{"version":1,"id":"fj","name":"Fiji","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/fj/","count":2,"totals":{"reports":2,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":1,"seizure":0,"raid":0,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":1,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-02-25","reports":[{"id":"fiji-sasamaki-total-2026","code":"CET-922ETH","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fiji-sasamaki-total-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/922ETH/","date":"2026-02-25","country":"fj","country_name":"Fiji","place":null,"coordinates":[-17.428,178.512],"precision":"country","type":"eradication","also":[],"title":"Fiji destroys 18.2 tonnes of marijuana in Operation Sasamaki","summary":"Police reported that nine phases of Operation Sasamaki, launched on 1 March 2025, destroyed 18.2 tonnes of marijuana with an estimated street value of FJ$241 million and arrested 1,239 people, mostly for possession and cultivation. The same operation seized 11.1 kg of methamphetamine and cocaine worth nearly FJ$7 million.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"fiji-sasamaki-total-2026","sources":[{"title":"$241m marijuana seized in nine-month police crackdown (26 February 2026)","url":"https://fijisun.com.fj/news/nation/241m-marijuana-seized-in-nine-month-police-crackdown","publisher":"Fiji Sun","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"fiji-growers-sentences-reduced-2024","code":"CET-EX4HSX","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/fiji-growers-sentences-reduced-2024/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/EX4HSX/","date":"2024-05-30","country":"fj","country_name":"Fiji","place":null,"coordinates":[-17.428,178.512],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"Fiji’s appeal court cuts two cannabis growers’ prison terms by four years","summary":"Waisake Kaloulia’s nineteen-year cannabis cultivation sentence was reduced to fifteen years, and Kaminieli Naqeleca’s eighteen years to fourteen. The Court of Appeal applied its newer plant-count and role guidelines to the men’s older case, involving a remote plantation with at least 208 whole plants confirmed in the analyst’s report.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["court","sentencing","thresholds"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"fiji-growers-sentences-reduced-2024","sources":[{"title":"Waisake Kaloulia and Kaminieli Naqeleca v State (30 May 2024)","url":"https://judiciary.gov.fj/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/30.05.24-CA-Crim-AAU-0036.2017-AAU0093.2017-Kaoulia-and-Naqekeca-v.-The-State-Judgment.pdf","publisher":"Fiji Court of Appeal","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Jone Seru v State (25 May 2023)","url":"https://judiciary.gov.fj/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/25.05.2023_COA_Crim._AAU-115.2017_Jone-Seru-v-State_Judgment_Prematilaka-RJA.pdf","publisher":"Fiji Court of Appeal","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004","url":"https://www.health.gov.fj/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Fiji-Illicit-Drug-Act-2004.pdf","publisher":"Fiji Ministry of Health","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}