336  Legislation  and  Judicial  Decisions.  {Amju°£i£&arm" 
LEGISLATION  AND  JUDICIAL  DECISIONS  OF  INTEREST 
TO  PHARMACISTS  FOR  THE  YEAR  1901-1932. 
By  J.  H.  Beal. 
LEGISLATION. 
The  winter  has  been  noteworthy  tor  the  fact  that  fewer  measures 
than  common  have  been  introduced  either  by  pharmacists  or  aimed 
at  them  by  antagonistic  interests.  In  several  States  bills  have  been 
introduced  proposing  to  register  physicians  as  pharmacists  with- 
out examination,  and  also  to  admit  to  the  register  persons  who 
have  had  a  certain  number  of  years'  experience.  So  far  as  we  have 
been  able  to  learn,  all  such  measures  have  been  defeated. 
In  at  least  three  States,  and  possibly  in  others,  attempts  were 
made  to  pass  laws  prohibiting  the  charging  of  soda  fountains  in 
buildings  used  for  any  other  purpose.  These  measures  were 
pushed  by  the  bottling  interests,  and  would  have  absolutely  pre- 
vented the  charging  by  druggists  of  their  own  fountains.  Fortun- 
ately for  the  drug  trade,  the  bills  were  all  defeated,  and  a  similar 
law  passed  in  New  York  two  years  ago  was  repealed. 
Like  measures  will  doubtless  appear  in  the  future,  and  it  behooves 
pharmacists  to  be  on  the  alert  while  the  general  assemblies  are  in 
session. 
Ohio  now  has  a  brand-new  poison  law,  based  principally  upon 
the  poison  section  of  the  A.Pn.  A.  model,  a  copy  of  which  is  printed 
below,  and  although  it  does  not  go  into  effect  until  January,  1903, 
its  effect  is  seen  in  the  fact  that  a  number  of  country  grocers  have 
already  thrown  out  their  stock  of  drugs,  with  the  statement  that  if 
they  must  register  the  sale  of  every  poison  they  won't  handle  such 
articles  at  all.  Thus  the  public  will  receive  a  better  measure  of 
protection,  while  the  pharmacist  will  come  into  his  own  again. 
OHIO  POISON  LAW. 
Replacing  the  former  Poison  Law,  the  Poison-Label  Law  and  the 
Morphine  Law. 
Section  i.  It  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person  to  knowingly 
sell  or  deliver  to  any  minor  under  sixteen  years  of  age,  except  upon 
the  written  order  of  an  adult,  or  to  sell  or  deliver  to  any  person, 
any  of  the  following  described  substances,  or  any  poisonous  com- 
pound, poisonous  combination  or  poisonous  preparation  thereof, 
to  wit :  Tne  compounds  and  salts  of  antimony,  arsenic,  chromium, 
