N.S.W. “PEP PILL” BAN
No Concern In New Zealand A recent report in “The Press” that New South Wales had banned the use of “pep pills” (stimulating drugs) by long-distance heavy truck drivers had led the New Zealand Health Department to make inquiries about substances involved in the Australian ban, a spokesman for the office of the Minister of Health said today. The inquiry had indicated, he said, that the ban was on pills containing benzedrine or similar drugs, the sale of which had been banned in New Zealand except on a doctor's prescription for 15 years. Since 1960 it had been an offence to have illicit possession of such drugs, and there had been successful prosecution of persons breaking this law.
Asked whether the department was considering action against pills now on the New Zealand market containing caffein or caffein and aspirin, the spokesman said that if these were banned, tea and coffee would have to be banned as well, because the amount of caffein in the pills was little different from that in a cup of tea or coffee,
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30288, 14 November 1963, Page 16
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