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SALE  OF  NARCOTICS  AND  OF  PROPRIETARY 
MEDICINES  CONTAINING  ALCOHOL. 
On  December  27  and  28,  1905,  upon  the  invitation  of  the  Legis- 
lative Committee  of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association,  a 
conference  was  held  at  the  Hotel  Stratford  in  Chicago  to  consider 
legislation  to  regulate  the  sale  of  narcotics  and  proprietary  com- 
pounds  containing  alcohol.  There  were  present  at  this  conference 
delegations  representing  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
the  Proprietary  Association  of  America,  the  National  Wholesale 
Druggists'  Association  and  the  National  Association  of  Retail 
Druggists. 
The  delegates  were  not  authorized  to  take  final  action  as  to  any 
particular  form  of  a  law,  but  were  merely  appointed  to  confer 
together  and  refer  back  to  the  bodies  which  appointed  them.  There 
was  considerable  discussion,  and  the  following  was  regarded  as  a 
good  working  basis  for  a  discussion  of  possible  laws  to  regulate  the 
sale  respectively  of  narcotics  and  of  proprietary  compounds  contain- 
ing alcohol. 
Albert  E.  Ebert, 
Of  the  American  Pharmaceutical  Association. 
J.  M.  Good, 
Of  the  National  Association  of  Retail  Druggists. 
M.  N.  Kline, 
Of  the  National  Wholesale  Druggists'  Association. 
John  W.  Kennedy, 
Of  the  Proprietary  Association  of  America. 
A  Bm, 
To  Provide  Against  the  Evils  Resulting  from  the  Traffic  in  Certain  Narcotic 
Drugs,  and  to  Regulate  the  Sale  Thereof. 
Be  it  Enacted  by  the  General  Assembly  of  the  State  of  . 
Section  r.  That  it  shall  be  unlawful  for  any  person,  firm  or  cor- 
poration to  sell,  furnish  or  give  away  any  cocaine,  alpha  or  beta 
eucaine,  opium,  morphine,  heroin,  chloral  hydrate  or  any  salt  or 
compound  of  any  of  the  foregoing  substances,  or  any  preparation  or 
compound  containing  any  of  the  foregoing  substances,  or  their  salts 
or  compounds,  except  upon  the  original  written  order  or  prescrip- 
tion of  a  lawfully  authorized  practitioner  of  medicine,  dentistry  or 
veterinary  medicine,  which  order  or  prescription  shall  be  dated  and 
