California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 9 — Pharmacy, Article 20 — Prohibitions and Offenses, Section 4323

Every person who, in order to obtain any drug, falsely represents himself or herself to be a physician or other person who can lawfully prescribe the drug, or falsely represents that he or she is acting on behalf of a person who can lawfully prescribe the drug, in a telephone or electronic communication with a pharmacist, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year.

Notes

Prohibits a person, to obtain a drug, from falsely representing to a pharmacist by telephone or electronic communication that the person is a physician or other lawful prescriber, or falsely claiming to act for a lawful prescriber. A person who does so is punishable by imprisonment in county jail for no more than one year.

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