🇰🇿 Kazakhstan
3 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Kazakhstan's 2026 cannabis campaign finds 40 plantations in ten days
In the first ten days of the 2026 Karasora operation, police recorded 187 drug offences, including 46 sales, 40 cases of cultivating drug plants and four of smuggling. They seized 760 kg of drugs, among them more than 121 kg of synthetic drugs, and 266 kg of precursors. A separate case in Astana involved 245 g of alpha-PVP packed in 227 sachets.
Zhambyl police cut and burn 3,000 tonnes of wild cannabis
By mid-August 2025, during the Karasora operation, police in Zhambyl region mowed wild cannabis on 4,394.6 hectares of steppe and burned the cut plants. The regional police put the total weight at more than 3,000 tonnes. The work used agricultural machinery and was part of the annual campaign against harvesting in the Chu valley and nearby areas.
Kazakhstan's 2024 cannabis sweep finds 21.5 tonnes of drugs
The interior ministry's Karasora operation ran from 1 June to 31 October 2024 and recorded 1,607 drug crimes: 799 sales, 245 cultivation and 194 possession. Police seized 21.5 tonnes of drugs, including about 4.5 tonnes of marijuana, more than 200 kg of hashish and 16 tonnes of cannabis plants, and destroyed more than 100 tonnes of wild cannabis on 380 hectares in the Shu district.
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