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Pharmacy owners call for restrictions on the sale of cocaine.

Date: 1912

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Local pharmacists report on the habitual use of cocaine among their patients. The American Pharmaceutical Association puts pressure on legislators to prohibit the sale of cocaine after citing that it should not be the pharmacists' job to enforce the ban on sales, but that of policymakers.