^ptembe/ioog1'}  -^wmVan  Pharmaceutical  Association.  443 
consumer,  he  is  not  guilty  of  counter  prescribing.  An  ordinance 
applicable  to  Kansas  City  only  forbids  entirely  the  prescribing  of 
cocaine  unmixed  with  other  ingredients. 
New  York. — Much  legislative  activity  has  been  exhibited  in  this 
State  during  the  past  winter,  resulting  eventually  in  the  vetoing  .by 
the  Governor  of  the  bill  which  had  been  passed  by  the  Legislature. 
The  existing  law,  it  is  claimed,  is  defective,  and  the  present  method 
of  electing  members  of  the  Pharmacy  Board  is  unconstitutional.  A 
law  was  passed  affecting  the  sale  of  insecticides,  providing  for  their 
proper  labelling  and  for  the  issuing  of  permits  for  selling  these  prod- 
ucts at  wholesale.  A  municipal  commission  on  explosives  imposed 
restrictions  upon  NewT  York  City  druggists,  regarding  the  manufac- 
ture of  compounds  and  preparations  containing  explosives  or  in- 
flammable substances.  An  important  decision  in  an  adulteration 
case  was  handed  down  by  a  New  York  judge,  who  held  that  articles 
sold  in  grocery  stores,  not  intended  for  medicinal  purposes,  need  not 
conform  to  the  standards  laid  down  in  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia. 
Pennsylvania. — Much  interest  was  shown  during  the  past  win- 
ter, during  the  biennial  session  of  the  State  Legislature,  in  legislation 
pertaining  to  pharmacy.  A  new  pharmacy  law,  permitting  devia- 
tions from  the  standards  of  the  U.S. P.,  where  stated  upon  the  label, 
in  everything  but  such  preparations  of  opium,  iodine,  camphor, 
peppermint,  etc.,  as  are  used  for  household  purposes,  differs  materi- 
ally from  the  former  Act,  where  no  deviation  was  permitted  under 
any  circumstances. 
A  new  Cocaine  Act  containing  provisions  much  more  stringent 
than  those  in  the  former  law,  especially  as  regards  the  registration 
of  sales  and  quarterly  reports  to  the  pharmacy  board  by  wholesale 
druggists,  was  passed  by  the  Legislature. 
Virginia. — No  new  legislation  was  enacted,  but  an  opinion  was 
rendered  by  the  Attorney-General,  affirming  the  validity  of  the 
provision  of  the  poison  law  requiring  insecticides  to  be  sold  only 
in  original  packages. 
Washington. — A  narcotic  law,  forbidding  the  sale  of  cocaine, 
morphine,  etc.,  to  habitues,  was  recently  placed  upon  the  statute 
books.  Provision  is  made  for  revocation  of  licenses  of  practicing 
pharmacists  under  certain  conditions  of  violating  the  law.  The 
registration  of  apprentices  is  made  obligatory,  and  itinerant  peddlers 
of  medicines  are  required  to  take  out  licenses  costing  from  $5  to  $25 
per  month,  according  to  the  selling  price  of  the  remedy. 
