%.[@l813] The fi … seed harvest averaged 500 kg per hectare and tested at 0.09% THC.[@kursiv22] The licence cost about $80fee was 3,000 basic calculation units (about 1.32bn UZS at the 2026 rate), and police escort transports across public roads.[@kursiv22] The state has published no national area or harvest figure in the sources read.

context › clubs › text

No cannabis clubs are known, and the law leaves no room for them: growing cannabis and supplying it to another person are both prohibited.[@cc276,l813] Organising or maintaining a drug den is a separate offence carrying three to five years, or up to twelve with aggravating facts.[@cc276]

context › driving › text

The Code of Administrative Responsibility punishes driving in a state of alcoholic intoxic … three years; a driver with no licence is fined fifty units or held for 15 days.[@koao131] Since February 2025 a repeat within a year is criminal under article 261-1, with two to three years' corrective labour or prison and a licence ban of up to three years.[@zru1033] The article sets no THC level.[@koao131]

context › driving › sources

koao131, zru1033

context › arrests › text

The Supreme Court's press service reported that courts convicted 2almost 3,889000 people of drug offences in the first eleven months of 2025: 2,889 is the sum of 2,875 convictions under article 273 and 14 under article 271.[@anhor25] Almost all, 2,875, were convicted under article 273 of the Criminal Code, whic … 25 and 1,956 administrative drug offences.[@gazeta2026] The figures are not split by drug.

sources

Uzbekistan — Law ZRU-99 of 11 July 2007 abolishing the death penalty from 1 January 2008 Uzbekistan — Law ZRU-1033 of 20 February 2025 on drug-driving penalties 14 unchanged

context › death penalty › text

No cannabis offence can carry death. Uzbekistan abolished the death penalty from 1 January 2008, and the current Criminal Code's punishment list replaces it with life imprisonment only for aggravated murder and terrorism; the highest cannabis supply tier is twenty years.[@zru99,cc276]

context › death penalty › sources

zru99, cc276

Code, design and documents 1 file

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 | Tajikistan | in progress | | |
 | Kazakhstan | possession grams, production/life tier, private-use fine, 13 history entries | sub-0.5 g unclear; law commencement dates unverified | this commit |
-| Uzbekistan | in progress | | |
+| Uzbekistan | supply alternatives, repeat drug-driving, death-penalty section, 15 history entries | 1940s empty; cannabis share of arrests unpublished | this commit |
 | Kyrgyzstan | living-weight thresholds, death-penalty and research sections, 14 history entries | 20/600 g and 80/2,400 g bands; 1940s empty | this commit |
 
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 Turkmenistan validation: `profile-audit tm` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps tm` has no missing sections, tables or citations. The profile now adds recreational, hemp, driving, black-market, arrest and death-penalty sections, folds away the products block, and gives possession, cultivation and supply their penalty tables: 100–300 TMT or 15 days for small possession, up to five years above the threshold, 5–25 years for supply, and no death or life sentence. It records the unpublished quantity thresholds and the lack of data after 2016. Eleven entries cover 1961–2026.
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+Uzbekistan validation: `profile-audit uz` zero errors/warnings; `country-gaps uz` has no missing sections, tables or citations. The profile now adds corrective labour and restriction of liberty to the basic supply tier, the February 2025 criminal repeat drug-driving offence, the drug-den offence in clubs, the 3,000-BCU hemp licence fee instead of a dollar figure, the Schedule II medical clarification and a death-penalty section confirming abolition in 2008. Arrests now explain that 2,889 is 2,875 plus 14, not a stated total. Fifteen entries cover 1974–2026.
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