🇵🇭 Philippines
7 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
7.3 kg of kush found in abandoned luggage at Manila airport
Customs found 7,335 grams of kush hidden in food-labelled foil inside three unclaimed bags at NAIA on 26 October, linked to two Bangkok arrivals from September. PDEA, inter-agency police and canine units joined the inspection; no owner has been identified.
Cannabis 7.3 kgCordillera police seize P2.7M in drugs, arrest 8 in week of operations
Police ran 12 anti-drug operations across the Cordillera from 19 to 25 October, arresting eight suspects and seizing P2.7 million in drugs. Officers destroyed 1,150 marijuana plants and 1,200 seedlings and seized 20 kilograms of leaves and fruiting tops.
Arrested 8Plants destroyed 1,150Cannabis 20 kg
48,000 cannabis plants burned in a Kalinga communal forest
Drug agents and police spent two days uprooting and burning 48,000 cannabis plants on 6,000 square metres of a communal forest in Tinglayan, in the mountains of northern Luzon. No one was arrested.
Arrested 0Plants destroyed 48,000Hectares 0.6Ten years on, drug-war killings continue under Marcos
Human Rights Watch marked ten years since Duterte launched the drug war with a report that Marcos had never repudiated it or rescinded its orders. The Dahas Project counted 1,273 killings in the anti-drug campaign since Marcos took office in June 2022, including 330 in 2023–2025, while police reported about 6,200 deaths under Duterte and rights groups estimated up to 30,000.
The Supreme Court upholds the Kian delos Santos murder conviction
The Supreme Court affirmed the murder conviction of three policemen for killing 17-year-old Kian delos Santos during a 2017 anti-drug operation in Caloocan. It upheld reclusion perpetua without parole and 275,000 pesos in damages, rejecting the officers' claim that the teenager had fought back. The decision was dated 11 August 2025 and made public on 22 December.
A Philippine court convicts four police for a drug-war killing
A Caloocan court found four policemen guilty of homicide for killing Luis and Gabriel Bonifacio during a September 2016 drug raid. The officers were sentenced to up to ten years in prison and ordered to pay damages to the family. It was only the fourth known conviction of police for a drug-war killing, out of thousands of deaths.
Manila port raid finds kush, hash and vape oil in one shipment
PDEA, Customs and the PNP Maritime Group seized 278.32 kg of marijuana kush, 2.36 litres of liquid marijuana in vape cartridges and 880.25 grams of hash at the Manila International Container Port. The same operation found 1.06 kg of dried mushroom.
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