March 2024
4 reports. Seizures 2 · Raids 1 · Arrests 1
A new wave of cannabis arrests hits young Tunisians
An investigation published on 18 March 2024 found cannabis users facing random street stops, house raids, phone searches and pre-trial detention, with lawyers saying the repression was the worst since Ben Ali. People were held for carrying rolling papers or filters, and activists said prosecutors treated small users as dealers.
Bolikhamxay police find more than 800 kg of cannabis
Lao media reported on 26 March 2024 that a couple had been arrested in Bolikhamxay with more than 800 kg of cannabis and nearly 300 amphetamine pills. The same report described 1,000 kg of crystal meth seized in Xayaboury and 166 kg in Bokeo. It gave no charge, court date or sentence for the cannabis case.
Manila port raid finds kush, hash and vape oil in one shipment
PDEA, Customs and the PNP Maritime Group seized 278.32 kg of marijuana kush, 2.36 litres of liquid marijuana in vape cartridges and 880.25 grams of hash at the Manila International Container Port. The same operation found 1.06 kg of dried mushroom.
Indonesia burns seven tonnes of ripe cannabis in Aceh
BNN destroyed about seven tonnes wet weight of mostly ready-to-harvest cannabis on four hectares in Aceh Besar, roughly 20,000 plants, on 6 March 2024. Days earlier it had seized 200 kg of dried cannabis and arrested a suspect in the same district. The fields were found with monitoring by the national research agency (BRIN) and the geospatial agency (BIG).