🇰🇮 Kiribati
9 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Latest reports
Kiribati suspends a prison sentence for two cannabis plants
Tom Utimawa pleaded guilty to cultivating Indian hemp after police found two plants in his backyard and dried leaves in his sleeping hut. The High Court sentenced him on 23 December 2025 to 18 months in prison suspended for two years and a A$600 fine. The primary judgment was blocked; the details come from a case summary.
Kiribati police find a second cannabis plantation in Tarawa
Police found a cannabis plantation about two metres high near the clinic at Takoronga, Tarawa, arrested and cautioned a suspect, and described it as the second drug bust of 2025. The first was at Abatao on 28 April.
Kiribati police find a two-metre cannabis plant at Abatao
Police found a cannabis plant almost two metres high at Abatao, Tarawa, arrested a suspect and asked the public for information. It was the first cannabis raid reported in 2025.
Kiribati fines a man A$250 for keeping one cannabis plant
A man who kept a small cannabis plant belonging to his late half-brother received a A$250 fine after pleading guilty to possession. Chief Justice William Hastings found no evidence of use or dealing and treated the case as less serious than the earlier fisheries officer’s cannabis offence.[@1] Failure to pay by the end of December would bring one month in prison.[@1]
Cocaine and cannabis packages found in the Line Islands
Police reported a 1.5 kg cocaine package and more than 3 kg of marijuana found in the Line Islands and taken to Betio headquarters. Police said illicit drugs were already in the country and warned that young people were probably using them; no arrest or outcome was reported.
Solomon Islands police intercept a cannabis parcel bound for Kiribati
Aviation security detected a suspicious box on a Solomon Airlines flight to Kiribati and police found cannabis. Two people, including an airline employee, were charged with attempted export and appeared in the Honiara Magistrates' Court in late July 2019. The amount was not stated.
Kiribati fines a fisheries officer who kept and used cannabis
Fisheries officer Tebaatei Kourabi received a fine after being convicted of keeping cannabis he had found and used for about a month.
Kiribati fines a sailor whose prescribed marijuana was a prohibited import
Portuguese sailor Joao Afonso was fined A$1,600 on a marijuana charge after the court accepted that it was part of his prescribed treatment but held it was a prohibited import in Kiribati.
Kiribati jails a sailor and confiscates his yacht in a cannabis case
Lyderic Morlier received nine months in prison and total fines of A$4,400 after admitting drug cultivation, prohibited import and immigration offences. The prison terms ran together, with credit for time already spent in custody.[@1,2] The court also confiscated his yacht, two engines, vessel-monitoring equipment and radios under the drug law.[@1]
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