Legal status in Tajikistan

Per-substance legal status for Tajikistan, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

58 confirmed substances30 not individually verifiedLast updated October 3, 2026

Confirmed legal status

25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 35 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «25I-NBOMe, 2C-I-NBOMe», described as «2-(4-иодо-2,5-диметоксифенил)-N-(2-метоксибензил)этанамин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 35 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 35, «25I-NBOMe, 2C-I-NBOMe», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 35, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying 25I-NBOMe into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 204 and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · Updated October 3, 2026

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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020), illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier (specific current-code year-terms not pinned in this cell; confirm against the current schedule); the maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment, and the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: 2C-B is controlled in Tajikistan under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). In Tajikistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). Illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier; the ceiling for drug offences is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. The precise current-code possession and trafficking terms should be confirmed against the current schedule.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tajikistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). Illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier; the ceiling for drug offences is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. The precise current-code possession and trafficking terms should be confirmed against the current schedule. (Historical note: older texts of the Code listed narcotics trafficking among capital offences; the current consolidated Code does not, it restricts the death penalty to a narrow set of grave non-drug crimes, and a moratorium has been in force since 2004.) Cannabis is controlled under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) · legislationline.org · Updated June 27, 2026

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2C-E

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 94 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «2C-E», described as «2-(2,5-диметокси-4-этилфенил)этанамин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 94 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 94, «2C-E», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 94, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying 2C-E into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 96 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «2C-I», described as «2-(4-иод-2,5-диметоксифенил)этанамин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 96 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. Its N-benzyl derivative 25I-NBOMe is a separate entry, item 35. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 96, «2C-I», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 96, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying 2C-I into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 103 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «2C-T-7», described as «2-[2,5-диметокси-4-(пропилсульфанил) фенил]этанамин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 103 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 103, «2C-T-7», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 103, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying 2C-T-7 into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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6-APB

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 57 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «APB», described as «1-(1-бензофуран-5-ил)пропан-2-амин; 1-(1-бензофуран-6-ил)пропан-2-амин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 57 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The second of the two chemical names in that entry, the benzofuran-6-yl compound, is 6-APB; the first is 5-APB. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 57, «APB», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 57, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying 6-APB into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled through its amphetamine content. Adderall is a brand name and has no entry of its own; a product is reached through whatever amphetamine or dexamfetamine, or salt of either, it contains. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 names «Амфетамин», described as «(±)-α-метилфенетиламин», at item 269 of Перечень 2, and «Дексамфетамин», «(+)-α-метилфенетиламин», at item 271, and its note adds «соли всех психотропных веществ, перечисленных в настоящем списке». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries amphetamine at row 283 and dexamfetamine at row 285 of its Перечень 2. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 283, «Амфетамин», sets the smallest size at «0,5 - 10 гр», the small size at «10 - 100 гр», the large size at «100 - 1000 гр», and the especially large size at over «1000 гр». Row 285, «Дексамфетамин», prints different and lower sizes, «0,02-0,05гр», «0,05-10гр», «10-20гр» and «20гр», and the annex does not say which row governs a product holding both. Note 4 to the annex measures a medicinal product «по чистому весу указанных веществ», by the pure weight of the controlled substance, not the weight of the tablets.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 269 to 284 of Перечень 2, which include items 269 and 271, among «психотропные вещества, представляющие особую опасность, и одновременно интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger that are also of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying Adderall into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Амфетамин» (amphetamine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to amphetamine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for amphetamine in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for amphetamine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether amphetamine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for amphetamine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List, as the dossier read it on 18 September 2026 · akn.tj · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Appendix 1, Table 1 and arts 200 to 204 and art 58(2), cited by the dossier row with no URL of its own · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) · legislationline.org · Updated October 3, 2026

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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan through its plants and its alkaloids. The brew has no entry of its own. Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, names three plants by species: row 9 «Банистериопсис каапи (растение вида Banisteriopsis caapi)», row 10 «Диплоптерис кабрерана (растение вида Diplopterys cabrerana)» and row 12 «Психотрия зеленая (растение вида Psychotria viridis)». Annex 1 is recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and was read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. The alkaloids are listed in Перечень 2 of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020: «ДМТ» at item 6, «Гармалин» at item 219 and «Гармин» at item 220. A brew holding a listed alkaloid is reached through that alkaloid, weighed under note 6 to the annex as set out below. The 2020 text of the National List, as the Agency published it, has no plant list. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 has one, Перечень 4, which names these three plants, in a file headed «Проект». Note 2 to article 200 of the Code takes the sizes from Annex 1 also for «растений, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, либо их частей, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, указанные в приложении 1 к настоящему Кодексу», and the annex counts as narcotic drugs «растения, классифицированные в качестве таковых в соответствующих Международных Конвенциях и Национальном Списке», so a listed plant is itself controlled material. It is weighed dry, after drying at «+110... +115 градусов Цельсия», under note 1 to Перечень 4.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 4, row 9, «Банистериопсис каапи (растение вида Banisteriopsis caapi)», sets the smallest size at «3-30гр», the small size at «30-2000гр», the large size at «2000-3000гр», and the especially large size at over «3000гр». Rows 10 and 12 print the same sizes. In Перечень 2, DMT, row 6, has the sizes «0,02-1гр», «1-10гр», «10-20гр» and over «20гр», and harmaline and harmine, rows 219 and 220, each have «0,02-0,05гр», «0,05-10гр», «10-20гр» and over «20гр». Note 6 to the annex weighs narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in a solution that is not a pharmaceutical product «по их количественному содержанию в растворе», by their content in the solution, so each listed alkaloid in a brew is measured by how much of it the brew holds, and the texts read do not say how two alkaloids in one brew are combined. Growing the plant is a separate offence, article 204, whose sizes are counted in bushes under a separate list that was not read, so the gram sizes above are not applied to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. Ayahuasca is a preparation, not a listed plant, and the plant entries in Перечень 4 carry no medical use category in the texts read. DMT, harmaline and harmine, items 6, 219 and 220, fall in items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2 of the 2020 list, which its note puts among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a prescription makes carrying ayahuasca into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект» · akn.tj · National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 204 and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · Updated October 3, 2026

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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled member by member. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 has no class entry for barbiturates; it names them one at a time in Перечень 2, among them «Секобарбитал» (item 283), «Аллобарбитал» (285), «Амобарбитал» (288), «Барбитал» (290), «Буталбитал» (295), «Бутобарбитал» (296), «Винилбитал» (297), «Метилфенобарбитал» (321), «Пентобарбитал» (332), «Секбутабарбитал» (338), «Фенобарбитал» (345) and «Циклобарбитал» (354). A barbiturate not on the list is not placed by this cell. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. The sizes differ by member, so the member named on the product decides the band; there is no barbiturate band as such. For example, Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 358, «Фенобарбитал», sets the smallest size at «5-100гр», the small size at «100-1000гр», the large size at «1кг-10кг», and the especially large size at over «10кг». Secobarbital, row 297, starts instead at «0,02-0,05гр», and methylphenobarbital, row 335, at «2-10гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts item 283, secobarbital, among «психотропные вещества, представляющие особую опасность, и одновременно интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger that are also of interest for medical use, and items 285 to 359, which include the other members named above, among «вещества, злоупотребление которыми в определенной степени опасно и представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», substances whose abuse is to a degree dangerous and which are of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying a barbiturate into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020), illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier (specific current-code year-terms not pinned in this cell; confirm against the current schedule); the maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment, and the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught: Benzodiazepines is controlled in Tajikistan under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). In Tajikistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). Illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier; the ceiling for drug offences is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. The precise current-code possession and trafficking terms should be confirmed against the current schedule.
If prescribed / medical: Not a prescribed traveller medicine in this form.
Documentation: In Tajikistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020). Illegal trafficking and related narcotics offences are the serious tier; the ceiling for drug offences is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. The precise current-code possession and trafficking terms should be confirmed against the current schedule. (Historical note: older texts of the Code listed narcotics trafficking among capital offences; the current consolidated Code does not, it restricts the death penalty to a narrow set of grave non-drug crimes, and a moratorium has been in force since 2004.) Cannabis is controlled under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.

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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Бупренорфин» (buprenorphine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to buprenorphine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Бупренорфин», so no quantity band is given for buprenorphine. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for buprenorphine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether buprenorphine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for buprenorphine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Каннабис высушенный» (dried cannabis), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to cannabis by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for cannabis in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 100 to 200 g dry; big 200 to 1000 g dry; large 1 to 10 kg dry; especially large over 10 kg dry. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for cannabis states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether cannabis may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for cannabis, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read. The previous version of this cell also stated that Tajikistan has no legal recreational or medical cannabis regime, citing that Code. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.

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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Катинон» (cathinone), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to cathinone by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for cathinone in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,02 to 1,0 g; big 1,0 to 10 g; large 10 to 100 g; especially large over 100 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for cathinone states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether cathinone may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for cathinone, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Клоназепам» (clonazepam), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to clonazepam by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for clonazepam in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,2 to 25 g; big 25 to 250 g; large 250 g to 2,5 kg; especially large over 2,5 kg. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for clonazepam states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether clonazepam may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for clonazepam, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Кокаин» (cocaine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to cocaine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for cocaine in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for cocaine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether cocaine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for cocaine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Кодеин» (codeine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to codeine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for codeine in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 1 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for codeine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether codeine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for codeine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled as cocaine. Item 16 of List 1 of Перечень 1, narcotic drugs, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Кокаин», described as «метиловый эфир бензоилэкгонина», the methyl ester of benzoylecgonine, which is the cocaine base itself. The list adds that «соли всех наркотических средств, перечисленных в настоящем списке» are also controlled, so cocaine is reached whether held as the base or as a salt. Crack has no entry of its own and is reached through this entry to the extent it is cocaine in either form. Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries «Кокаин» at row 21 of its Перечень 1. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 1, List 1, row 21, «Кокаин», sets the smallest size at «0,5-10гр», the small size at «10-100гр», the large size at «100-1000гр», and the especially large size at over «1000гр». Note 5 to the annex measures a mixture that is not a pharmaceutical product by «общему весу смеси», its total weight.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 35 of List 1 of Перечень 1, which include item 16, among «наркотические средства представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», narcotic drugs of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying crack cocaine into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 26 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Тетрагидроканнабинол, следующие изомеры и их стереохимические варианты», described as «6а,7,10,10а-тетрагидро-6,6,9-триметил-3-пентил-6H-дибензо[b,d]пиран-1-ол». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 26 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The chemical name quoted is the fourth of the six isomers that entry lists, and it is the chemical name of delta-8-tetrahydrocannabinol. Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is listed separately as «Дронабинол». The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 26, «Тетрагидроканнабинол, следующие изомеры и их стереохимические варианты», sets the smallest size at «0,1-10гр», the small size at «10-100гр», the large size at «100-1000гр», and the especially large size at over «1000гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 26, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying delta-8-THC into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Диазепам» (diazepam), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to diazepam by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for diazepam in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 25 g; big 25 to 250 g; large 250 g to 2,5 kg; especially large over 2,5 kg. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for diazepam states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether diazepam may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for diazepam, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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DMT

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «ДМТ» (DMT), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to DMT by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «ДМТ», so no quantity band is given for DMT. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for DMT states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether DMT may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for DMT, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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DOM

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 23 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «СТП, ДОМ», described as «2-5-диметокси-a,4-диметилфенетиламин». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 23 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 23, «СТП, ДОМ», sets the smallest size at «0,01-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 23, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying DOM into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Ephedrine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Эфедрин» (ephedrine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to ephedrine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Эфедрин», so no quantity band is given for ephedrine. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for ephedrine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether ephedrine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for ephedrine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, carries «Этизолам» at row 374 of its Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, described as «4-(2-хлорфенил)-2-этил-9-метил-6Н-тиено[3,2f][1,2,4]триазоло[4,3а][1,4] диазепин». The 2020 text of the National List does not name it; the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 does, at item 375, in a file headed «Проект». Annex 1 is the list and sizes of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances to which note 2 to article 200 of the Code refers.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 374, «Этизолам», sets the smallest size at «0,5-25гр», the small size at «25-250гр», the large size at «250гр-2,5кг», and the especially large size at over «2,5кг».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. Etizolam is not in the 2020 text, so the 2020 note on medical use does not place it, and the medical use category of the later list was read only in the file headed «Проект». The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying etizolam into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Фентанил» (fentanyl), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to fentanyl by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for fentanyl in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,001 to 0,1 g; big 0,1 to 1,0 g; large 1,0 to 10 g; especially large over 10 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for fentanyl states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether fentanyl may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for fentanyl, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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GHB

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «ГОМК и ее соли» (GHB and its salts), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to GHB by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «ГОМК и ее соли», so no quantity band is given for GHB. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for GHB states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether GHB may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for GHB, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Героин (диацетилморфин)» (heroin (diacetylmorphine)), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to heroin by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for heroin in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for heroin states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether heroin may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for heroin, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Гидрокодон» (hydrocodone), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to hydrocodone by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for hydrocodone in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for hydrocodone states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether hydrocodone may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for hydrocodone, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan as a potent substance in the hydrochloride form the list names, not as a narcotic or psychotropic substance. Annex 1 to Government Resolution No. 421 of 26 August 2022, the list of potent substances for the purposes of the Criminal Code, names «Кетамина гидрохлорид», ketamine hydrochloride, described as «2-(-Метиламино)-2-(2-хлорфенил)-циклогексанона гидрохлорид», and Annex 3 sets its large size «от» 5 grams. The note to Annexes 1 and 3 adds to the potent substances «соли перечисленных в настоящем списке веществ», «изомеры перечисленных в настоящем списке веществ» and «эфиры сложные и простые перечисленных в настоящем списке веществ», and it does not say in terms whether ketamine as the free base, rather than the hydrochloride, is reached. Ketamine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 as the Drug Control Agency published it, read at https://akn.tj/ru/2020/04/09/national-list-of-narcotic-drugs-psychotropic-substances-and-their-precursors/ on 3 October 2026, the Agency's consolidation of the list, which names Resolutions No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023 as its amending acts, and Annex 1 to the Criminal Code in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, searched for "кетамин", "ketamine", "калипсол" with Latin and Cyrillic lookalike letters treated as one, because Resolution No. 421 mixes them inside names, and with positive controls that found «Трамадол» in Resolution No. 421 and «Прегабалин (Pregabalin)» in the National List by the same method, so it is not a listed narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and articles 200 and 201 do not reach it as a listed substance; whether it could be treated as an analogue under those articles was not examined. Ketamine is also in the schedules of neither the 1961 Single Convention as at 6 June 2024 nor the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances as at 3 December 2024, both read on 3 October 2026, so note 1 to Criminal Code Annex 1, which counts as narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances those «которые не вошли в настоящий Перечень, но входят в соответствующие Списки Международных Конвенций и Национальный список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и их прекурсоров, либо включены в них после издания настоящего Перечня и в установленном порядке отнесены к наркотическим средствам, психотропным веществам и прекурсорам», does not reach it. Amendments to Resolution No. 421 after 2022 were not found and are not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan sets the death penalty only for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398)» and biocide under article 399, and names no offence concerning narcotic, psychotropic, potent or poisonous substances. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so none of those offences carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Part 1 of article 206 of the Criminal Code punishes «Незаконное производство, изготовление, переработка, приобретение, хранение, транспортировка или пересылка с целью сбыта, а равно незаконный сбыт сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, не являющихся наркотическими средствами или психотропными веществами», that is production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself, of potent or poisonous substances that are not narcotic or psychotropic, with restriction of liberty for three to five years or imprisonment for the same term. Part 2, the same acts by a group by prior agreement or committed repeatedly, carries five to seven years with confiscation of property. Part 3, the same acts by an organised group or «в отношении сильнодействующих веществ в крупном размере», in respect of potent substances in a large size, carries seven to ten years; the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 adds «с конфискацией имущества или без такового», with or without confiscation of property, which the official text at ncz.tj does not show. For ketamine hydrochloride the large size begins at 5 grams under Annex 3, and the note to Annexes 1 and 3 says that in a medicine the quantity «определяется по чистому весу указанных веществ», by the net weight of the substance and not of the tablet or ampoule. Article 206 as read reaches only conduct with intent to sell, and sale, and no article read punishes holding a potent or poisonous substance for one's own use as such. Article 206(1), a separate article, punishes in its part 2 a breach of the rules on «производства, приобретения, хранения, учета, отпуска, транспортировки или пересылки сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, если это повлекло их хищение либо причинение иного существенного вреда», where the breach led to theft or other substantial harm, with a fine of up to five hundred calculation indicators, correctional work of up to two years or imprisonment for the same term with disqualification from particular posts or activities for up to three years. Part 1 of article 166, in the official text at ncz.tj, punishes an adult who involves a minor in «систематическое, немедицинское употребление сильнодействующих или других одурманивающих веществ» with correctional work of up to one year or imprisonment of up to two years. Part 2 raises that to imprisonment of up to three years, with or without disqualification for up to three years, where a parent, teacher or other person responsible for the minor's upbringing does it, and part 3 to up to five years, with disqualification for two to five years, where two or more minors are involved, violence or its threat is used, or the act is repeated. The Code of Administrative Offences, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 16 February 2026, has no article on holding a potent or poisonous substance as such: its article 128 reaches only «наркотических средств или психотропных веществ, их аналогов или их прекурсоров», and a search of its text for "сильнодейств" found only part 2 of article 90, which fines a parent or guardian fifteen to twenty calculation indicators for failing to prevent a child bringing «сильнодействующий или другие одурманивающие вещества» into an educational institution. No other penalty for simple possession is stated. Whether moving such a substance across the customs border falls under article 289(3) is not settled by its text. That part carries eight to twelve years and lists «сильнодействующих, ядовитых, отравляющих, радиоактивных, взрывчатых веществ» among the goods it covers, where the act is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; but its list closes with goods «в отношении которых установлены специальные правила перемещения через таможенную границу Республики Таджикистан», and the text does not say whether those words qualify every item listed or only the last. Where part 3 applies, part 4 raises the term to twelve to fifteen years for a repeat offence, use of an official position, violence or its threat against a customs officer, or breaking through the customs border, and part 5 to fifteen to twenty years for an organised group.
If prescribed / medical: The note to Annexes 1 and 3 of Resolution No. 421 provides «Розничная реализация (отпуск) осуществляется исключительно аптеками на основании рецепта врача», so retail supply is through pharmacies only, on a doctor's prescription. Point 2 of the resolution tells the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to «разработать и принять правила ввоза, вывоза и обращения сильнодействующих и ядовитых веществ», to make rules on their import, export and handling. Those rules were searched for and not found, so no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying ketamine into Tajikistan lawful is stated. Article 15 of Law No. 873, the prescription rule for narcotic and psychotropic substances, does not reach ketamine, which is on neither of those lists.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires «разрешение и сертификат международного образца» for each import or export, but it covers narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, and the texts read do not extend it to potent substances. No personal allowance for a traveller carrying ketamine is stated in any text read. Provenance of Resolution No. 421. It was read in the.doc file that the Drug Control Agency under the President links from its page dated 27 September 2022. The file carries the signed resolution, dated 26 August 2022 and numbered 421, which approves the three annexes, refers to them as files marked «421 ОТ 26.08.22», repeals Government Resolution No. 576 of 29 December 2003 on the earlier potent and poisonous lists, and cites article 206 of the Criminal Code. Each annex is headed as an annex to the resolution of 26 August 2022 No. 421, although the word «Проект» also stands above Annex 1 in the file. The official Criminal Code at ncz.tj records the note to article 206, which gives the Government the power to approve these lists, as «в редакции Закона РТ от 19.07.2022 №1895», five weeks before the resolution. No second publisher of the resolution was found: web searches in Russian and Tajik, and a search restricted to prg.kz, zakon.kz, spinform, continent-online, adlia.tj, mmk.tj, ncz.tj and cis-legislation, returned nothing for it. Amendments to the resolution after 2022 were searched for and not found, but are not ruled out. The previous version of this cell said no entry for ketamine was retained from the National List or the Criminal Code quantity list, and named Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 and Appendix 1, Table 1 as the framework its dossier checked. That search was right about those lists; ketamine hydrochloride sits on the separate potent substances list instead. Routes tried in this run, each logged in routes-log.txt beside the batch files: the Drug Control Agency's 2020 list page, its 2023.doc file, its 2022 page for Resolution No. 421 and the resolution's.doc file, each HTTP 200; the Agency's law category pages 2 to 4, HTTP 404; the prg.kz consolidation of the Criminal Code, pages 3, 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16, each HTTP 200; the ncz.tj pages for the Criminal Code and Law No. 873, HTTP 200; the Agency's site search for "сильнодействующих", which is how Resolution No. 421 was found; a mehnat.tj file offered by one search, whose host did not resolve; the UN schedules of the 1961 and 1971 Conventions at documents.un.org, HTTP 200; the prg.kz consolidation of Resolution No. 121 and of the Code of Administrative Offences, pages 1 to 17, HTTP 200; web searches in Russian and Tajik for the Ministry of Health rules under point 2 of Resolution No. 421 and for amendments to Resolution No. 121 after 2023, which found neither.

Government Resolution No. 421 of 26 August 2022, «О списках сильнодействующих и ядовитых веществ, а также крупном размере сильнодействующих веществ для целей соответствующих статей Уголовного кодекса Республики Таджикистан», with Annex 1 (potent substances), Annex 2 (poisonous substances) and Annex 3 (large size of potent substances), in the.doc file the Drug Control Agency under the President published on 27 September 2022, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · akn.tj · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 206, 206(1) and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles, and article 166, in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 455 of 31 December 2008, prg.kz consolidation dated 16 February 2026, pages 1 to 17, read on 3 October 2026 · https://prg.kz/m/amp/document/30414710/1/0 to https://prg.kz/m/amp/document/30414710/17/0 · National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended by Resolutions No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект», read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · akn.tj · Criminal Code Annex 1, list and sizes, in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · Schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, as at 6 June 2024, ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.11, read on 3 October 2026 · documents.un.org · Schedules of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, as at 3 December 2024, ST/CND/1/Add.2/Rev.10, read on 3 October 2026 · documents.un.org · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 10 and 15, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · carried from the previous version of this cell: Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List, as the dossier read it on 18 September 2026, and Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Appendix 1, Table 1 and arts 200 to 204, cited by the dossier row with no URL of its own · Updated October 3, 2026

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Khat

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Row 4 of Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, is «Кат (растение вида Catha edulis)», khat. Annex 1 is recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and was read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. Cathinone and cathine are also listed in their own right in Перечень 2 of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020: «Катинон» at item 2 and «Катин, (+)-норпсевдоэфедрин» at item 306. The 2020 text of the National List, as the Agency published it, has no plant list. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 has one, Перечень 4, which names this plant, in a file headed «Проект». Note 2 to article 200 of the Code takes the sizes from Annex 1 also for «растений, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, либо их частей, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, указанные в приложении 1 к настоящему Кодексу», and the annex counts as narcotic drugs «растения, классифицированные в качестве таковых в соответствующих Международных Конвенциях и Национальном Списке», so a listed plant is itself controlled material. It is weighed dry, after drying at «+110... +115 градусов Цельсия», under note 1 to Перечень 4.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 4, row 4, «Кат (растение вида Catha edulis)», sets the smallest size at «100-1000 гр», the small size at «1000-20000гр», the large size at «20000-50000гр», and the especially large size at over «50000гр». Growing the plant is a separate offence, article 204, whose sizes are counted in bushes under a separate list that was not read, so the gram sizes above are not applied to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The plant entry for khat in Перечень 4 carries no medical use category in the texts read. Of the two listed relatives, cathinone, item 2, falls in items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which the 2020 note puts among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use, and cathine, item 306, falls in items 285 to 359, among «вещества, злоупотребление которыми в определенной степени опасно и представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», substances whose abuse is to a degree dangerous and which are of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a prescription makes carrying khat into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Kratom

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan as a plant. Row 6 of Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, is «Митрагина прекрасная (растение вида Mitragyna speciose) - Кратом». Annex 1 is recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and was read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. Neither mitragynine nor 7-hydroxymitragynine is named in the National List or in Annex 1 as read, so this entry reaches kratom leaf and plant material, and does not by itself place an isolated alkaloid. The previous version of this cell said its dossier read a nearer entry for mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine; no such entry appears in any of the texts read in this run. The 2020 text of the National List, as the Agency published it, has no plant list. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 has one, Перечень 4, which names this plant, in a file headed «Проект». Note 2 to article 200 of the Code takes the sizes from Annex 1 also for «растений, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, либо их частей, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, указанные в приложении 1 к настоящему Кодексу», and the annex counts as narcotic drugs «растения, классифицированные в качестве таковых в соответствующих Международных Конвенциях и Национальном Списке», so a listed plant is itself controlled material. It is weighed dry, after drying at «+110... +115 градусов Цельсия», under note 1 to Перечень 4.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 4, row 6, «Митрагина прекрасная (растение вида Mitragyna speciose) - Кратом», sets the smallest size at «3-30гр», the small size at «30-2000гр», the large size at «2000-3000гр», and the especially large size at over «3000гр». Growing the plant is a separate offence, article 204, whose sizes are counted in bushes under a separate list that was not read, so the gram sizes above are not applied to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The plant entry for kratom in Перечень 4 carries no medical use category in the texts read. Its alkaloids have no entry, so no category attaches to them either. The texts read set out no route by which a prescription makes carrying kratom into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Лоразепам» (lorazepam), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to lorazepam by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for lorazepam in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,2 to 25 g; big 25 to 250 g; large 250 g to 2,5 kg; especially large over 2,5 kg. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for lorazepam states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether lorazepam may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for lorazepam, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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LSD

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «(+)-Лизергид, ЛСД, ЛСД-25» ((+)-lysergide, LSD, LSD-25), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to LSD by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for LSD in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,02 to 1 mg; big 0,001 to 0,01 g; large 0,01 to 0,1 g; especially large over 0,1 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for LSD states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether LSD may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for LSD, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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MDA

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Тенамфетамин» (tenamfetamine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to MDA by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for MDA in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,02 to 1,0 g; big 1,0 to 10 g; large 10 to 100 g; especially large over 100 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for MDA states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether MDA may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for MDA, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «МДМА» (MDMA), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to MDMA by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for MDMA in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,02 to 1,0 g; big 1,0 to 10 g; large 10 to 100 g; especially large over 100 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for MDMA states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether MDMA may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for MDMA, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 245 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «МДПВ, 3,4-метилендиоксипировалерон», described as «(R/S)-1-(бензо[d][1,3]диоксол-5-ил)-2-(пирролидин-1-ил)пентан-1-он». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 245 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 245, «МДПВ, 3,4-метилендиоксипировалерон», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 245, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying MDPV into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 232 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Мефедрон, 4-метилметкатинон, 4-ММС», described as «2-(метиламино)-1-(4-метилфенил)пропан-1-он». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 232 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 232, «Мефедрон, 4-метилметкатинон, 4-ММС», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 232, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying mephedrone into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Мескалин» (mescaline), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to mescaline by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Мескалин», so no quantity band is given for mescaline. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for mescaline states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether mescaline may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for mescaline, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Метадон» (methadone), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to methadone by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for methadone in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for methadone states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether methadone may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for methadone, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Метамфетамин» (methamphetamine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to methamphetamine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for methamphetamine in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for methamphetamine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether methamphetamine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for methamphetamine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Метаквалон» (methaqualone), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to methaqualone by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Метаквалон», so no quantity band is given for methaqualone. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for methaqualone states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether methaqualone may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for methaqualone, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 233 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Метилон, бета-kето- MDMA», described as «(R/S)-2-(метиламино)-1-(3,4-метилендиоксифенил) пропан-1-он». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 233 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 233, «Метилон, бета-kето- MDMA», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 233, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying methylone into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Метилфенидат» (methylphenidate), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to methylphenidate by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Метилфенидат», so no quantity band is given for methylphenidate. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for methylphenidate states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether methylphenidate may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for methylphenidate, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Морфин» (morphine), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to morphine by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for morphine in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,5 to 10 g; big 10 to 100 g; large 100 to 1000 g; especially large over 1000 g. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for morphine states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether morphine may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for morphine, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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MXE

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 231 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Метоксетамин, МХЕ, 3-МеО-2-Охо-РСЕ», described as «2-(3-метоксифенил)-2-(этиламино) циклогексанон». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 231 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 231, «Метоксетамин, МХЕ, 3-МеО-2-Охо-РСЕ», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 231, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying methoxetamine into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Nimetazepam

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 325 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Ниметазепам», described as «1,3 -дигидро-1 -метил-7-нитро-5-фенил-2Н-1,4-бензодиазепин-2-он». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 339 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The annex follows the numbering of the list as amended in 2021 and 2023, in which the Drug Control Agency's consolidation also puts nimetazepam at item 339. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 339, «Ниметазепам», sets the smallest size at «2-10гр», the small size at «10-100гр», the large size at «100-1000гр», and the especially large size at over «1000гр».
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 285 to 359 of Перечень 2, which include item 325, among «вещества, злоупотребление которыми в определенной степени опасно и представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», substances whose abuse is to a degree dangerous and which are of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying nimetazepam into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Opium

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 23 of List 1 of Перечень 1, narcotic drugs, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Опий», with «Экстракционный опий» and «Ацетилированный опий», described as «Свернувшийся сок опийного мака (растения вида Papaver somniferum L.).», the coagulated juice of the opium poppy. Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same three forms at row 28 of its Перечень 1. The opium poppy plant and poppy straw are separate entries, item 18 of the list. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 1, List 1, row 28, «Опий», sets the smallest size at «5-100 гр», the small size at «100-1000гр», the large size at «1-10 кг», and the especially large size at over «10 кг». The same four sizes are printed for extraction opium and acetylated opium.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 35 of List 1 of Перечень 1, which include item 23, among «наркотические средства представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», narcotic drugs of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying opium into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The previous version of this cell said no entry for «опий» was retained from the list. That was a search miss: the 2020 list prints «Опий» at item 23 of List 1, quoted above. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Оксикодон» (oxycodone), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to oxycodone by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Оксикодон», so no quantity band is given for oxycodone. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for oxycodone states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether oxycodone may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for oxycodone, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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PCP

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Фенциклидин, ФЦП» (phencyclidine, PCP), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to PCP by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Фенциклидин, ФЦП», so no quantity band is given for PCP. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for PCP states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether PCP may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for PCP, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan, both as a plant and through its active compound. Row 3 of Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, is «Кактус. содержащий мескалин (растение вида Lophophora williamsii), и другие виды кактуса, содержащие мескалин», peyote and other mescaline cacti. Annex 1 is recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and was read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. Mescaline is item 12 of Перечень 2 of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, «Мескалин». The 2020 text of the National List, as the Agency published it, has no plant list. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 has one, Перечень 4, which names mescaline cacti, in a file headed «Проект». Note 2 to article 200 of the Code takes the sizes from Annex 1 also for «растений, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, либо их частей, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, указанные в приложении 1 к настоящему Кодексу», and the annex counts as narcotic drugs «растения, классифицированные в качестве таковых в соответствующих Международных Конвенциях и Национальном Списке», so a listed plant is itself controlled material. It is weighed dry, after drying at «+110... +115 градусов Цельсия», under note 1 to Перечень 4.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 4, row 3, «Кактус. содержащий мескалин (растение вида Lophophora williamsii), и другие виды кактуса, содержащие мескалин», sets the smallest size at «50-250 гр», the small size at «250-15000гр», the large size at «15000-25000гр», and the especially large size at over «25000гр». Mescaline on its own, row 12 of Перечень 2, has the sizes «0,03-1гр», «1-10гр», «10-20гр» and over «20гр». Growing the plant is a separate offence, article 204, whose sizes are counted in bushes under a separate list that was not read, so the gram sizes above are not applied to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The plant entry for peyote in Перечень 4 carries no medical use category in the texts read. Mescaline, item 12, falls in items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2 of the 2020 list, which its note puts among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a prescription makes carrying peyote into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Pregabalin

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 337 of Перечень 2 of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, is «Прегабалин (Pregabalin)», described as «(3s)-3-(aminomethyl)-5-methylhexanoic acid». The Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 still prints it, at item 351, though that file is headed «Проект». The Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023; the text of No. 507 was not read and No. 87 was read only in its opening, so a later amendment that removed pregabalin from the list is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, has no row for pregabalin. From row 320 to row 350 the annex matches the Agency's 2023 consolidation of the list entry for entry; at 351 the consolidation has pregabalin and the annex has «Секбутабарбитал», and from there the annex runs one number behind. So the annex reproduces that part of the list with pregabalin alone left out, and the texts read do not say why. Note 2 to the annex says that the absence of a name from the annex «не означает» that a substance named in the National List is not a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and continues «В этом случае, они относятся к одному из перечисленных в настоящем Перечне и в соответствии с этим квалифицируются», in that case it is assigned to one of the substances the annex lists and qualified accordingly. The annex does not say which listed substance pregabalin is assigned to, so no size band, and with it no band under article 200 or article 201, is stated for pregabalin here.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 285 to 359 of Перечень 2, which include item 337, among «вещества, злоупотребление которыми в определенной степени опасно и представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», substances whose abuse is to a degree dangerous and which are of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying pregabalin into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The previous version of this cell said no entry for pregabalin was retained from the list. That was a search miss: the 2020 list prints «Прегабалин (Pregabalin)» at item 337, quoted above. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект» · akn.tj · Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 204 and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · Updated October 3, 2026

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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Псилоцибин» (psilocybin), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to psilocybin by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Псилоцибин», so no quantity band is given for psilocybin. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for psilocybin states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether psilocybin may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for psilocybin, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan, both as a plant and through its active compound. Row 8 of Перечень 4 of Annex 1 to the Criminal Code, plants containing narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, is «Шалфей предсказателсй (растение вида Salvia divinorum)», with the misspelling in the source. Annex 1 is recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 and was read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026. Its active compound is item 251 of Перечень 2 of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, «Сальвинорин А, дивинорин А», and row 251 of Перечень 2 of the annex. The 2020 text of the National List, as the Agency published it, has no plant list. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the list as amended up to Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023 has one, Перечень 4, which names this plant, in a file headed «Проект». Note 2 to article 200 of the Code takes the sizes from Annex 1 also for «растений, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, либо их частей, содержащих наркотические средства или психотропные вещества, указанные в приложении 1 к настоящему Кодексу», and the annex counts as narcotic drugs «растения, классифицированные в качестве таковых в соответствующих Международных Конвенциях и Национальном Списке», so a listed plant is itself controlled material. It is weighed dry, after drying at «+110... +115 градусов Цельсия», under note 1 to Перечень 4.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 4, row 8, «Шалфей предсказателсй (растение вида Salvia divinorum)», sets the smallest size at «3-30гр», the small size at «30-2000гр», the large size at «2000-3000гр», and the especially large size at over «3000гр». Salvinorin A on its own, row 251, has the sizes «0,02-0,05гр», «0,05-10гр», «10-20гр» and over «20гр». Growing the plant is a separate offence, article 204, whose sizes are counted in bushes under a separate list that was not read, so the gram sizes above are not applied to cultivation.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The plant entry for Salvia divinorum in Перечень 4 carries no medical use category in the texts read. Salvinorin A, item 251, falls in items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2 of the 2020 list, which its note puts among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a prescription makes carrying Salvia divinorum into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan as a poisonous substance under the entry «Скополамин», not as a narcotic or psychotropic substance. Annex 2 to Government Resolution No. 421 of 26 August 2022, the list of poisonous substances for the purposes of the Criminal Code, names «Скополамин». The same annex names «Сумма алкалоидов белладонны», the summed belladonna alkaloids, and Annex 1, the potent substances list, names «Листья белладонны» and «Экстракт белладонны». Annex 2 carries no note extending it to salts, the salts note being headed «Примечание к приложениям 1 и 3», and it names hyoscyamine separately as «Гиосциамин основание», «Гиосциамина камфорат» and «Гиосциамина сульфат», so whether a salt of scopolamine is reached by the entry «Скополамин» is not stated. Scopolamine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 as the Drug Control Agency published it, read at https://akn.tj/ru/2020/04/09/national-list-of-narcotic-drugs-psychotropic-substances-and-their-precursors/ on 3 October 2026, the Agency's consolidation of the list, which names Resolutions No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023 as its amending acts, and Annex 1 to the Criminal Code in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, searched for "скополамин", "scopolamine", "гиосцин" with Latin and Cyrillic lookalike letters treated as one, because Resolution No. 421 mixes them inside names, and with positive controls that found «Трамадол» in Resolution No. 421 and «Прегабалин (Pregabalin)» in the National List by the same method, so it is not a listed narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and articles 200 and 201 do not reach it as a listed substance; whether it could be treated as an analogue under those articles was not examined. Scopolamine is also in the schedules of neither the 1961 Single Convention as at 6 June 2024 nor the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances as at 3 December 2024, both read on 3 October 2026, so note 1 to Criminal Code Annex 1, which counts as narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances those «которые не вошли в настоящий Перечень, но входят в соответствующие Списки Международных Конвенций и Национальный список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и их прекурсоров, либо включены в них после издания настоящего Перечня и в установленном порядке отнесены к наркотическим средствам, психотропным веществам и прекурсорам», does not reach it. Amendments to Resolution No. 421 after 2022 were not found and are not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan sets the death penalty only for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398)» and biocide under article 399, and names no offence concerning narcotic, psychotropic, potent or poisonous substances. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so none of those offences carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Part 1 of article 206 of the Criminal Code punishes «Незаконное производство, изготовление, переработка, приобретение, хранение, транспортировка или пересылка с целью сбыта, а равно незаконный сбыт сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, не являющихся наркотическими средствами или психотропными веществами», that is production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself, of potent or poisonous substances that are not narcotic or psychotropic, with restriction of liberty for three to five years or imprisonment for the same term. Part 2, the same acts by a group by prior agreement or committed repeatedly, carries five to seven years with confiscation of property. Part 3 carries seven to ten years where the acts are done by an organised group; its other limb, a large size, applies only to potent substances, and Annex 3 sets large sizes for potent substances alone, so no size threshold exists for scopolamine. The prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 adds to part 3 «с конфискацией имущества или без такового», which the official text at ncz.tj does not show. Article 206 as read reaches only conduct with intent to sell, and sale, and no article read punishes holding a potent or poisonous substance for one's own use as such. Article 206(1), a separate article, punishes in its part 2 a breach of the rules on «производства, приобретения, хранения, учета, отпуска, транспортировки или пересылки сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, если это повлекло их хищение либо причинение иного существенного вреда», where the breach led to theft or other substantial harm, with a fine of up to five hundred calculation indicators, correctional work of up to two years or imprisonment for the same term with disqualification from particular posts or activities for up to three years. The Code of Administrative Offences, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 16 February 2026, has no article on holding a potent or poisonous substance as such: its article 128 reaches only «наркотических средств или психотропных веществ, их аналогов или их прекурсоров», and a search of its text for "сильнодейств" found only part 2 of article 90, which fines a parent or guardian fifteen to twenty calculation indicators for failing to prevent a child bringing «сильнодействующий или другие одурманивающие вещества» into an educational institution. Its article 288(2) fines carrying «отравляющих и ядовитых веществ» on a trolleybus, bus or route taxi, or checking them as baggage on road transport, at one to three calculation indicators with confiscation. No other penalty for simple possession is stated. Whether moving such a substance across the customs border falls under article 289(3) is not settled by its text. That part carries eight to twelve years and lists «сильнодействующих, ядовитых, отравляющих, радиоактивных, взрывчатых веществ» among the goods it covers, where the act is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; but its list closes with goods «в отношении которых установлены специальные правила перемещения через таможенную границу Республики Таджикистан», and the text does not say whether those words qualify every item listed or only the last. Where part 3 applies, part 4 raises the term to twelve to fifteen years for a repeat offence, use of an official position, violence or its threat against a customs officer, or breaking through the customs border, and part 5 to fifteen to twenty years for an organised group.
If prescribed / medical: The pharmacy and prescription note of Resolution No. 421 is headed «Примечание к приложениям 1 и 3», so it covers the potent substances and not Annex 2, and the texts read set no prescribing rule for poisonous substances. Point 2 of the resolution tells the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to «разработать и принять правила ввоза, вывоза и обращения сильнодействующих и ядовитых веществ»; those rules were searched for and not found, so no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying a scopolamine medicine into Tajikistan lawful is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires «разрешение и сертификат международного образца» for each import or export, but it covers narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, and the texts read do not extend it to poisonous substances. No personal allowance for a traveller carrying scopolamine is stated in any text read. Provenance of Resolution No. 421. It was read in the.doc file that the Drug Control Agency under the President links from its page dated 27 September 2022. The file carries the signed resolution, dated 26 August 2022 and numbered 421, which approves the three annexes, refers to them as files marked «421 ОТ 26.08.22», repeals Government Resolution No. 576 of 29 December 2003 on the earlier potent and poisonous lists, and cites article 206 of the Criminal Code. Each annex is headed as an annex to the resolution of 26 August 2022 No. 421, although the word «Проект» also stands above Annex 1 in the file. The official Criminal Code at ncz.tj records the note to article 206, which gives the Government the power to approve these lists, as «в редакции Закона РТ от 19.07.2022 №1895», five weeks before the resolution. No second publisher of the resolution was found: web searches in Russian and Tajik, and a search restricted to prg.kz, zakon.kz, spinform, continent-online, adlia.tj, mmk.tj, ncz.tj and cis-legislation, returned nothing for it. Amendments to the resolution after 2022 were searched for and not found, but are not ruled out. The previous version of this cell said no entry for scopolamine was retained from the National List or the Criminal Code quantity list, and named Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 and Appendix 1, Table 1 as the framework its dossier checked. That search was right about those lists; scopolamine sits on the separate poisonous substances list instead. Routes tried in this run, each logged in routes-log.txt beside the batch files: the Drug Control Agency's 2020 list page, its 2023.doc file, its 2022 page for Resolution No. 421 and the resolution's.doc file, each HTTP 200; the Agency's law category pages 2 to 4, HTTP 404; the prg.kz consolidation of the Criminal Code, pages 3, 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16, each HTTP 200; the ncz.tj pages for the Criminal Code and Law No. 873, HTTP 200; the Agency's site search for "сильнодействующих", which is how Resolution No. 421 was found; a mehnat.tj file offered by one search, whose host did not resolve; the UN schedules of the 1961 and 1971 Conventions at documents.un.org, HTTP 200; the prg.kz consolidation of Resolution No. 121 and of the Code of Administrative Offences, pages 1 to 17, HTTP 200; web searches in Russian and Tajik for the Ministry of Health rules under point 2 of Resolution No. 421 and for amendments to Resolution No. 121 after 2023, which found neither.

Government Resolution No. 421 of 26 August 2022, «О списках сильнодействующих и ядовитых веществ, а также крупном размере сильнодействующих веществ для целей соответствующих статей Уголовного кодекса Республики Таджикистан», with Annex 1 (potent substances), Annex 2 (poisonous substances) and Annex 3 (large size of potent substances), in the.doc file the Drug Control Agency under the President published on 27 September 2022, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · akn.tj · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 206, 206(1) and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Code of Administrative Offences of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 455 of 31 December 2008, prg.kz consolidation dated 16 February 2026, pages 1 to 17, read on 3 October 2026 · https://prg.kz/m/amp/document/30414710/1/0 to https://prg.kz/m/amp/document/30414710/17/0 · National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · the Drug Control Agency's consolidation of the National List as amended by Resolutions No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, a.doc file headed «Проект», read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · akn.tj · Criminal Code Annex 1, list and sizes, in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · Schedules of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs of 1961 as amended by the 1972 Protocol, as at 6 June 2024, ST/CND/1/Add.1/Rev.11, read on 3 October 2026 · documents.un.org · Schedules of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971, as at 3 December 2024, ST/CND/1/Add.2/Rev.10, read on 3 October 2026 · documents.un.org · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, article 10, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · carried from the previous version of this cell: Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, National List, as the dossier read it on 18 September 2026, and Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Appendix 1, Table 1 and arts 200 to 204, cited by the dossier row with no URL of its own · Updated October 3, 2026

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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled compound by compound. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 has no class entry for synthetic cannabinoids; it names dozens of them one at a time in Перечень 2, among them «5F-ADB/5F-MDMB-PINACA» (item 37), «UR-144» (39), «XLR-11» (40), «AM-2201, JWH 2201» (51), «JWH-018, AM-678» (114) and «MDMB-CHMICA» (164). A product is placed when the compound in it is named. A compound that is not named can still be reached as an analogue: articles 200 and 201 of the Criminal Code cover substances «или их аналогов», and article 2 of Law No. 873 defines an analogue as a substance not on the National List «химическая структура и свойства которых сходны с химической структурой и свойствами наркотиков, психоактивное действие которых они воспроизводят». Whether a given unnamed compound meets that test is decided case by case and is not settled here. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 114, «JWH-018, AM-678», sets the smallest size at «0,02-0,05гр», the small size at «0,05-10гр», the large size at «10-20гр», and the especially large size at over «20гр». Note 4 to article 200 gives an analogue the sizes of the substance it is an analogue of.
If prescribed / medical: Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 1 to 268 of Перечень 2, which include item 114 and the other named compounds above, among «психотропные вещества представляющие особую опасность и не представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», psychotropic substances of particular danger and of no interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying a synthetic cannabinoid into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier read a nearer entry and rejected it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.

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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan as a potent substance, not as a narcotic or psychotropic substance. Annex 1 to Government Resolution No. 421 of 26 August 2022, the list of potent substances for the purposes of the Criminal Code, names «Трамадол» with the trade names «Мabron (Маброн), Tradol (Традол), Tramadol hydrochloride, Tramal (Трамал), (Синтрадон)» and the description «(цис-(±)-2-[(Диметиламино)метил]-1-(3'-метоксифенил)циклогексанол (в виде гидрохлорида)», and Annex 3 sets its large size «от» 20 grams. Tramadol is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 as the Drug Control Agency published it, read at https://akn.tj/ru/2020/04/09/national-list-of-narcotic-drugs-psychotropic-substances-and-their-precursors/ on 3 October 2026, the Agency's consolidation of the list, which names Resolutions No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023 as its amending acts, and Annex 1 to the Criminal Code in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, searched for "трамадол", "tramadol", "трамал" with Latin and Cyrillic lookalike letters treated as one, because Resolution No. 421 mixes them inside names, and with positive controls that found «Трамадол» in Resolution No. 421 and «Прегабалин (Pregabalin)» in the National List by the same method, so it is not a listed narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and articles 200 and 201 do not reach it as a listed substance; whether it could be treated as an analogue under those articles was not examined. Tramadol is also in the schedules of neither the 1961 Single Convention as at 6 June 2024 nor the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances as at 3 December 2024, both read on 3 October 2026, so note 1 to Criminal Code Annex 1, which counts as narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances those «которые не вошли в настоящий Перечень, но входят в соответствующие Списки Международных Конвенций и Национальный список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и их прекурсоров, либо включены в них после издания настоящего Перечня и в установленном порядке отнесены к наркотическим средствам, психотропным веществам и прекурсорам», does not reach it. Amendments to Resolution No. 421 after 2022 were not found and are not ruled out.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan sets the death penalty only for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398)» and biocide under article 399, and names no offence concerning narcotic, psychotropic, potent or poisonous substances. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so none of those offences carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Part 1 of article 206 of the Criminal Code punishes «Незаконное производство, изготовление, переработка, приобретение, хранение, транспортировка или пересылка с целью сбыта, а равно незаконный сбыт сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, не являющихся наркотическими средствами или психотропными веществами», that is production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself, of potent or poisonous substances that are not narcotic or psychotropic, with restriction of liberty for three to five years or imprisonment for the same term. Part 2, the same acts by a group by prior agreement or committed repeatedly, carries five to seven years with confiscation of property. Part 3, the same acts by an organised group or «в отношении сильнодействующих веществ в крупном размере», in respect of potent substances in a large size, carries seven to ten years; the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 adds «с конфискацией имущества или без такового», with or without confiscation of property, which the official text at ncz.tj does not show. For tramadol the large size begins at 20 grams under Annex 3, and the note to Annexes 1 and 3 says that in a medicine the quantity «определяется по чистому весу указанных веществ», by the net weight of the substance and not of the tablet or ampoule. Article 206 as read reaches only conduct with intent to sell, and sale, and no article read punishes holding a potent or poisonous substance for one's own use as such. Article 206(1), a separate article, punishes in its part 2 a breach of the rules on «производства, приобретения, хранения, учета, отпуска, транспортировки или пересылки сильнодействующих или ядовитых веществ, если это повлекло их хищение либо причинение иного существенного вреда», where the breach led to theft or other substantial harm, with a fine of up to five hundred calculation indicators, correctional work of up to two years or imprisonment for the same term with disqualification from particular posts or activities for up to three years. Part 1 of article 166, in the official text at ncz.tj, punishes an adult who involves a minor in «систематическое, немедицинское употребление сильнодействующих или других одурманивающих веществ» with correctional work of up to one year or imprisonment of up to two years. Part 2 raises that to imprisonment of up to three years, with or without disqualification for up to three years, where a parent, teacher or other person responsible for the minor's upbringing does it, and part 3 to up to five years, with disqualification for two to five years, where two or more minors are involved, violence or its threat is used, or the act is repeated. The Code of Administrative Offences, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 16 February 2026, has no article on holding a potent or poisonous substance as such: its article 128 reaches only «наркотических средств или психотропных веществ, их аналогов или их прекурсоров», and a search of its text for "сильнодейств" found only part 2 of article 90, which fines a parent or guardian fifteen to twenty calculation indicators for failing to prevent a child bringing «сильнодействующий или другие одурманивающие вещества» into an educational institution. No other penalty for simple possession is stated. Whether moving such a substance across the customs border falls under article 289(3) is not settled by its text. That part carries eight to twelve years and lists «сильнодействующих, ядовитых, отравляющих, радиоактивных, взрывчатых веществ» among the goods it covers, where the act is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; but its list closes with goods «в отношении которых установлены специальные правила перемещения через таможенную границу Республики Таджикистан», and the text does not say whether those words qualify every item listed or only the last. Where part 3 applies, part 4 raises the term to twelve to fifteen years for a repeat offence, use of an official position, violence or its threat against a customs officer, or breaking through the customs border, and part 5 to fifteen to twenty years for an organised group.
If prescribed / medical: The note to Annexes 1 and 3 of Resolution No. 421 provides «Розничная реализация (отпуск) осуществляется исключительно аптеками на основании рецепта врача», so retail supply is through pharmacies only, on a doctor's prescription. Point 2 of the resolution tells the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to «разработать и принять правила ввоза, вывоза и обращения сильнодействующих и ядовитых веществ», to make rules on their import, export and handling. Those rules were searched for and not found, so no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying tramadol into Tajikistan lawful is stated. Article 15 of Law No. 873, the prescription rule for narcotic and psychotropic substances, does not reach tramadol, which is on neither of those lists.
Documentation: Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires «разрешение и сертификат международного образца» for each import or export, but it covers narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, and the texts read do not extend it to potent substances. No personal allowance for a traveller carrying tramadol is stated in any text read. Provenance of Resolution No. 421. It was read in the.doc file that the Drug Control Agency under the President links from its page dated 27 September 2022. The file carries the signed resolution, dated 26 August 2022 and numbered 421, which approves the three annexes, refers to them as files marked «421 ОТ 26.08.22», repeals Government Resolution No. 576 of 29 December 2003 on the earlier potent and poisonous lists, and cites article 206 of the Criminal Code. Each annex is headed as an annex to the resolution of 26 August 2022 No. 421, although the word «Проект» also stands above Annex 1 in the file. The official Criminal Code at ncz.tj records the note to article 206, which gives the Government the power to approve these lists, as «в редакции Закона РТ от 19.07.2022 №1895», five weeks before the resolution. No second publisher of the resolution was found: web searches in Russian and Tajik, and a search restricted to prg.kz, zakon.kz, spinform, continent-online, adlia.tj, mmk.tj, ncz.tj and cis-legislation, returned nothing for it. Amendments to the resolution after 2022 were searched for and not found, but are not ruled out. The previous version of this cell said no entry for tramadol was retained from the National List or the Criminal Code quantity list, and named Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 and Appendix 1, Table 1 as the framework its dossier checked. That search was right about those lists; tramadol sits on the separate potent substances list instead. Routes tried in this run, each logged in routes-log.txt beside the batch files: the Drug Control Agency's 2020 list page, its 2023.doc file, its 2022 page for Resolution No. 421 and the resolution's.doc file, each HTTP 200; the Agency's law category pages 2 to 4, HTTP 404; the prg.kz consolidation of the Criminal Code, pages 3, 8, 9, 11, 15 and 16, each HTTP 200; the ncz.tj pages for the Criminal Code and Law No. 873, HTTP 200; the Agency's site search for "сильнодействующих", which is how Resolution No. 421 was found; a mehnat.tj file offered by one search, whose host did not resolve; the UN schedules of the 1961 and 1971 Conventions at documents.un.org, HTTP 200; the prg.kz consolidation of Resolution No. 121 and of the Code of Administrative Offences, pages 1 to 17, HTTP 200; web searches in Russian and Tajik for the Ministry of Health rules under point 2 of Resolution No. 421 and for amendments to Resolution No. 121 after 2023, which found neither.

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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Алпразолам» (alprazolam), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to alprazolam by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier gives the row for alprazolam in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 as four quantity bands, which it writes with English labels and decimal commas, so they are rendered here and not quoted: small 0,1 to 25 g; big 25 to 250 g; large 250 g to 2,5 kg; especially large over 2,5 kg. The row does not say which offence article each band triggers. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for alprazolam states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether alprazolam may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for alprazolam, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled in Tajikistan. The National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 carries the entry «Золпидем» (zolpidem), which the dossier checked on 18 September 2026 matches to zolpidem by exact name. The dossier row quotes the entry by its name and does not say in which part of the National List it sits. The offence framework the dossier read with it is Criminal Code arts 200 to 204. The row leaves one point open: how mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules apply depends on the facts of a case.
Consequences if caught: Capital exposure: none. The dossier row records that no death penalty applies to the drug articles of the Criminal Code. The dossier records that the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1 returned no row for «Золпидем», so no quantity band is given for zolpidem. The row records a 20 year term for the aggravated drug provision it reviewed without giving that provision's article number, and it quotes Criminal Code art 58(2), «Лишение свободы устанавливается на срок от шести месяцев до двадцати пяти лет» (in this cell's own English translation, which the dossier does not give: deprivation of liberty is set for a term of six months to twenty five years), as the general fixed term range. It does not set out a separate band for possession, possession for supply, sale, trafficking, import, export, manufacture or cultivation, and does not say which of arts 200 to 204 reaches each of them, so no band for any one conduct is stated here.
If prescribed / medical: The dossier row for zolpidem states no prescription or medical route, and the dossier has no prescription column, so this cell gives none. The source this cell rests on does not say whether zolpidem may be lawfully prescribed in Tajikistan, or held or carried there on a prescription.
Documentation: The dossier row states no traveller permit, import licence or customs declaration rule for zolpidem, so none is given here. The previous version of this cell cited the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan (1998, as amended to 2020) at legislationline.org; the dossier row names the Criminal Code without stating which version of it was read.

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Not individually verified

30 substances are not individually verified for Tajikistan

For these the governing national drug law is cited, but we have not verified that the substance specifically is scheduled under it. Treat them as unanswered, not as legal. Confirm with Tajikistan’s drug authority or your embassy.

Substance	What we found
1P-LSD	Not confirmed. 1P-LSD is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
2-FDCK	Not confirmed. 2-FDCK is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
3-MMC	Not confirmed. 3-MMC is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
4-AcO-DMT	Not confirmed. 4-AcO-DMT is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
4-HO-MET	Not confirmed. 4-HO-MET is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)	Not confirmed. 5-MeO-DMT is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)	Not confirmed. 7-hydroxymitragynine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of...
Alcohol	Not confirmed. Alcohol is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Amanita muscaria	Not confirmed. Amanita muscaria is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Amyl Nitrite	Not confirmed. Amyl nitrite is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Caffeine	Not confirmed. Caffeine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Cannabinol	Not confirmed. Cannabinol is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
CBD	Not confirmed. CBD is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
DXM	Not confirmed. Dextromethorphan is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Gabapentin	Not confirmed. Gabapentin is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
GBL	Not confirmed. GBL is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
HHC	Not confirmed. The dossier, checked on 18 September 2026, searched the National List approved by Government...
LSA (Morning Glory)	Not confirmed. LSA is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
Memantine	Not confirmed. Memantine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Mitragynine	Not confirmed. Mitragynine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Modafinil	Not confirmed. Modafinil is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Nicotine	Not confirmed. Nicotine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Nitrous Oxide	Not confirmed. Nitrous oxide is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Phenibut	Not confirmed. Phenibut is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Pink Cocaine / Tusi	Not confirmed. Pink cocaine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27...
Poppers	Not confirmed. Poppers is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Quetiapine	Not confirmed. Quetiapine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
THC-P	Not confirmed. THC-P is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020...
Tobacco	Not confirmed. Tobacco is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...
Xylazine	Not confirmed. Xylazine is not named in the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February...

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