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Show REGULATE THE , . TRAFFIC 1 DOPE More rigid laws governing the sale of narcotiv drugs is urged in the biennial report of the state board of pharmacy, filed with Governor Spry yesterday. Tho board recommends that tho present law be amended so as to make it a felony for any one to have cocaine or morphine on their persons that has been obtained illegally. il-legally. It further recommends that the governor use his influence towards to-wards the passage of a federal lav to govern shipments of narcotics from other states. With these exceptions Uio board reports re-ports that tho present law has been found adequate and has been largely instrumental in stamping out Illegal trafficking in the nnrcotic drugs. By enlisting aid the traffic can bo controlled con-trolled almost entirely, it is pointed out. A law is also recommended requiring requir-ing itinerant peddlers of medicines to pay state license tax. Legitimate drug dealers suffer from tho operations opera-tions of these unlicensed vendors, it is declared, and are entitled to the protection that such a law would give them. During the two years covered by the report eighty-four applications for registration as pharmacists have been received by the board Of these twenty-four passed as registered pharmacists, phar-macists, thirty-five as assistant pharmacists, phar-macists, twenty-five as assistant pharmacists, twenty were gTanted certificates under the reciprocal exchange ex-change agreement existing between Utah and other states nnd five failed altogether to obtain licenses. Pharmacy Is maintained on a higher high-er plane In Utah now tb ever before, be-fore, the report says no . |