🇧🇭 Bahrain
9 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Bahrain seizes more than 100 kg of cannabis from Iran
The Interior Ministry said on 11 April 2026 that anti-narcotics officers had seized more than 100 kg of marijuana and hashish worth about BHD1.5 million and arrested three men. The drugs came from Iran through dead drops and were moved in two boats; cash, smuggling equipment and the boats were seized, and the case went to the Public Prosecution.
Bahrain appeal court cuts a cannabis-seed sentence to ten years
An appeal court reduced a man’s sentence from fifteen years to ten and retained a 5,000-dinar fine and confiscation in a cannabis-seed and multiple-drug case, The Daily Tribune reported.[@1] Prosecutors said he held cannabis seeds for trafficking and hashish and pregabalin for personal use; investigators described a home-growing operation.[@1] Laboratory tests identified viable cannabis seeds…
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.
Bahrain's top court upholds a 10-year sentence for CBD vapes
The Court of Cassation in October 2025 upheld a 10-year prison sentence and BHD5,000 fine for a man convicted over electronic shishas containing cannabis after customs officers at the King Fahd Causeway found the devices and containers holding suspected CBD. Two co-defendants received one year and BHD1,000 each. The case began in 2024 and the suspected CBD liquid was prosecuted as cannabis.
Bahrain keeps life terms for a six-year cannabis farm
The High Criminal Appeals Court on 2 August 2025 upheld life sentences for the first two defendants in a cannabis-growing operation run from a rented villa in Adliya, and cut the third defendant's life term to 15 years; a fourth received 10 years and a fifth one year.
Bahrain finds hashish soaked into posted fabric
Police arrested a 32-year-old baker at his home on 27 August 2024 after a parcel of fabric soaked in hashish arrived in Bahrain by post. Officers found bags bearing traces of cannabis, BHD1,516.925 and SAR635 in cash; prosecutors said he was part of a wider group using concealed shipments. The case was before the courts in April 2025, with a verdict expected on 29 April.
Bahrain sentences a hashish smuggler to death over 50 kg from Iran
The High Criminal Court sentenced a Bahraini man to death on 19 July 2022 for importing and possessing 50 kg of hashish with intent to distribute; prosecutors said the shipment came from Iran and the intelligence dated from March. On appeal the sentence became life imprisonment, and the Court of Cassation upheld the life term on 24 July 2023.
Bahrain jails a home cannabis grower and acquits him of selling
A 56-year-old former flight attendant received three years in prison and a 1,000-dinar fine after convictions involving growing cannabis at home and unlawful possession of a weapon and ammunition, The Daily Tribune reported.[@1] Police had raided his home after a tip-off; he said he grew for himself and learned online.[@1] The court acquitted him of selling because the evidence was…
Bahrain hands down its first death sentences for hashish trafficking
On 31 December 2018 the First High Criminal Court sentenced two of seven defendants to death for possessing, cultivating, smuggling and dealing in drugs; more than 18.5 kg of hashish was involved, and each was fined BHD10,000. It was the first time Bahraini courts imposed death for a non-lethal drug offence.
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