Article 194 Federal Criminal Code
BOOK TWO · TITLE SEVEN. Crimes Against Health · CHAPTER I. Of production, possession, trafficking, proselytism and other acts in matters of narcotics
Current text · last reform published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) on 13 March 2026
Imprisonment of ten to twenty-five years and one hundred up to five hundred days fine shall be imposed on whoever:
I.- Produces, transports, traffics, trades, supplies even free of charge or prescribes any of the narcotics indicated in the preceding article, without the corresponding authorization to which the General Health Law refers;
For the purposes of this section, producing means: manufacturing, fabricating, elaborating, preparing or conditioning any narcotic, and trading means: selling, buying, acquiring or transferring any narcotic.
Supply means the material transmission, directly or indirectly, on any basis, of the possession of narcotics.
The trade and supply of narcotics may be investigated, prosecuted and, where applicable, sanctioned by the authorities of the common jurisdiction in the terms of the General Health Law, when the conditions of article 474 of said law are met.
II.- Introduces into or extracts from the country any of the narcotics comprised in the preceding article, even if in momentary form or in transit.
If the introduction or extraction to which this section refers is not consummated, but from the acts carried out it clearly follows that this was the purpose of the agent, the applicable penalty shall be up to two thirds of that provided in this article.
III.- Contributes economic resources or resources of any kind, or collaborates in any manner in the financing, supervision or promotion to make possible the execution of any of the crimes to which this chapter refers; and
IV.- Carries out acts of advertising or propaganda, so that any of the substances comprised in the preceding article is consumed.
The same penalties provided in this article and, in addition, deprivation of the office or commission and disqualification from occupying another for up to five years, shall be imposed on the public official who, in the exercise of their functions or taking advantage of their office, permits, authorizes or tolerates any of the conducts indicated in this article.