A law published on 18 March 2025 rewrote several drug provisions to cover living organisms that contain controlled substances and strong substances. It changed the cultivation offence into an 'illegal circulation of living organisms' offence, extended smuggling rules to living organisms, widened drug-promotion offences to strong substances, and added a separate offence for strong substances. The law's title says it targets drug trafficking among children and young people, and it took effect 100 days after publication.[1][2]
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References
- Закон КР от 14 марта 2025 года № 56 «О внесении изменений в некоторые законодательные акты Кыргызской Республики по вопросам противодействия незаконному обороту наркотических средств, психотропных веществ, их аналогов и прекурсоров среди детей и молодежи»Articles 2–3: new article 97 wording; articles 285, 287, 288 and 291; new article 292-1.
- Kaktus.media — «Жапаров подписал закон, ужесточающий наказание за оборот наркотиков среди детей и молодежи» (18 марта 2025)Published in Erkin-Too on 18 March 2025; in force 100 days after publication.
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