COLORADO. 



The law regarding adulteration of drugs is not under the jurisdic- 

 tion of any particular office and no effort seems to have ever been 

 made to secure its enforcement. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



3489. Compounding and dispensing prescriptions; penalty. Any person who 

 is not a registered pharmacist, in the meaning of this act, who shall keep a 

 pharmacy, store or shop for the compounding and dispensing of physicians' 

 prescriptions, and who shall not have in his employ in said pharmacy, store or 

 shop, a registered pharmacist, in the meaning of this act, shall for each and 

 every offense be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars. 



3491. Permitting persons not pharmacists to dispense medicines; penalty. 

 Any proprietor of a pharmacy, or other person -who shall permit the compound- 

 ing and dispensing of physicians' prescriptions, or the vending of drugs, medi- 

 cines or plianuac.il preparation in his store or place of business, except by a 

 registered pharmacist or assistant pharmacist, in the meaning of this act, or 

 under the immediate supervision of one, or who, while continuing in the pur- 

 suit of pharmacy in the state of Colorado, shall fail or neglect to procure his 

 annual registration, or any person who shall wilfully make any false repre- 

 sentations to procure for himself or for another, registration under this act, or 

 who shall violate any other provision of this act, shall for each and every offense 

 be liable to a fine of one hundred ($100) dollars ; Provided, that nothing in this 

 act shall interfere with the business of those merchants who keep on sale such 

 poisons, acids and chemicals as are regularly used in agriculture, mining and 

 the arts, when kept and sold for such purposes only, in seal and plainly labeled 

 packages; Provided, also, That nothing in this act shall in any manner inter- 

 fere with the business of any physician in regular practice, nor prevent him 

 from supplying to his patients such articles as may to him seem proper, nor 

 with the marketing and vending of proprietary and patent medicines, nor with 

 the exclusive wholesale business of any dealers, except as hereinafter provided : 

 Provided, also, that nothing in this act shall in any manner interfere with the 

 business of merchants in towns having less than five hundred inhabitants (500) 

 in which there is no licensed pharmacy, to sell or vend such medicines, com- 

 pounds and chemicals as are required by the general public and in form and 

 manner prescribed by the board of pharmacy. (Laws 1895, p. 225 et seq.) 



Mills' Annotated Statutes (Revised Supplement), vol. 3, 1904, p. 897. 

 SALE OF POISONS AND OTHER INJURIOUS COMPOUNDS. 



3492. Sale of certain drugs restricted; penalty; suits. The proprietors of 

 establishments other tkan pharmacies, and where physicians prescriptions are 

 not dispensed as well as itinerant venders of merchandise shall not be per- 

 mitted to sell, keep on sale or give away any of the articles mentioned or 



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