You may wish to go back and re-read my post #40.
When you do, you will note that I was responding to another person who posted this:
"Pharmacists job is to fill the Prescription, not to moralize or judge."
In other words, my response was directed at a person who, it appeared t me, was trying to deny a pharmacist the right to choose -- specifically, the right to choose not to fill a prescription.
I honestly do not see what that has to do with two acts which, in my own view, are quite illegal -- the first being holding onto property that is not your own, and the second being assault and battery.
Perhaps you could explain the connection?
It is not assualt to use physical force to retrieve that which has been stolen from you at the point at which it was stolen.
What I personally would have done is called the police right then and there. Maybe they could have convinced the pharmacist to give it back.