Sentences with phrase «on illegal drugs»

Legalize and Regulate Marijuana WHEREAS, despite almost a century of prohibition, millions of Canadians today regularly consume marijuana and other cannabis products; WHEREAS the failed prohibition of marijuana has exhausted countless billions of dollars spent on ineffective or incomplete enforcement and has resulted in unnecessarily dangerous and expensive congestion in our judicial system; WHEREAS various marijuana decriminalization or legalization policy prescriptions have been recommended by the 1969 - 72 Commission of Enquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs, the 2002 Canadian Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, and the 2002 House of Commons Special Committee on the Non-Medical Use of Drugs; WHEREAS the legal status quo for the criminal regulation of marijuana continues to endanger Canadians by generating significant resources for gang - related violent criminal activity and weapons smuggling — a reality which could be very easily confronted by the regulation and legitimization of Canada's marijuana industry; BE IT RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will legalize marijuana and ensure the regulation and taxation of its production, distribution, and use, while enacting strict penalties for illegal trafficking, illegal importation and exportation, and impaired driving; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will invest significant resources in prevention and education programs designed to promote awareness of the health risks and consequences of marijuana use and dependency, especially amongst youth; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will extend amnesty to all Canadians previously convicted of simple and minimal marijuana possession, and ensure the elimination of all criminal records related thereto; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a new Liberal government will work with the provinces and local governments of Canada on a coordinated regulatory approach to marijuana which maintains significant federal responsibility for marijuana control while respecting provincial health jurisdiction and particular regional concerns and practices.

The 2002 report of the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs noted that there was little debate surrounding this addition to the criminal law at the time; as such, the precise motivation for doing so remains unclear.»

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Current drugs policy is not working and needs to be radically restructured, a commission on illegal drugs has recommended.

There's another cost to the war on drugs, however, which is the revenue lost by governments who can not collect taxes on illegal drugs.

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.

New Penalties to Help Crack Down on Illegal Drug Distribution: The legislation includes the following provisions to enable the State and law enforcement to better crack down on the distribution of heroin, opioids, and illegal prescription drugs:

Concerned parents and diligent drug addiction researchers (like me this week) searching for help on illegal drug use or addictive prescriptions are likely to stumble across the «Rat Park» example.

Not exact matches

Marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and is illegal on the federal level.

The National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence estimates that 70 percent of an estimated 14.8 million U.S. individuals who use illegal drugs are employed.

There are legal implications as well: Anyone who wants to get involved in this industry has to take on the reputational risk and the legal risk, because even though numerous states have legalized it, cannabis is still a Schedule I, federally illegal drug under the Controlled Substances Act.

Busha told police he had misdialed 911, but deputies said they noticed a handgun in a holster on a table and signs of illegal drugs at Busha's home, which was near an elementary school.

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.

Of course, marijuana remains very much illegal on the federal level, though the Obama Administration has typically allowed individual states to freely regulate the drug in accordance with voters» wishes.

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.

One of the world's largest couriers has been accused of conspiring to deliver prescription drugs on behalf of illegal Internet pharmacies.

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.

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 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.

It's not a tenable position,» he told Fortune, referring to the fact that major banks have been afraid to take on cannabis business clients because the drug remains illegal on the federal level.

The war on drugs is an expensive battle because a great number of resources go into catching those who buy or sell illegal drugs on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

In exchange for information on rival drug lords, he says, U.S. authorities offered him immunity from prosecution and turned a blind eye toward the Sinaloa cartel's illegal activities.

For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying and selling drugs and other illegal items on the dark net.

Guard troops are to be focused on combatting transnational criminal gangs, human traffickers, and illegal firearm and drug smugglers.

2:53 pm ET: Cramer just said that Facebook needs to do a better job of proactively hunting for bad content on Facebook, specifically that the company needs to take down «illegal drug sites» on the service.

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.

The FBI has arrested the CEO of the Canadian smartphone service Phantom Secure on charges that he and four other suspects ran an encrypted telecommunications service used by more than 20,000 customers to facilitate illegal activities, including international shipments of cocaine and other drugs.

The illegal drug trade on the dark web is growing rapidly, despite authorities shutting down major market sites like AlphaBay, as crime gangs diversify and seek new clients online, a report by two European Union agencies warned on Tuesday.

[1] Thornton has been described by the Advocates for Self - Government as «one of America's experts on the economics of illegal drugs.»

Hopefully if abortion becomes illegal It's not like the war on drugs where it will become more rampant then just keeping it legal.

I can go outside and buy any drug on the street and they are illegal.

I don't care what you Catholics say, I'm going with the 4 times divorced, draft dodging, illegal drug abuser and overt racist on this one!

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).»

For specific information on the illegal weapons shipments and flow of drugs, see Leslie Cockburn, Out of Control (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987).

U.S. violations of international law, failure to curb covert activities, refusal on «national security grounds» to release key evidence in the Iran - Contra and related trials, cooperation with drug runners in pursuit of illegal foreign policy objectives, and an obedient press all point dangerously towards a national security state.

or the «I believe in illegals but I hate my fellow Americans who are REpublicnas...» I think God will be very unhappy when he learns how we treat his anim als and his garden of eden... if its a matter of choosing who to exist past a certain trial I would suggest most of you could not possible make it, and nor I for my petiness... but at least I am not gay, a killer, a democrat, nor muslim, not even mormom or baptist, thief or self bent on personal damnation thru drugs, alcohol or the like... unfortunately the shooter appears to be none of that... he is mentally ill from all obvious signs...

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On May 4, Dennis wrote to TAC Executive Director Ollan Cassell: «It seems to me that our concern with results... and our reluctance to carry out the testing because of what we may find is an open admission that this [illegal drug use] is occurring and indeed that we are condoning same.»

Based on their performance, Muhammad Ali (blessed with preternatural speed and stamina) and Rocky Marciano (who absorbed incredible punishment and seemed to grow stronger as a fight wore on) might have been suspected of illegal drug use had PEDs been available to them.

Only then does anyone discover which horse carried traces of an illegal drug on the previous race day.

Illegal drug use also has devastating effects on the development of the child and it makes it much more difficult for mom to survive childbirth herself.

They also took into account mother's age, the baby's birth weight, the position the baby was last left in and other important factors, but they only had the data on the mother's alcohol and illegal drug usage for two of the five studies — a pretty significant limitation to the overall analysis.

If you would adopt a healthy lifestyle and give up on smoking and illegal drugs, it would keep your baby and the placenta both healthy.

Given that some Chinese poultry farmers allegedly used large quantities of illegal drugs in raising chickens sold to KFC, and given the potential vulnerability of young school children eating such chicken, a lifting of the export ban on raw Chinese poultry is a cause for serious concern.

Truth is, there's going to be an increase in drug availability in prison of both the legal and the illegal sort when you cut down on prison officer numbers.

Today's Home Office report on international drug laws concludes that tough drug enforcement does not decrease use of illegal drugs.

The benefits of such a system would be to «dry up illegal black markets,» reduce the burden on law enforcement and use the cannabis tax to finance drug prevention, education and rehabilitation.

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions is making aggressive law enforcement a top priority, directing his federal prosecutors across the country to crack down on illegal immigrants and «use every tool» they have to go after violent criminals and drug traffickers.

An editorial in The Lancet suggested the ACMD did not have sufficient evidence to judge the harms caused by this drug class and warned: «Making the drug illegal will also deter crucial research on this drug and other drug - related behaviour, and it will be far more difficult for people with problems to get help.»

«Eric Schneiderman has worked to reform our criminal justice system with «smart on crime» policies, like changing the Rockefeller Drug Laws and taking effective steps to stem the flow of illegal guns,» Koch said.