Life imprisonment (Schedule I) / 14 years (Schedule II)
Drug production is serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Carries life imprisonment for Schedule I substances. Also potentially triggers organized criminality inadmissibility under IRPA s.37.
Making controlled drugs, including growing or cooking them. Schedule I production carries life and Schedule II carries 14 years, both serious criminality. A grow operation or a lab also invites a look at the organized crime ground, a separate reason a person can be turned away.
(1) Except as authorized under the regulations, no person shall produce a substance included in Schedule I, II, III, IV or V. (2) Every person who contravenes subsection (1) (a) if the subject matter of the offence is a substance included in Schedule I or II, is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for life; (a.1) [Repealed, 2022, c. 15, s. 17] (b) [Repealed, 2018, c. 16, s. 197] (c) if the subject matter of the offence is a substance included in Schedule III or V, (i) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years, or (ii) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding eighteen months; and (d) where the subject-matter of the offence is a substance included in Schedule IV, (i) is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years, or (ii) is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year. (3) [Repealed, 2022, c. 15, s. 17]