Sentences with phrase «using small amounts of the drug»

But he supports decriminalizing marijuana — ending criminal penalties for possessing and using small amounts of the drug.

The City claimed that no disability could be shown because Hartman stated he only used small amounts of drugs in the past and was therefore only a casual, voluntary user.

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More theists use drugs than atheists, and prisons are packed full of theists with only a very small amount of atheists

i'm: «More theists use drugs than atheists, and prisons are packed full of theists with only a very small amount of atheists»

That is to end the nonsense of sending people to prison where the offence on the charge sheet is possession of small amounts of drugs for their personal use.

New York has a medical marijuana program and has decriminalized small amounts of pot, but racial disparities in punishment remain even though white people and people of color use the drug at similar rates.

It would address problems with New York City's Stop and Frisk law, which has led to misdemeanor convictions for people carrying small amounts of the drug for private use.

Small amounts of the silvery grey metal are used to speed up or «catalyze» a number of key industrial processes, including those that make drugs, detergents and nitrogen fertilizer, and they even play a major role breaking down toxic pollutants in the catalytic converters of our cars.

«These include different types of MRI scans, which use strong magnetic fields and radio waves to produce detailed images of the inside of the brain, and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans, which use a small amount of a radioactive drug, or tracer, to test how tissues in the brain are actually functioning.

They used very small amounts of serotonin and other drugs that interact with serotonin receptors and injected them into a part of the brainstem involved in the control apnea and regular breathing.

Adding the monoclonal antibody drug trastuzumab — already used to treat certain breast cancers — to the chemotherapy regimen of women with a rare form of uterine cancer lengthens the amount of time their tumors are kept from growing, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers conducting a small phase II trial of the regimen, testing its safety and value.

Smaller, cheaper and easier to breed than mice, zebrafish in their juvenile phase can actually live in the tiny amount of liquid — ranging from tens of nanoliters to several milliliters — that fits in the wells of a standard 96 - well plate used to screen drug compounds.

But if you want to build a lean an powerful body this diet will be a perfect fit.When you think about it — only certain people have the genetics to build an elite level physique (not to mention that only a small number of people will decide to take the amounts of drugs the pros are using).

The «war on drugs» escalated in the»80s, and police tactics became increasingly aggressive — not just against gangs and drug traffickers, but against people keeping small amounts of marijuana for their own use.

Most modern day drug tests are sophisticated enough to distinguish between actual drug use and small amounts of chemicals that come along with certain food, but large enough doses can still trip up a system and delay your test results and therefore your policy.

Secondary: frequency and amount of substance use through self - report with small proportion validated through hair sample analysis; readiness to change using questionnaires; perceived negative consequences of alcohol or drug use;...