The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-03-16
Bulletin Issued From New York Since
Harrison Law Went Into
Effect, Explains
dope"
HERON IS USED MOST
Authorities All over the Country Are
Asked to Cooperate to
Kill This
Traffic.

use Of habit-forming druge the police
men throughout the United States are
being given a new education.
Those disposing OF drugs work in
specially assigned territories and find
it convenient to plant" packages in
Railways, in discarded cigaret boxes
apparently thrown carelessly into the
gutter and in all sorts Of places along
the street
Attention Of the patTolmen is called
to methods Of the drug dealers and to
the big profits they make in the sale
of the drugs in bulletin just issued
from New York:
Gives Courage to Kill.
"Most of the prisoners arrested for
crimes of violence it is stated, ARE
drug users, and commit these crimes
when under the influence of the drugs
hence the subject is one of great i'm
portance to the police OF the profits
in this illegal sale Of drugs the bull
letin says:
Cocaine sells at wholesale at 1910
per ounce. The Illicit dealer sells to
distributors at an average of $3.50
per ounce, and the distributor, who
puts the drug up in decks" makes a
net profit of about $40 an ounce.
Herein sells at wholesale at $685.
per ounce. Sold by the street dealer
to distributor at s2S per ounce. The
distributor, who adulterates the drug
with about 70 percent of sugar OF
milk, puts the drug up in decks" and
nets profit Of about s32.
Morphine sells at wholesale at s5.15
per ounce Sold by the street dealer
to distributors $50 per ounce. The
distributor, who sells it in small
quantities makes net profit Of about
$50.
Opium sells at wholesale at $10.15
per pound. Sold by the street dealer
to distributor at about $50 per pound.
Deadly Drugs Described.
The different drugs that enter
largely into the illegal trade, their
peculiarfties and effects, are thus de-
scribed in the bulletin:
Opium, which is brownish sticky
substance similar in appearance to
molasses, has its greatest following
among the Chinese and colored per-
sons. The opium is rolled into a pill,
cooked over small lamp, and insert
ed in the bowl of the pipe with a yen
hook.
Opium smokers in trying to break
the habit often resort to the use OF
morphine and sometimes drink the
ashes Of opium (yen shee) in wine or
cod liver oil.
Morphine is white powder. SINH
lar to cocaine and heroin in appear
ance. The user generally dissolves a
minute quantity of the powder in a
few drops of water contained n the
bowl Of spoon, heating the mixture
over fame, and then injects the
morphine into his arm with hypo-
dermic needle
Old users often swallow morphine
instead of injecting it. Many have
formed the morphine habit through
the too-ready use of the drug II hos
pitfalls as a pain-killer.
Cocaine known as &C." happy dust"
and snow" by its victims, Is gener-
I ally shifted into the nose, and almost
Immediately produces feeling Of ex-
hilaration and self-confidence. One
addicted to the habit becomes physi-
cal wreck on being deprived Of the
drug.
Its continuous use destroys the
membrane separating the nostrils, and
this cavity has been made use of as
hiding place for a. deck" OF cocaine.
Destroys Mind and Body.
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