Sentences with phrase «even legal drug»

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That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

There are legal implications as well: Anyone who wants to get involved in this industry has to take on the reputational risk and the legal risk, because even though numerous states have legalized it, cannabis is still a Schedule I, federally illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

Lift CEO Matei Olaru said he believes its accounts were targeted in connection with the U.S. tech giants» policies barring promotion of the sale of illegal, prescription or recreational drugs, even though medical marijuana is legal in Canada and recreational pot will soon follow suit.

However, Spicer then signaled that the White House sees recreational pot very differently, with the press secretary even attempting to link recreational use of the drug to the abuse of opioid drugs across the U.S. (In fact, there has been little scientific evidence linking marijuana legalization to opioid use, with some studies actually showing a decrease in opioid overdoses in states where legal marijuana is available.)

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has made no secret of his contempt for marijuana use, and his Department of Justice is on the verge of releasing a report that many in the burgeoning legal cannabis industry fear will propose prosecuting people engaging in marijuana sales — even if they are in states that have legalized the drug locally.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

First, patents are often taken out to use as legal weapons by huge companies to fight off their competitors even if they do not plan on completing trials for the drug.

The conclusion: given relatively unlimited availability, heroin users will voluntarily stabilize or reduce their dosage and some will even choose abstinence; long - addicted users can lead relatively normal, stable lives if provided legal access to their drug of choice, and with few side effects; and ordinary citizens (in Switzerland at least) will support such initiatives.

That the US government allows one drug to be legal — alcohol and another not — marijuana is one of the reasons not to believe in government even in a supposed democracy like ours.

Reaffirmation of the doctrine that religious motivation does not override substantial secular concerns relating to health and welfare was recently evidenced by the United States Supreme Court determination that sale and distribution of drugs, even though religiously motivated, was not immunized from legal accountability.

I would argue, even ignoring all the other arguments above, that if this was the entirety of the issue with marijuana it should be made legal on the grounds that freedom of choice, even bad choices, should be favored if the harm is minor enough; as shown by our legalizing of other equally or more addictive drugs.

Even without Conservative support, it is still the first UK government report examining legal alternatives to drugs in other countries.

This whole medicinal pot issue is a little thorny, since marijuana is illegal under federal law — period, end of story, even in states that have passed legislation or ballot initiatives making the drug legal for use by people who are sick, those individuals are still subject to arrest by federal officials for possession or cultivation.

Cuomo's consideration of legalizing marijuana follows U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions» pledge to enforce the federal ban on the drug even in states where it's legal.

The 18 - member committee, which worked on the report for more than a year, identified specific steps that states, federal agencies and medical providers should take to stem the tide of abuse of substances including heroin, fentanyl and prescription drugs — even as they ensure pain patients have access to legal relief.

Sun lamps and tanning beds are legal for adult use in all 50 states, even though the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classifies them as a Class 1 carcinogen like tobacco, radon, and arsenic, and the use of tanning beds has been linked to melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer.

I often found myself wondering whether what Piana was talking about was even legal to talk about — couldn't he go to jail for openly discussing his exhaustive drug use?

Even though it is perfectly legal for physicians to do so (it's called «off - label» drug use), medicine has become so tightly regulated that doctors sometimes tell patients they won't risk their medical license by writing a prescription for other Dilantin uses.

The drug trade and murder of innocent legal or illegal immigrants shines a light on the problems and concerns people in America have had for years and the film does this without you even realizing it.

Pupils are encouraged to think about developments such as 3D printing medicines, drugs, clothes, weapons, and even bike helmets and to consider the range of moral, ethical and legal challenges these create.

First of all, I will not even consider feeding any foods that contain any of the following: meat by - products, poultry by - products, any food with the actual words «meat meal» in the ingredient list (meat meal could potentially contain anything such as diseased or dead / dying animals, including the possibility of euthenised pets from shelters (yes with the euthenasia drugs still in their systems and sometimes even with collars still on), as well as a legal allowed % of plastic, chemicals and other unmentionables), soy, corn or any fragments thereof, wheat or any fragments thereof, any kind of gluten or gluten meals, sugar, artificial flavours, artificial colors, BHA, BHT, ethoxyquin

Whether the charges are the result of a misunderstanding, escalated argument fueled by alcohol or drugs or is a typical form of communication between the two parties, an arrest can be terrifying and lead to even more serious legal ramifications.

Victims of defective auto products, bicycle accidents, workplace accidents such as a construction accident, as a result of a dangerous drug, or even those who have been involved in a dog attack, can trust that our legal team will stand by their side in every way possible to assist.

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Following Bartlett's verdict, which was upheld by 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals on the grounds that the plaintiff had pushed a different legal theory (concentrating on the danger of the drug and not whether or not the warning was accurate) and that even if the defendant could not have used a different warning label for Sulindac, it could have chosen to not manufacture the drug, the drug industry contended that the Supreme Court's 2011 ruling had been disregarded.

Is there still so much stigma and concern with this drug that a lawyer's career plans and possibilities might become permanently damaged or distorted by representing even legal pot dealers?

Indeed, aggressive police raids — where doors are kicked in, machine guns are held to civilians» heads, and houses are completely ransacked — create a backlash against the police and against the legal system in general, especially when these tactics are used against «crimes» as mundane as poker games, checking high school students» lockers for drugs, and even cracking down on unlicensed hairdressers.