Copyright 1999 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
St.
Louis Post-Dispatch
July 9, 1999, Friday, FIVE STAR LIFT EDITION
SECTION: METRO, Pg. C2
LENGTH: 232 words
HEADLINE:
WEB DRUGSTORE IS BARRED FROM SELLING IN MISSOURI
BYLINE: Bill Bell Jr.; Of The Post-Dispatch
DATELINE: JEFFERSON CITY
BODY:
A Texas pharmacy has been temporarily barred from selling or
shipping prescription drugs to Missourians through the
Internet.
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon said that
the company, S&H Drug Mart of San Antonio, broke state law when it sold
prescription drugs to Missourians without a state license. The state also
objects to a Texas doctor writing Internet prescriptions without seeing the
Missouri patients.
Jackson County Circuit Court approved a temporary ban
on the Internet sales Wednesday.
The owner of the Texas pharmacy,
William A. Stallknecht, 52, said Nixon's argument is "ludicrous." Doctors at the
Mayo Clinic, he said, are allowed to treat Missourians with no Missouri license.
So should his pharmacy.
Stallknecht said he and Dr. James Reed Williams,
the prescribing physician, are properly licensed in Texas.
Stallknecht
said he will be in Kansas City on July 19 for a hearing on whether to keep
Missouri's ban in place.
According to Nixon's office, Williams is no
longer a defendant because he agreed to stop writing online prescriptions for
Missourians. In a sting operation, Nixon's office twice got prescription drugs
from Stallknecht's Web sites. One buyer was a pregnant assistant attorney
general who used a man's name on a prescription form and got the baldness drug
Propecia. The drug is not for use by women because of a risk of birth defects.
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