Two men sentenced for selling leaves from wild cannabis in Qujing
Qujing court sentenced two men for picking and drying wild cannabis leaves, using some themselves and selling some to another person. One received a one-year prison term and the other nine months.
🇨🇳 Qujing Economic Development Zone, Yunnan · China
Qujing Intermediate People’s Court reported that Huang Mouyi and Huang Mouzhao found wild cannabis on vacant land in the city’s economic development zone. They picked and dried the leaves, used some themselves and sold some to another person.[1]
Testing found THC in material seized in the case. The court sentenced Huang Mouyi to one year in prison and a 6,000-yuan fine, and Huang Mouzhao to nine months and a 5,000-yuan fine for drug dealing.[1]
The report does not give the quantity of cannabis or identify when the judgments were delivered.[1]
Case data
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A Lixin County court sentenced Huang to four years and six months in prison and a 400,000-yuan fine on 10 September 2025 for growing cannabis in Anhui and selling it online to buyers in Qingdao and Weihai. He and an accomplice harvested about 3.4 kilograms in 2023 and sold about 1.2 kilograms for 110,000 yuan in virtual currency; the case was later published as a national typical case.
