Sentences with phrase «legalized drugs»

I'm in favor of legalizing drugs.

Two states, Colorado and Washington, have legalized the drug, while several others are reportedly considering making the substance more available.

Pot advocates argue that legalizing the drug eliminates the need for a black market and would likely reduce violence, since criminals would no longer control the marijuana trade.

Marijuana is illegal under federal law, but so far eight states and the District of Columbia have legalized the drug for recreational use, while 28 states in total have legalized medical cannabis.

Also on Thursday, Quinnipiac University released a new poll showing that 71 % of American voters — including 55 % of Republican voters — say they oppose the government enforcing federal laws banning marijuana in states that have already legalized the drug for either medical or recreational purposes.

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.

But the lack of public disclosure by Health Canada raises new questions about what controls are in place to ensure the product is free of contaminants and chemicals, particularly as the government prepares to introduce legislation to legalize the drug next year.

It is the onus of those who want to legalize the drug to show what value it will bring to society, and so far, I have yet to see a good reason to legalize marijuana to the general public.

Jesus would do the following (in the U.S.A.): medicare for all, legalize all drugs, legalize gay marriage, destroy the wall between the U.S.A. and Mexico and consequently give the U.S. border patrol agents something useful and productive to do, end U.S. military aggression around the world, direct election of U.S. presidents, the national initiative for democracy, urge Christians to be more productive on Sundays instead of seeing who can wear the nicest clothes to church.

I believe we will legalize drugs over the next decades.

Their solution is to legalize drugs use, and eventually the drug market.

However, my personal belief is probably at odds with experts who think that legalizing drugs promotes drug use.

Fast - forward to today and 23 states have now legalized the drug for medicinal purposes and four have legalized recreational use.

It's a state where we teach our kids not to use drugs and then we legalize a drug that has sapped the ambition and desire from millions of young people across the country.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called on U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to meet with New Yorkers who have struggled because of low - level marijuana arrests and said the time has come for the federal government to legalize the drug.

Nixon drew the biggest laughs when Colbert asked her if she had ever smoked marijuana amid a discussion over legalizing the drug in New York.

The plan represents an about - face for Cuomo, who has opposed efforts by the Legislature to legalize the drug.

Despite her qualifications and an upbeat platform focused on legalizing drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage, Davis doesn't look likely to win.

In recent weeks, more than a half - dozen Republican senators openly announced their support for legalizing the drug for medical uses.

Yesterday, O'Mara told a group of breast cancer advocates who traveled to the Capitol from Rochester that he would support legalizing the drug, according to the group's Facebook page.

But isn't «the drug dealers have got too much power» reduced by legalizing drugs.

The potential market for adult - use marijuana could be worth about $ 3.1 billion statewide — more than twice as much as in Colorado — and about $ 1.1 billion in the city alone if state lawmakers legalize the drug, Stringer found.

Legalizing the drug would also save at least $ 36 million in public safety costs by eliminating misdemeanor pot possession arrests, the report says.

With New York quickly being surrounded by states legalizing the drug, Cuomo wants the Department of Health to look at the impact those surrounding states would have on New Yorkers and look at the impact on the roads, health and criminal justice system.

Explaining his no vote, Hannon, the committee chairman, cited Gov. Andrew Cuomo announcement in January that his administration is actively pursuing a plan to legalize the drug through a limited, existing 1980 state law.

Democrats see it as a potential strategy for boosting voter turnout, particularly among younger voters who are more likely to support legalizing the drug.

Gov. Cuomo signs the medical marijuana law, making New York the 23rd state to legalize the drug to treat patients on Monday July 7, 2014.

The governor has said in the past that he opposes legalizing the drug for recreational use, according to the News.

Rice, a graduate of Catholic University in Washington, said she is steadfastly opposed to legalizing drugs.

The issues that received the lowest deference scores were biotech foods, legalizing drug use, animal testing, evolution, mandatory health insurance, and gay adoption.

The researchers examined respondents» deference to science on a scale of 0 - 10 when it came to 14 policy issues, including child vaccinations, stem cell research, global warming, child obesity and diet, AIDS prevention, birth control education, legalizing drug use, gun control, regulation of nuclear power, animal testing, and teaching evolution in schools.

The cannabis community has another thing going for it: the fact that the legalization of recreational marijuana was preceded by legalizing the drug for medical use.

In 2014, Colorado became one of the first states to legalize the drug.

Plus it will light up the pleasure center in your brain which will trigger an addict - like need for sugar a few hours later (yes, sugar is a legalized drug).

Set a year after Eggsy (Taron Egerton) thwarted the apocalypse in The Secret Service, a new diabolical villain named Poppy Adams (Julianne Moore) surfaces with a plot to legalize drugs.

She'll happily send in drones with an antidote — but only if the American president (Bruce Greenwood) agrees to legalize drugs.

Bunny needs the work, having lost, in succession, the full pension due a retired police major, his golden parachute running security for Johns Hopkins (both casualties of his experiment, «Hamsterdam,» to legalize drugs in his district, which yielded both a 14 % drop in violent crime and a massive political shitstorm), and his security job at a downtown hotel (the result of his failing to give special treatment to a «friend of the hotel» who beats up a hooker).

Poppy, tired of being a recluse and hungry for respect, brings the world to its knees by lacing her products with a toxin that will quickly and painfully kill her customers (but not without publicly shaming them first), whereupon she makes the President of the United States (Bruce Greenwood, in full heartless bastard mode) an offer: issue an executive decree legalizing drugs (thus making Poppy a legitimate businesswoman), and she'll release the antidote to her product.

Once in the U.S., they discover an alive Harry Hart (Colin Firth), but also that Poppy is poisoning her drug supply in an attempt to blackmail the government into legalizing all drugs, which would make Poppy both rich and able to come out of hiding from her South American lair.

Drugs essay writing, especially a satire essay on drugs, can be a tedious task to students due to the challenge of pulling these ideas together and structure an interesting legalizing drugs essay.

These days we hear a lot about the about the pros and cons of legalizing drugs, but there is precious debate about the narcotics industry or the political economy.

It is hard enough to protect ourselves from the legalized drug - pushers who deluge us with TV commercials but it is even more difficult to protect our animals from today's pet care!

You can split the city into districts and assign different policies to each, including raising taxes or legalizing drugs.

This bunch of bananas are somewhere to the right of Mussolini Right, did you read the part of the website where they argued for legalizing drugs?

While everybody will continue to say that people can't be impaired in the workplace, legalizing the drug will «start to put challenges into the system,» he says.

By the way, I am as socially liberal as they come (let gays marry — they are not hurting anyone; legalize drugs and spend the savings on treatment; keep non-violent criminals out of jail as much as possible and make them pay off their debt to the victims and society, and so on).

There are so many questions surrounding marijuana these days, as several states have already legalized the drug for recreational use and most of the others have legalized it for medicinal purposes.

Not exact matches

Colorado and Washington have now begun to offer real - world case studies of how to legalize pot — and whether to treat it as a drug, a crop or a vice.

The federal government still classifies marijuana as an illegal drug, even as a growing number of states are legalizing its use.

Taylor believes pot smuggling will continue because of the profit incentive, which will end only if the drug is legalized across America.