Kuban man faces trial over 800g of homegrown marijuana
A 52-year-old man in Vyselkovsky District, Krasnodar Krai, faces trial after police said he grew cannabis from wild seeds and made 800 grams of marijuana for personal use. His case under part 2 of article 228 has been sent to court, where he faces up to 10 years in prison.
The investigative department of the Vyselkovsky district police completed a
criminal case against a 52-year-old local man accused under part 2 of article
228 of the Russian Criminal Code.[1]The case with an approved indictment was
sent to court for a hearing on the merits.[1]The offence carries a maximum
penalty of up to 10 years in prison.[1]The man was additionally held
administratively liable for unlawfully cultivating banned plants under article
10.5.1 of the Administrative Code.[1]
Investigators say the man found wild cannabis on a riverbank, collected its
seeds and sowed them on land by his home.[1]He grew the plants on his own
plot and later made marijuana from the harvest for personal use.[2]Officers
seized800 grams of the banned substance from the man.[2]Police say the man
had planted the collected seeds on his own plot after finding the wild plants by
the river.[2]
The criminal case was opened under part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code
and has been referred to court.[2]The regional Interior Ministry press
service for Krasnodar Krai is named as the source of the police account.[2]
Case data
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A 58-year-old man in Bobrovsky District, Voronezh Oblast, was charged with large-scale cultivation of narcotic plants after officers found 61 cannabis bushes in his yard. He had grown them from seeds bought in May 2026 to make marijuana for personal use, and his case has been sent to the district court.
The Barnaul transport prosecutor's office sent a 19-year-old Novosibirsk resident to trial accused of hiding more than 50 drug caches in Barnaul, including 2.9 grams of hashish bought with about 17 grams of cocaine. Transport police detained him beside the railway line on the Barnaul–Shtabka stretch while he was laying the stashes.
Police in Saransk finished investigating a 43-year-old man after finding three parcels of marijuana in his garage in late August and 10 cannabis bushes nearby, 200 grams in total. The regional interior ministry said he had pulled up wild cannabis and kept it, and the case has been sent to court.
A 61-year-old man from Serafimovichsky district, Volgograd Oblast, has been sent to court accused of picking wild cannabis for personal use and storing about 300 grams of dried plant parts in a jar in an outbuilding. Charged with large-scale drug possession without intent to sell, he faces up to 10 years in prison.
