A court sentenced a man to 80 months in prison for cultivation and custody of marijuana seeds and plants under article 314 of the Penal Code, after police found 12 plants and 279 seeds in Los Santos.
Police raided seven greenhouses in the village of Yasid, north of Nablus, and seized more than 2,000 cannabis saplings. Two suspects were arrested after they tried to flee; the raid was part of a West Bank crackdown that also seized 370 plants and 54 kg of dried cannabis in Jenin.
After taking the town of Akhtarin, north of Aleppo, from the Free Syrian Army, fighters of the Islamic State cut down a field of cannabis, soaked it in fuel and set it alight for the camera.
A force of 366 men with 29 vehicles, a helicopter and drones spent the harvest month in El Radoom, destroyed about 500 farms and seized more than 30,000 packages of cannabis and 54,000 pieces of hashish. An armed group ambushed them and two officers were wounded.