The Practical Guide to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, Fourth Edition gives you step-by-step guidance through the Act, providing detailed commentary for each of the key provisions.

Topics covered include:

• Possession and double doctoring
• Trafficking import and export offences
• Cultivation and manufacturing
• Possession of property obtained by crime laundering (proceeds of crime)
• Recklessness and willful blindness
• Sentencing principles
• Search and seizure powers
• Detention and forfeiture disposal of controlled substances

The new edition includes commentary and hundreds of new Case Digest on issues such as medical marijuana cases under the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) pursuant to the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA), abuse of process, and entrapment relating to the Police Enforcement Regulations, Charter issues present in drug cases, the use by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of an interdiction process referred to as Pipeline/Jetway, a comprehensive review of sentences relating to drug offences and the principles applied by the Courts in reaching their decisions. It also features amendments to the Act and changes to the Schedules under the Act since the last edition.