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Unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (ICCS 0601)
“UNLAWFUL ACTS INVOLVING CONTROLLED DRUGS OR PRECURSORS” refers to “unlawful drug possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption and for non-personal consumption (0601).
INCLUSIONS: “Unlawful possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption (06011); unlawful trafficking, cultivation or production of controlled drugs or precursors not for personal consumption (06012)”; and “other unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (06019), including issuing, handling or dealing in forged or altered prescriptions; illicit acts involving drug paraphernalia; encouraging the consumption of controlled drugs; unlawful advertising of controlled substances”.
EXCLUSIONS: Operating a vehicle under the influence of psychoactive substances (02072); causing death by driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol (010321).

CONTROLLED DRUGS are narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances scheduled as such under the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, as amended, and the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances.
PRECURSORS are substances frequently used in the illicit manufacture of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances as defined in the 1988 Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substances.

[Source: International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp. 63-65, incl. footnote 88. Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]
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