🇨🇦 British Columbia, Canada
RSS8 reports of cannabis enforcement.
- People arrested
- 36
- Plants destroyed
- 20.7K
- Cannabis seized
- 1.759 t
Only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
Layers
- Urgent
- At risk
- Secure
- Held in a genebank
- No data yet
- No seed lot recorded
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- Eradication · 1
- Seizure · 1
- Raid · 5
- Sentence · 1
Reports
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20263 reports
Ontario man jailed a year for 31 kg of cannabis seized at Vancouver airport
Alaaddin Koc, 56, of Windsor, Ontario, was sentenced on 21 September 2026 to one year in prison for trying to take about 31 kilograms of cannabis from Vancouver International Airport to London's Heathrow in October 2024. He pleaded guilty in July 2026; the court said credit for time served left 251 days to serve, and he was also given a lifetime firearms prohibition.
Cannabis 31 kgPrison 1 year
B.C. seizes nearly $8 million of cannabis at four warehouses, including Vancouver
British Columbia's Community Safety Unit conducted enforcement action at four warehouses in Richmond, Vancouver and Vernon between May and July 2026, seizing cannabis plants, dried cannabis and edibles that the province valued at nearly $8 million. No arrests or penalties were announced, and the province said its investigation continues.
B.C. agents raid Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club, seizing about $100,000 in products
British Columbia's Community Safety Unit raided the Victoria Cannabis Buyers Club on 21 April 2026, and founder Ted Smith estimated about $100,000 of products were seized. The unlicensed non-profit, which sells higher-dose products mainly to low-income patients, planned to reopen the next day; the ministry would not discuss the specific action.
20201 report
Merritt RCMP seize 800 plants and arrest 16 in unlicensed grow
Merritt RCMP executed a Cannabis Act warrant on 19 November 2020 at a rural Merritt property, finding about 800 plants in a large commercial building. Sixteen people from the Lower Mainland were arrested at the scene and released pending charges.
Arrested 16Plants destroyed 800
20071 report
19,000 cannabis plants destroyed in record Vancouver Island operation
Police destroyed 19,000 mature cannabis plants at about 350 sites across Vancouver Island in a nine-day air-and-land operation ending 29 August 2007, beating the previous year's record of 16,500. Two people found tending a crop near Campbell River were arrested, with charges pending.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 19,000
20042 reports
Vancouver police raid Da Kine cannabis cafe, arrest six
Dozens of Vancouver police raided the openly operating Da Kine cannabis cafe on Commercial Drive on 9 September 2004, arresting six people on trafficking charges before a crowd of more than 200 protesters; the shop was selling again the next day.
Arrested 6Charged 6
Police raid medical-cannabis grow serving 390 patients on Vancouver Island
West Shore RCMP officers raided a medical-cannabis growing facility at East Sooke on 27 May 2004, seizing about 900 plants that supplied some 390 seriously ill members of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society. Two men were arrested and face growing and trafficking charges.
Arrested 2Plants destroyed 900
20011 report
1.7 tonnes of South American cannabis seized at Vancouver port
Canada Customs found 864 two-kilogram bricks of South American marijuana hidden in ground alfalfa aboard the Lykes Osprey at Vancouver port in January 2001. Police watched the container move to a Fraser Valley farm on 19 February and arrested ten men the next morning, charging four.
Arrested 10Charged 4Cannabis 1.728 t
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