§ 521.02 ARTICLE NOT APPLICABLE TO CERTAIN USES BY PHYSICIANS, DRUGGISTS AND OTHERS.
   The provisions of this article shall not prevent:
   (a)   A physician from prescribing the use of alcoholic liquors when necessary for a bona fide patient;
   (b)   A druggist from selling, upon a prescription properly issued by a physician, alcoholic liquors for medicinal purposes;
   (c)   A physician, dentist or veterinarian, in the legitimate practice of his or her profession, from using and administering alcoholic liquors;
   (d)   Hospitals, sanitariums or that division of any institution which is regularly conducted as a hospital, dispensary or infirmary from using or administering alcoholic liquors to bona fide patients. Institutions and the divisions thereof provided in this section may carry a stock of alcoholic liquors sufficient for this purpose; and
   (e)   Religious organizations from using wine for sacramental purposes.
(W.Va. Code § 60-6-5)