🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
4 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
Sri Lanka seizes 110 kg of kush at Colombo airport
On 26 April 2026 police arrested 22 Sri Lankan monks returning from Thailand at Bandaranaike International Airport with 110 kg of kush hidden in their luggage, valued at about US$3.5 million. It was reported as the country's largest single cannabis seizure. The case was an enforcement event, not a change in the law.
Army and police seize 155,000 cannabis plants in Udawalawe reserve
Acting on army intelligence, Hambegamuwa police and soldiers raided a three-acre cannabis field inside the Udawalawe reserve on 11 April and seized about 155,000 plants worth Rs 4.5 million. The reports name no arrests.
Hectares 1.2Sri Lanka says police can arrest unauthorised holders of Ayurvedic cannabis
After Yukthiya raids on Ayurvedic practitioners, the Ayurveda Commissioner General said only registered institutions and pharmacies may hold cannabis medicines, that prescriptions are required, and that police may prosecute possession outside those conditions. The statement followed complaints that the crackdown had treated traditional medicines as recreational drugs.
Sri Lanka launches Operation Yukthiya against drug suspects
Acting Inspector General Deshabandu Tennekoon, backed by Public Security Minister Tiran Alles, launched a nationwide anti-drug operation on 17 December that arrested at least a thousand people a day in its first weeks.
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