DEALING AND MANUFACTURE

Presumption of supply
Supply to children

In addition to user offences, there are a range of offences relating to the trafficking, manufacture, production, cultivation, sale, supply and administration of controlled drugs, plants or precursors.

Under the Act a person who [Controlled Substances Act 1984]:

traffics a commercial quantity of a controlled drug; [s32]
manufactures a commercial quantity of a controlled drug intending to sell any of it or believing another person intends to sell it; [s33]
sells a commercial quantity of a controlled precursor, believing that the buyer or someone else intends to use any of it to unlawfully manufacture a controlled drug;[33A]
cultivates a commercial quantity of a controlled plant intending to sell them or their products or believing another person intends to sell it; [33B]
sells or intends to sell a commercial quantity of a controlled plant [33C]

is guilty of an offence. Precursors are certain defined substances that are used in the manufacturing process to make controlled drugs. See the Controlled Substances (General) Regulations 2000. There is a distinction that affects only the penalty between large commercial quantity and commercial quantity. See PENALTIES for more information. It is also an offence to supply or administer a controlled drug to another person or have possession with the intent to supply or administer. [s33I]

Further definition of manufacture, production, sale, supply or administration

Persons take part in the manufacture, production, sale, traffic, supply or administration of a drug if they:

take or cause any step to be taken
provide or arrange finance for a step in the process
provide or permit premises to be used
aid, abet, counsel or procure the offence
solicit or incite the offence.

All of these actions are punished in the same way.