Forensic Pharmacy is the foundation of the structure on which the sacred profession of Pharmacy has been built up in our country. It provides much needed legal support, professional backing and ethical strength for the systematic growth of the profession.

Pharmacist as a drug custodian, drug maker, drug counsellor, drug dispenser, drug analyser, and drug educator has to discharge his duties within the orbit of professional discipline. The profession derives its strength from the legal provisions such as, acts, rules, bill, orders, and statutes covered in forensic pharmacy, also known as pharmaceutical jurisprudence. Besides, historical developments of drug legislations, pharmaceutical ethics, and study of allied legislative pieces constitute core of the subject.

It was the endeavour of the authors to provide lucid and easily understandable text of the subject for the students of pharmacy based on their long experience of handling the classes in the subject of forensic pharmacy.