Article 536 — Unlawful Delivery of Poisonous or Dangerous

Substances. Any doctor, pharmacist, dentist, veterinary surgeon or nurse, or any other person authorized to give medical care with the help of poisonous, narcotic or psychotropic substances or substances entailing grave danger to health, or to keep or sell such substances, who makes use of them or delivers them to the public without special authority and apart from the cases permitted in normal curative practice, is punishable with simple imprisonment for not less than three years and fine, or, in serious cases, with rigorous imprisonment not exceeding seven years and fine. Where the criminal has committed the crime for gain, he shall be punishable with fine not exceeding one hundred thousand Birr.