Cordillera police destroy 89,240 cannabis plants in 33 eradication operations
Joint Philippine National Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency teams conducted 33 cannabis-eradication operations from 9 to 15 March 2026, uprooting 87,740 mature plants, 1,500 seedlings and 146.72 kilograms of dried cannabis. Parallel operations arrested 15 drug personalities; 14 grams of shabu is excluded from the cannabis figures.
🇵🇭 Benguet, Kalinga, Mountain Province and Baguio City, Cordillera Administrative Region, Philippines
Joint Philippine National Police and Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency teams carried out 33
cannabis-eradication operations in the Cordillera Administrative Region from 9 to 15 March 2026.[1]
The operations seized 87,740 fully grown cannabis plants, 1,500 seedlings and 146,720 grams of
dried cannabis leaves and fruiting tops.[1]The report separately records 14 grams of shabu from
the wider operation, which is excluded from this cannabis report.[1]
Eight buy-bust operations, two police-response operations and one warrant service produced 15
arrests in Benguet, Kalinga and Baguio City.[1]The source does not say that any of those arrests
came from the 33 cannabis-eradication operations.[1]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
The 15 arrests came from parallel buy-bust and response operations, not from the 33 marijuana-eradication operations; the source does not link any individual arrest to a plantation.
The source also reports 14 grams of shabu from the combined operations; that non-cannabis quantity is excluded here.
The source does not break the cannabis weight down by province or identify the individual plantation sites.
Police confiscated 2,230 fully grown marijuana plants from three plantation sites in Kapangan, Benguet, which police valued at P446,000. The eradication was carried out separately by provincial operating units with no plantation arrests named.
Cordillera police destroyed 548,130 marijuana plants and 9,000 seedlings in 14 operations from 25 October to 1 November 2026, arresting six drug suspects. A parallel manhunt arrested 28 other fugitives, bringing the week's total reported arrests to 34.
Police destroyed three marijuana plantations in Kapangan and Kibungan, Benguet, on 30 October 2026, seizing 1,150 mature plants and 1,000 seedlings. Police valued the plants at P270,000 and burned them on site while seeking those responsible.
Kalinga police uprooted and burned 544,000 fully grown marijuana plants across seven sites in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan, on 27 October 2026, an operation the provincial office valued at about ₱108.8 million. No cultivators were arrested.
