Are Benzodiazepines legal in Kazakhstan?

Legal status

Kazakhstan reaches benzodiazepines by naming them one at a time rather than by describing a class. The Список approved by Government Resolution No. 470 of 3 July 2019 enumerates them in section В, principally in Таблица III of the Список, the schedule of substances used for medical purposes and held under control. The second document, the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, then carries the row Диазепам и другие, обозначенные в таблице III, производные бензодиазепина and sets no небольшой размер band at all, крупный размер at 0,5-5,0 grams and особо крупный размер above 5,0 grams. The class is reached twice over. Таблица III section В of the Список names them individually, more than thirty of them, among them alprazolam, bromazepam, brotizolam, camazepam, clobazam, cloxazolam, clonazepam, clorazepate, clotiazepam, delorazepam, diazepam, estazolam, ethyl loflazepate, fludiazepam, flunitrazepam, flurazepam, halazepam, haloxazolam, ketazolam, loprazolam, lorazepam, lormetazepam, medazepam, midazolam, nimetazepam, nitrazepam, nordazepam, oxazepam, oxazolam, pinazepam, prazepam, temazepam, tetrazepam, triazolam and chlordiazepoxide, with etizolam, clonazolam, diclazepam and flubromazolam added at the end. The Сводная таблица then carries one class row in the instrument's own words, diazepam and the other benzodiazepine derivatives designated in Таблица III, which is why a compound in the schedule with no row of its own is still measurable. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text, not an earlier one. [Certain] on the placement and the figures, both re-derived from the instrument in this pass.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Kazakhstan has abolished the death penalty. No capital punishment remains available anywhere in its Criminal Code, because the law of 29 December 2021 numbered 89-VII on abolition replaced the words carrying it in Article 11 with life imprisonment, and Article 46 now names life imprisonment as the heaviest penalty the Code holds. The penalty ladder is read off those sizes. Possession without intent to supply sits in Criminal Code Article 296, which is non-custodial at parts 2 and 3, a fine of up to 160 or up to 200 monthly calculation indices or arrest of up to 40 or 50 days, and becomes custodial only at part 4, three to seven years, once the seizure is особо крупный. Consumption in a public place is part 1 of the same article. Supply runs under Article 297 at five to eight years with confiscation for the bare offence and fifteen to twenty years for its heaviest part, and manufacture or processing for supply under Article 297-1, added on 2 January 2025 by law No. 150-VIII, carries life imprisonment at part 4. On the row Диазепам и другие, обозначенные в таблице III, производные бензодиазепина the table prints no небольшой размер band at all, so for Benzodiazepines the custodial rung opens above 5,0 grams with nothing below it marked as small. Article 296 also carries a note releasing from liability under that article a person who voluntarily hands the substance over, seeks medical help or actively assists in uncovering a related offence. [Likely] The Criminal Code articles and their year ranges in this cell were read from secondary consolidations rather than from an official publisher in this pass. Two independent consolidations agree on them, and the Code's own article text was not reached: the state portal served only its contents list. The abolition of the death penalty, by contrast, was confirmed against the Code itself and is tagged [Certain] where it appears. [Likely] Carried from the entry published before this batch and not re-derived in this pass: the two middle rungs of that ladder are six to ten years for part 2 and seven to twelve years for part 3.

If prescribed or medical

Таблица III of the Список is headed as the schedule of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances used for medical purposes and held under control, which is the lighter of the two medical schedules, so Benzodiazepines has a domestic prescribing route. The Resolution fixes the schedule and the seizure sizes and says nothing about what a visitor may bring in, so the carriage question is answered by the health ministry's import rules and not by this text.

Documentation

Provenance. The placement and the grams on this row were read from the consolidated text of Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470, which is the state legal information system's copy, on 2026-09-21. The tables were parsed by column position rather than by reading them as a stream of lines, which matters because a blank небольшой размер cell is a real feature of this table and a line reader silently shifts the remaining figures one column left. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text. Russian names are quoted as the instrument prints them, except that the list prints the Список entries in capitals and they are given here in ordinary case.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Kazakhstan’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.