Any person found in possession of a drug or medicine limited by law to dispensation by a prescription, unless such drug or medicine was lawfully dispensed, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 and, in addition thereto, may be imprisoned in the county jail for hard labor for not more than one year. This section shall not apply to a licensed pharmacy, licensed pharmacist, wholesaler, manufacturer, or his or her representative acting within the line and scope of his or her employment, physician, veterinarian, dentist, or nurse acting under the direction of a physician, nor to a common carrier or messenger when transporting such drug or medicine in the same unbroken package in which the drug or medicine was delivered to him or her for transportation.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 34 - Professions and Businesses.
Chapter 23 - Pharmacists and Pharmacies.
Article 1 - General Provisions.
Section 34-23-1 - Definitions.
Section 34-23-2 - Objects and Purposes of Chapter.
Section 34-23-3 - State Drug Investigators.
Section 34-23-4 - Licensure Limited to Graduates From Approved Schools and Colleges.
Section 34-23-6 - Bankruptcy Sales, Auction Sales, etc., of Drugs and Medicines.
Section 34-23-7 - Illegal Possession of Prescription Drugs.
Section 34-23-8 - Substitution of Drugs or Brands of Drugs.
Section 34-23-8.1 - Substitution of Certain Biological Products; Notice.
Section 34-23-9 - Purity of Drugs Dispensed.
Section 34-23-10 - Notification by Pharmacists of Change of Employment.
Section 34-23-11 - Physicians, Dentists, Registered Nurses, etc., Exempt From Chapter.
Section 34-23-12 - Injunctions Against Violations of Chapter.