THE  AMERICAN 
JOURNAL  OF  PHARMACY 
A  NEW  LAW  COVERING  THE  SALE  OF  DISTILLED  SPIRITS 
AND  WINES  FOR  MEDICINAL  PURPOSES  ENACTED 
At  this  year's  session  of  the  New  Jersey  legislature  the  following 
law  was  enacted  and  having  received  the  approval  of  the  Governor 
will  become  operative  on  July  4th. 
An  Act  to  restrict  the  sale  at  retail  of  distilled  spirits  and  wines 
for  medicinal  purposes  to  bona  fide  prescriptions  and  to  define 
the  prescribing  and  dispensing  of  these  as  in  performance  of 
professional  duty  and  not  in  violation  of  prohibition  enact- 
ments. 
Be  it  enacted  by  ike  Senate  and  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of 
New  Jersey: 
I .  On  and  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  it  shall  not  be  lawful  for 
any  druggist,  except  a  pharmacist  registered  as  such  in  accordance 
with  the  law  of  this  State  and  engaged  at  the  time  in  the  actual 
practice  of  pharmacy,  to  sell  at  retail  distilled  spirits  and  wines  and 
EDITORIAL. 
IN  NEW  JERSEY. 
