So, you're at the pharmacy and a young person asks you to buy something...

I don’t see any issues with the condoms but I’m not buying pharmaceuticals for other people since I’m not qualified to prescribe them. I might drive her to PP or something though.

Yes, I’m sure your refusal will teach them an important lesson, they will forevermore abstain, and there’s no way they won’t just chance it.

You just know that little shit is going to turn up on your doorstep that evening, to take your daughter out on a date!

The federal requirement is 17 and up, to my knowledge there aren’t more strict states since regulation of OTC medications is a federal regulation. There is no regulation that says only a woman can purchase the pill, it can be sold to men, so presumably if it were a crime to purchase the pill and then provide the medication to a different person, it would require some sort of proof that the person purchasing it was taking it. I’m inclined to think that the person involved in your article is either in trouble because of the nature of the relationship between them, being student and coach at a school, or because the girl was 16.

ETA: In fact, yes, that is the reason:
“The student did not have a prescription for the medication, which is required for girls younger than 17, the affidavit said.” So because it technically requires a prescription for 16 and under, they’re calling it a dangerous drug, not because there is any medical reason for the sales to be restricted to 17 and up.