{"version":1,"id":"sy","name":"Syria","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/sy/","count":10,"totals":{"reports":10,"arrested":0,"plants_destroyed":0,"hectares":0,"kg_seized":0,"deaths":0},"by_type":{"eradication":1,"seizure":7,"raid":0,"arrest":0,"prosecution":1,"sentence":1,"execution":0,"death":0},"latest":"2026-10-21","reports":[{"id":"syria-raqqa-life-sentence-2026","code":"CET-8XXJFQ","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-raqqa-life-sentence-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/8XXJFQ/","date":"2026-10-21","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"sentence","also":[],"title":"A Raqqa court hands down life for drug trafficking","summary":"The criminal court in Raqqa sentenced a man to life imprisonment and a fine of one million new Syrian pounds for possessing narcotics with intent to traffic and use. The court applied Article 40 of the 1993 narcotics law, which carries life imprisonment for trafficking and can reach death with aggravating facts.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-raqqa-life-sentence-2026","sources":[{"title":"محكمة جنايات الرقة تحكم بالمؤبد وغرامة مالية لتاجر مخدرات وتصدر أحكاماً جنائية أخرى (21 October 2026)","url":"https://syrianewsagency.net/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%AC%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%83%D9%85-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%A8%D8%AF-%D9%88%D8%BA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85/","publisher":"Syrian News Agency","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-sweida-hashish-2026","code":"CET-6Q0Y5V","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-sweida-hashish-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/6Q0Y5V/","date":"2026-07-20","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Syria seizes half a tonne of hashish in Sweida","summary":"The Drug Enforcement Administration said it foiled an international smuggling attempt in the southeastern countryside of Sweida and seized nearly half a tonne of hashish. It said the drugs belonged to outlaw groups operating in the province and that the operation was run with the Internal Security Command in the Badia. The announcement gave no arrest figure.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-sweida-hashish-2026","sources":[{"title":"Syrian anti-narcotics authorities seize nearly half a ton of hashish in Sweida (20 July 2026)","url":"https://sana.sy/en/syria/2330792/","publisher":"SANA","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-without-drugs-campaign-2026","code":"CET-M14Z43","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-without-drugs-campaign-2026/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/M14Z43/","date":"2026-06-26","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Syria launches 'Syria Without Drugs' with a tally of the crackdown","summary":"The interior and health ministries launched a national anti-drug campaign at a ceremony in Damascus attended by President al-Sharaa.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-without-drugs-campaign-2026","sources":[{"title":"بحضور الرئيس الشرع.. إطلاق الحملة الوطنية لمكافحة المخدرات ومعالجة الإدمان (26 June 2026)","url":"https://sana.sy/presidency/2511964/","publisher":"SANA","date":null,"archived":null},{"title":"Syria Launches National Campaign on International Day Against Drug Abuse (27 June 2026)","url":"https://levant24.com/en/article/syria-launches-national-campaign-on-international-day-against-drug-abuse","publisher":"Levant24","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-aleppo-hashish-800kg-2025","code":"CET-NAW6AF","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-aleppo-hashish-800kg-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/NAW6AF/","date":"2025-06-09","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Aleppo anti-narcotics seize 800 kg of hashish","summary":"The anti-narcotics branch in Aleppo arrested two Lebanese nationals and seized about 800 kilograms of hashish and 200,000 narcotic pills. The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said the men were trying to smuggle the shipment and that the drugs would be destroyed. It was one of the largest cannabis seizures reported since the fall of Assad.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-aleppo-hashish-800kg-2025","sources":[{"title":"القبض على مهربين لبنانيين وضبط 800 كغ حشيش و200 ألف حبة مخدرة بحوزتهما (9 June 2025)","url":"https://sana.sy/locals/2230245/","publisher":"SANA","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-transitional-government-drugs-2025","code":"CET-RJT2YD","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-transitional-government-drugs-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/RJT2YD/","date":"2025-06-06","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Syria's new government says the drug factories are gone","summary":"Six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, the interior minister, Anas Khattab, said every Captagon laboratory in the country had been dismantled. In the weeks after the collapse the security forces had destroyed about 100 million pills and about 15 tonnes of hashish. He named treatment and rehabilitation of addicts as the next priority.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-transitional-government-drugs-2025","sources":[{"title":"Syria moves to end Captagon empire built under Assad (6 June 2025)","url":"https://www.occrp.org/en/news/syria-moves-to-end-captagon-empire-built-under-assad","publisher":"OCCRP","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-border-hashish-factories-2025","code":"CET-VZDYDA","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-border-hashish-factories-2025/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/VZDYDA/","date":"2025-02-10","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Syria's new border force finds hashish factories on the Lebanese border","summary":"The commander of Syria's western border region said his forces had found numerous hashish farms, warehouses and processing and packing workshops during a sweep of villages along the Lebanese border. He said the area had been the economic artery of armed smuggling gangs and that the former regime had turned the border into a drug corridor.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-border-hashish-factories-2025","sources":[{"title":"قائد المنطقة الغربية بإدارة أمن الحدود: ضبطنا عدداً كبيراً من معامل صناعة الحشيش وحبوب الكبتاغون (10 February 2025)","url":"https://sana.sy/locals/2188862/","publisher":"SANA","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-isis-burns-cannabis-2014","code":"CET-WJ50ZZ","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-isis-burns-cannabis-2014/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/WJ50ZZ/","date":"2014-09-15","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"eradication","also":[],"title":"Islamic State films itself burning a Syrian cannabis farm","summary":"After taking the town of Akhtarin, north of Aleppo, from the Free Syrian Army, fighters of the Islamic State cut down a field of cannabis, soaked it in fuel and set it alight for the camera.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":["eradication","military"],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-isis-burns-cannabis-2014","sources":[{"title":"ISIS burns Syrian cannabis fields (15 September 2014)","url":"https://classic.countervortex.org/node/13530","publisher":"CounterVortex","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-drug-cases-rise-2014","code":"CET-XF41P2","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-drug-cases-rise-2014/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/XF41P2/","date":"2014-07-02","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"prosecution","also":[],"title":"Syria's courts report a jump in drug cases","summary":"A judicial source told a government newspaper that 620 drug cases had come before the courts in four months, 115 of them in Damascus, against fewer than 500 in the whole of 2013. He recalled that trafficking carries ten years to death under the 1993 law, that whoever plants cannabis is treated as a trader, and that the law regards addicts as the victims of dealers.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-drug-cases-rise-2014","sources":[{"title":"on drug cases before the courts (2 July 2014)","url":"https://syrianobserver.com/?p=32505","publisher":"The Syrian Observer, translating Al-Watan","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-kobane-cannabis-boom-2012","code":"CET-S66EA8","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-kobane-cannabis-boom-2012/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/S66EA8/","date":"2012-08-24","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Cannabis farms spread in Kobane after the regime withdraws","summary":"After Kurdish forces took Kobane from Assad's army in July 2012, marijuana growing spread through the surrounding villages and onto rooftops in the town. The local Asayish spokesman told Rudaw that almost every village was growing it and that nobody had been arrested because nearly everyone was involved and the villagers were armed.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-kobane-cannabis-boom-2012","sources":[{"title":"Poverty Leading to Marijuana Farms in Kobane (24 August 2012, Wayback capture)","url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20121008205823/http://www.rudaw.net/english/news/syria/5123.html","publisher":"Rudaw","date":null,"archived":null}]},{"id":"syria-bekaa-eradication-2002","code":"CET-TM78NS","url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/syria-bekaa-eradication-2002/","short_url":"https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/r/TM78NS/","date":"2002-07-01","country":"sy","country_name":"Syria","place":null,"coordinates":[35.019,38.488],"precision":"country","type":"seizure","also":[],"title":"Syria and Lebanon clear the Bekaa cannabis fields","summary":"After cannabis and opium production returned to the Syrian-controlled Bekaa in 2001, Syrian and Lebanese authorities ran a joint eradication campaign from 2002 to 2004 that sharply cut the area under cannabis and opium. Syria also upgraded its counternarcotics branch to a directorate in 2002 and opened regional offices in Aleppo and Homs to watch the Turkish and Lebanese borders.","status":"verified","figures":{},"tags":[],"cover":null,"media":[],"cfi_id":"syria-bekaa-eradication-2002","sources":[{"title":"International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2005, Volume I: Syria","url":"https://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/ci/sy/80243.htm","publisher":"U.S. Department of State","date":null,"archived":null}]}]}