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4.6 Criminal Justice System Process - ICCS Crimes Level 1
4.6.1.6 Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs, total number of offences (ICCS 06)
“Acts involving controlled psychoactive substances or other drugs” are the criminal offences defined as such in Section 06 of the International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS), UNODC, Mar 2015, pp.63-67. [Web: http://www.unodc.org/documents/data-and-analysis/statistics/crime/ICCS/ICCS_English_2016_web.pdf]
Those include: Unlawful acts involving controlled drugs or precursors (0601), which includes unlawful possession, purchase, use, cultivation or production of controlled drugs for personal consumption (06011), and unlawful trafficking, cultivation or production of controlled drugs or precursors not for personal consumption (06012); Unlawful acts involving alcohol, tobacco or other controlled substances (0602); Other acts involving controlled drugs or other psychoactive substances (0609), and subcategories of these, as also listed on pp. 26-27 of the ICCS.
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 (ICCS, p.63, footnote 98)

[Source: Data are provided by Member States through the United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).]



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Antigua and Barbuda------ 
Argentina201989,972 
Bahamas20211,299 
Barbados2021962 
Belize------ 
Bolivia------ 
Brazil------ 
Canada202161,798 
Chile20215,920 
Colombia201967,185 
Costa Rica------ 
Dominica20170 
Dominican Republic------ 
Ecuador------ 
El Salvador20212,969 
Grenada2019531 
Guatemala20192,424 
Guyana2019415 
Haiti------ 
Honduras------ 
Jamaica------ 
Mexico201863,428 
Nicaragua------ 
Panama201942 
Paraguay------ 
Peru------ 
Saint Kitts and Nevis2019181 
Saint Lucia2019365 
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines2019254 
Suriname------ 
Trinidad and Tobago------ 
United States------ 
Uruguay------ 
Venezuela------ 
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05. South America------ 
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