48,000 cannabis plants burned in a Kalinga communal forest
Drug agents and police spent two days uprooting and burning 48,000 cannabis plants on 6,000 square metres of a communal forest in Tinglayan, in the mountains of northern Luzon. No one was arrested.
🇵🇭 Butbut Proper, Tinglayan, Kalinga · Philippines
- Arrested
- 0
- Plants destroyed
- 48,000
- Hectares
- 0.6
- Value (official estimate)
- PHP 9,600,000
On 2 and 3 August 2026, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) and police destroyed a cannabis plantation in Barangay Butbut Proper, in the municipality of Tinglayan, Kalinga.[1] The 6,000 square metres of plants were hidden inside a communal forest.[1] Agents uprooted 48,000 fully grown plants and burned them on the spot.[1] The authorities valued them at 9.6 million pesos.[1]
The operation was led by the PDEA’s Kalinga office, with a provincial mobile force company, the national police’s drug enforcement group for the Cordillera, the Tinglayan police station and staff of the provincial district jail.[1] No suspects were arrested.[1]
Sources
- P9.6 million worth of weeds destroyed in Kalinga. Daily Tribune, 4 August 2026.