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or Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances.
(1) Whoever, without special authorization and with the intent of
trafficking:
(2)
a) plants, produces or makes, transforms or manufactures
poisonous, narcotic or psychotropic plants or substances;
or
b) possesses, imports, exports, transports, stores, brokers,
purchases, offers for sale, distributes, utters, hands over or
procures for another, one of the substances listed in
(a) above; or
c) makes, possesses imports or exports means used for
producing, composing or manufacturing one of the
substances listed in
(a) above; or
d) furnishes, leases or permits a house, premise or land
under his ownership or possession, for the making,
composition, production sale or distribution of one of
the substances listed in
(a) above,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment for not less than five
years, and fine not exceeding one hundred thousand Birr.
The punishment shall be rigorous imprisonment for not less than
ten years, and fine not exceeding two hundred thousand Birr:
a) where the crime is committed by a member of a band or
association organized nationally or internationally for the
trafficking in such substances or committing crimes, or by
a person who makes a profession of such unlawful activity;
or
b) where the criminal, for gain, with base motive or for any
other improper motive, knowingly furnishes the forbidden
substances; or permits access to his premises for the
taking of such substances; or where the user is an infant
or a young person or a mentally deficient person or a drug
addict; or
c) where the criminal employs children or a person with
mental illness as a means for the commission of the crime;
or
d) where the crime is committed in prisons, in schools, on the
premises of institutions for social service, or in places
where children or young students engage in educational,
sporting or other social activities; or
e) where the criminal has been previously convicted for a
similar crime.
(3) Whoever possesses, transports, stores or hands over poisonous
or narcotic or psychotropic drugs or plants, which he knows to
have been procured through or intended for the commission of
one of the crimes specified in sub-article
(1) or
(2) of this Article,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment for not less than five
years, and fine not exceeding one hundred thousand Birr.
(4) Whoever:
a) plants, buys, receives, makes, possesses, sells or delivers
one of the substances mentioned in sub-article
(1) above,
to be privately used by himself or another; or
b) uses or causes to be used one of these substances without
medical prescription or in any other unlawful manner,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding
seven years, and fine not exceeding fifty thousand Birr.
(5) Any person who, intending to use narcotic or psychotropic
substances for unlawful purposes, fraudulently causes a
medical practitioner to give him a medical prescription, or
transfers a prescription obtained lawfully or unlawfully to an
unauthorized third person, or any medical practitioner who
intentionally makes out an unlawful prescription for narcotic or
psychotropic substances,
is punishable with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding five
years, and fine.
(6) Nothing shall affect the provisions of this Code relating to
seizure of dangerous articles (Art. 140) and the commission and
aiding in money laundering (Art. 684).
