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of the goods.
Only pharmaceutical chemists and pharmaceutical
laboratories shall be permitted to stock the drugs in question.
The sale of drugs must be registered and only
medical practitioners shall be authorised to prescribe these drugs,
being required to state on the prescription their name in
fall together with the patient's name and address.
Such prescriptions must be registered in a special
book kept by pharmaceutical chemists. A monthly report must
be furnished to the health authorities of the prescriptions and
the quantities sold.
The penalties appliɗable ate imprisonment for terms
varying from 6 to 12 months and fines varying from 3 to 5,000
escudos.
Those severe penalties obviously are quite in keeping
with the principles laid down at the Opium Conferences.
PORTUGUESE COLONIES IN AFRICA.
(3) As stated above, the traffic in opium and the
production and consumption of opium are unknown in the
Portuguese colonies, except for medicinal purposes. There has
been no increase in the Asiatic population in those colonies.
Pharmaceutical requirements are practically unchanged. Custome
tariffs do not yet distinguish between the different narcotic
drugs,
which accounts for the lack of detailed information
for the last few years. BEITHER THE POPPY NOT THE COCA LEAF
IS CUDTIVATED IN ANY OF THE PORTUGUESE COLOBIES.
PORTUJURSE INDIES.
(4) In the Portuguese Indies the productions and abuse
of narcotic drugs are alike unknown. Traffic in cocaine is
governed by the decree of May 19th, 1909, us amended by
Colonial Ordinance 345 of July 21st, 1924 (Boletim Oficial
No. 59. of July 24th, 1914).
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