Zhuzhou court jails seller for one year over two street cannabis leaf deals
The People's Court of Lusong District in Zhuzhou sentenced Li to one year in prison and a 10,000-yuan fine for selling cannabis leaf twice on city streets in 2024, about 10 g for 2,000 yuan in May and about 5 g for 1,400 yuan in November. Li surrendered after a police summons in February 2025; the court treated the plea as voluntary surrender and ordered 3,400 yuan in proceeds forfeited.
The People’s Court of Lusong District in Zhuzhou, Hunan, publicly sentenced
defendant Li to one year in prison and a 10,000-yuan fine for selling cannabis
leaf on two occasions, Rednet reported on 23 June 2025 in a court bulletin
ahead of the International Day against Drug Abuse.[1][2]
The court found that on an unspecified day in May 2024 Li sold buyer Liu about
10 g of cannabis leaf for 2,000 yuan on the roadside outside a bar in Wenyi
Lane, Lusong District.[1][2]On the evening of 3 November 2024 Li sold Liu
about 5 g more for 1,400 yuan on the roadside in front of Zhuzhou Central
Hospital.[1][2]
Police telephoned Li on 26 February 2025; he came in and confessed.[1][2]The
court held that Li knowingly sold cannabis leaf, that his surrender counted as
voluntary surrender meriting a lighter sentence, and that he qualified for
leniency after pleading guilty.[1][2]It ordered 3,400 yuan of criminal
proceeds continued to be recovered and forfeited to the state treasury.[1][2]
The posts did not describe any separate sentence for Liu or quote a lab
certificate for the leaf weight.[1][2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The court announcement gives only the surname Li (李某) and does not spell out the buyer Liu's fate or any separate charge against the buyer.
The May 2024 sale is dated only as “one day” in May without a calendar date; the November sale is dated 3 November 2024.
Both Rednet posts are court publicity ahead of the 26 June 2025 International Day against Drug Abuse and do not give the exact calendar date of the public sentencing hearing.
Quantities are approximate (“about 10 g” and “about 5 g”); no laboratory report is quoted in the text opened.
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.
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.
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.
