Beijing court jails man six months for mailed cannabis e-cigarettes
Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People's Court sentenced a man named Wang to six months in prison and a 5,000-yuan fine on 26 June 2026 for smuggling cannabis e-cigarettes posted to him from abroad and concealed in supplement bottles. Police seized 16 e-cigarettes holding 6.92 grams of THC paste; the court treated it as a small quantity and gave him leniency for his confession.
Wang, a man whose full name was not released, had family abroad mail him cannabis e-cigarettes
hidden in bottles of a calcium-magnesium-zinc supplement between 2025 and 2026.[1][2]In January
2026 he was arrested on the spot as he collected a parcel declared as the supplement; officers
found 10 e-cigarettes in the parcel and six more at his home, together holding 6.92 grams of a
yellow paste containing THC, the cannabis compound.[1][2]
On 26 June 2026, International Anti-Drug Day, Beijing No. 4 Intermediate People’s Court sentenced
him to six months in prison and a 5,000-yuan fine for smuggling drugs, granting leniency for his
confession and guilty plea.[1][2]The court said the 6.92 grams fell under “other small
quantities” of drugs, which carry up to three years, and warned that any parcel containing
cannabis is treated as drugs however it is disguised.[1]
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The cannabis e-cigarettes seized in the case, in a court handout photo.Photo details
Qujing court sentenced two men for picking and drying wild cannabis leaves, using some themselves and selling some to another person. One received a one-year prison term and the other nine months.
Two foreign transit passengers were sentenced to eight and four years after Customs seized 70.8309 kg of cannabis from four checked bags at Beijing Capital International Airport in June 2025. They had planned to carry it through Beijing to a third country.
Charged 2Cannabis 70.8309 kgPrison 8 years and 4 years
A Shanghai court sentenced a man named Xu to four years in prison and a 10,000-yuan fine on 30 March 2026 for smuggling and transporting more than four kilograms of cannabis from Southeast Asia in three trips in 2025 and burying it in four cities. No cannabis was recovered; prosecutors built the case from bank flows, travel records and recovered phone data, and he confessed.
A Lixin County court sentenced Huang to four years and six months in prison and a 400,000-yuan fine on 10 September 2025 for growing cannabis in Anhui and selling it online to buyers in Qingdao and Weihai. He and an accomplice harvested about 3.4 kilograms in 2023 and sold about 1.2 kilograms for 110,000 yuan in virtual currency; the case was later published as a national typical case.
