November 2025
17 reports. Seizures 11 · Prosecutions 2 · Sentences 2 · Eradications 1 · Arrests 1
Morocco's elite police seize 16 tonnes of hashish on the Atlantic coast
The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations broke up a network that was using beaches near Casablanca to load hashish onto inflatable boats. Officers seized 16 tonnes of resin, six boats and eight engines in raids in Kenitra and Casablanca, and arrested eight people including two women. The operation was based on intelligence from the DGST.
Chad's police burn seized cannabis under the 1995 drug law
The national police burned seized goods in the 7th district of N'Djamena, including 32 kg of cannabis herb, 34 balls of cannabis and 200 kg of psychotropic substances, beside 7.5 tonnes of adulterated alcohol. The deputy prosecutor present said the destruction complied with Law 22/PR/95 on drug control.
Iraq says it dismantled 1,201 drug networks in three years
The interior ministry said security forces broke up 1,201 trafficking and dealing networks, including 171 international ones, and seized 14 tonnes of narcotics in the three years to November 2025. It counted 23,118 court judgments in drug cases, among them 300 death sentences and 1,147 life sentences, and said 6,022 people had recovered from addiction while 1,228 were in treatment at 16 centres.
South Korea launches a joint drug investigation headquarters
The government set up a joint drug-crime investigation headquarters bringing prosecutors, police, customs and the intelligence service together, after smuggling and online sales rose. In its first 100 days it booked 124 people and detained 56, including a soldier who smuggled 10.2 kg of cannabis from Thailand and a farmer who grew cannabis under a state-funded smart farm.
Bahrain upholds life for a 350 kg hashish network
The High Criminal Court in November 2025 rejected a challenge to a life sentence for a man convicted in a network that brought about 350 kg of hashish into Bahrain by sea between 2021 and 2023. Six other defendants, including a woman, were named in the case; the court treated the challenge to an in-absentia judgment as having no legal basis.
Lebanon arrests a sanctioned cannabis and Captagon trafficker
The army arrested Nouh Zeaiter, a US-sanctioned Captagon and cannabis trafficker, at Kneiseh in Baalbek-Hermel. He had admitted cannabis cultivation and trafficking. The arrest was one of several against Bekaa networks in 2025.
Gaza police seize hashish and cannabis plants in Zeitoun
Gaza's anti-narcotics police raided a home in Zeitoun, south of Gaza City, and seized 21 slabs of hashish, 317 Rotana pills, five marijuana plants, a rifle and ammunition. Two suspects were arrested; the police said drug flows into Gaza had risen since the war.
A car from Iran brings 100 kg of hashish
Customs and drug-control officers stopped a Kuwaiti citizen returning from Iran on the Shuwaikh ferry and found more than 100 kilograms of hashish and marijuana in hidden compartments in his car. The case pointed to Iran as a source of resin shipped across the Gulf. The suspect was referred to the narcotics prosecution.
Dominica's police burn seized cocaine and cannabis
Police destroyed drugs valued at about 53 million East Caribbean dollars in November 2025. Cannabis accounted for about 1.2 million of that and cocaine for about 52 million.
Maldives launches its largest anti-drug operation
Operation Alimagu began on 13 November 2025 with about 500 officers raiding 110 places on 39 islands; police said 110 people were arrested on the first day. By late December they had searched 166 locations and nine vessels, arrested 193 people, and seized 30.63 kg of drugs and 182 bottles of alcohol.
An underground greenhouse and 283 plants lead to a drug charge
The Interior Ministry arrested a previously convicted man after finding a greenhouse built underground on land beside his home. Police seized 283 cannabis plants and about 3 kilograms of dried marijuana, along with packaging materials, adhesive tape and an electronic scale.
Police in Benin stop 130 kg of cannabis hidden as maize
Police in Bohicon arrested two motorcyclists coming from Azovè with 130 kg of cannabis in 237 slabs, packed in six sacks made to look like bags of maize. The men were handed to the central anti-drug office, Ocertid, for investigation.
97,000 cannabis plants destroyed in North Aceh
Indonesia's national narcotics agency led 151 officers into six fields near the village of Teupin Rusep and destroyed about 97,000 plants, some 69 tonnes by wet weight, on 6.5 hectares.
Plants destroyed 97,000Hectares 6.5Cannabis 69,000 kgBNN burns 69 tonnes of cannabis in North Aceh
Six plots covering 6.5 hectares in Teupin Reusep, North Aceh, held about 97,000 cannabis plants and 69 tonnes wet weight; 151 personnel destroyed them in place on 6 November 2025. The village is one of four alternative-development pilot sites where BNN is trying to move growers to legal crops.
Kerala High Court says cannabis in pots is still cultivation
On 4 November 2025 the Kerala High Court refused to quash a prosecution against a man who grew five cannabis plants in pots on a rented terrace in Thiruvananthapuram. The court held that ‘cannabis plant’ means any plant of the genus, whether or not it bears flowering tops, and that growing it in a pot is cultivation under sections 8(b) and 20(a).
British teenager freed in Georgia after a plea deal over 14 kg of cannabis
Bella May Culley, 19 and pregnant, faced life in prison for bringing 12 kg of marijuana and 2 kg of hashish into Tbilisi. Under a plea deal she was sentenced to the time she had already served and fined 500,000 lari.
Charged 1Cannabis 14 kgPrison 5 months 24 days (time served)Fine GEL 500,000Morocco says its illegal cannabis fields have shrunk by 85 percent
The interior ministry's 2025 performance report put illegal cannabis cultivation at 20,627 hectares, down from about 134,000 hectares in 2003. It presented the fall as part of its supply-reduction strategy alongside the legal programme. The area remains far larger than the 3,141 hectares in legal production that year, and the figure is a government estimate rather than an independent survey.