Urumqi police uproot 349 wild cannabis plants beside a neighbourhood road
On 21 May 2026, community officers in Urumqi’s high-tech district found wild cannabis beside a residential road, had anti-drug staff confirm it, and uprooted 349 plants with a local police station team before briefing passers-by on how to report similar plants.
🇨🇳 Dacheng neighbourhood, Urumqi High-tech Zone, Xinjiang · China
- Plants destroyed
- 349
On 21 May 2026 a community police officer on patrol in Urumqi’s high-tech
district noticed unusual plants beside the road at the south gate of the Dacheng
neighbourhood complex on Xincheng Lane, China Daily reported.[1]
The officer alerted superiors and anti-drug specialists, who confirmed wild
cannabis.[1] Officers from the Gaoxin street sub-station and a nearby police
station then uprooted 349 plants root and stem, China Daily said.[1] A 26 May
roundup in Legal Daily described the same discovery date and location and said
teams cleared cannabis seedlings during a wider search before destroying the
material, without giving a new total.[2]
Both pieces said officers warned residents to report suspicious plants.[1][2]
No arrests were announced.[1][2]
Sources
- 路边惊现野生大麻 民警及时铲除隐患. 中国日报网, 24 May 2026. In Chinese.
- 发现一处铲除一处！乌市公安全力清除野生大麻. 石榴云/新疆法治报, 26 May 2026. In Chinese.
Open questions the AI reported
- China Daily gives the exact 349-plant total; the later Xinjiang Legal Daily roundup on 26 May describes the same 21 May find at Xincheng Lane, Dacheng subdistrict, but does not repeat the number after a wider neighbourhood sweep.
- Neither outlet names a cultivator or reports arrests; both treat the plants as wild drug-source material.
- No laboratory THC analysis is cited beyond police identification.
