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Small personal cannabis holdings can bring a fine or up to fifteen days of administrative detention. Larger holdings without intent to supply remain; above 1 g of dried cannabis they become criminal, with up to three years in prison for the basic offence. Growing and supplying cannabis are criminal offences, and since June 2026 public use is an administrative offence. Industrial hemp is licensed at 0.2% THC; medical cannabis has no patient route.
Small quantities held without intent to supply fall under administrative article 56: a fin … for three to five years. Voluntary surrender can remove punishment for the basic offence. Article[@cc276] Supply itself falls under article 273 covers intent to supply or actual supply, with longer sentences in its higher bands.[@cc276]. The thresholds are 1 g of dried cannabis or 10 g of undried cannabis for the small band, and 10 g or 50 g for the large band; hashish lines are 0.2 g and 2 g, resin 0.1 g and 0.5 g.[@quantities]
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Giving drugs away, lending them and using them to repay a debt count as supply under Supreme Court guidance.[@court17] Article 273 covers supply and holding with intent to supply. Its penalties rangerun from a fine of up to fifty basic calculation units, community service or up to three years in prison in the lowest band to fifteen to twenty years for large quantities or organised supply across borders or through telecommunications or the internet.[@cc276]
NoneThere is no legal source of cannabis for adults or patients.[@l813] The 1999 narcotics law allows controlled narcotics for medicine through licensed channels, but no cannabis-based medicine or patient-access programme was found.[@sputnik2019] The only cannabis production announced has been industrial hemp and an export-oriented medical project.[@kursiv22,azattyq2020]
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NoneThe commercial cannabis route is licensed industrial hemp, not medicine or adult supply.[@l813,kursiv22] Article 21 of the 1999 narcotics law makes cultivation a state monopoly, allowing it for state scientific institutions and, since 2020, for companies with an industrial licence.[@l813] The Melabis project is licensed to grow low-THC cannabis for medical export, but no domestic product or patient programme was found.[@azattyq2020]
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None.
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No approved cannabis medicine or patient-access programme was found.[@sputnik2019] A 2019 report said the sale of medical cannabis was prohibited and that only one state-linked company held a licence for narcotic medicines.[@sputnik2019] In November 2020 the state signed a project with the Maltese company Melabis to grow cannabis on 3,000 hectares in Sirdaryo with 0.1–0.2% THC, mainly for export; no domestic medicine or patient route followed in the sources read.[@azattyq2020] Medical status stays none.
ecoisputnik2019, azattyq2020
Registered users face restrictions on employmentA diagnosis of drug dependence is entered in a mandatory register shared with law enforcement.[@ecoi] The register can bar dozens of occupations, including work in food production and education and driving a vehicle, and a diagnosis of chronic drug dependence can be a ground for depriving a parent of parental rights under Article 79 of the Family Code.[@ecoi] A small possession offence can still bring up to fifteen days' administrative detention.[@admin56]
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Under the 1999 narcotics law, cultivating narcotic-containing plants is a state monopoly. … oses and, since a 2020 amendment, for companies holding a licence for industrial purposes.[@l813] The law does not mention seeds. Clones are plants, so only licensed growers may hold or trade them.[@l813]
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]
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The Code of Administrative Responsibility punishes driving in a state of alcoholic intoxic … opic substances or other substances that affect a person's mental and volitional activity.[@koao131] The penalty is a fine of forty base calculation units and loss of the licence for three years; a driver with no licence is fined fifty units or held for 15 days.[@koao131] The article sets no THC level.[@koao131]
Figures reported byIn 2025 the government to the UN drugs office record 664 kg of herbal cannabisauthorities recorded 15,400 drug crimes and seized in 20243.4 tonnes of narcotic, against 661 kg in 2023,psychotropic and 579 kgpotent substances.[@gazeta2026] Hashish made up 48% of cannabis resinthe seized in 2024, against 623 kg in 2023drugs and opium 27%; the report gives no marijuana share.[@gazeta2026] The UN publishes them as kilogram equivalentspolice found 14 underground drug laboratories during the year, and countries count seizures differently53% of all drug crimes were recorded in Tashkent city, so the figures are not comparable across bordersTashkent region and Fergana region.[@gazeta2026] No price or purity data were found.
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The Supreme Court's press service reported that courts convicted 2,889 people of drug offences in the first eleven months of 2025.[@anhor25] Almost all, 2,875, were convicted under article 273 of the Criminal Code, which covers han … of them were sent to prison; 225 received fines, corrective labour or other alternatives.[@anhor25] Only 14 people were convicted under article 271, the offence of unlawfully taking drugs from others, 13 of whom were imprisoned.[@anhor25] In 2024 the courts convicted 3,020 people under article 273.[@anhor25] The figures are not split by anti-drug. Article 271 concerns taking drugs by theft agency separately reported more than 11, fraud000 people prosecuted for drug crimes in 2025 and other forms of appropriation; personal possession without intent to supply is article 2761,956 administrative drug offences.[@anhor25, cc276gazeta2026] The figures are not split by drug.
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Uzbekistan — Resolution No. 330, Appendix 4: amounts of narcotic drugs, as amended by Resolution No. 878 of 27 October 2018 Gazeta.uz — Более 11 тысяч человек привлекли к ответственности за наркопреступления в 2025 году (4 February 2026) Sputnik Uzbekistan — Каннабис в Узбекистане: будет ли легализован медицинский препарат (10 July 2019) Azattyq — Узбекистан заключил первое соглашение о выращивании в стране марихуаны для медицинских целей (28 November 2020) Kursiv — Uzbekistan bets on hemp production (5 December 2022) TalkingDrugs — История каннабиса в Советском Союзе (25 January 2018) 8 unchanged
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upto 1 g · treatment civil · term Small amount, Article 56 · fine min 440000 · fine 880000 · prison 15 days · note Dried cannabis; confiscation; detention if a fine is insufficient, over 1 g · upto 10 g · treatment criminal · term Above small, Article 276(1) · fine 22000000 · prison 3 years · note Fine, community service, corrective labour or restriction of liberty for 1–3 years, over 10 g · treatment criminal · term Large amount, Article 276(2) · prison min 3 years · prison 5 years · note Restriction of liberty or imprisonment
UZS
label Ordinary growing area, Article 270(1) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · fine min 11000000 · fine 22000000 · prison 3 years · note Fine, community service, corrective labour or restriction of liberty for 1–3 years, label Repeat, group or medium area, Article 270(2) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · fine min 22000000 · fine 44000000 · prison min 3 years · prison 5 years · note Fine, or restriction of liberty or imprisonment for 3–5 years, label Organised or large area, Article 270(3) · treatment criminal · term Sowing or growing · prison min 5 years · prison 10 years
UZS
label Supply, or holding with intent to supply, Article 273(1) · treatment criminal · term Supply · fine 22000000 · prison 3 years · note Fine, community service, corrective labour or restriction of liberty for 1–3 years, label Small-amount supply, Article 273(2) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 3 years · prison 5 years, label Above-small amount, Article 273(3) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 5 years · prison 7 years, label Aggravated supply, Article 273(4) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 7 years · prison 10 years, label Organised group, Article 273(5) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 10 years · prison 15 years, label Large amount, cross-border or internet-organised, Article 273(6) · treatment criminal · term Supply · prison min 15 years · prison 20 years
UZS
label Public use, Article 187¹ · treatment civil · term Use · fine min 8800000 · fine 17600000 · prison 15 days · note Confiscation; detention if a fine is insufficient; prescribed medical use excepted
Adults have no legal way to buy cannabis. A small amount for personal use is an administrative offence carrying a fine or up to fifteen days' detention; above 1 g of dried cannabis it becomes a crime with up to three years in prison, and sale carries three to twenty years depending on the band.[@admin56,cc276] In 2025 the authorities recorded 15,400 drug crimes: 41% for personal possession, 36% for trafficking and 13% for cultivation.[@gazeta2026] No price or purity data were found.
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Industrial hemp may be grown only under licence, with a THC ceiling of 0.2%.[@l813] The first large project, RS Success Agro, received 5,000 hectares in Sirdaryo and had 3,800 hectares under hemp at the end of 2022; its first seed harvest averaged 500 kg per hectare and tested at 0.09% THC.[@kursiv22] The licence cost about $80,000, and police escort transports across public roads.[@kursiv22] The state has published no national area or harvest figure in the sources read.
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Cannabis and hashish are known across Central Asia by the Russian slang [anasha](/culture/language/anasha/), borrowed from Uzbek and Tajik, and the atlas entry traces the word and its association with the wild hemp of the Chu valley.[@talkingdrugs] The Soviet south was the drug's main domestic source, and the plant remained part of rural life even while the criminal code treated its growers as offenders.[@talkingdrugs]
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