Joint teams of the Police Regional Office Cordillera destroyed 62,800 fully grown marijuana plants worth P12,560,000 in a two-day eradication operation in the provinces of Kalinga and Benguet from 7 to 8 August 2024.[1] In Tabuk City, Kalinga, operatives of the Special Operations Unit-Cordillera, the Tabuk City police station, the Regional Mobile Force Battalion 15, the Isabela police provincial office and the Quezon police station discovered 52,000 plants with a standard drug price of P10,400,000 in Barangay Nambaran.[1][2]

Another operation by the Kalinga police drug enforcement and intelligence units, the Tinglayan municipal police, the 1st Kalinga Provincial Mobile Force Company and PDEA-Cordillera found 10,000 fully grown plants worth P2,000,000 in Barangay Loccong, Tinglayan.[1] In Benguet, a joint team found 800 plants worth P160,000 in Barangay Tacadang, Kibungan.[1] Philstar, reporting the Nambaran raid separately, said the plants were concealed on a 5,200-square-metre farm on the ridges of the village and were uprooted and destroyed at about 11 a.m. on Thursday.[2]

All the plants were documented and burned on-site, with samples kept for qualitative testing by the regional forensic unit.[1]