The purpose of this article is to present the way in which criminal reactions to the violation of the prohibition on distributing medicines in a direction other than to the patient are shaped, and then to assess the regulations penalizing the above behavior. The main objective of the considerations is an attempt to answer the question whether the legislator, using penal instruments, sufficiently secured the proper trade in medicinal products, or maybe too late or inept definition of the statutory description of a prohibited act determined the lack of possibility to bring criminal responsibility and to apply an adequate criminal response to perpetrators acting within the so-called drug mafia.