A 42-year-old man received an £800 fine after police found about 127 grams of cannabis resin during a foot patrol.[@1] He appeared in the Magistrates’ Court the morning after his arrest and was charged with possession of a Class B drug.[@1] The case came under the current criminal code, which allows fines or imprisonment for possession.[@2]
A driver was fined £250 and disqualified for eight months after testing at not less than 3.8 micrograms of THC per litre of blood. Police had stopped his erratically driven car in November 2023.
The director general of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency reported 1,219 people arrested in 1,208 drug cases in 2024, 1,014 of them Gambians. The agency seized 1.9 tonnes of cannabis sativa and 2.2 tonnes from plantations; cannabis made up 54.7% of all seizures.
At ceremonies in Yangon, Mandalay and Taunggyi, the home affairs ministry destroyed drugs valued at about 1,072 billion kyats. Among them were over 597 kg of marijuana, beside 1,744 kg of heroin, over 1,334 kg of opium, over 8,573 kg of ketamine and 281 million methamphetamine tablets. The drugs had been seized between 1 June 2024 and 31 May 2025.