The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 18 V.S.A. § 4025)
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§ 4025. Regulation of the sale of poisonous drugs
A person other than a registered pharmacist or physician who sells or keeps for sale
arsenic, corrosive sublimate, chloroform, aconite, strychnine, morphine, opium, cocaine,
eucaine, heroin, carbolic acid, prussic acid, paregoric, chloral hydrate, belladonna,
cyanide potassium, digitalis, nux vomica, or any salts, solutions, extracts, or tinctures
of such drugs, shall keep and offer them for sale only in original and sealed packages
or bottles that shall have been prepared by a registered pharmacist or manufacturing
chemist, and under a label on which shall be plainly printed the name and nature of
the drug therein contained, the proper antidote to be given when taken in dangerous
or poisonous quantities, and the name of the pharmacist, manufacturing chemist, or
wholesale house that prepared or put up the same, with the name of the place where
it was manufactured or prepared for sale. A person who sells any of such drugs shall
have affixed to the bottle, box, or wrapper containing the article sold a label of
white paper upon which shall be printed in red letters the name and place of business
of the vendor, and the words “Poison” and “Antidote.” The label shall also contain
the name of an antidote, if any, for the poison sold.