California Codes, Business and Professions Code - BPC, Division 2 — Healing Arts, Chapter 9 — Pharmacy, Article 20 — Prohibitions and Offenses, Section 4324
(a) Every person who signs the name of another, or of a fictitious person, or falsely makes, alters, forges, utters, publishes, passes, or attempts to pass, as genuine, any prescription for any drugs is guilty of forgery and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than one year.
(b) Every person who has in his or her possession any drugs secured by a forged prescription shall be punished by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year.
Notes
Prohibits signing another or fictitious person's name on, or falsely making, altering, forging, uttering, publishing, passing, or attempting to pass as genuine, a drug prescription, and prohibits possessing drugs obtained by a forged prescription. Either offense is punishable by imprisonment under the cited Penal Code provision or in county jail for no more than one year.
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