The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-10-23

SeCLlOn o. IcduS any ptISOh NiOioI
ing any of the provisions of this act
shall be deemed guilty of a INSIDE
meanor and on conviction shall be
punished by fine, etc. believe any
way that Barnett should have been
prosecutor under sections 9 and 81.
Instead Of this Barnett is charged,
as | understand it, with running
drug store without being a registered |
pharmacist To my mind he cannot |
be convicted, as charged In the face |
OF the plain provision OF the proviso |
in section Is which reads provided |
this section and the preceding section |
shall not be construed as precluding |
any person from owning a drug store
or pharmacy, if all the pharmaceuti-
cal work in the same drug store shall
be under the personal supervision and
direction of a registered pharmacist
"As Barnett always employed reg
istered pharmacist, his conviction in
the fact of this proviso will be OK
ceedingly doubtful. AT any event a
test case should be brought at once
to clear up this doubt and if IL decided
by the courts that the unrestricted
sale of morphine and heroin by every
person except pharmacists is legal
in Michigan a special session of the
legislature cannot be called too soon.
The law against the sale of cocaine
in Michigan is working well. Under
the law wholesalers must keep records
of all sales 10 retailers and receipts
for the drug delivered. These rec
ords are subject to the inspection OF
our department. Under this law the
illegal sale of cocoine within the state
has practically ceased and the CO
caine fiends have taken to heroin.
The cocaine law should be amended
to compel wholesalers TO report
monthly their lists of sales to the
dairy and food commissioner.
with such record before me |
could easily keep posted on all sales
made to every druggist or other per-
| son in Michigan. If any appeared to
/ be using an undue amount / could
easily investigate and prosecute. If
morphine, heroin, cocaine and all 9TH
er habit forming drugs were also
placed under the cocoine law, we
would have habit forming drugs under
strict control. Shipments from other
states can only be controlled by fed
! eral law and bill is now pending in
congress to control such shipments"
"The traffic in certain drugs or
their derivatives, commonly referred to
as dope, has reached such proper
lions and is so far reaching that pos
sible results are appalling" said At
torney General Grant Fellows. "Medi-
cal experts give testimony that is not
subject to question indicative OF the
degradation to which a strong man
may be reduced from the effects of
this practice. We have but to witness
the terror, weakness and deprayity
of the victims, when within the pro-
lection Of the law and when robbed
of the opportunity of recourse to this
drug, to appreciate the necessity for
laws so stringent that the responsible
ty of contracting the habit may be re
duced to the minimum.
THE penalty for the unnecessary
and unwarranted sale of dope, either
to fiends or those contracting the
habit by so-called doctors, druggists
and others is not in proportion to the
offense committed. Recent develop
ments throughout this and other
states disclose conditions which war
rant serious consideration of this sub
, ject by those charged with the en-
forcement and execution of the laws
Our law relating to the sale of dope
! undoubtedly needs amending.
"The maximum penalty for viola
ton of the law should be such thai
those inclined to this character o.
traffic may be deferred from inten
: tional and wholesale violations. While
| do not favor the calling of a specia
/ session, if special session SHOULD
be called, the necessity for proposed
, amendment to the law regulating thu
; use and sale of dope might we'll bt
4 called to the attention of the legisla
) ture."
: State Bacteriologist M. L. Holm
who was connected with a Chicago
D hospital for number of years wher,
3 he had ample opportunity to stud!
| uOpe cases, says that III uedllHB Will
!, drug habits physicians are chiefly con
D cerned with cocaine and morphine
THE various substitutes for cocaine
5 such as betaeucaine, acoin, halocain
| etc, have never become general fav
y orites with drug fiends," said DR.
1 Holm" On the other hand the NOR
phine derivatives, especially heroin, a
r we'll as dionin and peronin, have re
5 Gently come into prominence as salts
Y factorily replacing the parent drug.
t "The drug fiend takes his NOR
:. phine by mouth and through tn,
a hypodermic needle, or smokes opium
: while cocaine is either snuffed, in
jected with the needle or swallowed
q A noted cocaine field one said tina
4 GOD was unjust In that he made mai
g to live without eating coca and thi
: sentiment is shared alike by users o
5 morphine and its derivatives.
| mo druggist in Michigan may sci