Article 197 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
To whoever, without a prescription of a legally authorized physician, administers to another person, whether by injection, inhalation, ingestion or any other means, any narcotic to which article 193 refers, three to nine years of imprisonment and sixty to one hundred eighty days fine shall be imposed, whatever the quantity administered. The penalties shall be increased by up to one half more if the victim is a minor or is incapable of understanding the relevance of the conduct or of resisting the agent.
To whoever improperly supplies free of charge or prescribes to a third party, of legal age, any narcotic mentioned in article 193, for their personal and immediate use, two to six years of imprisonment and forty to one hundred twenty days fine shall be imposed. If whoever acquires it is a minor or incapable, the penalties shall be increased by up to one half.
The same penalties of the preceding paragraph shall be imposed on whoever induces or aids another to consume any of the narcotics indicated in article 193.