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Legality · Crack Cocaine

Is Crack Cocaine legal in Armenia?

Confirmed against a primary sourceVerified September 21, 2026
Legal status
Controlled in Armenia. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, prints the entry «Կոկաին», and record ARM-32 matches it to crack cocaine on Chemical Abstracts number 50-36-2. The row relied on is that printed line and not point 1 of the decision, which only directs that the list be approved and names no substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The terms this row was searched under were «crack» and «kokain baza», all of them Latin script, and the line they reached is printed in Armenian script, so the logged term set does not by itself explain how the line was found and the search record is incomplete. That does not weaken the finding, because the finding rests on the printed entry and its registry number rather than on the search that reached them. There is no separate crack line in the Armenian annex. The dossier searched the street term and the base form and resolved the row on the cocaine line, the same printed entry and the same Chemical Abstracts number as the cocaine row of this set, so the two rows are one entry read twice.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Armenia has abolished the death penalty and Article 393 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia provides no life sentence for a drug offence, so the real exposure is a term of years. The ceiling is 12 years' imprisonment under Article 393(3), and Article 393(4) to (6) measures the significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, so the band rather than the raw weight is what the article prices. The placement is the printed annex line «Կոկաին», record ARM-32. Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance beneath that placement. This pass carries no printed small amount figure for it, so the number those bands multiply is not stated here and no band can be computed from this cell. A form of a listed substance is not a second offence, and nothing on the accepted line prices the base form differently from the salt.
If prescribed or medical
Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for crack cocaine is the printed annex line «Կոկաին», at controlled lists 1 to 4, record ARM-32. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. There is nothing to ask that the cocaine row does not already ask, because the annex line and the registry number are the same and the form is not separately printed.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for any medicine containing crack cocaine, with a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and put the question to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy in writing before travelling rather than at the border. The placement carried against is the printed annex line «Կոկաին», record ARM-32, Chemical Abstracts number 50-36-2. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. There is no separate paperwork to carry for this form, because it is the same annex line and the same registry number as the salt.
Primary sources
  • Armenia, printed annex entry «Կոկաին», record ARM-32, Chemical Abstracts number 50-36-2
  • the annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, controlled lists 1 to 4
  • version read is the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026
  • penalties at the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, Article 393(3) for the 12 year ceiling and Article 393(4) to (6) for the significant, large and especially large bands measured from the Government's minimum small amount figure
  • search set as recorded in the source, «crack» and «kokain baza», all Latin script
  • official current incorporation of Decision N 1129-Ն at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/205965
  • official amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026 at https://www.arlis.am/en/acts/222947
  • official Criminal Code Article 393 at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/153080
  • official narcotics law «Թմրամիջոցների և հոգեմետ նյութերի մասին» at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/181155
  • read as at 20 September 2026

Court records

We have not yet assessed whether court records are publicly available for this jurisdiction.

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