"Last month, by a 5-to-4 vote, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law barring pharmacies from advertising "mixed to order" drugs, pharmaceuticals that have not gone through the usual safety screening. The largely conservative majority was more concerned about pharmacies' right to market these products than the government's interest in protecting the public from drugs that, as the dissenters noted, "can, for some patients, mean infection, serious side effects or even death."" I guess only those medications sold by large pharmaceutical companies and "blessed" by the FDA should be sold. As long as the formulation is prescribed by the physician, and made up by a licensed pharmacist from materials of certified purity, why SHOULDN'T they be available, and advertised as such.
Full disclosure--I take a "compounded medicine", because it isn't AVAILABLE from the big pharmaceutical companies. It does its job nicely, thank you.
I think the line is drawn when pharmacies advertise pharmaceutical cocktails which have not been prescribed by a physician.