908                                 Laws of Maryland                         Ch. 403

(i) Generally the provisions of this section shall apply to the
sale by any manufacturer, wholesale druggist, retail pharmacist,
or jobber of prescription drugs, to any person, other than those
legally qualified and authorized to purchase and hold same for
use or resale, and to any practitioner's assistant who is not legally
licensed to administer dangerous drugs.

(ii) Advertising: No person shall be permitted to advertise through
any media other than a professional or trade publication any con-
trolled dangerous drug or prescription drug by either its "trade
name" or by its generic or formulary name.

(f)   Treatment or cure of farm animals, etc.: The provisions of
this subsection shall not apply to the distribution of prescription
drugs, as defined in this section, devices or supplies of any kind
whatsoever for the treatment, care or cure of farm animals, poultry,
fowl, or other animals used in furtherance of farming activities,
providing further that the provisions of this subheading shall not
apply to the sale or offering for sale, or distribution of seeds, feed
for livestock and poultry, fertilizers, lime, land plaster, fungicides
and insecticides, nor to apply to any drug which on June 1, 1961,
may be sold without a prescription.

(g)  Rules and regulations: The Department is hereby authorized
to promulgate necessary regulations and interpretations, not incon-
sistent with law, for the administration and enforcement of this
section.

(h) Penalty: Any person who violates any of the provisions of
this section, or refuses, neglects or fails to comply with the pro-
visions and requirements thereof, or who obtains or possesses a
dangerous drug in violation of this section, shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not
more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) and or imprisoned for not
more than two (2) years, or both.

(i) Fraudulently compounding or selling PRESCRIPTION drugs,
AND CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES, medicines,
etc.: Any person or corporation engaged in the business of selling
PRESCRIPTION drugs, AND CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUB-
STANCES, medicines, chemicals or preparations for medical use or
of compounding or dispensing physicians' prescriptions, who shall,
in person or by his or its agents or employees, or as agent or em-
ployee of some other person, knowingly sell or deliver to any person
a drug, medicine, chemical preparation for medicinal use, recognized
or authorized by the latest edition of the United States Pharma-
copoeia, or prepared according to the private formula of some indi-
vidual or firm, other or different from the PRESCRIPTION drug,
AND CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES, medicine,
chemical or preparation, ordered or called for by such person, or
catted for in a physician's prescription, shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of
not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars,
or by not less than one month nor more than twelve months' impris-
onment, or by both, and any person so convicted shall forfeit the
right to practice pharmacy under any certificate or registration
issued under the laws of this State.

(j) Unsolicited mailing of certain PRESCRIPTION drugs, AND
CONTROLLED DANGEROUS SUBSTANCES, MEDICINES, ETC.