It is an offence to produce dangerous drugs and you may be charged with this offence if you prepare, manufacture, cultivate, harvest, or package a dangerous drug. Production includes cultivating, harvesting and weeding a crop of cannabis in the same way it can be mixing chemicals to create an illicit drug. If you are convicted of producing dangerous drugs, the matter will be heard in the Magistrate's Court and the maximum penalty is 25 years imprisonment.

It is an offence to carry on the business of trafficking. You can be charged with this offence if you are advertising or promoting the dangerous drug product by communicating with potential buyers, setting up lines of supply or negotiating the process. The maximum penalty for trafficking dangerous drugs is 25 years imprisonment and the matter will be held in the Supreme Court.

It is an offence to unlawfully supply another person with a dangerous drug.
You may be charged with this offence if you give, sell, distribute, administer, transport or supply a dangerous drug. You can also be charged with supply if you are in the company of another person who commits the offence. The maximum penalty for supplying schedule 1 drugs is 20 years imprisonment and the maximum penalty for supplying schedule 2 drugs is 15 years imprisonment.

It is an offence to have possession of any dangerous drug. 'Possession' includes having a dangerous drug on your person, in your home or in your vehicle. You can be charged with drug possession even if the drugs are not on your person, if you have the ability to 'exercise control' over a dangerous drug you can still be charged. The list of dangerous drugs can be found in schedules one and two of the Drugs Misuse Regulation 1987 (QLD).

Schedule one dangerous drugs: Cocaine, Heroin, Amphetamine and Lysergide.
Schedule two dangerous drugs: Cannabis, Methadone, Coca Leaf and Morphine.