The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1915-01-06
THE EVENING BANNER
BENNINGTON VERMONT
Wednesday, January 6, 1915.
SELLING dope" IN VERMONT
Business Increases by Laws in Other
States


States
That Vermont is due to be the
dumping grounds for dope" fiends un
less sine legislatiin is enacted at
the coming. session of the Legislature
is the belief of many of the we'll
known pharmacists in the state and
it has lust become known that an in
yestigation has been carried on with
a view of determining the source of
supply of the many of these people
effect in New York The t.attic has in
since the anti narcotic laws went into
less some legislation is enacted at
in New York. The traffic has in
creased so much even in this city that
within the last three months one con-
Germ has been ordering heroine tab
lets by the 100000.
A prominent Rutland druggist in
discussing the situation yesterday
said: The more conscientious drug
gists OF Vermont state do not think
much of the idea of Vermont taking
the place of supply depot for the
done" takers, but it is going to
amount to this very thing unless some
new anti-narcotic law is passed at
the present term of the Legislature.
The sheriff and police departments
are beginning to feel the effect of the
Boylen law in New York and very
similar law in Massachusetts. In YER
mont the druggist has a right to sell
morphine, heroine or cocaine provid-
ed the name of the person is taken
and the disposition to be made of the
drug.
From Bennington to st. Adams the
drug iends from big section of New
York state are coming into the Yer
mont border towns for their supplies
The country store proprietors are also
getting big orders for these drugs and
they have the right to sell in the origi
nal package.
AN investigation has been quietly
carried on during the last few months
and it is an established fact that Troy
and Albany vendors and fends come
into Vermont starting at Bennington,
stopping at Mancheste,, Rutland, Bur
lington and through to St. Adams,
gathering big supply and then re-
turning to the New York cities by
way of the Delaware and Hudson rail
road Under the New York state law
q person would be liable ii found
with a supply of the drugs. but the
go-be-tweens take this chance.
The officers are having more or
less trouble with breaks and il trac-
ed out it win be found that in many
cases the burglars are nothing more
or less than drug fiends looking for
drugs. There was one instance, in
this county and that was at Fowle-.
The burglar was drug fend and he
was looking for drugs The man who
broke into the West Rutland store a
few months ago was a drug fiend.
The Massachusetts law has only
recently gone into effect but we will
get the dope takers from that state
The law recently passed there is one
very similar to the law introduced at
the 1912 session of the Vermont egis-
lature but | don't think that law ever
got further than the committee room
Very few people who are not di-
rectly interested are aware OF this
At Burlington the dug
tends from Plattsburgh, n. Y. came
so often the druggists there became
frightened and did not know what TO
10, fearing they might overstep in
heir right to sell. know OF one
nan who said he expected to move
nto this state to be near the source
If supply. Herald.