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This is a list of cannabis seizures notable for record-setting size or social precedent.

Operation Agency Location Year Amount and form* Notes
U.S.–Colombia joint operation Guajira Peninsula, Colombia 1978 570+ tons largest drug seizure to date by a factor of 10, worth $200 million[1][2]
Night Train Seizure US Coast Guard Atlantic Ocean near Florida 1978 54 tons (108,000 lb)
US Coast Guard Pacific Ocean 150 miles from San Diego 1984 26,000 pounds yacht Arrakis; largest on West Coast to date[3]
Project Pacifico DEA and Mexican authorities Chihuahua, Northern Mexico 1984 10,000 tons (20 thousand pounds) Series of raids in Mexico, some unharvested plants, some harvested and baled. Seizure included 45 trucks able to carry 30 tons of bales each.[2]
Cornbread Mafia seizure Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force (investigator) 10 Midwest states, based in Kentucky 1989 182 tons (364,000 pounds) valued at $350 million Over 70 individuals indicted operating 29 farms,[4][5][6] called by federal prosecutors the "largest domestic marijuana producing organization in the nation."[7]
Operation Green Sweep US Army/National Guard/Fed agencies Emerald Triangle, California 1990 1400 plants first time active-duty troops engaged in counterdrug activities inside US borders[8]
Operation Conquistador DEA Caribbean (multiple) 2000 362 tonnes DEA coordinated 26 country effort;[9] largest in this table by weight
Operation Keymer Local police Cambridge UK 2006 54 kg (119 lb)
Operation Imperial Emperor DEA California–Mexico 2007 27,229 pounds other drugs and $45 million cash seized[3][10]
Federal/local Houston 2007 19,000 pounds[3] seized drugs were being transported in school buses[11]
2007–2008 Norwegian cannabis raids National Criminal Investigation Service Norway 2007–2008 500 cannabis plants on a single farm, over 40 individual raids One of Norway's largest narcotics cases[12]
Counter Narcotics Police of Afghanistan Kahdahar, Afghanistan 2008 260 tons hashish
520,000 lb†		 said to be largest drug seizure in history at the time, worth $400 million[13][14]
US interagency? Queens 2009 50,000 pounds BC bud, street value $150 million[3]
Operation Save our Sierra State/Federal Fresno, California 2009 330,000 plants estimated value $1 billion, largest in this table[3][15]
RCMP Montreal 2010 8 tons (16,000 pounds) hashish found in abandoned trailer[16]
Operation Deliverance DEA Mexico–US 2010 69 tons Bilateral[9]
Cowabungle raid? Federal police Tijuana 2010 105 tons largest seizure in Mexico in years[17]
Operation Kruz Control Federal interagency/local Arizona 2012–2013 27,000 pounds yearlong operation
CBP Calexico border crossing 2013 35,000 pounds largest seizure at US-Mexico border[18][19]
Local police Goodrich, Texas 2014 100,000 plants largest seizure in Texas history at the time[20]
Operation Weed Eaters and Operation Thunderstorm National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Ondo State and elsewhere in Nigeria January–June 2014 45,875 kilograms (101,137 lb)[21]
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Akure, Ondo State January–June 2014 34,030 kilograms (75,020 lb) Largest single seizure by agency in Ondo State to date, over 20% of all the previous year's seizures, valued at 364 million naira[22]
CBP Otay Mesa port of entry, San Diego County, California 2015 27,000 pounds Second-largest seizure at US–Mexico border[19]
Federal/local Lipscomb County, Texas 2015 109,000 plants new state record[23][24]
Hong Kong Police Force Hong Kong 2017 180 kg (400 lb) largest seizure in HK in a decade[25]

*Assumed dried leaf or flower material unless otherwise specified.
†May not be independently verified

References

  1. ^ "Colombia raids net 574 tons of marijuana", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Ontario, p. 3, May 1, 1978
  2. ^ a b Brinkley, Joel (Nov 23, 1984). "Vast, undreamed-of drug use feared". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e "America's 5 biggest pot busts", The Week, June 17, 2010
  4. ^ "Pioneer Press: Search Results".
  5. ^ "Schenectady Gazette - Google News Archive Search".
  6. ^ "Lawrence Journal-World - Google News Archive Search".
  7. ^ "Kentucky New Era - Google News Archive Search".
  8. ^ Bishop, Katherine (August 10, 1990). "Military Takes Part in Drug Sweep And Reaps Criticism and a Lawsuit". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 15 October 2010.
  9. ^ a b Kleiman & Hawdon 2011, p. 212.
  10. ^ "Suspicion in Mexico's Sinaloa cartel", The Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2011 {{citation}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |authors= (help)
  11. ^ IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENTS, LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES SEIZE 19,000 POUNDS OF MARIJUANA, US Fed News Service, March 5, 2007, archived from the original on April 28, 2017 – via HighBeam (subscription required)
  12. ^ Dagsavisen: Femti cannabis-gartnere fengslet Archived November 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine, presentert 27. februar 2008
  13. ^ "World's biggest drug seizure in Afghanistan", Daily Telegraph, June 11, 2008
  14. ^ Afghans' 260-ton hashish bust could be record: Worth tops $400 million, NATO says, Associated Press, June 11, 2008 – via NBC News
  15. ^ Nick Valencia (July 23, 2009), $1 billion in marijuana seized in California, CNN
  16. ^ Nearly 8 tons of hashish seized in Canada, NBC News, September 15, 2010
  17. ^ http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/10/18/mexico.drug.seizure/
  18. ^ http://fox59.com/2015/03/02/feds-seize-15-tons-of-marijuana-in-second-largest-weed-bust-ever-at-a-u-s-boarder-crossing/
  19. ^ a b Andie Adams (February 27, 2015). "Record-Breaking Bust: 15 Tons of Pot Seized at Otay Mesa Port, the seizure has an estimated street value of about $18.96 million". NBC San Diego.
  20. ^ East Texas marijuana fields valued at $175 million, Associated Press, July 30, 2014 – via The Cannabist (Denver Post)
  21. ^ Oluwaseun Akingboye (16 June 2019). "Marijuana: Controversies over Ondo's new 'gold mine'". The Guardian Sunday Magazine. Nigeria.
  22. ^ Ben Ezeamalu (March 13, 2015). "NDLEA makes "single largest" seizure of cannabis in Ondo". Premium Times. Nigeria.
  23. ^ "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Amarillo Globe-News, June 9, 2015
  24. ^ "109K-plant marijuana bust could be largest of its kind in Texas history", Avalanche-Journal, Lubbock, June 10, 2015
  25. ^ "Largest Hong Kong cannabis haul in 10 years nets 180kg worth HK$29 million", South China Morning Post, January 5, 2017

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