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Advertisment for the "finest drug store in the state of Nevada."
Advertisment for Charles S Hammer, Druggist and Apothecary, 1867.

Pharmacists are unregulated and act as physicians.

Date: 1800s

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Advertisment for Charles S Hammer, Druggist and Apothecary, 1867.

Pharmacists distribute medical remedies–oftening containing heroin or cocaine derivatives–without prescriptions during this era. The market includes a range of medicines with fake marketing ploys, as well as legitimate medicines. The amount of fake medicines leads to a regulation strategy that continues to see anything that does not move through a strict Western scientific protocol as suspicious. This will result in restrictions on traditional remedies that often work in energetic, cultural, and chemical ways.