Fifteen years for cultivating hashish at home in Kuwait City
Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to fifteen years and a KD10,000 fine for cultivating, trafficking and using hashish after drug-control officers raided her home; a co-defendant was not sentenced for use alone.
🇰🇼 Kuwait City · Kuwait
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Charged
1
Prison
15 years
Fine
KWD 10,000
Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced a Kuwaiti woman to fifteen years in prison and
fined her KD10,000 on 22 January 2026 after convicting her of cultivating,
trafficking and using hashish and psychotropic substances.[1][2][3]The General
Department for Drug Control had put her under surveillance, raided her home, and
seizednarcotics together with equipment used to grow and process drugs.[1][2][3]
The court found she had cultivated narcotics in her residence with intent to
traffic and consume them, and it rejected defence challenges to the legality of
the search.[1][2][3]A Kuwaiti man charged alongside her was not sentenced on
use alone because the court found no evidence he cultivated or trafficked; the
accounts describe leniency in his case.[1][2][3]The reports opened do not name
either defendant or give precise quantities of hashish.[1][2][3]
Kuwait's Criminal Court sentenced a Bidun man to life imprisonment for trafficking hashish alongside psychotropic substances after officers caught him in a drug-control ambush. Prosecutors said he held cannabis resin for use and sale, plus amphetamine and pregabalin, and had consumed THC; the court upheld the arrest and search.
Kuwait’s Criminal Court sentenced two Lebanese men to death for trafficking and using cannabis alongside psychoactive substances. Officers had seized 2 kg of marijuana and 400 g of hashish, plus non-cannabis drugs and packing equipment.
Arrested 2Charged 2Cannabis 2.4 kgPrison death sentence
The Criminal Court sentenced a well-known lawyer and a Kuwaiti fugitive in London to life for trafficking hashish and psychotropic substances sent by air cargo. A young woman and another Kuwaiti received seven years each. The case showed that air cargo from Europe, not only Gulf sea routes, supplies the market.
Police broke up a hashish network holding 145 kilograms of resin and arrested a female suspect, then searched the cell of a non-Kuwaiti inmate who ran the gang from Central Prison. Another accomplice was at large outside Kuwait. The case showed that prison-based dealers can direct smuggling networks beyond the walls.