365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
Controlled Substances
Day 118: In the early 1900s, my maternal grandfather came out west to serve as the first pharmacist in a small pioneer community in northeastern Washington where he remained for several years before taking a schoolteacher to wife and relocating to a more established location. There, he set up a Rexall Drug Store where he spent the remainder of his working years. Even then, the sales of narcotics were controlled by the Federal Government, but such things as opium and cocaine were commonly prescribed by physicians, and pharmacists had only to obtain a license from the Internal Revenue Service to be allowed to sell them.
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