Sentences with phrase «illegal marijuana sales»

The mayor's statement comes after Bratton faulted illegal marijuana sales last week for a 20 percent increase in city homicides.

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Meanwhile, marijuana remains illegal on the federal level, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recently taken steps that would allow federal prosecutors in states where weed is legal to decide whether to prosecute people over marijuana sales in a development that could threaten the burgeoning industry (or, at the very least, spur litigation from some of the states in question looking to keep the federal government from interfering with statewide legislation).

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.

Cannabis sales are still illegal on the federal level, and the Trump administration has played coy about its plans for the burgeoning marijuana industry, even as the man the president hand - picked to be the country's law enforcement officer has made it no secret that he despises the drug.

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.

Although law enforcement has largely turned a blind eye to most dispensaries, the fact remains: the sale of marijuana, for any use, is considered illegal by the federal government.

This sales growth is a big reason why investors have jumped into marijuana stocks despite the risks of the drug remaining federally illegal.

Senator Klein's proposed legislation would better equip law enforcement and district attorneys in New York with the tools they need to prosecute and enforce the illegal sale of synthetic marijuana.

«The illegal sale of marijuana can not and will not be tolerated in New York State, but data consistently show that recreational users of marijuana pose little to no threat to public safety,» Cuomo wrote.

Following a police raid Wednesday on five Brooklyn bodegas after a wave of suspected overdoses of synthetic marijuana, Cuomo today announced stepped - up enforcement efforts to crack down on the illegal sale of the drug known as K2.

Along with other substances, Seth Adams has defended individuals charged with CDS crimes involving possession of marijuana, illegal sales of prescription drugs, cocaine trafficking and manufacture of methamphetamine.

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If not, the sale of Marijuana in Vancouver remains illegal.

While the illegal Marijuana industry topped an estimated $ 46 billion in sales in the US during... Read More

sales rep has been jailed for five years and fined more than $ 1 million for setting up the country's largest known illegal marijuana grow - op operation.