The Office of Drug Control Policy states that in 2006, in Michigan, there were 47,227 drug violations that the police were aware of. In 2007, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) arrested 697 individuals for drug offenses.

In Michigan, the trafficking and abuse of cocaine and crack cocaine are at consistently high rates. The purity level of cocaine purity is between 40 percent and 90 percent, with quantities being bought in numbers ranging from grams to many kilograms.

In the Detroit region, heroin is frequently available. Countries such as South America, Mexico and Africa are primarily responsible for much of the heroin entering Michigan. The demand for B.C. Bud type marijuana in Michiganis greatly rising while a lot of the available MDMA available can be obtained through supply sources in Toronto, Ontario.

Mexican drug trafficking establishments that are closely connected with the Southwest Border and the main Colombian cocaine cartels control most of the cocaine distributed in Michigan. Cocaine is resold to local distributors, and for street distribution purposes, is transformed into crack cocaine.

Asian organized crime groups traffic B.C. Bud, which is also known as Canadian marijuana, plus MDMA through Michigan's Northern Border ports of entry. In 2007, the DEA and state and local authorities stated that there 164 meth lab incidents in Michigan. In addition, in 2007, the Federal agencies in Michiganseized 53.3 kilograms and 719,139 dosage units of MDMA.

Michigan had 99 drug courts that were being implemented or were in operation as of August 11, 2008; 70 drug courts had been in existence for a minimum of two years; 13 had just been created; and 16 were still in the planning stage.

In 2007, 38.2 percent of the individuals in Michigan serving Federal sentencing were charged with drug offenses. There were 51,577 prisoners in Federal or state correctional institutions on December 31, 2006; 182,650 were adult probationers; and 18,486 were adult parolees.