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The  Legislative  Year, 
j  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
I     October,  1903. 
druggists  of  the  State  tear  they  will  not  be  permitted  to  sell  such 
common  preparations  as  paregoric  and  Dover's  powder  save  upon 
a  physician's  prescription,  and  in  conformity  with  the  provisions  of 
the  law. 
Not  less  important  than  the  cocaine  measures  are  the  new  phar- 
macy laws  enacted  in  the  territories  of  Arizona  and  Hawaii. 
Wholly  apart  from  its  intrinsic  merit,  the  Arizona  law  is  of  great 
importance  and  significance  because  it  all  but  completes  the  scheme 
of  State  and  territorial  legislation  in  pharmacy  which  was  begun 
thirty  years  ago.  Every  State  in  the  Union  proper  now  has  a  phar- 
macy law,  and  every  territory  with  a  single  exception.  Indian 
Territory  alone  has  no  law,  although  efforts  to  secure  one  were 
made  this  year  as  they  had  been  made  during  previous  years.  With 
respect  to  the  new  Arizona  measure,  it  may  be  described  as  differing 
little  from  the  customary  pharmacy  law,  and  as  being  rather  better, 
indeed,  than  would  naturally  be  expected  in  a  sparsely  settled  ter- 
ritory in  the  West.  But  it  is  to  the  Hawaiian  Act  that  we  must 
look  for  the  greatest  degree  of  satisfaction.  Hawaii  has  taken  the 
initiative  in  adopting  the  Beal  Model  Law,  and  as  a  result  even  the 
original  thirteen  States,  with  all  their  traditions  and  their  civiliza- 
tion, are  compelled  to  yield  the  palm  to  a  far-off  island  that  only 
yesterday  became  even  a  territory.  The  Hawaiian  act,  while  in 
some  respects  departing  from  the  Model  Law,  contains  most  of  the 
restrictions  to  practice  imposed  by  Professor  Beal's  admirable  meas- 
ure, even  to  the  graduation  requirement,  and  is  on  the  whole 
superior  to  the  law  of  any  State  or  territory  in  the  Union. 
The  year  has  brought  a  number  of  liquor  enactments  of  unusual 
importance.  New  York,  indeed,  was  the  theatre  of  quite  dramatic 
interest  during  the  weeks  in  which  the  liquor  question  was  being 
discussed  in  the  legislative  halls  of  her  capital  city.  Efforts  were 
made  by  the  Excise  Commissioner  to  have  a  law  enacted  which 
would  have  proved  inimical  to  the  interests  of  pharmacists ;  but  rep- 
resentatives of  the  drug  trade  jumped  to  the  defense  with  determi- 
nation and  intelligence,  upheld  their  cause  before  legislative  com- 
mittees with  rare  vigor  and  success  during  several  weeks,  and  finally 
secured  the  passage  of  a  measure  of  their  own  parentage  with  which 
they  are  now  expressing  the  liveliest  satisfaction.  This  unique  act 
provides  that  druggists  who  desire  to  trade  in  liquor  other  than  on 
physicians'  prescriptions  may  sell  not  more  than  a  pint  at  a  time, 
