🇭🇰 Hong Kong
6 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Hong Kong seizes a record 535 kg of cannabis at sea
Customs seized about 535 kilograms of suspected cannabis buds, worth about HK$125 million, from a container that arrived from Thailand declared as carrying insulated boxes. Officers found the drug in 364 of 1,342 boxes and arrested three men after a controlled delivery; one was charged with attempting to traffic.
Cannabis reports rise even as Hong Kong's overall drug abuse falls
Hong Kong recorded 5,077 reported drug abusers in 2025, down 2 per cent from 2024, but the number who reported cannabis rose from 678 to 705. Cannabis was the second most common drug among people under 21 after etomidate, with 263 young users. Police arrested 4,108 people for drug offences, up 27 per cent, and cannabis was one of the three main drugs involved; the conviction rate was 86 per cent.
Customs finds 500 kg of cannabis hidden in a soybean shipment
Customs seized about 500 kilograms of suspected cannabis buds, worth about HK$130 million, from a sea container declared as carrying soy beans from Canada at Kwai Chung on 27 September 2024. Officers found the buds in 83 bags, then arrested two men and one woman aged 44 to 55 after a controlled delivery. The case showed smugglers using ordinary food cargoes to move cannabis into Hong Kong.
Hong Kong jails a traveller in its first CBD imprisonment case
A traveller received two months overall after convictions for possessing CBD, possessing ketamine and having injection equipment.[@1] Officers had found two personal-care bottles containing about 5 g of CBD, about 2.2 g of ketamine and ten syringes after her arrival from the United States in March.
Hong Kong keeps a two-month sentence for selling two cannabis cigarettes
Chor Lui’s two-month prison sentence stood after he sold an undercover officer two cannabis cigarettes containing 0.24 g for HK$30.[@1] The appeal judge considered his prior drug convictions and the commercial sale in a discotheque important despite the small amount, while recognising the then-lower sentencing benchmark for herbal cannabis than resin.[@1]
Hong Kong cuts a repeat offender’s cannabis-possession sentence to two months
Phung Hai’s six-month prison sentence for possessing 1.18 g of cannabis was reduced to two months on appeal.[@1] The original magistrate had relied on two earlier drug convictions to reject a fine, but the appeal judge accepted that the sentence was excessive in light of the sentencing authorities; the prosecution did not defend it.[@1]
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