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Any  wholesaler  doing  a  country-store  business  will  tell  you  that 
more  laudanum  is  sold  by  country  grocery  stores  than  by  drug- 
stores, and  it  is  as  a  rule  sold  indiscriminately  without  any  attempt 
to  comply  with  the  law. 
This  proposed  law  will  restrict  the  sale  of  medicines  (except 
proprietaries)  in  all  cities  of  the  first,  second  or  third  class,  to  regis- 
tered pharmacists,  provide  for  the  registration  of  all  country  stores 
desiring  to  sell  medicines  in  original  packages,  and  will  prohibit 
the  issuing  of  a  certificate  to  any  store  situated  within  one  mile  of 
a  properly  manned  drug  store.  It  will  also  place  a.  prohibitive  yearly 
license  of  $240  on  all  wagon  and  house-to-house  medicine  peddlers, 
street  hawkers,  etc. 
We  will  never  have  a  more  favorable  time  to  push  a  law  of  this 
kind,  as  the  present  cocaine  agitation  and  the  unusually  receptive 
condition  of  the  public  toward  restricting  the  sale  of  drugs  which 
has  resulted,  can  be  used  to  good  advantage. 
It  is  probable  that  the  State  Pharmaceutical  Examining  Board 
will  ask  our  Association  to  endorse  an  amendment  to  the  present 
Cocaine  Law  making  the  penalty  more  severe  and  providing  for  an 
appropriation  large  enough  to  vigorously  enforce  the  act  all  over  the 
State.  As  you  are  well  aware  the  present  campaign  against  the 
cocaine  evil  in  this  city  will  about  exhaust  the  financial  resources 
of  the  Board,  and  the  State  should  certainly  make  ample  provision 
for  the  enforcement  of  lawrs  for  the  public  good  instead  of  compelling 
the  Board  to  use  the  examination  fees  collected  from  applicants  for 
registration,  which  should  be  used  only  for  enforcing  the  present 
pharmacy  and  registration  laws. 
At  the  last  meeting  of  the  State  Association  a  committee  was 
elected,  with  ex-President  Walton  as  chairman,  to  draft  a  model 
Anti-Narcotic  Law,  and  submit  it  to  the  Association  for  approval  at 
this  year's  meeting.  This  Committee  at  the  present  time  are 
awaiting  the  action  of  Congress,  two  bills  of  a  similar  nature  having 
been  introduced  but  not  acted  on  up  to  this  time. 
It  is  my  personal  opinion  that  independent  of  the  action  of 
Congress  this  Association  should  endeavor  to  obtain  a  law  placing 
stringent  restrictions  on  the  sale  of  morphine,  codeine,  and  prep- 
arations containing  these  alkaloids  in  quantities  sufficient  to  enable 
them  to  be  used  as  a  narcotic. 
The  evils  resulting  from  the  present  careless  sale  of  these  nar- 
cotics are  more  widespread  and  vastly  more  terrible  than  the  evils 
