🇲🇳 Mongolia
7 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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Police find cannabis plants in a car in Töv province
Police in Töv province stopped a group of people aged 20 to 28 with Kibantin tablets and cannabis-type plants in their car. They seized medicines, syringes, a drip set and cash as evidence and said the investigation was continuing. No charge, quantity or court outcome was reported.
Mongolia sends more drug cases to court in 2026
By September 2026 prosecutors had charged 398 people under the Criminal Code's drug articles and sent 184 cases involving 270 people to court, 33 per cent more than a year earlier. Just over half of the accused were aged 18 to 30, 44 per cent were 31 to 44, and 15 per cent were women. The figures cover offences under Articles 20.7 and 20.8, not cannabis alone.
Mongolia's anti-drug police report 143 crimes in early 2026
In the first quarter of 2026 the police anti-drug department recorded 143 drug crimes involving 210 suspects, and 45 more crimes involving 54 suspects in joint operations with intelligence and customs. It said it had stopped an amount equal to 27,671 single doses, without giving a weight or a cannabis breakdown. The figures cover all controlled drugs.
Mongolia's drug crimes rise 21.6 per cent in 2025
The State General Prosecutor's Office recorded 551 drug-related crimes in 2025, 21.6 per cent more than in 2024, and police arrested 417 people. More than 40.7 per cent of those arrested were aged 25 to 35. The prosecutor's office said ignorance of the drug laws and attempts to make easy money helped explain the increase; the figures cover all drugs.
Mongolian police raid nightclubs and test 1,043 people positive
Police raided nightclubs and bars in Ulaanbaatar from 25 to 27 July 2025 and tested 1,043 people positive for an illicit drug. The campaign followed a rise in drug crime and calls for tougher enforcement. It was an enforcement operation, not a change in the law.
A nightclub assault puts drug enforcement in the spotlight
A fight outside an Ulaanbaatar nightclub on 18 July 2025 left a man badly injured; three suspects were arrested and a fourth, the chief executive of Gobi Cashmere, left the country. The assailants were reported to have been under the influence of illegal drugs, though no drug was named.
Police seize 17 kg of cannabis plants in Ulaanbaatar
Police stopped two men aged 32 and 33 in Ulaanbaatar’s Songinokhairkhan district on 12 September 2024 with about 17 kg of cannabis plants. The case was cited under Article 20.7 of the Criminal Code; no verdict was reported. It was one of the few cannabis-specific seizures reported that year.
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