Show cocaine has done more q cocaine in schools scho 01 s other harm in drug the world the habit habil than any has of the orient even taken hold of children in in schools in some of tile the by RALPH T BARLOW manilla P 1 I oriental countries the sale of cocaine is very pro profitable f to the vender and consequently lie he will do all in his power tomake larsons purchase the drug regardless of the terrible effects it has upon the users the retail trade in the streets of bombay india has been going 0 on for several years and is evidently well organized police records show that gangs a of forty to sixty men almost all being bein of the criminal class are employed by certain dealers to sell the drug complaint is made that lie police magistrates are arc not fully making use of the power they have find end the majority of cocaine sellers are being lot let oi off with lenient sentences in the bombay presidency the maximum quantity of cocaine which may inay be sold at retail at one time or to one and tile the same person other than a duly licensed physician or a duly licensed chemist or druggist dru gist or a person lmh feg v a bona fide prescription from a qualified physician in the aggregate on any one day shall be one tenth of a grain whether in a dry d iy ay state ir dr in solution tion and if sold to a person holding a prescription from a qualified physician six grains whether in a dry state or in solution |