Table 6
Completed drug-related cases in adult criminal and youth courts, by number of charges and type of drug, Canada, 2008/2009 to 2011/2012

Table summary
This table displays the results of Completed drug-related cases in adult criminal and youth courts, by number of charges and type of drug, Canada, 2008/2009 to 2011/2012. The information is grouped by Type of drug (appearing as row headers), Single charge, Multiple charge and Total, calculated using number and percent units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of drugNote 1 Single chargeNote 2 Multiple chargeNote 3 Total
number percent number percent number percent
Adult criminal courtNote 4
Cannabis 35,884 48.0 38,922 52.0 74,806 100.0
Other drugs 14,064 22.5 48,312 77.5 62,376 100.0
Cocaine 9,500 23.8 30,479 76.2 39,979 100.0
Heroin 379 16.0 1,993 84.0 2,372 100.0
Methamphetamines 429 16.6 2,161 83.4 2,590 100.0
Ecstasy 324 23.8 1,036 76.2 1,360 100.0
Other CDSANote 5 3,432 21.3 12,643 78.7 16,075 100.0
Total completed cases 49,948 36.4 87,234 63.6 137,182 100.0
Youth court
Cannabis 7,956 47.6 8,766 52.4 16,722 100.0
Other drugs 1,174 23.5 3,832 76.5 5,006 100.0
Cocaine 307 15.4 1,687 84.6 1,994 100.0
Heroin 8 14.8 46 85.2 54 100.0
Methamphetamines 78 22.2 273 77.8 351 100.0
Ecstasy 124 31.2 274 68.8 398 100.0
Other CDSANote 5 657 29.7 1,552 70.3 2,209 100.0
Total completed cases 9,130 42.0 12,598 58.0 21,728 100.0
Note 1.

Cases that involve more than one charge are represented by the most serious drug-related offence.

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Note 2.

Refers to all cases where the drug charge was the sole charge in the case.

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Note 3.

Refers to all cases with more than one charge. The most serious drug-related charge is not necessarily the most serious charge in the case.

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Note 4.

Data exclude information from superior courts in Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan as well as municipal courts in Quebec due to the unavailability of data.

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Note 5.

Includes all other controlled drugs and substances. Includes precursors and equipment.

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Note: A case is one or more charges against an accused person or company that were processed by the courts at the same time and received a final decision. Cases in this table represent a subset of completed adult criminal and youth court cases from 2008/2009 to 2011/2012. This subset includes all completed cases over this period where at least one charge was drug related and where the case was linked to police records.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Integrated Criminal Court Survey and Uniform Crime Reporting Survey linked database, 2008/2009 to 2011/2012.
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