Police burn 190 kg of wild cannabis cut on 800 sq m in Georgievsk
Police and municipal officials in Georgievsk, Stavropol Krai, cut and burned more than 190 kilograms of wild cannabis growing on 800 square metres during the nationwide operation Mak-2026. No arrests were reported and the operation continued.
🇷🇺 Georgievsk, Stavropol Krai · Russia
Police and municipal officials in Georgievsk, Stavropol Krai, found a large
patch of wild cannabis during operation Mak-2026.[1]The patch covered 800
square metres, or 0.08 hectares.[1]The cut crop weighed more than 190
kilograms and officers burned it.[1]The Stavropol Krai Interior Ministry
press service announced the find.[1]
Pobeda 26 put the destroyed material at about 190 kilograms growing on the 800
square metres.[2]The work fell in the third stage of Mak-2026, a nationwide
interdepartmental operation against drugs of plant origin.[3]The operation
aims to stop plant-based drugs spreading and to close down cannabis growing
sites.[3]
Police asked residents to report wild cannabis they find.[2]The aggregator
Prospect carried the same police account on 3 September.[4]
Photos and video
Police handout photo of the wild cannabis patch cut and burned in Georgievsk. Photo: ГУ МВД России по Ставропольскому краюPhoto details
The reports give no separate date for the discovery or the burning; 31 August 2026 is their publication date.
No count of cannabis plants was published, only the weight and the area.
No arrests, suspects or charges were reported in connection with the patch.
All accounts relay the same Stavropol Krai Interior Ministry press release.
A separate wild-cannabis patch of about 200 kilograms on more than 2,000 square metres was reported in the same district on 31 July 2026 and is not counted here.
Left out hectares, as no supporting quotation was given.
Left out kg seized, as no supporting quotation was given.
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Rosselkhoznadzor inspectors found nine wild cannabis sites covering 2,699 square metres on farmland in five districts of Novosibirsk Oblast during 2026. Landholders were warned to destroy the plants and the findings were passed to the Interior Ministry, with no destruction or arrests reported.
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