Sentences with phrase «like drug enforcement»

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Brendan Kennedy, the cofounder of Privateer Holdings, which owns various marijuana companies like Marley Natural and Canadian pharmaceutical - grade cannabis producer Tilray, says his companies are expanding abroad while the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Food and Drug Administration debate whether or not to treat the plant as a medicine or keep it in the same category as heroin.

Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton, who has made high drug prices a recurring target in her campaign, vowed to prevent price hikes like Mylan's through an «aggressive new set of enforcement tools» last week.

«It was like destiny» that Jung and Lehder ended up together at Danbury, Mike Vigil, a former chief of international operations for the Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider.

«But I feel like Mexican drug traffickers have an almost exaggerated respect for US law enforcement, so... they tread very lightly in the US.»

But the links between groups like the Flores brothers and street - level gangs responsible for much of the drug sales and violence in Chicago are a «gray area» of the drug trade, both law enforcement and gang members have said.

It was a far bigger credit than most companies start off with, and Chainalysis smartly ran with it, signing up customers like the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and Europol to help them catch criminals.

Groups like Clergy for a New Drug Policy seek to reform the enforcement laws to get to the root of real problems like addiction and poverty, instead of just locking up millions of people, turning them into felons for life.

Taxes on drugs would pay for enforcement, education, rehabilitation and research (Nadelmann estimates a net benefit of at least $ 10 billion from reduced expenditures on enforcement and new tax revenues) Street users would be picked up and taken to hospitals, like drunks, instead of arrested.

It works with local law enforcement to run PSA's during peak consumption times of their alcoholic beverage portfolio and provide programs like Street Smart for local schools to educate students on alcohol / drug abuse, texting while driving and all - around appropriate behavior.

Forcing them to get a warrant would just make them mad, and I had heard of law enforcement officers planting drugs on people they didn't like.

If I'm ingesting something that may legitimately harm my child like hard core drugs, tell someone in law enforcement and allow them to take care of the matter appropriately.

The use of synthetic drugs like bath salts became a growing health and law enforcement problem in upstate New York this summer.

At a Senate press briefing Tuesday morning, heads of the Senate Joint Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction said that it was time to bolster law enforcement officials» ability to arrest and prosecute drug dealers that put highly addictive heroin and even more dangerous opioids like fentanyl and carfentanyl on the street, after years of legislation aimed at prevention, treatment and insurance coverage.

But because marijuana is now classified as a Schedule I controlled substance — along with a cluster of drugs that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says have «no currently accepted medical use in the United States,» such as heroin, ecstasy, and LSD — any studies a researcher might like to pursue come with daunting roadblocks: See here, here, and here.

But it is also good for enforcement organizations like border control agents, INTERPOL and the World Health Organization, all of which are continually monitoring the authenticity of imported drugs.

«This is very consistent with data from the [U.S.] Drug Enforcement Administration that shows a great increase in the trafficking and availability of synthetic opioids like illicit fentanyl over the past few years,» said lead researcher Christopher Jones, of the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

The latter are issued by the likes of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).