Combined Afghan and coalition forces discovered a drug cache in the Maiwand district of Kandahar province.[1] The Maiwand cache consisted of 3,307 pounds of hashish, 661 pounds of marijuana and 146 pounds of opium.[1] The same statement reported that the forces discovered a second drug cache of 220 pounds of hashish in the Zharay district of Kandahar province.[1]
Cannabis caches of hashish and marijuana seized in Maiwand and Zharay, Kandahar
Combined Afghan and coalition forces discovered two drug caches in Kandahar province in June 2011: one in Maiwand holding 3,307 pounds of hashish and 661 pounds of marijuana (with 146 pounds of opium), and a second in Zharay holding 220 pounds of hashish.
🇦🇫 Maiwand district, Kandahar province; Zharay district, Kandahar province · Afghanistan
- Cannabis
- 1.8996 t
- Agency
- International Security Assistance Force
- Cannabis
- Hashish, Herbal cannabis
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Cannabis
- 1.8996 t
- Agency
- International Security Assistance Force
- Agency type
- Military
- Cannabis
- Hashish (1.5998 t); Herbal cannabis (299.8 kg)
- Region
- Kandahar
- Date
- Approximate
Sources
- U.S. Army (ISAF Joint Command)army.milAfghan, coalition force kills terrorists
Open questions the AI reported
- The incident date of 20 June 2011 is inferred: the article is datelined 21 June 2011 and describes the caches among operations 'yesterday', while the page was published 22 June 2011.
- No count of people, charges, monetary value, disposal method, or later case outcome were published for these caches.
- Only one accessible account of these exact caches was found; no second source could be opened.
- The 441 pounds of opium discovered in Bakwa district, Farah province, is a separate non-cannabis event and is not included in this report.
- The remaining items in the same roundup (killing of insurgents, detentions of suspects, weapons caches in Sangin, Sabari and other districts) are separate events and are not covered in this cannabis report.
