🇱🇾 Libya
10 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- Seizure · 6
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- Arrest · 1
- Prosecution · 1
- Sentence · 1
Latest reports
Tobruk raid finds 400 kg of hashish smuggled from Egypt
Eastern Libyan anti-drug officers found about 400 kg of hashish at a house in an agricultural area southeast of Tobruk. Officials valued it at about 6 million dinars and said it had crossed the Egyptian border for sale in Libya. The detainees were Libyan and Egyptian nationals.
Misrata customs seize more than five tonnes of cannabis resin
Customs officers at Misrata Free Zone port found 4,752 blocks of hashish, each about 1.15 kg, hidden among other goods in two containers. The haul totalled more than five tonnes and one Libyan man was arrested. Prosecutors in East Misrata supervised the case.
Bayda court gives life terms to cannabis growers
The Bayda Criminal Court convicted five men of cultivating cannabis for trafficking on a farm in Wadi al-Akki. Three received life imprisonment and a 50,000-dinar fine each; two received ten years and a 3,000-dinar fine each. All five lost their civil rights, and the ruling was reported on 15 March.
Libyan counter-terrorism forces arrest two men with hashish in Misrata
Libya's Counter-Terrorism Forces arrested two Nigerian nationals in Misrata on suspicion of drug trafficking, finding hashish, hallucinogenic pills and cash, according to a statement by the monitoring group Migrant Rescue Watch. The case was referred to the public prosecution.
Libyan forces seize five tonnes of hashish and break up a growing network
Security forces raided a network in the Green Mountain near Taknes, about 127 km east of Benghazi, at dawn on 19 July. They seized five tonnes of hashish and broke up what officials called a cannabis cultivation and processing operation, arresting several people.
Tripoli court jails a man for life over imported cannabis seeds
The Tripoli Criminal Court sentenced a man to life imprisonment for importing cannabis seeds with customs documents that falsely described the goods. It fined him 40,000 dinars and permanently stripped him of his civil rights. The charge was importing the seeds, not growing plants.
Libya's anti-narcotics agency reports a pill-heavy 2024
The eastern-based Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Agency reported seizing 8,051,317 pills, 759.6 kg of cocaine and 1.7 kg of heroin in 2024, with a total value of about 620 million dinars. It also listed 2,073 arrests and just 951 grams of hashish. Pills and cocaine dominated the published haul.
Libya's unity government rebuilds the anti-narcotics agency
The Tripoli-based Government of National Unity organised a new Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Agency with its headquarters in Tripoli and branches to be opened by the interior minister. The agency was given powers over cultivation, trafficking and use, treatment and rehabilitation, and its own budget, including half of the assets confiscated in drug cases.
Libya abolishes its anti-narcotics agency
After the 2011 uprising, the transitional cabinet dissolved the Anti-Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Agency and moved its assets, staff and powers to the Interior Ministry. The agency had been created in 2006. Drug enforcement passed to the ministry.
Libya's revolution breaks the state's drug controls
The uprising that began in February 2011 ended the central state's monopoly on force, and the security vacuum that followed weakened control of Libya's borders and ports. Trafficking networks expanded through the country over the next decade. The cannabis ban stayed on the books, but enforcement became local and uneven.
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