Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-05-12
|lI-NARCOTIC
 l LAW DISCUSSED BY DRUGGISTS
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dose happened to be fora horse or
 hule?
 don't know much about horses
 mules," he said, But maybe De of you gentlemen can tell me
 bething. How much laudanum can
 orse take?"
 This question was answered with te, by half a dozen members. But De Of the members could tell the (aker if he is allowed under the
 to proceed with the filling of a
 scription for such large quanti-
 of the prescribed drug, unless
 knew absolutely that the dose E for horse or mule.s
 Startling Figures.
 r. Schachleiter made an interest
 statement, in brief form, Of 1he Rtory of the activities which
 minated in the adoption of the fight1Harrison law, telling how this fernmcnt was the instigator in the o international conferences which
 cussed the trade in opium. MT. |rrison mentioned figures from Fernment reports, to show that be- Fen the years 1860 and 1911, the pulatlon of the United States in- passed by 133 per cent, whereas, the frease in importations of opium in- passed by 3o1 per cent. He showed 70 that the needs of the United etes fer opium can be absolutely led With 50,0OO pounds per year, as a matter of fact 100000 |uads per annum are imported. Druggist Not to Blame. Mr Schachleiter called the atten- ~ or his hearers to the fact that druggist has been generally Pmed for the great spread in the pg evil in this country, but as a !. s'lef Of fact, it is not the druggis-, < tne doctor, who is to blame. The Frepltlous vendor, the man or wo- u who forms his little colony; lo starts young boys and girls into ! hablt; who works in devious annels, but who works always, d Tn the most unexpected and un- 'spected places, is to blame for evil: The speaker ventured the 4nlon that within a short while gre Will be a voluminous report 'uea' which would make plain to ], .ne manner in which the drug .olt is spread.
 The speakers agreed that the law
 pelng carried out, and that on !. a.cn l, when the law went into ef- '., . 'ne source of supply was closed ,t .ne naoltual users of the drugs af sled by the law. The statement as as also made, and alphabetically z. s.. not one in thousand of the 'yi.ual ,si users of drugs has any req, .alculty 4n ceasing the use of the us suddenly and without previous eparation.
 Peculiar Conditions Noted. a q number of points were brought : aurlng the discussion, that were , aiaI importance not only to the phar- 'nases, av,s.s, but to the people of the state aeially' .. The statement was made ns noe 'ne law regulating the sale of ;as % ana medicines in Arkansas ap- wns vo oniy to incorporated cities and osa on0' ana that any man. in any uaa uss'osds village, can purchase is,s itss at wholesale and sell at retail '.nout regulation.
 at Aysner n point brought Out, was s nss many general merchants handla lt6ort & aua a pharmaceutical supplies ,,lou. aL a.. a legitimate pharmacist tc ,cain a al'er those things. Morphine ,inm the various derivatives O, suan um ana of the coca leaves were sa ssuseu s." by these general merchan, ,gnlss l.s, Just as they were in the .Still sn u.ugstores of the city. K les rscan another point was that unti pere' a. s,a session of the legislature afians" "@s no regulation of veteri antsa and that any man whx puld o,a. 'o "doctor' a horse or mul. bulS y'slm hsl to be a veterinarian. and he l.s.a lSsye hls prescriptions filled " sn x ssislsture I rsmedied this de,
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