Kolomna police destroy more than a hectare of wild cannabis
Kolomna police and a representative of the state anti-drug committee destroyed wild cannabis covering more than one hectare near Sergievsky and Kamenka during operation Mak-2025, after forensic tests found THC and suitability for making marijuana, using herbicides that kill the roots.
🇷🇺 Kolomna urban district, Moscow Oblast · Russia
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Officers of the Kolomna urban district Interior Ministry, together with a
representative of the state anti-drug committee, destroyed wild cannabis
plantations covering more than one hectare during operation Mak-2025, the Moscow
region police press service said on 15 September 2025.[1] The patches grew near
the settlements of Sergievsky and Kamenka in Kolomna.[1]
Forensic experts who examined sample plants found tetrahydrocannabinol and
concluded the cannabis could be used to produce marijuana.[2] Officers treated
the sites with specialised herbicides intended to kill the plants including their
roots.[2] A Moscow region Interior Ministry spokesperson quoted in Kolomna-Spravka
said laboratory tests confirmed the seized samples contained psychoactive material
suitable for making narcotics.[2]
Sources
- Полицейские уничтожили свыше гектара дикорастущей конопли в Подмосковье. Вечерняя Москва, 15 September 2025. In Russian.
- Плантации конопли уничтожили в Коломне. Kolomna-Spravka.ru, 15 September 2025. In Russian.
Open questions the AI reported
- Sources quote the Moscow region UMVD Telegram channel on Monday 15 September 2025 but do not say on which earlier day the field work took place.
- No plant counts or estimated drug yield were published, only an area of more than one hectare.
- Vechernyaya Moskva mentions a separate earlier eradication in Ramenskoye in the same article; that site is excluded here.
- Kolomna-Spravka carries the press-office wording without additional independent confirmation.
- No arrests or landowner identifications were reported.
