Herbal cannabis seizure sizes 2018

This statistic shows the size of herbal cannabis seizures by police forces in England and Wales in 2017/18. The majority of such seizures were of amounts between 1 and 500 grams. There was, however, one seizure of over 100 kilograms. There were a total of 82,942 herbal cannabis seizures over this twelve month period with a total weight of 3,429 kilograms.

Number of herbal cannabis seizures by police forces in England and Wales in 2017/18, by amount*

Characteristic	Number of seizures*
Under 1g	17,137
1g to 500g	65,097
500g to 1kg	297
1kg to 10kg	381
10kg to 100kg	29
100kg and over	1

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Release date

November 2018

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Region

United Kingdom (England, Wales)

Survey time period

April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2018

Supplementary notes

*In 2016/17 Kent were unable to supply reliable estimates. Imputation methods have been used to estimate the 2016/17 data for this force.
Includes seizures made by British Transport Police (BTP).
Where the quantity of a seizure is recorded as 'trace' it is not included in these figures.

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