ABSTRACT
The newspapers of Georgia, Tennessee and some other Southern States had printed some most sensational stories regarding the widespread addiction of the colored and vicious white population of the larger cities to cocaine and other narcotic drugs. Many lives have been wrecked by the drugs and an effort is being made to check the consumption of cocaine and morphine by legislative enactment. An inquiry conducted by the American Druggist has brought out a startling statement of the conditions prevailing in the city of Chattanooga, fully bearing out the newspaper reports. It is often asserted unjustly that pharmacy laws partake of the nature of class legislation in that they are devised more for the protection of the pharmacist than the public.
