Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1912-06-29
Though Composed of Three
Deadly PoiSonS, It Can Be
Bought Freely and Open
ly in Many Places.


penalties, and officials in all big cities
In the State began crusades for their |
enforcement, II was believed that a |
great step had been taken to minim.
izc, If not wholly suppress, dope |
hcnds," says an exchange. But even
rs in prohibition communities whisky
hCnds and those who pander to them
finds way to beat the law so did the |
dope iiends" find ways and means to
get their accustomed dope" They !
got II at big drug stores whose own.
Crs would resent being designated as
anything but respectable; and of
course the grimy shops of the under.
world and the slums are in nearly ev.
cry instance distributing agents of
dangerous sedatives and stlmulants.
Against choral and its sale, save
absolutely on a physicians prescrip.
ton, the law has long Waged war, not
only to discourage the habit so prev.
alcnt, especially among women of the
Tcnderloin and women of fashionable
society whose tangled nerves demand
n strong narcotic, but to balk crimi
nails, with whom II had taken the form
Of knockout drops" Tasteless and
Odorlcss or nearly so, and potent, IL
was the ideal thing for criminal who
desired to place a victim at his mercy.
TO slip the poison into drink or into
food was easy and simple. AS long
MS ten years ago II was so commonly
used by crooks as an aid to robbery
that the Legislature passed law max.
Ing II a felony punishable by ten
years In prison to have choral on
purposes more evil than robbery. as
witness the Jennie Bosscheiter case
over In New Jersey.
Substitute for Choral.
For long time the criminal as well
as the drug iiend has sought substi.
tutc for chloral. A substitute is now
on the market, and II can be purchas.
ed freely. 1t is a patent preparation
composed of three deadly poisons --
chloral. hyosciamus and cannabis in.
diCa. An overdose is fatal. II bears
a name which to the unlearned mind
suggests no such vicious and harmful
character as It really possesses.
81 know the stuff" said DR.. Minas
T.. Gregory. head of the psychopathic
ward al bellevue Hospital, to World
reporter, "and II Is as harmful in its
use voluntarily as II Is powerful
agent for crime. II Is fully as potent
as choral and just as dangerous. Some
of the worst physical wrecks We find
here are men who, through the care
lcssncss or callousness of druggists,
are introduced to this form of dope
as an antidote for the Shakes that
come of alcoholic excess. The first
dose Gains the man, but its effect Is
so Supplying that he goes back for al
COhOl to pull him out of his deep dc
preston. Then back come the
shakes then more of the drug, and
In about ten days we get the man hero
-wild-cyed, unstrung and probably
mentally and physically wrecked for
life"
But this is by no means the only
drug openly sold whose effects on its
devotees are fully as dangerous as the
chloral, opium, cocaine, morphine and
absinthc forbidden by law In fact, a
chemical analysis OF the drLgs now on
the market would reveal that most OF
them are derivatives from the very
drugs which the laws have sought to
drive out.
IIeroin, veronal, dionin, ether, chic
Newest Thing from Paris.
reform, and renalin, adncphin, super
analinc these are only few. Oi
these the newest on the market, and
tho one to he found nowadays in my
lady's bOudoir in the homes of fash
ION. instead of the little silver-stop
pCrcd vial of choral or the tiny NOR
phinc needle in its Russia leather
case, has long had place In the phar
macOpucia, but has only recently be
come Il fad for the faded, the bOrcC
and the unstrunG among the luXuri
Gus. II got its first vogue in Paris, hui
in the last year It has come into bif
demand in New York, especially alOn[
FIFTH avenue; In Newport, and down
among the Florida palms and the Car
Olina mountains. The surgeons ahoart
many big ocean liners see to it thai
their medicine chests are well stocked
with this bliss-giyer to the neurotic'
of the money-bag.
II does not threaten the slums, be
cause II Is very expensive. The tin!
pellets (thc form in which II comes
are each as valuable as bit of gol'
five times its size. Its derivation Il
something of a mystery, but physi
clans to the wealthy know it as a drul
more easily assimilated by the humal
system than morphine, as soothing ii
its effects, and that It Is equally dis
astrous to body and brain; and fur
thor, that the habit once formed, i
fully as gripping as morphine. As II
morphine large percentage OF th
cases arc hopeless Of cure.
DANGEROUS Naroral,
And then there is yaronal, prod
uct of coal tar as dangerous dru
as well may he imagined, but sol
widely by druggists, though the phy
stefan will use It only with the great
est discretion and resort to II only Il
emergencies. Its superficial effect
are dual To some It transmits IN
CNuherance and excitement OF indull
once in alcohol; to others the effect
uupOriiC, overcoming waketul nigh
Nervousness. But TO all who beCOm
addicted to II for prolonged period
the effect In the end is the same -
shattered mental stability, undermiI
cd general health aud final paralysis
Physicians Of cminGnco say that II M
TnDmE ol mnuy "A suicide were gpart