Decius wrote:
I hate pharmacists.

I do not think it ought to be legal for a pharmacists to refuse to fill a perscription for personal reasons.

A recent episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm had a subplot about this topic, although not having anything to do with crime, as with this news story. In the Curb subplot, Larry goes to the pharmacist to fill a prescription for this father, only to have the pharmacist attempt to convince him to choose a different drug instead. The pharmacist, whose name was Cofey, would say, "Yes, but I _prefer_ this drug." So Larry goes back to his own doctor and asks him to change the prescription. After an argument, he does. Later, for other reasons, ultimately proven to be mistaken, Larry ends up deciding not to take the pharmacist's advice.

In Larry's case, the pharmacist wasn't arguing on moral or legal grounds, but (implicitly) on the basis of some kind of kickback from the manufacturer of the preferred drug.

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