https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/country/uy/New reports of cannabis enforcement in Uruguay.enhttps://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-90-raids-30kg-marijuana-2026/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-90-raids-30kg-marijuana-2026/Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2026-10-13. Maldonado police reported 90 anti-drug raids leading to 104 people charged or convicted and 47 drug sale points dismantled. The operations seized 30 kilograms of marijuana along with cocaine, vehicles, firearms and cash.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manantial-355-plants/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manantial-355-plants/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTRaidUruguay, 2026-09-09. On 9 September 2026 police searched six places in Rivera and a rural part of the department, arrested three people, and seized 355 cannabis plants and 4.732 kg of plant material.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-comcar-unit4-marijuana-seizure-2026/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-comcar-unit4-marijuana-seizure-2026/Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2026-08-23. Police found 2.320 kilos of marijuana and other drugs, phones and routers near a module of Unit 4 of Uruguay's national rehabilitation institute, the former Comcar prison, in Montevideo on 23 August 2026. The Ministry of the Interior valued the combined haul at about US$330,000, and the case moved to a narcotics prosecutor investigating collusion by prison staff, soldiers and prisoners.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-sicilia-pcc-sentences/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-sicilia-pcc-sentences/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2026-08-17. On 17 August 2026 prosecutors said three Uruguayan men had been sentenced, the longest term four years and four months, for exporting marijuana to Brazil with the Primeiro Comando da Capital. The cases followed five raids on 14 August. A fourth man was held until February 2027.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-canelones-montevideo-buds-sentence/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-canelones-montevideo-buds-sentence/Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2026-06-29. A court in Minas sentenced two men and a woman for producing and supplying cannabis buds from sites in Parque del Plata, Canelones, and La Unión, Montevideo. One man received three years in a rehabilitation centre; the other two received two years in prison.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/chuy-pado-2966g-two-years/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/chuy-pado-2966g-two-years/Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2026-06-25. PADO officers stopped a 19-year-old Brazilian man at the Chuy bus terminal with 2.966 kg of cannabis in a backpack. A Chuy court, in a shortened hearing, sentenced him to two years in prison and ordered his expulsion after the term.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-nuevo-operacion-jacobo-7-5kg-marihuana/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-nuevo-operacion-jacobo-7-5kg-marihuana/Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2026-05-21. Anti-drug police raided a drug storage and processing residence in Maldonado Nuevo on 21 May 2026 under Operation Jacobo, seizing 7.5 kilograms of marijuana alongside 4.5 kilograms of cocaine. Officers also confiscated three modified Glock pistols, more than 550 rounds of ammunition and 140,000 Uruguayan pesos as prosecutors investigated the Maldonado and San Carlos network.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-lavalleja-three-raids-six-convicted/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-lavalleja-three-raids-six-convicted/Fri, 08 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2026-05-08. Police searched three homes at once in Rivera's barrio Lavalleja, seized 237 packets of a yellowish substance shown alongside marijuana in the police photos, 120 packets of pasta base, cash and phones, and detained six people including two teenagers. A court then convicted three adults on drug-supply charges and imposed 16 months of closed detention on the two adolescents.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-midas-hash-laboratory-sentences/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-midas-hash-laboratory-sentences/Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-12-09. Uruguayan police raided a hashish laboratory in Juan Soler and three Canelones sites on 7 December 2025, seizing 4,433.65 kg of cannabis and 46.52 kg of hashish; four detainees received abbreviated sentences up to three years in prison on 9 December.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/la-paloma-rocha-351kg-hashish/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/la-paloma-rocha-351kg-hashish/Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-07-21. Three Brazilian citizens were sentenced to five years in prison for belonging to a criminal organisation after a Rocha marijuana seizure and a Palermo, Montevideo, search found 132.31 kg of hashish. The ministry put the total from both operations at 482 kg of drugs.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-conciliacion-valldemosa-marijuana-labs-three-jailed/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-conciliacion-valldemosa-marijuana-labs-three-jailed/Mon, 26 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-05-26. Police from Canelones and Montevideo raided three properties in the Conciliación neighbourhood under Operation Valldemosa, detaining six men and dismantling two marijuana processing laboratories. Three of the men were convicted of supplying narcotics and sentenced to prison terms ranging from two years and ten months to three years and eight months.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-mapuche-border-couple-three-years/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-mapuche-border-couple-three-years/Tue, 20 May 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-05-20. A court sentenced a 25-year-old Brazilian and a 27-year-old Uruguayan to three years in prison for supplying drugs after Operation Mapuche stopped them entering Rivera from Santana do Livramento on 20 May 2025. Officers seized 997 g of marijuana from the couple and Brazilian police found another 1.816 kg at a storage site.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-operation-damasco-tusi-kitchen/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/montevideo-operation-damasco-tusi-kitchen/Wed, 26 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-03-26. Montevideo police searched homes in Conciliación and Paso Molino during Operation Damasco, arrested three people and found a tusi kitchen, seizing 56 grams of marijuana among the synthetic drugs. An organised-crime judge then convicted one of the three for production and dealing and gave the other two two years and two months each for supply.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/durazno-operation-relampago-marijuana-convictions/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/durazno-operation-relampago-marijuana-convictions/Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2025-03-22. Durazno's anti-drug brigade intercepted a car and raided four addresses in Operation Relámpago, seizing 51 bricks of marijuana weighing 25 kg, a revolver, cash, phones and a car. Four of five people detained were convicted, three to four years in prison and one to three years and a month, and a woman was released.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-operacion-fortuna-63kg-hashish/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-operacion-fortuna-63kg-hashish/Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2025-02-07. Operation Fortuna intercepted 11 postal shipments and seized about 63 kg of hashish sent from the United States, then police detained 13 people in raids across Montevideo, Canelones and Rocha. A court formalized proceedings against 12 detainees and ordered 120 days of preventive detention, while the remaining detainee was released.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/acegua-42kg-marihuana-border-two-convicted-2025/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/acegua-42kg-marihuana-border-two-convicted-2025/Wed, 29 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2025-01-29. Cerro Largo police, tipped off by Brazil's Civil Police, seized 42.067 kilos of marijuana buds from a sheet-metal shelter near the Aceguá border on 29 January 2025. Raids in Melo days later led to two convictions, with prison terms of two years and six months and three years for supplying narcotics.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-poseidon-colonia-hemp-seizure-sentences/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-poseidon-colonia-hemp-seizure-sentences/Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2024-10-24. Police in Colonia department raided three branches of a licensed hemp company and seized about 1,484 kg of cannabis material and 250 kg of seeds, detaining three people. A court in Rosario then convicted the two men of supplying narcotics, with prison terms of two years and ten months and two years, and the woman of aggravated concealment, with 12 months on probation.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rio-branco-isidoro-noblia-lab-three-convicted-2024/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rio-branco-isidoro-noblia-lab-three-convicted-2024/Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2024-09-17. Customs officers tried to stop two vehicles in Río Branco, Cerro Largo, and found 10.460 kilos of marijuana buds in one abandoned car; a raid on a farm in Isidoro Noblía turned up a clandestine grow with 212 plants and 4.178 kilos more. Three men were afterward convicted, two to two years and four months in prison and one to 20 months of probationary liberty.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/salto-ruta-31-209-bultos-three-arrested-2024/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/salto-ruta-31-209-bultos-three-arrested-2024/Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMTArrestUruguay, 2024-09-11. Salto police arrested three men from Río Branco after stopping a Chevrolet Corsa carrying 209 sacks of plant material, presumed to be marijuana, at the junction of Rutas 4 and 31. Two of the men fled across a private property and were caught on foot five kilometres away; the load was sent to the prosecutor's office for weighing and testing.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manuel-diaz-139kg-paraguayans-sentenced/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-manuel-diaz-139kg-paraguayans-sentenced/Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2024-01-21. Rivera police stopped a Paraguayan-registered pickup at the Manuel Díaz crossing between Rivera and Tacuarembó on 21 January 2024 and found 139 kilograms of pressed marijuana hidden in the vehicle. The two Paraguayan occupants, aged 33 and 51, were convicted and sentenced to two years and six months in prison.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/bella-union-artigas-cannabis-plantation-conviction-2024/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/bella-union-artigas-cannabis-plantation-conviction-2024/Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTSentenceUruguay, 2024-01-18. A court in Bella Unión convicted a 28-year-old man after IRCCA inspectors found an unlicensed cannabis plantation and harvest at his property on Ruta 30, Artigas department, and police then seized 28 plants. He received 24 months for a preparatory trafficking act and a firearms offence, with three months to be served in prison and the rest under probation.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/punta-negra-maldonado-65-plants-34kg-clapton/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/punta-negra-maldonado-65-plants-34kg-clapton/Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTRaidUruguay, 2023-03-27. Maldonado's anti-drug brigade raided a property in the Punta Negra resort and seized 65 marijuana plants, 34 kg of buds and 600 g of hashish, detaining five people. The four men were formalised for drug trafficking, with one also charged over firearms, and all four were placed under total house arrest for 60 days.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-arquimedes-21kg-marijuana-ecstasy/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-arquimedes-21kg-marijuana-ecstasy/Wed, 18 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2023-01-18. Police raids in Montevideo, Canelones and Rivera under Operation Arquímedes seized more than 21.5 kilograms of marijuana and 2,000 ecstasy pills, along with cocaine, 17,500 pesos and ammunition. Four men and one woman were detained and placed at the disposal of the second-turn drug prosecutor's office.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-curticeiras-214kg-couple-sentenced/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-curticeiras-214kg-couple-sentenced/Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2022-04-03. Police in Rivera stopped a Paraguayan-registered pickup at the Curticeiras checkpoint and found 214.68 kilograms of marijuana hidden in its bodywork, detaining a 35-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman. A day later the Rivera courts sentenced the man to three years in prison and the woman to 12 months.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-nuevo-house-15kg-109-plants-conviction/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/maldonado-nuevo-house-15kg-109-plants-conviction/Fri, 17 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2021-12-17. Police in Maldonado seized more than 15 kilos of marijuana and 109 plants from a house in the Maldonado Nuevo neighbourhood that had a video surveillance system and an area fitted out for growing the drug. A 26-year-old man was convicted in the case.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-ryguasu-record-seizure-2021/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-ryguasu-record-seizure-2021/Tue, 23 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2021-11-23. Rivera police seized more than 1,500 kilograms of Paraguayan marijuana entering over land from Brazil in mid-November 2021, the largest seizure in Uruguay's history. Officers intercepted three vehicles under Operation Ryguasu after an investigation running since September.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-138kg-three-procedures-october-2021/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-138kg-three-procedures-october-2021/Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2021-10-01. Uruguayan police and customs officers seized 138 kilograms of marijuana in three procedures around Rivera in late September and October 2021, two of them at the Curticeiras border post with Brazil. Four people were sentenced in the case, with prison terms of up to three years, and six were detained in all, including a prisoner whose home was searched.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/aigua-la-coronilla-746-plants-2021/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/aigua-la-coronilla-746-plants-2021/Sat, 20 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMTRaidUruguay, 2021-02-20. Maldonado's anti-drug brigade searched three rural properties at Paraje La Coronilla near Aiguá and seized 746 marijuana plants, 3.24 kg of buds and 8.431 kg of drying plants valued by the ministry at 1.1 million pesos. Four people were detained at the properties and a fifth in San Carlos; three were charged with drug production and two were held in preventive detention.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/canelones-villa-arejo-four-raids-70-plants-three-held/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/canelones-villa-arejo-four-raids-70-plants-three-held/Mon, 30 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMTRaidUruguay, 2020-11-30. Canelones police carried out four raids at Villa Villarejo, known as Villa Arejo, on 30 November 2020 and detained three people, including the man they called the suspected head of the group. Officers found more than 70 marijuana plants in three greenhouses and seized a pistol, a sawn-off shotgun and 9,000 pesos in cash.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-patriarca-tonne-marijuana-2020/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-patriarca-tonne-marijuana-2020/Thu, 17 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2020-09-17. Uruguay's Anti-Drug Brigade raided a rural estate in northern Paysandú department in September 2020 and seized 1,103.2 kg of marijuana, along with 40 kg of cannabis seeds and two pickups. A 28-year-old man was jailed for 2 years and 10 months, a 32-year-old woman received 20 months under supervised release, and a 40-year-old man was freed.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-arroyo-sauzal-greenhouse-380-plants-2020/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/rivera-arroyo-sauzal-greenhouse-380-plants-2020/Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMTRaidUruguay, 2020-04-23. Police in Rivera department dismantled a clandestine cannabis greenhouse on rural land at Arroyo Sauzal and seized the plants inside after neighbours reported strangers entering the plot. Nobody was arrested; three people fled as officers arrived, and investigators said the landowner had rented the plot to others and the person behind the crop was identified and requested by the courts.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-594kg-marijuana-1043-plants-2017/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/uruguay-594kg-marijuana-1043-plants-2017/Wed, 22 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2017-03-22. Uruguay's anti-drug directorate reported that nationwide operations between 1 January and 22 March 2017 seized 594,472 grams of marijuana, 1,043 cannabis plants and 350 grams of cannabis seeds. More than 700 people were detained over drug-trafficking offences and more than 100 were sent for prosecution.https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-artigas-bridge-30g-seizure-2012/https://tracker.cannabisfreedom.fyi/report/paysandu-artigas-bridge-30g-seizure-2012/Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMTSeizureUruguay, 2012-12-28. Customs officers seized 30 grams of marijuana from an Argentine-registered car at the General Artigas bridge control area in Paysandú on 28 December 2012. The two men and a 15-year-old boy in the car were placed at the disposal of a Paysandú judge, who referred the matter to the Narcotics Brigade.