Sentences with phrase «marijuana as an illegal»

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

While law enforcement attitudes toward legalizing marijuana seems to have relaxed, the nation's top justice officials have not changed their stance on marijuana as an illegal drug.

The federal government still regards marijuana as an illegal substance, and federal law trumps state law — but there's a catch.

Not exact matches

Mexican leaders took the action on medical marijuana - and Pena Nietro has taken a new stance on illegal drugs as a whole - as the country faces a continued escalation in the drug wars that have ravaged Mexico for years.

The health questions are also a little absurd — if we are going to make illegal anything as harmful as marijuana, we should be banning everything from African rock pythons to hot dogs.

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.

The referendums come amid shifts in American opinions on marijuana in recent years that have energized efforts to legalize cannabis, a drug that remains illegal under federal law even as Colorado and Washington state have been given the go - ahead to experiment with legalization.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is about to make a decision that could have wide - ranging implications on the state - sanctioned marijuana industry: to reschedule or not to reschedule marijuana's position as an illegal substance.

While marijuana is still illegal under federal law, legal medical marijuana markets have been opened across with Colorado, Washington, Oregon and Alaska opened recreational markets as well.

Illicit use was generally defined as illegal use of marijuana without a prescription at least 12 times during the past year.

For this city has replaced Miami as the primary U.S. distribution point for illegal narcotics — mainly cocaine, heroin, marijuana, and methamphetamine — imported from Mexico.

Canaccord Genuity said in a note that the move could position Namaste for a potential TMX listing, as the stock exchange has threatened companies with possible delisting over any pot - related operations in the U.S., where marijuana is still illegal at the federal level.

Sabet, who worked in the White House's Office of National Drug Control Policy during President Obama's first term and serves as director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, said the negative consequences of marijuana legalization include advertising aimed at kids, an increase in drugged - driving incidents and a spillover of marijuana from Colorado into surrounding states, where the drug remains illegal.

As Business Insider notes, «Based on seven major illegal drug data surveillance systems, the researchers found that heroin, cocaine and marijuana became significantly cheaper and more potent from 1990 to 2007 (the last year for which data is publicly available).»

Worried about the fact that marijuana is still listed as an illegal drug under federal law?

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Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said marijuana is not «a factor in the drug war,» citing addictive drugs as the key border focus for fighting illegal drugs in the U.S.

In his budget proposal, Gov. Andrew Cuomo has proposed studying the economic impacts of legalizing marijuana versus keeping it illegal as other nearby state begin to permit its use.

When both are illegal, people may try marijuana, conclude that it's not as bad as they were warned it would be, and go on to purchase heroin from the same supplier.

To argue marijuana is so bad that it should be illegal requires arguing that alcohol must be made illegal, it's pretty hard to justify allowing the one that is 4 times as dangerous.

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.

«The illegal marijuana economy is alive and well, and our unjust laws are branding nonviolent New Yorkers, especially young adults, as criminals, creating a vicious cycle that ruins lives and needlessly wastes taxpayer dollars.

Today's field site: an illegal marijuana plantation known as the Rattlesnake Grow.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has listed several of synthetic marijuana's main compounds as Schedule 1 substances, making them illegal.

Substance use was defined as use of illegal drugs (heroin, marijuana, cocaine, etc.), use of prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed or high risk alcohol use.

According to the researchers, many illegal drugs such as marijuana and heroin have pain - relieving properties.

As long as marijuana is illegal throughout most of the U.S., it will be hard to design a study to get a definitive answer to the question, experts saAs long as marijuana is illegal throughout most of the U.S., it will be hard to design a study to get a definitive answer to the question, experts saas marijuana is illegal throughout most of the U.S., it will be hard to design a study to get a definitive answer to the question, experts say.

«There hasn't been nearly as much research on marijuana as on tobacco as a cause of cancer because of it being largely illegal,» says Otis W. Brawley, MD, the chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society in Atlanta.

The problem is not only illegal substances like cocaine, heroin and marijuana, but we are solicited constantly by legal substances that pollute the body such as habit forming sleeping pills, excessive antibiotics that destroy not only the bad bacteria, but the healthy bacterial flora and the constant ads for alcohol.

While marijuana is still classified as illegal, eight new federal enforcement priorities were issued that essentially discourage federal... continue reading

Police conduct random drug testing for illegal substances, such as marijuana, ecstasy, speed and ice.

I am not sure if marijuana counts as an illegal drug, but it's probably the second biggest cash crop in Queensland, Australia.

Of course, we should, as a beginning to our discussion, remind everyone that although Colorado and Washington have legalized marijuana at the state level, marijuana remains illegal everywhere in the United States under federal law.

As mentioned in a previous post, the status of marijuana may be changing, however it currently remains illegal for recreational or non-medical use.

It seems to me that medicinal marijuana laws represented a shattering rejection of the idea marijuana as a drug that should be illegal.

Answer: As Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper stated on election night, «federal law still says marijuana is an illegal drug so don't break out the Cheetos or gold fish too quickly.»

«I join the opinion of the Court on the understanding that (a) it goes no further than hold that a public school may restrict speech that a reasonable observer would interpret as advocating illegal drug use and (b) it provides no support for any restriction of speech that can plausibly be interpreted as commenting on any political or social issue, including speech on issues such as «the wisdom of the war on drugs or of legalizing marijuana for medicinal use.»»

When facing serious drug trafficking charges for narcotics such as marijuana, cocaine or illegal prescription drugs, you need a criminal defence lawyer who is current on the issues, meticulous at preparing your case and experienced in the trial system.

Due to nationwide safety campaigns and high - visibility law enforcement patrols, drunk driving has decreased in the U.S. And while this is great news to drivers in Florida as well as the rest of the country, it is important to point out that there is an increase in impaired driving involving illegal and legal prescription and over-the-counter drugs across the U.S.. From cold medicine to marijuana, driving under the influence of drugs is very dangerous and places all roadway users in danger of serious injury or death.

Prescription Drugs Are Just as Dangerous Behind the Wheel When most people thing of driving while intoxicated, they think of alcohol or illegal drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, or heroin.

As a result, it is illegal to operate a motor vehicle under the influence of marijuana.

It is important to note that as a general proposition, marijuana possession and use is still very much illegal in Georgia despite the laws in our progressive sister states.

Another way around is to patent lawful goods, which, as a brand name, can be extended to marijuana goods or services that would otherwise be illegal, according to Atkins.

In reality, marijuana is illegal federally because it was classified by members of Congress in 1970 as a Schedule I prohibited substance, which means by definition Congress says that cannabis possesses the highest potential for abuse of any controlled substance available, that it is so unsafe for healing consumption that it could not be administered safely even within a hospital setting.

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.

Within the last ten years, have any children used, except as legally prescribed by a physician, tranquilizers, barbiturates or other sedatives; marijuana, cocaine, hallucinogens or other mood - altering drugs; heroin, methadone or other narcotics; amphetamines or other stimulants; or any other illegal or controlled substances?

Some insurance companies out - right deny coverage for any marijuana use because they view it as an illegal activity and a dangerous and high - risk habit, while others are more lenient.

If, however, the property has been used to grow marijuana or manufacture illegal substances, and the buyer is prepared to accept the condition of the property on an «as is» basis, the Council recommends that:

Licensees are advised to read Legally Speaking column # 296 (available on www.realtorlink.ca), which discusses the question of licensees» duties if an illegal activity, such as a marijuana growing operation, is discovered on a listed property.