In the yard of a house in the village of Zdunje, in the Gostivar area, police found a bag with 116 grams of hashish. The search took place on July 4, on operational intelligence and a warrant from the Basic Court in Gostivar, and the owner of the property, a 63-year-old man, was taken into custody. He faces criminal charges for the unauthorized production and distribution of narcotics, under Article 215 of the Criminal Code.

The operation was carried out by officers from the Department for Combating Drug and Weapons Trafficking at the Tetovo police, together with Gostivar forensics. On paper - clean, fast, coordinated work. And precisely for that reason it's worth asking: if the system can seize a bag of hashish this precisely in one village, why do we see the same efficiency far more rarely with the big fish who fill those bags?

Small busts are regularly published with photos of the scale and the grams. The age of the suspect this time is a surprise - a man of sixty-three with hashish hidden in his yard isn't the first image that comes to mind. But 116 grams is a long way from a quantity that would pull the chain upward, toward those who organize the processing and distribution.

The court will now handle the case. Until then, the usual remains: one seizure, one person, one photo of a scale. Useful work, but also a reminder that the real fight against drugs isn't measured in grams found in backyards, but in how far up the chain anyone is even allowed to follow.