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to amend the law with regard to the regulation of the Importation, Sale and use of Deleterious Drugs" printed in the Straits Settlements Government Gazette of the 19th July 1907, p. 1435.
By the terms of this ordinance cocaine and its salts and solutions thereof are regarded as deleterious drugs, and trade in them is restricted to persons licensed by the Principal Civil Medical Officer or in his absence by a duly authorised Governcent Medical Officer. Licenses to deal in deleterious drugs may be issued to medical men or chemists and druggists.
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Statements are frequently made that cocaine is being used to excess by natives in China, but no definite information as to this is available and so far as is known no special legislation on the subject exists in China.
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Physiological effects of the misuse of Cocaine.
The following is a series of statements made by medical experts having special experience in dealing with victims of the cocaine habit.
The following resume of the effects of the habitual use of cocaine is taken from a report by Dr. D.K. McDowell printed in the Proceedings of the Legis- lative Council of the Straits Settlements, 1906, p. 087:-
"In the case of those who use cocaine for purposes of intoxication, depression and insonia soon supervene and the victim is drawn to the more
and more frequent repetition of his or her dose and to increase the quantities of each. As this fatal
bondage