17,782 wild cannabis plants weighing four tonnes burned in Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said police found and destroyed 17,782 wild-growing cannabis plants weighing four tonnes in operations on 24 July 2026, without naming a district. One outlet quoting the same ministry press service gave a larger daily figure, 28,074 plants weighing more than 19.8 tonnes, and the ministry's 45.3 kg of drugs seized in the period was not broken down by substance.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan (nationwide police operations; the Interior Ministry named no districts) · Azerbaijan
Police officers across Azerbaijan found and destroyed 17,782 wild-growing
cannabis plants weighing four tonnes in operations on 24 July 2026, the Interior
Ministry’s press service said.[1][2]e-huquq.az, also quoting the Interior
Ministry’s press service, reported the same count and the same four-tonne
weight.[3]The ministry said operations in this direction were continuing.[1][2]
Police across Azerbaijan found and seized45.3 kg of narcotic substances over
the previous 24 hours, the Interior Ministry reported.[4][2]In the same period,
law-enforcement bodies carried out measures to eliminate wild-growing cannabis.[4]
Operativmm.az, citing the same ministry press service for the previous day, put
the 24 July clearance at 28,074 cannabis plants weighing more than 19.8 tonnes,
found in separate districts of the country.[5]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The ministry's 45.3 kg covers narcotics of all kinds and is not broken down by substance, so no cannabis weight is recorded as seized.
No district or village is named for the destroyed plants, so the place is recorded as Azerbaijan and the coordinates are national.
Operativmm.az put the same day's clearance at 28,074 plants weighing more than 19.8 tonnes, far above the 17,782 plants and four tonnes repeated by Teleqraf.az, e-huquq.az, and Media.az; the smaller figure is used because multiple outlets attribute it directly to the ministry press service.
The Operativmm.az page shows its own publication date as 25 July 2025 while it describes 24 July in a report on the same figures, so whether it reports the same 2026 operation is not certain.
No area of land cleared and no suspects, arrests or criminal case were reported.
The four tonnes is the combined weight of the uprooted wild plants, not dried cannabis, and is therefore not recorded as kilograms seized.
Azerbaijan's State Security Service detained two Azerbaijani citizens as they collected a drone-delivered drug consignment near the Jabrayil refugee settlement in Bilasuvar District, and said it seized 14 kg 158 g of marijuana from them. The service said an Iranian national organised the smuggling run, and a criminal case was opened.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said police destroyed 22,487 wild cannabis plants weighing 11.77 tonnes on 10 July 2026, without naming any district. The same day's operations took more than 33 kg of marijuana out of circulation, alongside heroin and methamphetamine in a seizure the ministry put at more than 36 kg in total.
Azerbaijan's Interior Ministry said police destroyed 41,622 wild-growing cannabis plants weighing 12.1 tonnes on 26 June 2026, without naming any district. The same day's operations seized about 34.2 kg of narcotic substances; the ministry gave no breakdown by substance, so no cannabis weight is recorded from that haul.
Azerbaijan's Balakan District Police destroyed 10,815 wild cannabis plants weighing 9,800 kg in Hanifa village. The Interior Ministry attributed the operation to its Hash-hash-2026 campaign; both reports were published on 12 June 2026.
