Currently I’m torn. I have always wanted to major in psychology, and pursue a doctorate in the area, but I’m also extremely interested in pharmacy. I’m wondering whether it would be pointless to double major with psych and pharmacy (as most of the course work is prep for a PharmD) if I’m not pursuing a higher degree.
If you love the subject, it’s not pointless 
I have heard of psychologists that also have an appropriate pharmacy degree that allows them to prescribe medicine. I don’t know what the details are (eg, in terms of which pharmacy degree they needed to get). I do think that this is something that would be worth your looking into in more detail. Hopefully someone on CC will be able to comment with more certainty.
^Isn’t that just called being a psychiatrist vs psychologist?
"Isn’t that just called being a psychiatrist vs psychologist? "
Nope, different training. A psychiatrist needs to be an MD. A psychologist and a pharmacist are not MDs.
And pharmacist dispense medicine, not prescribe it. You’re confusing me as well on the pharmacy/psychologist combo.
OP, the risk is whether a double major would restrict your time to do the undergraduate research in psychology that is necessary to be competitive for a PhD or PsyD.
“And pharmacist dispense medicine, not prescribe it. You’re confusing me as well on the pharmacy/psychologist combo.”
I understand this. I have however, met people who had some sort of degree in pharmacy that allowed them to prescribe medicine. I honestly don’t know how this happened, or what sort of degree that they had. In fact, the more that I think of it the odder it seems – to me I would want the person who prescribes medicine to have an MD degree.
There are people in many medical/health roles besides MDs who prescribe medication - DOs, DPMs (podiatrists), nurse practitioners and certified nurse-midwives, physicians assistants, optometrists, and dentists are all authorized to prescribe medication in all 50 states. In some states other practitioners are too. The exact academic degree someone has isn’t as important as whether they have the appropriate training and knowledge about drug mechanisms and contraindications, and people in these roles do acquire them at least for the limited body system that they work with. DOs, PAs, and NPs have them for entire body systems, and they all provide primary care - in higher rates than MDs do, actually, particularly in low-income urban and rural areas - so you want them to have prescribing authority, otherwise the wait times to get medication would be astronomical. (In fact, you may have been treated by a DO, PA, or NP without even knowing it.)
Pharmacists can prescribe medication in some states. In Florida and California (and potentially other places) regular pharmacists can prescribe medication, and in some states clinical pharmacists with special training have limited prescription power.
In addition, in some states (Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, New Mexico and Louisiana, as well as in special federal roles like the U.S. Public Health Service and the military) clinical psychologists with a doctoral degree who have completed additional training and certification can write limited prescriptions, so @DadTwoGirls, this may be what you’re thinking of.
I have been looking at Ohio Stae recently and while they do have pre-pharmacy, there is also a pharmaceutical science major that I am interested in. I’m fascinated by medicinal chemistry and pharmacology. If it proves to be too difficult or contrary of a double major, I will find a different way to integrate it (maybe a minor!). Thank you all for all the helpful advice and information.