Sentences with phrase «of drug enforcement»

Justices who have never seen the inside of a police station are happy to expound on the virtues and vices of different kinds of drug enforcement.

Despite the state's authorization to grow hemp, these farmers risk raids by federal agents and forfeiture of their farms if they try to grow the crop, due to the failure of the Drug Enforcement Administration to distinguish non-drug industrial hemp from drug types of Cannabis.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — U.S. COURT of APPEALS for the NINTH CIRCUIT — On Tuesday, June 24, the Hemp Industries Association (HIA), which represents the interests of the Hemp Industry and encourages the research and development of new hemp products, filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit asking for a review of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) «Final Rule» regarding hemp foods.

Even the DEA acknowledged that hemp foods have no abuse potential, stating «The concern of the Drug Enforcement Administration isn't particularized to the particular products that these Petitioners make.

If apprehended, Maldonado could be charged with violation of the Drug Enforcement Administration regulations, practicing veterinary medicine without a license, and a variety of Penal Code violations for cruelty to animals.

According to the Congressional Testimony of Terrance Woodworth, a deputy director of the Drug Enforcement Administration, the number of prescriptions written for methylphenidate has increased by a factor of five since 1991.

«These data enable us to identify suspected links between cities that may have escaped the attention of drug enforcement authorities,» said Chandra, director of MSU's Asian Studies Center and professor in MSU's James Madison College.

Well, let me tell you two things I think I can prove on the statistics of drug enforcement in New York City.

The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration has joined law enforcement leaders in condemning Trump's endorsement of police brutality in a speech to police officers last week.

Special agent Frank Mazzilli of the Drug Enforcement Agency in Atlanta says it was the latter.

Asa Hutchinson, the director of the Drug Enforcement Administration in 2002, hardly needed an introduction to Mr. Giuliani.

«The cartels have a pretty good handle on the appetite in the US,» Jack Riley, the deputy administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, told The New York Times.

Not exact matches

«This surge is very troubling and likely foreshadows an increase of importation, abuse, and overdose deaths in the United States,» Anthony Williams, assistant administrator and chief of operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control on Tuesday.

There's a big hurdle standing in the way of every brewer who wants to blend pot and beer, though: the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

We have over 60 bilateral agreements that allow the Coast Guard to take enforcement action in the high seas or even in the territorial seas of other nations, to basically be their maritime police, if you will, and we have these agreements in many of the drug - source and transit zones here in the Western Hemisphere.

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.

«What we noticed was that Cali cartel had learned from the Medellin cartel not to make those types of mistakes,» Javier Peña, a US Drug Enforcement Administration agent who worked on both the Escobar and the Cali cartel cases, said on The Cipher Brief podcast.

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.

They always have been,» Mike Vigil, former chief of international operations for the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told Business Insider in November.

Phantom Secure, a company that sells modified BlackBerry and Samsung phones, has been accused of «knowingly» selling products to drug gangs in order to help them evade law enforcement.

Vincent Ramos, the CEO of the company, along with four associates were accused on Thursday by the Department of Justice (DOJ) of «knowingly and intentionally conspiring with criminal organizations by providing them with the technological tools to evade law enforcement and obstruct justice while committing transnational drug trafficking.»

You could learn that the Drug Enforcement Administration took 140 Bitcoins from a drug dealer in New Hampshire and 25 more from one in Boston, and that Customs and Border Protection seized 99 Bitcoins and 99 units of Bitcoin Cash (a separate currency) in Salt Lake CDrug Enforcement Administration took 140 Bitcoins from a drug dealer in New Hampshire and 25 more from one in Boston, and that Customs and Border Protection seized 99 Bitcoins and 99 units of Bitcoin Cash (a separate currency) in Salt Lake Cdrug dealer in New Hampshire and 25 more from one in Boston, and that Customs and Border Protection seized 99 Bitcoins and 99 units of Bitcoin Cash (a separate currency) in Salt Lake City.

Mexican drug - trafficking organizations maintain heavy influence in broad swaths of the US — particularly Southern California, the Northeast, along the southern border, and in South Florida — and they continue to expand, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat Assessdrug - trafficking organizations maintain heavy influence in broad swaths of the US — particularly Southern California, the Northeast, along the southern border, and in South Florida — and they continue to expand, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat AssessDrug Enforcement Administration's 2017 National Drug Threat AssessDrug Threat Assessment

In April, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that it would review marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the «most dangerous class» of substanDrug Enforcement Administration (DEA) said that it would review marijuana's classification as a Schedule I drug, considered the «most dangerous class» of substandrug, considered the «most dangerous class» of substances.

«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.

Acting Drug Enforcement Administration chief Chuck Rosenberg and other DEA officials considered Mexican cartels more dangerous because of their financing and organizational complexity.

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.

Sessions and some law enforcement officials in states such as Colorado blame legalization for a number of problems, including drug traffickers that take advantage of lax marijuana laws to illegally grow and ship the drug across state lines, where it can sell for much more.

In a 70 - page statement (2011), the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claimed, «Specifically, smoked marijuana has not withstood the rigors of science — it is not medicine, and it is not safe.»

Indeed, Sessions has pledged to increase prosecution of drug crimes and ramp up enforcement of immigration laws.

Tom Angell, cannabis advocacy group the Marijuana Majority, says it is hypocritical of the U.S. to deploy the Drug Enforcement Administration around the world while legalizing marijuana at home.

Despite changing international attitudes towards marijuana and enforcement, the United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on the World Drug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purpoDrug Problem met this year and decided to keep its prohibitionist policies around drugs to continue the criminalization of all drug use that's not for medical or scientific purpodrug use that's not for medical or scientific purposes.

Drug enforcement experts estimate, conservatively, that the cartel's annual revenues exceed $ 3 billion: more than those of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group.

But that night in March 2009, he strolled into the hotel for an unlikely midnight tryst with — of all people — two agents from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

Indeed, today the Sinaloa cartel and its rivals are selling record amounts of heroin and methamphetamine in Chicago, according to drug seizure data and law enforcement officials (see «Sizing Up the Big Four,» below).

In 1995, the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) estimated they had annual profits of $ 8bn.

This person is going to go back to a single focus — director of our organized crime and drug enforcement unit.

Buffett's philanthropy and time serving in law enforcement allowed him to set up groundbreaking reforms such as his Macon County, Illinois program where drug addicts can turn themselves in for rehabilitation without fear of prosecution.

The anxiety was sparked by surprise comments from White House spokesman Sean Spicer last month that the government would likely step up its enforcement of drug laws.

As ETHNews previously reported, Chainalysis has signed contracts with a plethora of government entities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Drug Enforcement Agency among others.

The U.S. Justice Department's decision to turn a blind eye to the enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that authorize medical or even recreational use of the drug eventually may make it easier to use credit cards for such transactions, but a banking ban on legal pot sellers remains intact for now.

In explaining the rationale of greater enforcement of federal marijuana laws, Spicer cited growing problems with other illicit drug use.

Regardless of being hard to track, law enforcement is reportedly focusing lots of its resources towards the deep web, as an effort to shut down illegal sites, and find those responsible for operating illegal sites, such as drug bazaars, gun stores and so on.

In 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration reviewed the federal classification of marijuana and declined to loosen restrictions on the plant.

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.

Ohr was a subordinate of theirs, but his actual job was as the «Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces Director.»

Through a careful search of the US General Services Administration's Federal Procurement Data System, ETHNews discovered that Chainalysis provides its services to an assortment of US government entities, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and the Treasury Department's Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

On Wednesday, July 1, the ex-federal agent who was with the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) admitted to the theft of the virtual currency and clandestinely soliciting compensation from Ross Ulbricht, the operator of Silk Road, for sharing details of the investigation.

Law enforcement often follows the money flows, so these regulations are used to make sure that terrorists, drug dealers, and other types of criminals are not able to fund their activities behind closed doors.

On 23 June 2013, it was reported that the US Drug Enforcement Administration listed 11.02 bitcoins as a seized asset in a United States Department of Justice seizure notice pursuant to 21 U.S.C. § 881.