Article 296. Illegal handling of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues without the purpose of sale of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan

1 Non-medical consumption of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues in public places –

     is punishable by a fine in the amount of up to eighty monthly calculation indices, or correctional labor in the same amount, or community service for up to eighty hours, or arrest for up to twenty days.

2 Illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transportation without the purpose of selling narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues–

     are punishable by a fine in the amount of up to one hundred and sixty monthly calculation indices, or correctional labor in the same amount, or community service for up to one hundred and sixty hours, or arrest for up to forty days.

3 Illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transportation without the purpose of selling narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues on a large scale –

     are punishable by a fine in the amount of up to two hundred monthly calculation indices, or correctional labor in the same amount, or community service for up to two hundred hours, or arrest for up to fifty days.

4 Illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transportation without the purpose of selling narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, and their analogues on an especially large scale –

     are punishable by imprisonment for a term of three to seven years.

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