2. Offering to traffic

2. Offering to traffic

It is also an offence itself to offer to traffic in dangerous drugs, even if there is no actual trafficking carried out.  The offence of offering is complete when the offer to traffic is made and regardless of whether the defendant intended to complete the transaction.

Similarly, even if the substance involved is not in fact a dangerous drug, a defendant can still be convicted if he offered to traffic in (i) a substance he believed to be a dangerous drug, or (ii) a substance he represented or held out to be a dangerous drug.