Niugini Gold is a name for cannabis grown in Papua New Guinea and recognised by its red stem. The name also covers the seedless flower heads of the female plant, which Benjamin Thomas compared to sinsemilla. Some cannabis from Papua New Guinea reached Australia, where some users called it New Guinea Gold. In 2005 Philip Alpers of the Small Arms Survey called it "PNG's fabled cannabis of the 1970s" and wrote that it was no longer sold in the major Australian markets. read more →
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Forest at Hambraure, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
This portal covers the four countries filed here under Oceania: Australia, in the subregion of Australia and New Zealand, and Fiji, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea in Melanesia.
In much of the region cannabis is a recent arrival. A review of 2004 found it unknown when the plant reached Papua New Guinea; later accounts say expatriates brought it, perhaps Australians after the Second World War or young expatriates in the later 1960s, and highlanders were using it by the late 1970s. It is now grown there mostly in the highlands, for sale in rural and town markets. In Australia Cannabis sativa is naturalised in the five mainland states and in the Northern Territory.
The three accessions documented here are seed lines listed by the Vibes Collective. The region's news items all come from Fiji, where the eradication campaigns are followed year by year.
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- ...that the Tok Pisin name for cannabis in Papua New Guinea, spak brus, means "tobacco that makes you drunk"?
- ...that the strain called Niugini Gold is recognised by its red stem?
- ...that the earliest Australian herbarium sheet of cannabis, gathered at Richmond in New South Wales in 1876, is marked "Wild"?
- ...that in the Australian Capital Territory adults may since 31 January 2020 possess at most 50 grams of dried cannabis and grow one or two plants, with no more than four to a household?
- ...that in June 2026 the Congress of New Caledonia adopted a plan to build a sector for hemp containing no more than 0.3 per cent THC?
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Fijivillage reported that police uprooted more than 11,000 plants believed to be marijuana from a farming area at Nasuva, Bua, on 2 October 2026. According to the police, the operation involved officers from Savusavu, the Northern Division Taskforce and the North Police Rugby team. The plants were to be analysed. The owner of the farm had not been identified.
Fiji · Northern Division · Bua · Nasuva
Fijivillage reported that Parliament passed the Counter Narcotics Bill 2026 unanimously on the evening of 1 October 2026. Moving the bill, the Minister for Policing, Ioane Naivalurua, said Clause 11 establishes the Counter-Narcotics Bureau as Fiji's specialised national counter-narcotics institution and Clause 99 creates an offence of narco-terrorism punishable by life imprisonment. He said the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 takes a predominantly offence-based approach. In the debate, Opposition MP Alvick Maharaj said Fiji is no longer dealing solely with localised marijuana cultivation.
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In a statement relayed on 23 September 2026 by FBC News, Fijivillage and the Fiji Sun, the Fiji Police Force reported uprooting 1,085 green plants believed to be cannabis, ranging from five centimetres to one metre in height, from a farm of unknown ownership in the Waisagavuna area of Savusavu. The statement gives no date for the operation and reports no arrest in connection with the farm. Police said investigations were continuing. The same statement reported two separate arrests elsewhere in Fiji, at Lomolomo Beach in Lautoka and at Labasa, neither of which involved plants.
Fiji · Northern Division · Cakaudrove · Savusavu
The Fiji Police Force said on 9 August 2026 that officers from the Northern Division Operations team had discovered and uprooted more than 2,000 plants believed to be marijuana in the rugged Vatuyalewa mountain range. In a separate operation police destroyed more than 200 further suspected marijuana plants in the Nasea farming area at Tukavesi. Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations Kasiano Vusonilawe said cultivators had changed their methods to avoid detection and that enhanced information sharing and the use of drones had helped officers locate farms in difficult terrain. The operations were supported by the Joint Task Force, which includes the Republic of Fiji Military Forces. The dates of the two operations were not stated. Police separately reported multiple arrests for alleged unlawful possession of illicit drugs across all five policing divisions over the previous week. Reported by Anish Chand for the Fiji Times.
Fiji · Northern Division · Cakaudrove
The Fiji Police Force reported on 5 August 2026 that close to 8,000 plants believed to be cannabis had been seized in an operation at the Bilobiloca farming area in the Northern Division. Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations Kasiano Vusonilawe said the raid was made possible through information sharing, with a drone deployed to confirm the cultivation site before the operation. He said community support had been instrumental in the success of such raids and said drug operations also targeted other offences alongside illicit drugs. Police urged the public to use the 1681 line to report crime, share information or raise service concerns. Reported by Inoke Rabonu for the Fiji Sun.
Fiji · Northern Division
Divisional Police Commander Central Superintendent Luke Cerenasiga said the Fiji Police Force was shifting its approach in Kadavu from police-led operations to a community-driven strategy, saying 12 years of drug operations on the island had not produced a significant impact. He said the direct operational presence from Suva would be reduced so local authorities and communities take responsibility for drug issues, with village leaders, chiefs and district representatives expected to identify problems, report offenders and work with police and the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs. The approach had been trialled for about two months in coordination with the Turaga na Roko Tui Kadavu. Cerenasiga said only a small number of communities were affected, pointed to Namosi's chief-led drug-free declaration as a model for other provinces, stressed that any customary action must remain within the law and rejected claims of police involvement in the Kadavu drug trade, saying no such reports had been received. Police seizures from Kadavu farms in 2021 included plants with an estimated street value of more than FJ$539 million. Reported by Sosiveta Korobiau for the Fiji Sun on 30 July 2026.
Fiji · Eastern Division · Kadavu