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Show Drug Regulations. Something like a general effort has beon nuido recontly to surround tho salo of certain clangorous drugs with stridor regulations. Befco several Logislatuies In session similar bills regulating tho retailing of cocaine, raorphliio, etc, havo beon Introduced. It is cocaine, especially, that seoms in recent years to baro oorao into wldo spread uso as n norvo btlmulant, nnd tho wreck and wrotohednofB that hnvo followed the gonorul spread of tho coculiio habit In coitnln sphort-s of city lifo aro worso than follow in tho wako of pestllonce of fnmino ; tho moral degradation brought on by tho drug habit is Inllnitoly worso. A bill regulating tho sale of dniiRorous drugs Is pending boforo tho Stato Legislature of Now York, and a manufacturing chemist testify ing leforo a Stato committee deolnrod that over 20 per cent of nil tho cocaine ut, present manufactured in this country Is oouveitod to Illicit uso. Ho tntcd also that fully 120 of thn 200 girls now in Chinatown, New i York Oity, somo of them not moro H than H years old, aro confirmed H victims of cocaine This most H powerful and torriblo of narcotics" is H eaid to bo commonly peddled by H pedestrinus in tho Ohinoso nnd other H elum quarters of New York. Tbo H terriblo fascination ot tho drug, onco H tho habit is acquired, never loses its H grip on tho victim. In tho courso H of t,ho inquiry into the probnblo M extent ot tho uso of narcotics by tho sM New Yotk legislative commllteo somo M surprising statistics were brought out. H Iu Vermont, for instauco, whoro tho H entire populaton is only 350,000, H there is sold during cnoh month H :!,:)00,000 doses ot uarootio drugs. M Time oanetitutes nu averngo of nenrly H ten doses monthly to every mau, M woman and child in tho Stato. Tbo H ratio is astounding, nny how tbo total M ot unrcotics consumed may bo dis- M tributod, whothor to fow or to many H of tho population. M All of tbeso drugs, that aro con- H sidercd by medical scienco to bo of H high bouoilt to tho human race, and H cocaine, especially, is regarded a H j boon to suffering humanity. Theio H nro laws now iu practically every H Stato which era eupposod to restiaiu H 'and limit tho salo and common uso of all dangerous naraotlcs, but tbo H terriblo spread of tbo drug habit H grows moro wiaospreau year ny ycur. m It 1b said that in cortnlu districts of H New York thoro nro totail resorts H proteudlng to bo ordinary drug stores thnt not bnly gain n livelihood almost H exclusively by eolllng drugs to "tho ikB fiends," but there is said to bo TH ovldonoo thnt some of thoso places H distribute cooaluo froo to non-usoiH and thus build custom by fostorlug 'tho habit. Tbero uio fow moro Berious probloms with whloh honevo- I lent effort is attempting to grapple thnn is this constantly increasing tendency to tho ubo ot nnrcotlos. H llaltlmoro Amorlcan. I I I |