January 2025
4 reports. Seizures 2 · Arrests 1 · Sentences 1
Malaysia jails three men for life over 707 g of cannabis
The Kuala Lumpur High Court sentenced a former air steward and two other men to life imprisonment and 18 strokes of the cane for trafficking 707.05 g of cannabis and cultivating plants. The trafficking charge carried 12 strokes and the cultivation charge six, to run concurrently from their arrest in December 2021.
Jordan seizes three tonnes of hashish in 2024
The Anti-Narcotics Department reported 25,260 drug cases involving 38,782 people in 2024. It seized 3,000 kg of hashish, 262 kg of marijuana and 27.5 million Captagon pills, and 744 people entered rehabilitation. The figures cover all drugs, not cannabis alone.
Tonga police arrest six people with small amounts of cannabis and methamphetamine
In two raids on a bush allotment at Hauloto on 2 and 6 January 2025, Tonga Police arrested six people. In the first they seized 21 packs of cannabis weighing 8.17 g and five packs of methamphetamine; in the second, two packs of cannabis weighing 1.54 g and 27 packs of methamphetamine.
Libya's anti-narcotics agency reports a pill-heavy 2024
The eastern-based Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Agency reported seizing 8,051,317 pills, 759.6 kg of cocaine and 1.7 kg of heroin in 2024, with a total value of about 620 million dinars. It also listed 2,073 arrests and just 951 grams of hashish. Pills and cocaine dominated the published haul.