🇿🇲 Zambia
4 reports of cannabis enforcement.
Totals add up only what the reports state; most operations are never reported in numbers.
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- No seed lot recorded
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Latest reports
Twins deny trafficking 26 cannabis cupcakes in Lusaka
University twins Blessings and Gift Kaonga, 20, denied trafficking 26 marijuana-laced cupcakes before a Lusaka magistrate; at trial a DEC officer testified the sisters said they baked to raise school-food money. The 520-gram batch tested at 0.72% THC, over the 0.3% limit.
Charged 2Zambia's drug agency seizes over three tonnes of cannabis in one operation
The Drug Enforcement Commission said its Operation Kufeza had seized about 3.3 tonnes of cannabis: 1,751.6 kg of fresh plants and 4.8 kg of seeds in Central Province, 1,478 kg from cultivation in Nkeyema District in Western Province, and 68.42 kg of packed cannabis in Senanga District. Twelve suspects were arrested and were to appear in court.
Zambia reports 4,728 drug arrests and 43.2 tonnes of cannabis
The Drug Enforcement Commission reported 4,728 arrests and 43.2 tonnes of cannabis seized in 2024, alongside 27.9 kg of codeine and 1.9 kg of cocaine. The figures cover all drugs and all forms of cannabis, not cannabis alone.
Zambia's drug agency enlists chiefs against cannabis
The Drug Enforcement Commission met traditional leaders to persuade farmers to grow food and cash crops instead of cannabis; chiefs reported growers to the agency. The campaign was an enforcement and crop-substitution effort, not a change in the law.
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