Zhenlai police uproot more than 3,000 wild cannabis plants in summer clearance
During a summer anti-drug patrol push, Zhenlai County police cleared wild cannabis in several townships, including 1,589 plants beside a village road on 1 July and 1,500 in a Momoge township search on 8 July. The county bureau said the season’s total passed 3,000 plants with no arrests named.
Zhenlai County police in Jilin cleared more than 3,000 wild cannabis plants
during a summer patrol campaign, a county police statement republished on 15
July 2025 said.[1]
On 1 July, Zhenlai township officers found 1,589 cannabis plants beside the west
road at Xinghuacun and removed them with equipment support, the account said.[1]On 8 July, Momoge township officers spent hours searching and uprooted
1,500 plants.[1]Earlier in the push, Heicheng police had cleared more than
100 plants identified as wild industrial hemp on 24 June and 79 cannabis plants
from a residential flower bed on 1 July, it added.[1]
The bureau said the combined summer total exceeded 3,000 plants and promised
more patrols and publicity.[1]It named no arrests.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Only this ThePaper repost of the Zhenlai county police account was opened; no second independent outlet was found for the same totals.
The stored plants_destroyed figure uses 3,000 as the bureau’s “more than 3,000 plants” (3000余株) season tally, which also includes smaller June–July clearances (79 plants in a flower bed, more than 100 industrial hemp plants, and others) not broken out separately in the headline count.
The 1,589-plant clearance at Xinghuacun on 1 July and the 1,500-plant Momoge operation on 8 July are the largest named operations; exact acreage and laboratory confirmation are not given.
No arrests or prosecutions are reported; industrial hemp and drug-type cannabis are distinguished only in the 24 June Heicheng case wording.
Nuoliang anti-drug workers uprooted more than 100 wild cannabis plants near a villager's fields in Cangyuan County after a resident tip. The workers found the patch during a follow-up carpet search and cleared all plants on the spot.
Officers from Junsai Police Station in Zhenkang County found multiple suspected drug plants beside a road and identified them as wild cannabis. Police uprooted and disposed of the plants; the reports gave no count.
After a resident reported unusual plants near a reservoir, police in Qujing's Xiaoxiang area confirmed and uprooted 23 wild cannabis plants. Officers said they destroyed the plants and searched the surrounding area again.
Police in Yunnan’s Yun County uprooted 54 wild cannabis plants in four township-level sweeps using drones, foot patrols and a school tip, then destroyed the plants on the spot. The county public security bureau said the work was part of ongoing ban-cultivation checks across Lincang prefecture.
