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I totally agree that syringes should be OTC and my personal opinion is that pharmacists should be open and encouraging to sell them to illegal drug users.
But I disagree with the posters saying that pharmacists don't have the "right" to deny selling them. In the US, nobody is forced to sell something to someone else. If an independent pharmacy (and we would be talking independents, I can't imagine any chain passing up the sales from OTC syringes) doesn't want to sell syringes to illegal drug users, that IS their right. It doesn't matter if it's stupid or non-productive, they don't have to sell the syringes.
But I disagree with the posters saying that pharmacists don't have the "right" to deny selling them. In the US, nobody is forced to sell something to someone else. If an independent pharmacy (and we would be talking independents, I can't imagine any chain passing up the sales from OTC syringes) doesn't want to sell syringes to illegal drug users, that IS their right. It doesn't matter if it's stupid or non-productive, they don't have to sell the syringes.