🇨🇳 China
3 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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China's cannabis user numbers fall again in 2025
The 2025 drug situation report recorded 27,000 drug crime cases, 41,000 suspects and 33.5 tonnes of drugs seized, with 134,000 users handled. It counted 15,000 existing cannabis users at the end of 2025, down 4.7%, and 3,000 cannabis users punished during the year, down 30.2%. Of 20.5 tonnes seized from foreign sources, the report named methamphetamine, heroin and cannabis as the main types.
Guangdong police seize 735 kg of cannabis at sea
On 26 April 2026 a joint police and coast guard operation intercepted a freighter in the South China Sea and seized 735 kg of cannabis, arresting five people. Police described the route as running from Southeast Asia through Chinese waters to overseas buyers. The case was one of five major drug operations published by Guangdong's public security department on 22 June 2026.
70 kg of cannabis found in transit luggage at Beijing airport
In June 2025 customs officers at Beijing Capital International Airport found 70.83 kg of cannabis in four suitcases belonging to two foreign passengers who were transiting to a third country. Both were convicted of drug smuggling and sentenced to eight and four years in prison, with fines and deportation.
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