Trafficking Drugs Charge - Criminal Lawyers

Illegal drugs in Canada include crack, cocaine, cannabis (marijuana) over the allowable amount, heroin, crystal meth, ecstasy, ice, speed, fentanyl, LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, barbiturates, benzodiazepines and anabolic steroids.  

Drug trafficking convictions outside of exceptional circumstances typically carry long custodial sentences. Our Brampton Criminal Lawyers defend trafficking of drugs charges.  If you have been charged with trafficking drugs, contact us for your free consultation.

Under Section 5 of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), you can be charged with either trafficking drugs or possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking. Regardless of the specific charge, the incarceration periods will be the same. It is illegal to traffic or possess for the purpose of trafficking drugs or substances found in the appropriate schedules.

Trafficking is defined under Section 2 of the CDSA as:

• the selling, administering, giving, transferring, transporting, sending or delivering of a substance;
• selling an authorization to obtain the substance; or
• offering to do anything mentioned above otherwise than under the authority of the regulations.

Our experienced team of Criminal defence Lawyers represent clients charged with trafficking drugs in Mississauga, Brampton, Milton, Newmarket, Toronto, Oshawa, Orangeville, Hamilton, Barrie, Oakville, Burlington, Guelph, Kitchener, North York, and across Southwestern Ontario.      If you have been charged with a criminal charge, contact our Criminal Lawyers for a free telephone case evaluation today.  We will fight to defend your charges and get you the results you deserve.