Police and military officers in Bolikhamxay Province destroyed eight illegal cannabis plantations holding 4,447 plants across 4.2 hectares in Oudomxay Village, Viengthong District, on 2 November 2021. Officers arrested a man believed to own one of the plantations.
🇱🇦 Oudomxay Village, Viengthong District, Bolikhamxay Province · Laos
Police and military officers in Bolikhamxay Province destroyed eight illegal cannabis plantations in a joint operation in Oudomxay Village, Viengthong District, on Tuesday 2 November 2021.[1] The plantations held 4,447 cannabis plants across 4.2 hectares of land.[1]
Officers arrested a man believed to be the owner of one of the plantations; the owners of the other seven remain unknown.[1] The authorities estimated the destroyed plants at 22,235 kg and burned them on site.[1]
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Bolikhamxay authorities destroyed more than 3,000 kg of dried cannabis on 14 October 2026, alongside 6.3 million methamphetamine pills and more than two tonnes of kratom leaves. Vientiane's National Anti-Drug Day burn on 10 October included 8.578 kg of dried cannabis in a 3,894 kg total. The figures are post-conviction destructions, not annual seizures.
Three Malaysians aged 25 to 29 were arrested at Wattay International Airport in Vientiane with 86 kg of cannabis in 103 packages, concealed in suitcases and bound for Germany. The case was one of the few cannabis-specific airport seizures reported in 2025.
Lao media reported on 26 March 2024 that a couple had been arrested in Bolikhamxay with more than 800 kg of cannabis and nearly 300 amphetamine pills. The same report described 1,000 kg of crystal meth seized in Xayaboury and 166 kg in Bokeo. It gave no charge, court date or sentence for the cannabis case.
Police and military officers in Bolikhamxay Province destroyed 17 illegal cannabis farms holding about 10,180 plants on nearly ten hectares in Oudomxay Village, Viengthong District, on 23 November 2021. Officers arrested a man believed to own one of the farms, weeks after a smaller bust in the same village.
