Authorities detained one person at a bus terminal in Havana who was carrying a wrapper containing marijuana.[1] The detention occurred at the Terminal Nacional de Ómnibus, where officers found a wrapper of marijuana on the accused.[2] Authorities did not publish the amount of marijuana in the wrapper.[1] The detainee was described as presumably Cuban.[1] Prosecutors considered a sanction of more than 10 years in prison for the accused.[2]

The marijuana detention was announced together with an operation against químico in Marianao, in Havana, in which 22 people were detained.[1] Interior Ministry agents had seized the synthetic drug known as químico a few weeks earlier in the Coco Solo-Zamora council in Marianao and detained 22 citizens linked to its distribution.[2] In the same announcement, two foreigners detected with cocaine inside their bodies at José Martí International Airport faced requested 15-year prison terms.[1] Authorities said confiscation applies not only to the substances but also to related assets such as plots, cars or other linked vehicles.[1] In Havana courts, 96% of people tried for drug trafficking or possession had received sanctions, with 95.8% sentenced to between 10 and 20 years, according to experts cited in the announcement.[1]

Cuba’s anti-drug chief has described químico as a synthetic cannabinoid with 45 variants entering as powder, liquid, mixed with acetone, impregnated in paper or in plant material.[1]