According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, powder cocaine is easily accessible in Vermont and is frequently abused. There is limited accessibility of crack in Vermont's metropolitan areas such as Burlington, Barre and Rutland.

In Vermont, heroin is accessible in user level amounts, with high-purity level heroin being accessible in the state. In Vermont, the usual heroin distributor is a heroin user who also distributes heroin to support her addiction to the drug.

However, marijuana is the most commonly available and abused drug in the state of Vermont. It is generally shipped to Vermont from southwest America or across the Canadian border. In Vermont, per law enforcement, there is limited availability of meth.

Per the 2004-2005 statistics from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), 57,000 of Vermont citizens, ages 12 or older, admitted to past month use of an illegal drug. Of all the 12th graders surveyed in Vermont in 2007, 22 percent admitted to the illegal use of prescription drugs at least once in their lifetimes. Further, 51 percent of 12th graders believed that it was wrong or very wrong for children within their age group to smoke marijuana; 69 percent of the Vermont 12th graders surveyed claimed that it is easy or very easy to obtain marijuana.

Frequently, marijuana is transported into Vermont from the Southwestern U.S. via automobiles, campers and tractor-trailers. Moreover, Canadian drug trafficking organizations smuggle premium quality hydroponically grown marijuana from Canada across the America/Canada border. Their goal is to distribute the marijuana in Vermont and transit it to Massachusetts, New York and other states. Under the DEA's Domestic Cannabis Eradication/Suppression Program, in excess of 1,700 marijuana plants were destroyed in Vermont in 2006. Vermont had 1,567 full-time law enforcement personnel as of October 31, 2006; 1,163 were officers and 404 were civilians.

Vermont had 3 drug courts that had been running for at least 2 years as of April 16, 2007; 1 drug court had recently created; 3 were being implemented. In 2006, 50.5 percent of individuals serving Federal sentences in Vermont were drug violators; 41.2 percent of these drug violations involved marijuana. Vermont had 2,165 prisoners on June 30, 2007. Further, on this date, Vermont had 7,326 adults on probation and 964 adults on parole; 162 prisoners were imprisoned in Vermont on this date as well, with their most serious offense being a felony drug violation.