Sentences with phrase «by illegal drug»

It was a statement against the toll taken by the illegal drug trade, OK?

«These arrests underscore our commitment to continue to work to improve the quality of life for the residents of our community, some of whom have been plagued by illegal drug trafficking near their homes.»

So begins this absorbing memoir of a growing up marked not by illegal drugs but by diabetes.

Not exact matches

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

Likewise, there is no auction record for 50.44 Bitcoins seized by the Secret Service in 2014 from a couple who ran an illegal drug and money - changing site under the name «JumboMonkeyBiscuit.»

The cryptocurrency, originally championed by hacking cliques who flew close to anarchism, has an association with the «dark web» and shady forums where drugs, sex, and other illegal products and services are bought and sold.

Lots of things exist for a while unbothered by the law until someone cracks down, whether it's a certain drug, or, for example, people using bitcoin for illegal purposes.

For example, according to a report by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 86 percent of people arrested in Cook County in 2012 tested positive for at least one illegal narcotic — the highest percentage of any big city.

There's another cost to the war on drugs, however, which is the revenue lost by governments who can not collect taxes on illegal drugs.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

The FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other suspects ran an encrypted telecommunications service used by more than 20,000 customers to facilitate illegal activities, including international shipments of cocaine and other drugs.

The illegal drug trade on the dark web is growing rapidly, despite authorities shutting down major market sites like AlphaBay, as crime gangs diversify and seek new clients online, a report by two European Union agencies warned on Tuesday.

(NB: Cocaine was, at the time, considered a wonder drug — perhaps like bitcoin in more modern times — but was eventually condemned, made illegal, and deemed an «evil» by Holmes in later works.)

[1] Thornton has been described by the Advocates for Self - Government as «one of America's experts on the economics of illegal drugs.»

The report found that a black driver who was pulled over was twice as likely to be searched by police as a white driver, even though searches of white drivers were more likely to turn up drugs or illegal weapons.

Pro-Life relates to many issues: insurance for those who can not afford, gun control, illegal drug traffic, poverty (homeless, elderly, etc. widows and orphans)... we are becoming pawns used to dominate the politics of losers who can not justify their candidacy by any other means.

All safe drugs, as determined by doctors, prescription and illegal will be legal.

IT is too hard for people, especially family members, to see or comprehend mental illness as it is spiralling our to control unless you get help from someone who does know... The deal is a normal person, any age, any education or background can become» unglued» for no apparent outward reason... except they seem to be acting off or weird or troubled, confused, saying or doing strange stuff... and a lot of times these people are getting drugs coming into our nation from Mexico and points south by illegal aliens who purport to be «just looking for a job»...

Yet despite its protected status, the reserve's pristine forests are imperiled by agricultural conversion, illegal cattle ranching, hunting, drug trafficking, and other unsanctioned activities.

Adjacent to these and protected by a high wire fence is a blue - and - white trailer, the property of the Kentucky State Racing Commission, in which postrace tests are conducted to determine whether illegal drugs are present in the saliva or urine of winners and other selected horses that have raced each day.

Another current article describes the illegal use of drugs such as hydrocodone, fentanyl, duragesic, and morphine (opiods); taken in combination by a breastfeeding mother, resulting in her infant's death.

She also instinctively bends her legs completing the protective space around the baby, making it impossible for another person to roll onto the baby without first coming into contact with her legs.15, 16 A breastfeeding mother who co-sleeps with her baby (and has not consumed alcohol, illegal or sleep - inducing drugs or extreme fatigue) also tends to be highly responsive to her baby's needs.17, 18 Studies show more frequent arousals in both mothers and babies when they co-sleep, and some researchers have suggested that this may be protective against sudden unexpected infant deaths.19 — 21 Babies are checked by their mother and breastfeed more frequently when co-sleeping than when room - sharing.22, 23

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick, the 28 - year - old son of an addict who abandoned his family, wants his city in upstate New York to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

A prison run by G4S saw children subjected to racist comments and staff who worked while under the influence of illegal drugs, an official report has found.

By every honest measure, the substance has more in common with alcohol and tobacco than it does harder drugs that are rightly illegal.»

An editorial in The Lancet suggested the ACMD did not have sufficient evidence to judge the harms caused by this drug class and warned: «Making the drug illegal will also deter crucial research on this drug and other drug - related behaviour, and it will be far more difficult for people with problems to get help.»

In a more extensive use of a wiretap by Spota's office, the federal investigators are seeking to determine if information gleaned on a wiretap on Macedonio was used only to convict Macedonio of drug possession, while other information involving possible fraud by Macedonio, political corruption in the county and possible illegal activities by a member of Spota's staff, was ignored, sources said.

The change follows a decision by Home Secretary Theresa May to ban the drug, which has already been outlawed in other European countries, to avoid Britain becoming a hub for trading in a substance that was illegal elsewhere.

Thursday Introduction — Lord Trees Questions — Developing separate drug treatment programmes for addiction and withdrawal from legally prescribed drugs, distinct from programmes for illegal drug addiction; copyright exemption for schools; reducing unemployment in Wales Debate — Implications relating to the parliamentary boundary commission's current proposals Debate — Problems faced by families in the rented housing sector Short debate — Coastal access in England

Yesterday's Siena poll found 43 percent of New Yorkers would prefer moving beyond a test program (as proposed by Cuomo) to legalize the use of pot by seriously ill individuals, while 37 percent agree with the governor that the more limited test route is the way to go, and 18 percent want to keep the drug completely illegal.

Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick wants his city to host the nation's first supervised injection facility, enabling heroin users to shoot illegal drugs into their bodies under the care of a nurse without getting arrested by police.

Burning the drugs prevents the medications from entering landfills, being disposed of by flushing the pills down the toilet, prevents illicit and illegal use as well as reduces the risk of accidental poisoning of our children and elderly.

In its release this month of the 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment, the DEA noted that the opioid epidemic has been exacerbated by the reemergence of illegal versions of fentanyl manufactured in foreign countries and then smuggled into the U.S.

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.

The state has added compounds to the list of illegal substances in the past, only to see the makers of the synthetic drugs stay ahead of the law by slightly changing formulas when one compound is made illegal.

Arrested were 28 year old Jessica Titus, 17 year old Maria Champion - Cruz & 35 year old Richard Madison on a variety of drug charges & conspiracy, for allegedly bring illegal drugs to Broome County from New York City by bus, with intent to sell in the Binghamton area.

By drawing on an existing 1980 state health department statute that would set up a pilot program for medical marijuana, Cuomo avoids the risk that the Republican led State Senate might not approve a larger law to permit the illegal drug to be used for health treatments.

According to Scarpino, the issues that he plans to address in his new role include Westchester's heroin and illegal drug epidemic — a situation he described as «a scourge that is destroying our youth» — as well as Internet predators, phone scams, child and elder abuse, domestic violence, and injustices against immigrants who he believes are preyed upon by people who take advantage of their fear of deportation.

He said the illegal drug industry begins targeting middle schoolers, so they become addicted by the time they're out of high school.

The governor has been dogged for weeks by rumors of womanizing and illegal drug use.

Opioids include the illegal drug heroin, as well as powerful pain relievers available by prescription, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl.

The Unit has identified the following objectives: • Decrease underage drinking, including age of onset, frequency of use, and perception of use by peers • Decrease illegal and other drug use among community members • Create a sustainability plan for Underage Enforcement Prevention Unit.

It went down for young people late in the 1990s and then went back up a little bit as a general population figure; so that you have a tremendously important contrast between steady rates of illegal drug use as measured by drug overdose death rates, as measured by urines of arrested people, emergency room mentions, all kinds of things.

By 1962, however, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration refused to acknowledge the toxin as a proven drug and made it illegal to use to treat canDrug Administration refused to acknowledge the toxin as a proven drug and made it illegal to use to treat candrug and made it illegal to use to treat cancer.

While awareness of the dangers of illegal drugs has increased, many teens are still ignorant of the significant physical danger posed by legally prescribed drugs, according to a new study in Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.

A 2014 federal change that limited the dispensing of hydrocodone products may be indirectly contributing to the illegal use of some of those drugs, a study by University of Texas Medical Branch researchers has found.

«The accessibility and ease of purchasing illegal drugs online opens up a global market where buyers and sellers are no longer constrained by locality and buyers have more options and diversity in product selection,» Haynie said.

California is by far the country's leading producer of marijuana; the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration reports that of the 3.9 million illegal outdoor plants eradicated nationwide in 2014, 62 percent grew in the Golden State.

Under the Federal Food and Drugs Act, it's illegal to ship a drug across state lines that hasn't been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human drug across state lines that hasn't been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human Drug Administration (FDA) for human use.