Sentences with phrase «from federal drug laws»

Canada's top court has ruled that Vancouver's supervised injection site for drug addicts should be exempt from federal drug laws.

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And because individual states could still prohibit marijuana locally, Booker's bill would also incentivize states to change their marijuana laws by withholding federal funding from any states that have enforced laws against the drug in ways that disproportionately affect low - income citizens and people of color.

The bill seeks to remove marijuana from the federal Controlled Substances Act and resolve the existing conflict between federal and state laws over medical or recreational use of the drug.

Because the birth control cases all focus on a 1993 federal law, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, not the Constitution, the Justices will face questions about whether the mandate to provide free access to 20 forms of birth control drugs or devices, sterilization, screenings, and counseling imposes a «substantial burden» on religious freedom of nonprofit employers with religious objections to some or all contraceptives, whether the mandate in fact serves a «compelling interest» of the government, and whether an attempt to provide an exemption from the mandate satisfies the requirement that such an accommodation is «the least restrictive means» of achieving the government's policy interest.

Recent reports of secret meetings among industry reps and the Food and Drug Adminstration over GMO labeling piqued my interest, mostly because this critical aspect was missing: any effort to label GE foods at the federal level could bring the current grassroots movement to a grinding halt by preventing any stronger local laws from ever being enacted.

The federal government could, however, decide to resume enforcing these laws any time it wanted to and the states would have little - to - no recourse to stop it from doing so, other than attempting to argue in court that federal drug laws aren't authorized under the Constitution in the first place.

Critics say the city law shields undocumented aliens who commit serious offenses, including sexual abuse, prescription drug sales, bribery, money laundering, harassment, grand larceny and drunk driving, from federal detention and deportation.

But some of the kingpins have exploited a loophole and had their names removed from the list by going to federal court, where law enforcement officials are reluctant to publicly disclose classified information about the drug traffickers.

Under the provisions of the 1980 law, Gottfried says, hospitals that might administer the drug can obtain it only from a federal growing program which is now defunct, or from police drug busts.

«It is disappointing that Gov. Schwarzenegger chose to embrace an irrational application of federal drug law that prevents California farmers from producing a valuable raw material for our own U.S. industries,» he said in a statement Friday.

But the DEA has labeled the CBD hemp extract as a prohibited drug under federal law because it is derived from a cannabis plant.

«While there is no drug effect from the Cannabis flower essential oil, we understand the efforts of federal and state law enforcement authorities to stop the marketing and sale of these products that prominently associate with marijuana and are not exempted from the CSA,» says David Bronner, Chair of the Food and Oil Committee of the HIA.

In 2008, the federal government refused to extend Insite's exemption from criminal laws outlined in the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

The impetus for Price's series and his underlying article («Enforcement Discretion and Executive Duty «-RRB- comes from several recent American episodes, such as President Obama's decision not to enforce certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act (see e.g. here), the policy not to pursue certain breaches of federal drug laws and the policy not to seek minimum sentences for some drug offences.

CLS partnered with the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School and the firm of Sirianni, Youtz, Spoonemore & Hamburger to co-file a class action lawsuit, which resulted in a ruling from a federal judge ordering Washington's Medicaid provider to cover hepatitis C drugs for all people with the disease, not just those who are the sickest.

'' On Crack Sentencing: 100 Times Zero Is Still Zero from Drug Law Blog Prof. Berman at the Sentencing Law and Policy Blog continues to argue that the recent tweak to the federal sentencing guidelines around crack is, in his words, soooo significant.

There are federal laws, however, that prohibit a commercial vehicle driver from operating their truck with any detectable level of alcohol or drugs in their system.

From 1976 to 1989, Bill was an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, where he litigated law reform cases on state and federal constitutional law, antitrust and administrative law, voting rights, product liability, nuclear power, and food and drug law, and where he argued dozens of appellate cases, including several in the U.S. Supreme Court.

V. Mensing found that federal law preempts state law claims resulting from allegedly inadequate drug label warnings about possible side effects.

And federal law prohibits students with drug convictions from receiving federal student aid.

The US Supreme Court will hear the issue of whether the makers of generic drugs can be sued for products liability despite the fact that federal law bars such lawsuits from proceeding.

At the Eversole Law Offices, we help clients in Jefferson, Madison and Shelby Counties and throughout Alabama who are accused of all types of state or federal crimes, from driving under the influence (DUI) to drug or narcotics offenses to very serious or violent crimes.

Insite had been operating under an exemption from being prosecuted under federal drug laws and was granted two extensions.

One case from Colorado held that while marijuana is illegal under federal law as a Schedule I drug (which means it officially has no medicinal uses under federal law), an employee is not protected for discipline or discharge for a positive test.

Federal law does prohibit you from getting a passport if you are a convicted drug trafficker who has crossed an international border to commit the crime.

Does this insurance agent really believe that modern RICO laws will somehow prevent the federal government from seeking assets from a convicted drug dealer?