{"version":1,"id":"mm","name":"Myanmar","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/mm/","count":4,"totals":{"reports":4,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":0,"seizure":3,"raid":1,"arrest":0,"prosecution":0,"sentence":0,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-06-26","reports":[{"id":"myanmar-drug-burning-2026","code":"CET-M7JM2R","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/myanmar-drug-burning-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/M7JM2R/","date":"2026-06-26","country":"mm","country_name":"Myanmar","place":null,"coordinates":[21.113,96.495],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Myanmar burns more than 50 tonnes of seized drugs","summary":"On the UN International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the regime burned more than 50 tonnes of heroin, opium, ketamine, methamphetamine, marijuana and crystal meth, valued at about US$600 million, in Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi. The total was more than double the 2025 figure. No marijuana weight was given.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"myanmar-drug-burning-2026","sources":[{"title":"Myanmar torches $600 million of seized heroin, meth and other drugs (26 June 2026)","url":"https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/myanmar-torches-600-million-seized-heroin-meth-drugs-rcna351888","publisher":"AP via NBC News","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"myanmar-sagaing-cannabis-boom-2025","code":"CET-F132R3","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/myanmar-sagaing-cannabis-boom-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/F132R3/","date":"2025-12-04","country":"mm","country_name":"Myanmar","place":null,"coordinates":[21.113,96.495],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Cannabis cultivation spreads in southern Sagaing","summary":"The Irrawaddy reported that villages in Ayadaw township and along the Myinmu border had shifted from rice, beans, betel nut and cotton to cannabis since 2022–23. Residents estimated at least five acres per village and more than thirty acres across six villages.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"myanmar-sagaing-cannabis-boom-2025","sources":[{"title":"Cannabis takes root in Sagaing as Myanmar's post-coup drug boom expands (4 December 2025)","url":"https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/cannabis-takes-root-in-sagaing-as-myanmars-post-coup-drug-boom-expands.html","publisher":"The Irrawaddy","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"myanmar-drug-burning-2025","code":"CET-1XW66N","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/myanmar-drug-burning-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/1XW66N/","date":"2025-06-26","country":"mm","country_name":"Myanmar","place":null,"coordinates":[21.113,96.495],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Myanmar's junta burns a year's seized drugs","summary":"At ceremonies in Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi, the home affairs ministry destroyed drugs valued at about 1,072 billion kyats. Among them were over 597 kg of marijuana, beside 1,744 kg of heroin, over 1,334 kg of opium, over 8,573 kg of ketamine and 281 million methamphetamine tablets. The drugs had been seized between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2025.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"myanmar-drug-burning-2025","sources":[{"title":"report on the 26 June 2025 drug destruction ceremonies (27 June 2025)","url":"https://english.dvb.no/?p=108014","publisher":"DVB English","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"myanmar-hemp-plantation-raid-2019","code":"CET-8AXMNJ","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/myanmar-hemp-plantation-raid-2019/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/8AXMNJ/","date":"2019-04-22","country":"mm","country_name":"Myanmar","place":null,"coordinates":[21.113,96.495],"precision":"country","type":"raid","also":[],"title":"Myanmar police raid an American's hemp plantation","summary":"Police raided a 20-acre plantation on an industrial estate in Ngunzun township, Mandalay region, and arrested the American entrepreneur John Frederic Todoroki and two Myanmar employees. Six days later the region's chief minister said his government had allowed the firm to grow fibre plants for one year. Todoroki was released on medical bail in July 2019 and reportedly left the country.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["hemp"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"myanmar-hemp-plantation-raid-2019","sources":[{"title":"report on the 20-year sentence for a worker at the US hemp grower's plantation, 10 March 2020","url":"https://www.rfa.org/english/news/myanmar/hemp-grower-03102020164506.html","publisher":"Radio Free Asia","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}