WEST VIRGINIA. 



It is the duty of the State board of pharmacy to investigate al- 

 leged sales of impure drugs, but no appropriation is made for such 

 investigations, and on this account the law can not be enforced. 

 One-half the fines collected for violations inure to the board of 

 pharmacy. 



REGISTERED PHARMACISTS. 



1. In charge of drug stores. It shall be unlawful for any person not a regis- 

 tered, pharmacist, or who does not employ as his salesman a registered phar- 

 macist, within the meaning of this act, to conduct any pharmacy, drug store, 

 apothecary shop or store for the purpose of retailing, compounding or dispens- 

 ing medicines or poisons for medical use, except as hereinafter provided. 



2. Sole right to dispense prescriptions and itoixoiioux dniyx. It shall be 

 unlawful for the proprietor of any store or pharmacy to allow any person ex- 

 cept a registered pharmacist to compound or dispense the prescriptions of phy- 

 sicians, or to retail or dispense the poisons named in schedules "A" and " B " 

 herein, for medical use, except as an aid to, and under the supervision of a 

 registered pharmacist. 



8. May sell all medicines and poisons. Apothecaries registered as in this act 

 provided, shall have the right to keep and sell, under such restrictions as herein 

 provided, all medicines and poisons, authorized by the National, American or 

 United States dispensatory and pharmacopeia, as of recognized utility. 



10. No person, not a registered pharmacist, shall conduct a drug store. No 

 person shall procure, or attempt to procure, registration for himself or for 

 another, under this act, by making or causing to be made, any false representa- 

 tions ; nor shall any person, not a registered pharmacist, as provided in this 

 act, conduct a store, pharmacy, or place for retailing, compounding or dis- 

 pensing drugs, medicines or chemicals for medicinal use, or for compounding or 

 dispensing physicians' prescriptions, or take, use or exhibit the title of a regis- 

 tered pharmacist. 



11. Exceptions. This act shall not apply to physicians putting up their own 

 prescriptions, nor to the sale of patent, proprietary medicines and such other 

 ordinary drugs and dyestuffs as are usually sold in a country store. The term 

 " ordinary drugs " shall not be held to include any of the poisons named in 

 schedules "A" and " B," nor any intoxicating liquors. 



Code, 1899, p. 991-994. 



SALE OF POISONS.o 



9. Regulations; schedules; record; penalty. No druggist or registered phar- 

 macist shall retail any of the poisons enumerated in the following schedule, 

 except as hereinafter provided : 



SCHEDULE A. 



Arsenic and its preparations, corrosive sublimate, white precipitate, red 

 precipitate, biniodide of mercury, cyanide of potassium, hydrocyanic acid, 

 strychnia, and all other poisonous vegetable alkaloids and their salts, essential 



See also sees. 1, 2, and 8. 

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