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Dated, sourced records of the policy, enforcement and eradication events that affect landrace cannabis populations: 1043 records logged since 1942, filterable below by category, country, province, year and campaign.
ETV Bharat reported that police teams from the Rohida, Pindwara, Swarupganj and Abu Road Sadar stations raided fields at Pagara Phali in Valoria village, in the Rohida police station area, on an informer's tip and seized 2,950.84 kg of green ganja plants. Police alleged that the ganja was grown in separate fields under the cover of maize and fennel crops, held by different khatedars. Four men were arrested and five cases were registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
India · Rajasthan · Sirohi · Valoria
Newswire reported that officers of the Police Narcotics Bureau arrested three Thai nationals, aged 22, 22 and 33, at Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake early on 15 October 2026 as they tried to leave the airport. According to reports, the three had arrived from Bangkok on Thai Airways flight TG-307 at about 12.30 a.m. A search of their three pieces of luggage found 5.96 kg of hashish concealed inside cosmetic product containers, which the article valued at about Rs. 51 million. The three were due before the Negombo Magistrate's Court on 15 October.
Sri Lanka · Western Province · Gampaha District · Katunayake
Prabhat Khabar and Patna Press reported that a team from the 45th Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal found 13 bundles of ganja, about 510 kg in total, hidden in a mango orchard near Fatehpur village in Supaul district, Bihar. Acting on information received, the team from the Fatehpur border outpost searched the orchard, which lies about 700 metres inside Indian territory from Border Pillar 204, and found no suspect. The SSB handed the ganja to Virpur police station.
India · Bihar · Supaul · Fatehpur
Northeast Today and India Today NE reported that a joint search by Sonamura Police Station, the 81st Battalion of the Border Security Force and the 11th Battalion of Tripura State Rifles in the Kamalnagar Krishnadola area of Sepahijala district recovered 327.7 kg of dry ganja packed in seven plastic drums. According to police sources, the operation began at about 12.30 am on 15 October 2026 and continued until 5 am. No one came forward to claim the consignment, and no arrests were reported. Police sources estimated its market value at about Rs 1,63,85,000, and Sonamura police began an investigation into who stored it.
India · Tripura · Sepahijala (appellation) · Kamalnagar Krishnadola · Indo-Burman Range
Gabonreview reported that the public prosecutor's office at the court of first instance in Mouila destroyed 750 kg of cannabis, held in fifteen sacks of 50 kg each, with the help of the judicial police units concerned. The prosecutor said the cannabis had been seized in different operations and kept under seal for several years, and the office said the destruction cleared the premises where exhibits were kept. Gabonreview gave the estimated market value as 10 million CFA francs.
Gabon · Ngounié · Mouila
Horizons reported that a weekly operational report from the People's National Army, released on Wednesday 14 October 2026, said that combined detachments, in coordination with other security services, had intercepted 47 drug traffickers between 7 and 13 October 2026 and foiled attempts to bring in 4 quintals and 82 kilograms of kif traité, about 482 kg, from the borders with Morocco. The report adds that 368,937 psychotropic tablets were seized over the period. The bulletin is a national weekly aggregate across military regions and does not name individual seizure sites.
Algeria
The National Crime Agency reported that a 45-year-old woman from Devon was jailed for 25 months on Wednesday 14 October 2026 after admitting smuggling 51.2 kg of cannabis from Thailand to the United Kingdom. Border Force officers had arrested her at Heathrow Airport on 6 July 2026 on her arrival from Bangkok with the cannabis in two suitcases, and she pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court in August. The agency put the street value at at least £512,000.
United Kingdom · England · Greater London · Heathrow Airport
The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation reported that the Barbados Police Service Narcotics Unit charged a 51-year-old American woman with importing, possessing and trafficking in cannabis and with intent to supply, for offences it said were committed on 13 October 2026. The suspected cannabis weighed 3.3 kilogrammes and was given an estimated street value of BDS $52,800. She pleaded guilty at the District 'B' Magistrates' Court on 14 October and was fined BDS $13,000, payable forthwith, or nine months' imprisonment.
Barbados
Ratopati reported that on the morning of Wednesday 14 October 2026 a team from the District Police Office Chitwan searched a truck travelling from Kathmandu to Pathlaiya at Jugedi, Bharatpur-29, and found about 136 kg 500 g of marijuana in 10 sacks. The driver was arrested and the investigation continues.
Nepal · Bagmati Province · Chitwan · Jugedi
Quetta Voice reported on 14 October 2026 that, according to an Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) spokesperson, the ANF intercepted an ambulance near Sona Khan Chowk in Quetta and recovered 60 kg of hashish concealed in a secret compartment beneath its floor. The spokesperson said the operation followed intelligence that a large consignment would be moved from Mastung to Quetta in an ambulance. A suspected member of a trafficking network was arrested and a case registered under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997.
Pakistan · Balochistan · Quetta · Sona Khan Chowk
Le Quotidien de La Réunion reported that on 14 October 2026 the appeal court of Saint-Denis raised the sentences of three of four men prosecuted for trafficking zamal from Réunion to Mauritius between July 2023 and April 2025. The prosecution had appealed against first-instance sentences of four to five years. Le Quotidien gave seven years each to the former chief of staff of the Sainte-Suzanne mayor and a second defendant, five years to a third and four years, unchanged, to the fourth. Zinfos974 gave the former chief of staff six years. Zinfos974 said all four remain in detention.
France · Réunion · Saint-Denis
First India reported that under Operation Ganjagaveshana a joint team from the Narcotics Control Bureau's Jodhpur Zonal Unit, the Anti-Narcotics Task Force Rajasthan and Rajasthan Police destroyed about 133,000 cannabis plants growing over about 57 hectares in Mandwa village, Kotra tehsil, Udaipur district. The article says that about 70 personnel, 10 labourers and 3 tractors took part and that a patwari verified the land as 56 khasra numbers. It gives an estimated potential yield of about 39,900 kg of ganja, valued at about ₹199.50 crore at an assumed ₹50,000 per kg. Crime No. 08/2026 was registered at NCB Jodhpur, and no arrests were reported.
India · Rajasthan · Udaipur · Mandwa
The Hindu reported that a special team of Thanjavur District Police, acting on information that ganja was being smuggled through the district to Sri Lanka, seized 100 kg of ganja from a mini-goods carrier on Medical College Road near the outer ring road on 14 October 2026. According to police, a car driver stopped during vehicle checks said that he and a friend in another car were escorting the carrier. Four men from the Pudukottai, Villupuram and Vellore districts were arrested, and the ganja and the vehicles were handed to Medical College Police.
India · Tamil Nadu · Thanjavur District · Thanjavur
Onlanka reported that officers of the Police Special Task Force's Kataragama Camp carried out two raids in the Gemunupura area of Thanamalwila on the evening of Wednesday 14 October 2026, acting on information received. One suspect was arrested with 37 kg 860 g of dried cannabis and another with 35 kg 210 g, together about 73.07 kg. The two men, aged 39 and 56 and residents of the Kuda Oya area, were handed to Thanamalwila Police Station, which is continuing the investigation.
Sri Lanka · Uva Province · Monaragala District · Gemunupura
Tirto reported that Lueng Bata police in Banda Aceh arrested a 43-year-old man on Tuesday 13 October 2026 after he was found watering cannabis plants in the yard of another resident's house in Gampong Batoh. Police seized 21 plants, 16 in polybags and five planted in the ground, which they said he had been growing there since August 2026 without the owner's knowledge. The owner had become suspicious of the plants and reported them to village officials, who found the man at the plants at about 14:00; he was taken to the Lueng Bata police station about an hour later.
Indonesia · Aceh · Banda Aceh · Batoh
The Lebanese Army Command's Directorate of Orientation said in a statement dated 13 October 2026 that an army unit raided the residences of wanted individuals in Dar al-Wasaa, Baalbek, and seized about 22 kg of hashish and about 22,000 Captagon pills. The statement says the unit also destroyed 14 tents used for marijuana cultivation and arrested two Syrians for collaborating with a wanted individual. The seized items were handed over to the relevant authorities and an investigation was opened with the arrested men under judicial supervision. Ici Beyrouth's report of the statement speaks of 14 cannabis greenhouses.
Lebanon · Baalbek-Hermel · Baalbek · Dar al-Wasaa
Antara reported that the narcotics unit of the Mandailing Natal police and the regency office of the National Narcotics Agency (BNNK) arrested a 27-year-old man from Padang, West Sumatra, at Pidoli Lombang village in Panyabungan district at about 19:30 on Tuesday 13 October 2026, and seized 14 blocks of cannabis weighing 13.7 kg gross. The case began when a motorcycle rental owner traced a rented motorcycle by GPS from Padang to Panyabungan Timur. Officers chased two men on the motorcycle, one of whom threw a large plastic bag into the road at the Hutasiantar junction; one man was caught and the other fled. Police said the cannabis was thought to have been collected from Huta Tua (Pardomuan) in Panyabungan Timur.
Indonesia · North Sumatra · Mandailing Natal · Pidoli Lombang
IANS, in a report published by The Hawk, said that Badalpur police and the Anti-Narcotics Team stopped a truck and a car travelling with it near Kudi Kheda turn on the Dadri-Lalkuan road in Uttar Pradesh and seized 165 kg and 700 grams of ganja from a secret cavity in the truck. Three men were arrested, and the truck and the car were confiscated. Police said the ganja was brought from Bhubaneswar to be supplied in Delhi, and put its value at about Rs 1 crore. A case was registered at Badalpur Police Station under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act.
India · Uttar Pradesh · Gautam Buddh Nagar · Kudi Kheda
Pragativadi reported that on Monday 12 October 2026 a special team of Patnagarh police under the sub-divisional police officer sighted a speeding Mahindra Xylo near the Smart Park in the Ghumpali area, and that the driver abandoned the vehicle and escaped when it was cornered. Police found 321 kg of ganja in 16 plastic sacks and seized the vehicle. The report says preliminary investigation suggested the ganja was smuggled from Kandhamal district for transport to another state. A case has been registered.
India · Odisha · Balangir · Patnagarh
The Jharkhand Story reported that Hariharganj police in Palamu district seized 18.47 kg of ganja from a CNG autorickshaw on National Highway 139 on Monday 12 October 2026 and arrested its 52-year-old driver. According to the officer in charge of Hariharganj police station, the ganja was packed in 18 packets and concealed in a specially designed box beneath the driver's and passengers' seats. The driver told investigators that a local person had given him the consignment and that he did not know what the packets held. Police said they suspected it was bound for Bihar. The driver was sent to judicial custody on 13 October under the NDPS Act.
India · Jharkhand · Palamu · Hariharganj
ANI, carrying a press note from the office of the Commissioner of Police, Bengaluru City, reported that Kumbalagodu police acted on a tip-off received on 11 October 2026 and on 12 October intercepted a car travelling towards Kerala near the Eidgah Ground at Kambipura, where about 317 kg of ganja was found. The two men in the car were arrested. According to the press note they told police they had hired a self-drive car in Bengaluru, bought the ganja in Odisha and meant to sell it in Kerala. The Hindu gave the same weight and said both men were from Keralam.
India · Karnataka · Bengaluru Urban · Kambipura
Horizons reported on 12 October 2026, citing a statement from the communications unit of the Sûreté of Algiers wilaya, that the judicial police brigade of the Baraki administrative district had dismantled a drug-trafficking network at Baraki and arrested five suspects. Searches of the suspects' homes found 14 kg 489 g of treated kif, and police also seized 5 million centimes said to come from drug dealing and a car. The five were brought before the public prosecutor at the El Harrach court.
Algeria · Algiers Province · Baraki
Telangana Today reported that in the early hours of Monday 12 October 2026 Sangareddy police, acting on a tip-off, stopped two cars during vehicle checks on NH-65 at Kandi Cross Road and found 142.8 kg of dry ganja. Two men from Odisha were arrested. The outlet said the ganja was being taken from Odisha to Maharashtra.
India · Telangana · Sangareddy · Kandi
Peoples Gazette, carrying a News Agency of Nigeria report, said the Kaduna State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) reported in a statement on Monday 12 October 2026 that it had arrested 108 suspects and seized 1,897.907 kg of illicit drugs in operations across the state in September. The command's spokesperson, Sani Garba, said cannabis accounted for the largest quantity, 1,874.843 kg. The command also reported 12 convictions, 10 suspects charged to court and 40 drug joints closed in the period.
Nigeria · Kaduna State
MyJoyOnline reported that Ghana's Minister for the Interior, Mubarak Mohammed Muntaka, speaking on Joy FM's Super Morning Show on Monday 12 October 2026, urged people interested in growing cannabis to form cooperatives and use the legal framework for cultivating approved varieties. He said the Narcotics Control Commission (NACOC) would work with cooperatives so that they grew approved varieties within the permitted THC content for export. MyJoyOnline noted that Ghana's framework permits licensed cultivation for industrial or medicinal purposes of cannabis with no more than 0.3 per cent THC on a dry-weight basis.
Ghana
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