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Legality · Nicotine

Is Nicotine legal in Georgia?

Confirmed against a primary sourceVerified September 21, 2026
Legal status
Nicotine is not carried on Georgia's narcotics lists and it is not therefore unregulated. The dossier records a separate regime finding: the annexes to Law No. 624 were searched with "nicotine" and supplied no entry, and the controls the dossier names instead are tobacco and nicotine-product legislation. The regime recorded instead reaches nicotine articles as well as tobacco ones, so it is the delivery product and not only the leaf that the route covers. The dossier records the regime by name and does not reproduce its provisions, so nothing here states what that regime requires. 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. Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia, whose ceiling is life imprisonment for aggravated illegal circulation, operates on the narcotics lists, and this product has been established not to be on them, so no circulation offence reaches it, and the consequences that arise are product and excise consequences that the dossier names without reproducing. The quantity table that governs listed substances is not the instrument that applies to this row, and no penalty figure is given in this cell because the dossier names the regime without reproducing it. Nothing here says the product is free of control, only that the control is not the one Article 260 administers.
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. The placement this row attaches is a regime rather than a list entry: the substance sits under tobacco and nicotine-product legislation. It is sold as a consumer product and in cessation preparations, so no prescription route follows from this placement.
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 is which regime was found to apply, tobacco and nicotine-product legislation, recorded after the narcotics lists had actually been searched. There is nothing to document and the row exists to record that the narcotics lists were actually searched before the regime was named. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
Primary sources
  • Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling
  • the annexes supplied no entry for this row, so the instrument that governs it is tobacco and nicotine-product legislation, recorded at GEO-68. Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The citation is to a product regime covering both tobacco and nicotine articles rather than to any list entry. The set that produced this record is one term written twice, in lower case and in capitals, so it is a single name rather than two independent ones, and the record is only as wide as that name. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given
  • none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.

Court records

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