Bukhara police find mixed cannabis and opium-poppy cultivation
Uzbek internal-affairs officers searched a resident's home and household plot in Jondor district on 21 May 2026 and found more than 600 cannabis and opium-poppy plants, 50 to 70 centimetres tall. The reported weight exceeded 9 kg for the mixed plants, but the sources do not separate the cannabis component, so no cannabis quantity is recorded.
On 21 May 2026, Uzbek internal-affairs officers searched a resident’s home and household plot in
Jondor district, Bukhara region.[1][2]They found more than 600 plants identified in the reports
as a mixture of cannabis and opium poppy, with heights of 50 to 70 centimetres.[1][2]
The reports put the combined weight of the seized plants above nine kilograms.[1][2]Because
neither source separates the cannabis count or weight from the opium-poppy component, this report
records no cannabis figure.[1][2]
Podrobno.uz reported that a criminal case was opened for cultivating prohibited crops and that the
resident faced up to five years in prison.[1]
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Official video thumbnail showing the household plot searched in Jondor district; faces are blurred.Photo details
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Open questions the AI reported
The sources do not give a cannabis-only plant count or weight.
They do not say whether the plants were destroyed or only seized as evidence.
The resident's identity and subsequent case outcome were not reported.
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