A total of 13,697 accused were reported to COPFS for the period 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2023 with charge(s) which fall within the Scottish Government Classification of "Drugs – Supply, and where it can be identified that cannabis was the relevant controlled drug. This can be broken down as follows: Financial Year Reported 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 2020-21 2021-22 2022-23 2,096 2,143 2,011 1,915 2,085 1,767 1,680 The information is provided under the caveat that: COPFS uses a live, operational database to manage the processing of reports submitted to Procurators Fiscal by the police and other reporting agencies throughout Scotland.