Talk:Controlled Drugs and Substances Act

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[edit] SERIOUS MISTAKE!!

Someone messed with the schedules and got them all wrong, being ignorant and confusing Canada with the United States. I want to slap them. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.231.106.247 (talk) 07:52, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Seriously, the fact that I just had to go in and do some emergency repairs a month after this blatantly ignorant vandalism has destroyed my faith in Wikipedia. YusufMJH (talk) 07:57, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

What do the Schedules mean?

They were messed up when I just looked at them (Jan 25 2008). Someone is STILL confusing this with the US one and trying to put things like LSD, DMT, psilocybin etc in Schedule I, among other things. Must we make it more clear that this is the Canadian Act? The link to the act itself on ([1]) is at the beginning of the list, THIS is the list for Canada. Removed the note that said:

 NOTE: Many drugs listed under Schedules 2 and 3 are incorrect. From my research, Schedule 1
 contains the correct information below. Please fix information under Schedules 2 and 3.

I think they're correct now. It's not a full list because the full list is long, but I put most of the common ones. 142.166.202.113 (talk) 23:57, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Lots added

I added lots of information to this article. I hope its useful. -Radish28

What about the punishments for schedules VII and VIII?

Punishments for schedules VII and VIII can be found in the offenses and punishment section of the act at http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/C-38.8/bo-ga:l_I//en#anchorbo-ga:l_I

(5) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) where the subject-matter of the offence is a substance included in Schedule II in an amount that does not exceed the amount set out for that substance in Schedule VIII is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months, or to both.

(4) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) or (2), where the subject-matter of the offence is a substance included in Schedule II in an amount that does not exceed the amount set out for that substance in Schedule VII, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years less a day.

Determination of amount (8) For the purposes of subsection (5) and Schedule VIII, the amount of the substance means the entire amount of any mixture or substance, or the whole of any plant, that contains a detectable amount of the substance.

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