The Cannabis Act took effect on 17 October 2018. Cannabis incidents before and after that date are not the same offence. Cannabis incidents fell sharply after that date. Other drug incidents did not. The drop in the total is that break, not other drugs going away.
Toronto deaths are confirmed and probable opioid toxicity deaths, assigned primarily by incident location. 2023–2025 are preliminary full years. January–March 2026 is shown separately.
01 / Police data
Drug offence trends
Select a measure to inspect its trend. Missing years stay blank; partial years stay separate.
Toronto, Ontario, municipal [35304]
All drug incidents
Last updated Reviewed dataset
Latest complete year · 20251,146actual incidents
Year over year+8.2%2024 → 2025
Change since 2016−66.8%Crosses the 2018 cannabis law change
Annual trend · complete years
actual incidents2025 · 1,146View chart data
All drug incidents · actual incidents · complete years
Year
Value
2016
3,455
2017
2,979
2018
2,454
2019
1,587
2020
1,384
2021
1,171
2022
962
2023
1,193
2024
1,059
2025
1,146
02 / Public health
Overdose deaths
Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.
These are Toronto municipal police-reported incidents. They are not the Community Safety Indicators categories, and there is no neighbourhood drug map.
Impaired driving is not in these drug charts.
These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map.
Toronto, Ontario, municipal [35304] · https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/terms-conditions/open-licence
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 35-10-0180-01, Incident-based crime statistics, by detailed violations, police services, actual incidents, 2016 to 2025 (tables released 2026-07-22). This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Office of the Chief Coroner for Ontario · Opioid toxicity deaths by municipality, 2018–2026 Q1 (via ODPRN)
City of Toronto · Public OCC statistics distributed through ODPRN; no open-government licence or separate commercial redistribution grant was established for this workbook. Ontario's general policy permits unchanged attributed non-commercial reproduction.