Novotroitske man sentenced to 240 hours of labour for 40 g of marijuana
The Novotroitske Inter-District Court in Kherson Oblast sentenced a 37-year-old local man to 240 hours of compulsory labour for possessing about 40 grams of marijuana without intent to sell. He had cut and dried six wild cannabis bushes growing on his property in June 2026 and kept them in his attic until police seized the drug in August.
🇷🇺 Novotroitske, Kherson Oblast · Russia
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Plants destroyed
6
Cannabis
40 g
Agencies
Новотроицкий межрайонный суд Херсонской области, Прокуратура Херсонской области
The Novotroitske Inter-District Court of Kherson Oblast convicted a 37-year-old
resident of the Novotroitske district under part 1 of article 228 of the Russian
Criminal Code.[1]The regional prosecutor’s press service said he was found
guilty of possessing banned substances in significant amount without intent to
sell.[2]The court, taking into account the state prosecutor’s opinion,
sentenced him to 240 hours of compulsory labour, unpaid work ordered as a
criminal punishment.[1]The verdict has entered into legal force.[2]
The court found that in early June 2026 the man discovered six bushes of wild
cannabis containing narcotics on his property in Novotroitske, an urban-type
settlement in Kherson Oblast.[1]He cut the plants, dried them and hid them in
the attic of his house for his own use.[2]
Police stopped his activity in August 2026 and seized about 40 grams of
narcotics.[1]Officers found and seized the drug during a search.[2]
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
Convicted
1
Sentenced
1
Plants destroyed
6
Cannabis
40 g
Agencies
Новотроицкий межрайонный суд Херсонской области; Прокуратура Херсонской области
Agency type
Court, Prosecutor, Police
Cannabis
Living plants (6 plants); Herbal cannabis (40 g)
Activity
Possession, Processing
Setting
Home
Grown
Wild
Charge
unlawful possession of narcotics in significant amount without intent to sell (part 1 of article 228 of the Russian Criminal Code)
No date is given for the sentencing; 11 November 2026, the publication date of the prosecutor's statement and the news report, is used as the incident date.
The police search is dated only to August 2026, with no exact day.
The seized amount is given as about 40 grams, not an exact measured weight.
The convicted man is identified only by age and place of residence; no name was published.
The account rests on the regional prosecutor's statement, which the news report reproduces.
Terbunsky District Court fined a 56-year-old man in Lipetsk Oblast 30,000 rubles after police seized 6.9 grams of dried cannabis he had kept in a coffee container on a kitchen shelf. He had picked a wild cannabis bush near his home in autumn 2023, admitted guilt and was convicted of unlawful acquisition and storage.
A Blagoveshchensk city court sentenced a local man to four and a half years in a strict-regime penal colony for illegally acquiring and storing more than 23 kilograms of marijuana and cultivating 162 cannabis plants. He gathered the plant near Markovo in August 2025, hid it in an abandoned house in Belogorye, and tended sprouts in his own garden from May to July 2026.
The Bakhchisaray district court in Crimea convicted a resident of the village of Rechnoye under part 2 of article 228 and gave him three years of imprisonment, suspended, with a three-year probation period. Prosecutors said he picked leaves and flower heads from cannabis bushes he had planted at his home in July 2026 and kept 312 grams of the plant material in his outbuilding for his own use.
Convicted 1Sentenced 1Cannabis 312 gPrison 3 years suspended with 3-year probation
A court in Amur Oblast convicted a 20-year-old resident of Petropavlovka, in Ivanovsky District, of illegally buying a large consignment of cannabis in June and revoked his earlier suspended sentence. He was ordered to serve two and a half years in a general-regime penal colony after pleading guilty in full.