Is Khat legal in Georgia?

Legal status

Khat is not established as a scheduled substance in Georgia on this record, and it is not established as lawful either. The dossier's outcome is not verified and it holds an absence record against the annexes to Law No. 624: the search set was "khat", "Catha edulis" and "katinon", run across the list headings, the salts and isomers limbs, the named plants and the amendments, and it returned no entry. The comparison the dossier inspected and put back down was «კათინონი». The leaf was searched under its own name, its botanical name and the transliterated alkaloid, and the dossier rejects the alkaloid entry, so the alkaloid is listed and the leaf that contains it is not. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so the placement is established at the level of the annexes and not of a numbered list. An absence record is a statement about one text on one date, so it is version specific. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. The ceiling is life imprisonment, under Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia for aggravated illegal circulation, and life is where the scale stops. That is the exposure a listed substance carries, and Article 260 operates through the annexed lists, so on this record there is no accepted entry for this substance for the offence to attach to. That is not a finding that the material is free of consequence. The listed alkaloid is reached wherever it is identified, so leaf material proved to contain it raises the alkaloid entry rather than this absence record. The official quantity table assigns a small, a large and an especially large quantity by substance, and the dossier records that the table is applied through the matched entry without reproducing any of its figures, so no weight is stated in this cell and none should be inferred from one. With no entry established there is no band in that table to read. There is no general lawful personal use allowance, and the absence of a small quantity figure for a substance is not permission to hold it.

If prescribed or medical

The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. There is also no placement here to attach a rule to, because this row is an absence record that establishes no entry. It is not a medicine in anything the dossier records.

Documentation

The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row fixes instead is an absence: the search set "khat", "Catha edulis" and "katinon" and the date the text was read, which together are the only part of this row worth quoting. Whether the material is tested for the alkaloid decides which of the two rows applies, and the leaf label decides nothing. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.

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