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Dated, sourced records of the policy, enforcement and eradication events that affect landrace cannabis populations: 612 records logged since 1942, filterable below by category, country, province, year and campaign.
The Philippine National Police reported discovering four marijuana plantations at a disputed boundary area on Mt. Teba in Barangay Licungan, Sugpon, on 29 August 2026. Officers recovered an estimated 4,000 seedlings and 660 mature plants, which were uprooted, inventoried and destroyed by burning at the site, with samples retained for laboratory examination. Police put the estimated standard drug price of the plants at 292,000 pesos. The operation was led by Major Ryan Afos of the 2nd Ilocos Sur Provincial Mobile Force Company, working with the provincial drug enforcement unit, provincial and regional intelligence units and the Sugpon municipal police station. No cultivator was arrested.
Philippines · Ilocos Sur · Sugpon · Licungan
Sonamura police station, working with the 81 Battalion of the Border Security Force and the 11th Battalion of the Tripura State Rifles, raided a residential property at Matinagar Madhya Para in Ward No. 5 of Sonamura on 29 August 2026. The team was reported to have seized 541.2 kilograms of dry ganja packed in 12 blue plastic drums, together with 504,000 rupees in cash, several Android mobile telephones and other documents. The owner of the house was arrested and a case was registered under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Investigators were reported to be examining the source of the consignment and its intended destination.
India · Tripura · Sepahijala · Sonamura
The narcotics unit of the Jayawijaya district police reported finding a cannabis plot at Kampung Pipukmo in Hubikosi district, Papua Pegunungan, on 27 August 2026 and securing 16 cannabis plants for further examination. Police said the site came to light through cooperation with residents following patrols and aerial observation by drone and that it lies about three kilometres from a public road and is reachable only on foot. Twelve plants were still growing and four had been harvested, measuring between 114 and 137 centimetres. The head of the narcotics unit, Jan B Saragih, was quoted on the health and social harms of cannabis. The report gives the plot as about 260 centimetres by 400 centimetres and states that the plants were secured for further examination, with no destruction reported. The grower remained under investigation.
Indonesia · Highland Papua · Jayawijaya · Pipukmo
Outlook India reported on 27 August 2026 that Himachal Pradesh had notified the Himachal Pradesh Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Amendment) Rules, 2026, described as an enabling provision to license the cultivation, processing, storage, transport and manufacture of cannabis for medicinal, scientific and hemp industrial purposes, under section 10 of the central Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. The revenue minister, Jagat Singh Negi, was reported saying licences would go to applicants drawn from farmers, registered societies, small and medium enterprises, companies, research institutions and pharmaceutical companies after scrutiny, that only low THC varieties would be approved and that the government had still to identify permitted areas and fix terms and conditions. Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu was quoted describing the framework as selective licensed cultivation in some areas, excluding recreational cultivation and sale. The director general of police, Ashok Tewari, was quoted describing a posture of facilitating licensed cultivation while maintaining enforcement against unauthorised cultivation and trafficking. The report gives no date for the instrument beyond the month of July. This record is dated to the report.
India · Himachal Pradesh
Kashmir News Zone reported that Ganderbal police, with the Jammu and Kashmir excise department, conducted a joint drive described as a wild cannabis destruction drive at Lar, Wandhama and adjoining areas on 27 August 2026, as part of a state anti drug campaign. The report says cannabis plants growing along roadsides and at other locations were identified, uprooted and destroyed. Police were quoted framing the drive as removing potential sources of substance abuse and urging the public to report illicit cultivation. The report gives no area, plant count, arrests or case registration.
India · Jammu and Kashmir · Ganderbal · Lar
The narcotics directorate of Indonesia's national police criminal investigation agency said on 28 August 2026 that it had arrested five people and seized 9.4 kilograms of cannabis, together with a quantity of prescription medicine, in an operation running from 15 to 27 August 2026 across Pasuruan, Brebes, Bogor and Medan. According to the directorate's head, Brigadier General Eko Hadi Santoso, the network took orders through an Instagram account and shipped consignments by a commercial courier in parcels made up to look like textile shipments. Police said the case began when officers inspecting a courier vehicle at Bakauheni port in South Lampung found two cannabis parcels sent from Medan to Pasuruan and Brebes, after which controlled deliveries led to the recipients. One recipient was reported to have been acting on the instruction of an inmate of a prison in Malang. Investigators traced the shared method back to Medan and arrested a 22 year old man at the courier's office there on 27 August 2026.
Indonesia · North Sumatra · Medan · Medan Selayang
Police at R. Udayagiri in Gajapati district were reported to have recovered about nine quintal, or roughly 900 kilograms, of ganja concealed in a hilly forest area behind Kadamuli village under Purunapani panchayat on the night of 26 August 2026. Police valued the material at over one crore rupees. According to the report a team led by the inspector in charge, Kalpalata Pradhan, was conducting night patrols and warrant raids across the Cheligada, Mahendragada, Sialilati, Kanakata and Purunapani areas when it received information that a quantity of ganja had been concealed near Kadamuli for transport outside Odisha. Officers recovered 30 gunny bags at the site and no arrest was made, with those involved reported to have left before the team arrived. A case was registered at R. Udayagiri police station.
India · Odisha · Gajapati · Kadamuli
Tikabali police in Kandhamal district, with forest department personnel, were reported to have seized 175 kilograms and 700 grams of ganja in seven jute sacks during a raid in an isolated forest area near Badi Munda Chhak and to have arrested one man. Police said the man, a resident of Panna district in Madhya Pradesh, was waiting for a bus with the sacks when the team reached the location. The contraband was weighed in the presence of an additional tehsildar and a case was registered under section 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Police said they were investigating others alleged to have collected ganja from villages across Kandhamal for transport to Madhya Pradesh. The report carries no separate raid date. This record is dated to the report of 26 August 2026.
India · Odisha · Kandhamal · Tikabali
Police in Malkangiri district were reported to have recovered 1,025 kilograms of ganja concealed in a forest area near MV-73 village, within the limits of Kalimela police station and to have valued the material at about 1.02 crore rupees. According to the reports a police team acted on information that a quantity had been hidden in the forest. Those involved left before the team arrived. A case was registered at Kalimela police station under section 20(b)(ii)(C) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and no arrest was made. The contraband was reported to be suspected of having been stockpiled for onward transport to other states. Neither report gives a seizure date. This record is dated to the reports of 26 August 2026.
India · Odisha · Malkangiri · Kalimela
The narcotics unit of the Tidore city police reported arresting four young men at three locations in Kota Tidore Kepulauan, North Maluku, in the early hours of 26 August 2026. Police said officers stopped two men outside a water depot in Kelurahan Tomagoba after one discarded three sachets and that questioning led them to a third man in Kelurahan Gurabati, where six sachets and one compressed block were found and then to a fourth in Kelurahan Tongowai, where six further sachets were recovered. According to the police spokesman, the fourth man acknowledged owning the material and said it had been obtained from Papua. Police gave no aggregate weight for the seizure.
Indonesia · North Maluku · Tidore Kepulauan · Tomagoba
A Royal Gendarmerie patrol from the Oulad Frej territorial centre was reported to have searched an underground storage vault near a suspect's home in the commune of Oulad Hamdane, in the Sidi Ismail circle of El Jadida province, on the evening of 26 August 2026. The search recovered 12 bundles of kif in tops form weighing 350 kilograms in total, together with 20 bundles of contraband tobacco weighing 76 kilograms, which the reports said had been prepared for resale. The principal suspect, described in the local report as having previous narcotics convictions, left before the gendarmes arrived and a national search notice was issued. On the instruction of the public prosecutor at the El Jadida court of first instance the seized goods were handed to the customs administration. The investigation was reported to be continuing.
Morocco · Casablanca-Settat · El Jadida · Oulad Hamdane
The Worli unit of the Mumbai Crime Branch Anti-Narcotics Cell reported intercepting a man near Bandra Terminus in Bandra East on 17 August 2026 and seizing 10.09 kilogrammes of charas, which police valued at about 100.9 million rupees. A case was registered at Nirmal Nagar police station under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985. Police said the investigation led them to a supplier at Raxaul in East Champaran district of Bihar, who was arrested there on 23 August with the assistance of local police as he was allegedly preparing to cross into Nepal. The Crime Branch said it was continuing to trace the wider supply chain.
India · Maharashtra · Mumbai · Bandra East
Pauri police reported stopping an ambulance during a vehicle check near the Awas Vikas ground at Srinagar on 23 August 2026 and finding nine sacks holding 90 kilogrammes of cannabis in place of a patient. Police valued the seizure at about 4.5 million rupees and arrested the driver, a resident of Chauras in Tehri district. A case was registered under sections 8, 20 and 60 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. Police said the driver told them during questioning that he had brought the cannabis from Rudraprayag to sell at a higher price at Srinagar and that he had been involved in drug trafficking previously. Police said they were working to identify others linked to the supply.
India · Uttarakhand · Pauri Garhwal · Srinagar
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency reported destroying a cannabis farm of approximately 0.496 hectares at Ukaro Forest in Owan West Local Government Area on 18 August 2026 and arresting three men at the site. The agency put the standing crop at an estimated yield of 1,240.9 kilogrammes and said the material actually recovered was half a bag of processed cannabis weighing 5.5 kilogrammes together with samples of plant stems. A further operation at Benin City on 19 August led to two more arrests and the recovery of 290 grammes. The account was given by the agency's Edo State commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju.
Nigeria · Edo State · Owan West · Ukaro Forest
The Edo State command of Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said it had destroyed two cannabis farms measuring 1.851591 hectares in total at Ugboku, in the Igbanke Forest of Orhionmwon Local Government Area. The state commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, gave the account in a statement issued at Benin on 17 August 2026 and put the combined standing crop at an estimated yield of 4,628.9775 kilograms. The agency said the material actually recovered from the second farm was two bags of processed cannabis weighing 12.4 kilograms. One man was arrested in connection with the first farm. Neither report gives a date for the destruction itself. This record is dated to the statement.
Nigeria · Edo State · Orhionmwon · Ugboku
Delhi police said on 14 August 2026 that the South District special staff had dismantled a charas supply network operating between Nepal and Delhi, recovering 106.25 kilograms in two operations. Officers seized 8.598 kilograms and arrested three men at a house in Kotla Mubarakpur on 29 June 2026, and recovered a further 97.652 kilograms in thirteen bags at a flat in Wazirabad on 12 August. Police said the consignments were moved by road from the Sonauli area of the India Nepal border and stored in residential flats before distribution, and News18 reported police sources placing the origin at Kakri in the Rukum district of Nepal. Four Nepalese nationals were arrested and a case was registered under sections 20, 25 and 29 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act. None of the four has been tried.
India · Delhi · Wazirabad
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Lhokseumawe district police, the National Narcotics Agency and Lhokseumawe customs destroyed cannabis growing at nine points across about four hectares in hill country above Gampong Teupin Reusep in Sawang, North Aceh, on 13 August 2026. ANTARA reported that 17,000 plants were destroyed, while Serambi Indonesia gave the figure only as in the teens of thousands. Deputy district police chief Iswahyudi said the plants were about two months old and between one and two metres tall, with some judged close to harvest. They were uprooted and burned on site. Police made no arrests, and said two men identified as the suspected owners of the plots were absent when officers reached the site and had been placed on the wanted list.
Indonesia · Aceh · North Aceh · Teupin Reusep
Europe 1 reported that cannabis accounted for more than half of the drugs seized in air freight at Paris airports in 2025 and that cannabis seizures there had tripled since 2024. The outlet described freight concealment and passenger recruitment linked to cannabis originating in Thailand and reported that eleven young French nationals had been detained in Southeast Asia since the beginning of summer 2026. Some recruits were reportedly offered travel or payment to carry suitcases.
Thailand
Ommcom News reported that Kalimela police intercepted an ambulance in the Sudhakonda forest area of Malkangiri district on 13 August 2026 and recovered more than 200 kg of cannabis from a concealed compartment. Police arrested two people from Maharashtra and alleged that the consignment was being transported from Malkangiri to Maharashtra. The accused had not been tried when the report was published.
India · Odisha · Malkangiri · Kalimela
Tripura Star News reported that Sonamura Police, the Border Security Force and Tripura State Rifles destroyed 27 seedbeds containing about 800,000 cannabis saplings at sites in Sepahijala district on 12 August 2026. The outlet also reported the destruction of about 20 kg of seeds and 200 kg of dried cannabis leaves. No arrests were reported.
India · Tripura · Sepahijala
The Direction Generale de la Surete Nationale said that its provincial judicial police service in Safi seized 4 tonnes and 890 kilograms of cannabis resin in the early hours of 12 August 2026. Officers acting on intelligence supplied by the Direction Generale de la Surveillance du Territoire found a light commercial van standing on waste ground in the rural commune of Ayir on the outskirts of Safi, and a search recovered 111 bales from inside the vehicle. The communique said the driver fled before police reached the van and that no arrests were made. A judicial investigation was opened under the supervision of the public prosecutor to identify the driver and other people said to be involved. The sources do not state where the resin was produced or where it was bound.
Morocco · Marrakech-Safi · Safi · Ayir
Police Regional Office-Cordillera reported that police uprooted and burned around 750,000 fully grown marijuana plants at a plantation in the mountainous Barangay Loccong in Tinglayan, Kalinga, on 12 August 2026. The report said the operation drew on the Kalinga Provincial Intelligence Unit, the Provincial Drug Enforcement Unit, both Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Companies and the municipal police stations of Tinglayan, Balbalan, Lubuagan and Tanudan, in coordination with the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Kalinga. Police put the value at approximately 150 million pesos, citing what the report describes as the standard drug valuation used by law enforcement agencies. Manila Bulletin reported that the plants were documented before being burned on site, that no arrests were made and that authorities had not identified the owner or the cultivators.
Philippines · Kalinga · Tinglayan · Loccong
The Times of India reported that the 38th Battalion of the Sashastra Seema Bal destroyed wild cannabis spread over around one acre in the Bomja village area of Tawang district, Arunachal Pradesh, on 11 August 2026. An official release quoted by the paper said the team identified and uprooted the plants to prevent misuse or illegal harvesting. No plant count, weight or valuation was given and no arrests were reported. The report describes the stand as wild in its text while its headline calls it cultivation, and the source does not say whether the plants were self seeded or planted.
India · Arunachal Pradesh · Tawang · Bomja
Malawi24 reported that police seized 190 kg of cannabis from a house in Area 25, Lilongwe, on 10 August 2026 and arrested two men. Police alleged that the cannabis had entered Malawi from Eswatini and was intended for transport to Tanzania. The accused had not been tried when the report was published.
Malawi · Central Region · Lilongwe
Bidik Nasional reported that Kuala police found 11 suspected cannabis plants at Desa Garunggang in Langkat Regency on 10 August 2026 and arrested one man. Police also reported finding dried leaves in a hut and said the investigation was tracing the origin of the seeds. The accused had not been tried when the report was published.
Indonesia · North Sumatra · Langkat Regency · Kuala
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