Nor are they illegal drug possession or sales (1.5% combined).
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He says they're part of the country's illegal drug trade.
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Homicides have surged in Mexico, as has illegal drug production.
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Oxycontin is a legal drug; heroin is an illegal drug.
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"This proves that the illegal drug market is weaker," said Kamada.
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The world's most popular illegal drug, cannabis can grow almost anywhere.
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Smith pleaded guilty to importing a commercial quantity of an illegal drug.
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The department touted the move as measure to thwart illegal drug crossing.
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But cracking down on crack didn't stop illegal drug consumption or sales.
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Guns kill more people than AIDS, war, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined.
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The authorities determined the substance to be 20 kilograms of the illegal drug.
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"All of the violence is rooted in the illegal drug economy," Acree says.
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The killer had been charged recently with illegal drug possession, but never convicted.
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For more than 20 years, I have researched illegal drug use and addiction.
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This has given me a personalized and practical outlook on illegal drug use.
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Trump suggested the death penalty for illegal drug dealers on the same day.
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Illegal drug dealers across the country have already responded by lowering their prices.
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She has consistently insisted she has no involvement in the illegal drug trade.
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You have legitimate businesses that are unknowingly being supported by illegal drug money.
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Today, most drug treatment facilities ban any illegal drug consumption on their premises.
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As for the violent crime typically—but not always—associated with illegal drug use: Studies find that the vast majority of it is associated with illegal drug markets, which do not have recourse to the courts or regulators to settle disputes.
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The illegal drug trade has had an enormous cost on Mexico in lives lost.
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De Lima has consistently insisted she is not involved in the illegal drug trade.
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Past charges against family operatives have included murder, loan sharking and illegal drug distribution.
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Many of the elected officials quickly denied any involvement in the illegal drug trade.
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The Taliban's Strange Success The Taliban denies a role in the illegal drug trade.
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But I live in fear that I will be arrested purchasing an illegal drug.
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But the online, illegal drug marketplace Silk Road is what put it on the map.
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And Panama borders countries with the highest global levels of illegal drug production and trafficking.
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They clearly can't stop illegal drug users from passing them along into the water system.
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Another successful trip for Tara and my first illegal drug run ticked off my list.
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Officers analyzed some of the sauce, which tested positive for for the illegal drug methamphetamine.
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The illegal drug market does not entirely operate like a legitimate one, despite some similarities.
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"With the advent of the internet, the illegal drug paraphernalia industry has exploded," Ashcroft said.
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"It's operating like an illegal drug market, not a legitimate market," Cuban told Bloomberg News.
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Coming up with a way to find illegal drug sales online is no easy task.
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But McHugh, an Obama appointee, ruled that Safehouse's plan does not facilitate illegal drug use.
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Nationwide, the secrecy behind lethal injections has led to botched execution attempts and illegal drug deals.
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A special CNN report examines how Venezuela has become a major route for illegal drug smugglers.
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Their imprisonment does little or nothing to dismantle illegal drug markets and to improve public security.
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By keeping cocaine and heroin illegal, drug warriors have empowered criminal gangs that torture and kill.
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The problem: Marijuana's federal status as an illegal drug makes research into its medical benefits difficult.
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The fight against fuel theft is fundamentally different from the fight against the illegal drug trade.
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The store, for its part, has denied that it was participating in an illegal drug deal.
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Neighboring countries in Southeast Asia also punish illegal drug production and use with lengthy prison sentences.
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Last year, two players from Top League side Toyota Verblitz were convicted of illegal drug possession.
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Investigators found evidence of illegal drug activity, cockfighting and the possible involvement of a Mexican drug cartel.
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"Dozens" of Chinese cities are also using the technique to track illegal drug use, according to Nature.
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The Internet, likewise, is used for human trafficking, illegal drug distribution, and so many other heinous crimes.
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Participants had to already have been using buprenorphine for 90 days without evidence of illegal drug use.
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Those new laws put states in conflict with federal law, which still considers marijuana an illegal drug.
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For decades, the FARC financed the conflict in the Americas through illegal drug trade, kidnapping, and extortion.
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The rationale was that longer sentences would reduce the illegal drug trade and violence associated with it.
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The industry still faces a number of challenges, because the federal government considers marijuana an illegal drug.
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The illegal drug trade costs taxpayers more than $500 billion every year, according to the White House.
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The review reportedly includes education and enforcement initiatives designed to prevent illegal drug-use by SpaceX employees.
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The review reportedly includes education and enforcement initiatives designed to prevent illegal drug use by SpaceX employees.
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Hundreds of thousands of dollars "from illegal drug sales" was deposited into the account, the records state.
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The comprehensive measure is aimed at addressing key issues like illegal drug flow that exacerbate the crisis.
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We know about the human costs of the illegal drug trade, such as crime, addiction, and death.
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"The menace of illegal drug trade continues to endanger the very fabric of our society," he said.
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Rights groups say at least 0003,000 people have been killed in a crackdown on illegal drug use.
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And illegal drug use is also considered a violation of the terms of a government security clearance.
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Jeb Bush spoke at length about his daughter, Noelle, who was arrested several times for illegal drug possession.
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Thousands of suspected drug dealers and users have died during Duterte's aggressive crackdown on the illegal drug trade.
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On Tuesday, Albuera Mayor Rolando Espinosa Sr. surrendered after being accused of links to the illegal drug trade.
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Behind them lies a staggering truth: Guzman, authorities say, built the largest illegal drug organization in the world.
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If white and black people were treated the same by law enforcement, illegal drug usage would be decriminalized.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration has linked both fentanyl and carfentanil to illegal drug importation from China and India.
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The most recently collected data shows the rate of illegal drug use in North Carolina is 2000 percent.
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The national rate of illegal drug use is 553 percent, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Then there's the question of just how effective legalization is at cutting down on the illegal drug trade.
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Scientists — not employers — are responsible for determining the best methods for testing transportation workers for illegal drug use.
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They did not intend for illegal drug labs to use their recipe to mass-produce these synthetic cannabinoids.
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I think it would deter illegal immigration, I think it surely would help with the illegal drug trade.
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Stohr claimed Guevara was part of a culture of corruption and motivated by profits from the illegal drug trade.
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It is still considered illegal drug trafficking under federal law, and the Internal Revenue Service taxes the industry accordingly.
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The one the Sudanese man was allegedly trafficking, known as Captagon, is the Arabian peninsula's most popular illegal drug.
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He's posted the recipe, along with those for other illegal drug facsimiles on Cookpad, a Japanese recipe sharing site.
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Does depicting a highly dangerous and illegal drug in a show aimed at teens do more harm than good?
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The Drug Enforcement Administration wants to ensure controlled substances, like narcotic painkillers, aren't diverted to the illegal drug market.
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Under the Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is an illegal drug at the federal level, with possession and distribution prohibited.
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"Mexico is in this situation because we border the biggest illegal drug consumption market in the world," he said.
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While cannabis legalization is increasingly sweeping the US, THC is still considered an illegal drug by the federal government.
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The fight was marred by questions over whether a liquid administered by his cornerman had contained an illegal drug.
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A legal drug will kill you just as fucking dead as an illegal drug, probably faster and more efficiently.
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They vowed to work more closely to prosecute members of the transnational gangs that control Mexico's illegal drug trade.
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The entire illegal drug trade fuels the use of alternative money and payment platforms, be they crypto or otherwise.
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Critics of needle exchanges argue the programs increase illegal drug use by expanding access to syringes used for drugs.
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No one is going out and calling around to illegal drug dealers or trying to meet on the street corner.
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The goal was to move South American countries away from illegal drug-trafficking and toward legal industries like flower farming.
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Several cases were referred for investigations related to illegal drug use, many while employees at the Department of Homeland Security.
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The feds have long considered psilocybin, the active compound in "magic mushrooms," an illegal drug without any accepted medical uses.
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Duterte pointed to the Trump administration's rhetoric on stopping the illegal drug trade as evidence of the two leaders' similarities.
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But heroin deaths rose 39 percent, as people cut off from their legal pain medication turned to an illegal drug.
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At the same time, the proceeds from the illegal drug trade support organized crime and greater threats to public safety.
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Edda plays Guzmán on "Narcos: Mexico," the crime drama that follows the rise of the illegal drug trade in Mexico.
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They ruled that Justify's positive test for the illegal drug scopolamine was the result of "environmental contamination," not intentional doping.
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All fentanyl-related drugs are now designated a class of controlled substances in an effort to curb illegal drug trafficking.
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The Drug Policy Alliance estimates the fight against the illegal drug trade costs United States taxpayers $58 billion a year.
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Take MDMA, the illegal drug more commonly known as molly or ecstasy and usually associated more with raves than research.
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Border Patrol agents working with state officials conducted what the American Civil Liberties Union had described as illegal drug searches.
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Blumenauer called for hearings on descheduling marijuana as an illegal drug, increased federal research and addressing access to financial services.
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Federal prosecutors said they will seek a forfeiture judgment for billions of dollars constituting the cartel's illegal drug-trafficking proceeds.
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Foreign governments, especially in Asia, need to crack down on illegal drug factories and better scan freight for illegal drugs.
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They actually figured out that there was a pharmacy in Chicago that was shipping a lot of illegal drug prescriptions.
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Rob Ford&aposs tenure as the mayor of the country's largest city was plagued by revelations about his illegal drug use.
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President Trump has spoken out forcefully about defeating the illegal drug problem—as powerfully as any recent president, including Ronald Reagan.
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A Coast Guard lieutenant and self-proclaimed white nationalist was arrested on charges of illegal drug and weapons possession on Friday.
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The findings come as abuse of opioids — including prescription painkillers and the illegal drug heroin — has significantly increased in recent years.
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Espinosa's lawyer, Romeu Sterotoulas told CNN Philippines that his client has nothing to do with illegal drug operations in his town.
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It would also have given up its role in the lucrative illegal drug trade and taken part in reforming rural Colombia.
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Though many states have voted to legalize cannabis over the last decade, it's still an illegal drug under US federal law.
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That's because legal marijuana businesses have to pay taxes under IRS code 280E, the same category reserved for illegal drug traffickers.
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It's not like, say, you can complain to the cops when someone empties your bitcoin wallet on an illegal drug marketplace.
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President Rodrigo Duterte was reading a list of more than 203 officials he said were involved in the illegal drug trade.
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To pass, you can't have been convicted of a felony ("That's a showstopper for us"); also, no recent illegal drug use.
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"Cannabis, as the law now stands, is an illegal drug," Richard Di Natale, the Greens leader, said during the Senate session.
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After the break-up, Stimpson posted derogatory comments and photos of McLaren online, alleging illegal drug use, according to the Independent.
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Mr. Anderson had briefly employed him but dismissed him, suspecting illegal drug use, said Tina Chaffin, Mr. Anderson's mother-in-law.
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Most who did speak up were dispensary owners, who asked the police to take a harder line on illegal drug sales.
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Opioid makers have also blamed illegal drug use — not only of their pills but also heroin — for many overdoses and deaths.
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Researchers also lacked data on certain lifestyle habits that can also impact infection risk, like smoking, drinking and illegal drug use.
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The lawsuit alleges Safehouse's facility would violate the Controlled Substances Act by maintaining a place that would facilitate illegal drug use.
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In November, the National Bureau of Investigation charged de Lima with involvement in the illegal drug trade at a national jail.
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Additionally, poverty rates, illegal drug use and other societal issues should be examined to help understand larger issues leading to crime.
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You find a lot of people are asking MDMA-related questions, because the illegal drug that people take the most is MDMA.
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Rob&aposs Ford&aposs tenure as mayor of the country&aposs largest city was marred by revelations about his illegal drug use.
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Tustin Police say they have asked the Orange County District Attorney to charge West with animal cruelty along with illegal drug possession.
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He's currently facing charges for illegal drug possession, being an addict in possession of a gun, and owning two unregistered gun silencers.
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Illicit drugs flow north to U.S. consumers, and $20-30 billion a year in illegal drug profits fuel soaring violence in Mexico.
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Facebook did not immediately respond to a question whether it has specific employees to look for illegal drug listings on its site.
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"That's when I realized this illegal drug called marijuana was the only medicine that was doing this for me," Rosenfeld told me.
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People don't know how to dose this, plus it's an illegal drug that people tend to take in a dark night club.
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Similarly, vilifying drug users for the damage caused by the illegal drug market depends on a simplistic understanding of how it works.
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Mr. Humphreys said one pathway to cocaine use is encountering the illegal drug market through an opioid addiction and then adding cocaine.
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But McHugh ruled that Safehouse's plan does not violate the Controlled Substances Act, and that it does not facilitate illegal drug use.
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Even myself after I walk away from the illegal drug game, I'll still be buying my personal weed from the black market.
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"I did stuff, and I've been very honest about it," he said, referring to his admissions of illegal drug use in his youth.
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The UN itself estimated that at the very least 275 million people worldwide—one in 17 citizens—took an illegal drug in 2016.
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And if they find something that suggests, say, involvement in illegal drug activity, they can send that information to local or state police.
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"People who jeopardize public safety with underage drinking, driving while intoxicated and illegal drug use or possession will not be tolerated," Simons said.
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He noted that some lawmakers are calling for outside analysis akin to his own as a means of curtailing illegal drug sales online.
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For example, two of the executives at Guardian, which is now accused of blinding people, have previously helped run illegal drug-dealing operations.
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Fentanyl has tainted the illegal drug supply in Canada just like the US, where it is the leading cause of fatal drug overdoses.
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Kerwin Espinosa, 35, is accused by President Rodrigo Duterte of being one of the biggest illegal drug operators in the Eastern Visayas region.
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Charges against members of Mafia operations, including Gambino family operatives, have included murder, loan sharking, gambling and illegal drug distribution, Reuters has reported.
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Back then, when everyone was rich and listening to Britpop, 31.8 percent of 16- to 24-year-olds had taken an illegal drug.
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In 2016, more than a dozen airmen at Global Strike Command's F.E. Warren base in Wyoming were investigated for alleged illegal drug use.
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Officials say the popularity of fentanyl among the cartels hews to a familiar narrative: changes in the illegal drug market and basic opportunism.
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Formal research means getting the Drug Enforcement Agency to approve a study and ensure the still-illegal drug is properly controlled and secured.
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More than 4,000 Filipinos have been killed by police during Duterte's war on illegal drug use and thousands more by unidentified armed men.
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Problems in Paradise A former senior DEA official told me that Afghan participants in the illegal drug trade sometimes doubled as CIA informants.
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The agency has found on a wider level that, while its seizures may be increasing, so is the illegal drug trade in Afghanistan.
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Last year, Mackey and his team used a type of artificial intelligence called deep learning to track down illegal drug sellers on Instagram.
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In 235, the agency declared that the e-cigarettes were illegal drug-device combinations — like a nicotine patch — that had not been approved.
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We have to cut down on all the illegal drug traffic involving people who attempt to get their prescriptions filled at reasonable prices.
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Halili, who drew attention two years ago when he paraded drug suspects in a shame campaign, had strongly denied any links with illegal drug.
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She is accused of having abetted the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary from 2010 to 2015.
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Chinese police are reportedly testing waste water for the presence of illegal substances, using the data to find illegal drug manufacturers in the country.
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Shocking murder Investigations showed Jee was taken from his home in October 2016 by officers working for the AIDG, or Anti-Illegal Drug Group.
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What's certain is that the illegal drug trade will keep on spewing out victims whether they end up in jail or in a mortuary.
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Illegal drug sellers are getting rich off the black market, which by some estimates is more profitable than heroin, and unsuspecting people are dying.
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It was the second escape from a Mexican prison for the man responsible for untold carnage related to his billion-dollar illegal drug empire.
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We are apparently being led by people who see taking (or even being suspected of taking) any illegal drug as worthy of summary execution.
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The FDA said it and other federal agencies screened and seized illegal drug products received through IMFs in San Francisco, Chicago, and New York.
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For gang members, violence is a necessary evil—it helps them to build status and respect, and to exercise control over illegal drug markets.
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"When illegal drug operations turn nasty and bloody, advocates of human rights mock our law enforcers and this administration to no end," he said.
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"In the last year, how many times have you used an illegal drug or prescription medicine for a nonmedical reason?" she asked Ms. Steenhoek.
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"Trump's divisive border wall is a humanitarian and environmental disaster, and it won't do anything to stop illegal drug or human smuggling," he continued.
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Now lawmakers are mulling additional changes that could expose websites to lawsuits over content related to illegal drug sales, violent extremism and child exploitation.
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An SPD officer familiar with the case told BuzzFeed News it's not viewed as a crime, describing it as akin to an illegal drug overdose.
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Listening to the teens discuss their business, it was easy to forget they were operating a sprawling, illegal drug network rather than a legitimate startup.
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Three years ago, when the US government busted Silk Road, everyone's favorite illegal drug website, it seized a massive bitcoin wallet worth about $28 million.
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About 2.1% of the population, or around 460,000 Australians, are estimated to have used the illegal drug in the past year, a national survey found.
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The proportion of 290- to 1990-year-olds who have ever used an illegal drug has halved since 226, from 218 percent to 220 percent.
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In the history books of the future, 1998 will likely be known as the peak point of illegal drug use among young people in Britain.
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A subsequent investigation confirmed that account, producing evidence that cover-ups of illegal drug use dated to 2012, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency.
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Vigilante killings have totaled 1,067 during the same period, he said, although it was unclear how many were directly related to the illegal drug trade.
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Banks must ensure that their clients are not distributing marijuana to minors, getting involved with the illegal drug trade, or facilitating interstate shipments of marijuana.
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Context for the crisis The 2017 Hepatitis A epidemic in San Diego County, California, included 592 infections, primarily among the homeless and illegal drug users.
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Two years later, in 2008, it suspended Dr. Koller's license, in part citing his history of illegal drug use, and then revoked it in 2010.
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Three days before Vallerius was arrested in August 2017, authorities say there were more than 94,000 listings on Dream Market — including some 47,000 illegal drug listings.
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Later, a lab tested the flakes of Rushing's breakfast and learned it actually wasn't an illegal drug, and the Florida State Attorney's office dropped the case.
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But one scientist studying illegal drug sales on Twitter — notably, deadly forms of fentanyl and other opioids — says the social media firm has cut him off.
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There are the allegations of illegal drug use, which Musk feebly addresses in his interview, saying: "I was not on weed, to be clear," he said.
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But in the eyes of the federal government, cannabis is an illegal drug, so the hospice had to gain approval from the Food and Drug Administration.
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"There is no evidence so far that incidents of violence associated with the administration's campaign against the illegal drug trade have undermined investor confidence," Fitch said.
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What nation, which won its independence from Spain in 1811, has become a major route for illegal drug smugglers during an ongoing political and economic crisis?
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The NBI said de Lima had protected a favored inmate at the prison to facilitate illegal drug deals in exchange for money she collected every month.
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Without the conflict with FARC, Naranjo said, the new government also has a "unique opportunity" to combat illegal drug trafficking and strengthen action against organized crime.
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The relationship between the federal government (under which marijuana is still a wholly illegal drug) and states that have legalized or decriminalized pot is still fuzzy.
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The only time supply controls tend to have even short-term effects on an illegal drug market is when the precursors needed are difficult to replace.
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Efforts to eliminate the illegal drug market have had little impact on global supplies, and instead had negative consequences on human rights, security, development and health.
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Back then, Hurley's work seemed routine: stopping American aid from benefitting the illegal drug trade in Afghanistan and training local law enforcement agencies to counter it.
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To circumvent corruption in Afghanistan, where officials often dabble in the illegal drug trade, special agents sometimes hid or obscured their missions from their local counterparts.
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Abductions of foreigners — with ransoms paid by Western countries — are AQIM's most lucrative source of funding, the center noted, with illegal drug trade becoming increasingly important.
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There is a lot of money in the illegal drug trade, and for the people involved, it's often the only source of income they'll ever see.
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It also accounts for more drug-related convictions than any other illegal drug, which means its impact hits hard at both the health and societal levels.
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"High rates of illegal drug use, driven by marijuana and prescription drug misuse, create very real consequences that stretch far beyond individual users themselves," Lemaitre said.
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This is sort of the gray area field where it's not an illegal drug, it's not a prescription drug, but it's not a GRAS supplement food.
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They've asked a judge to detain Hasson until he can face trial for illegal drug possession and possession of firearms under the influence of a controlled substance.
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The failure to stamp out illegal drug sales shows just how difficult it is for search engines and social platforms to enforce their policies and the law.
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As well as paying a monthly charge, enrollees must typically abide by certain strictures, such as abstaining from tobacco and illegal drug use, and regularly attending church.
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The two agency heads painted grim visions of a nation under siege on Tuesday -- using similarly ominous rhetoric in their promises to fight against illegal drug cartels.
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The majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, but three-fourths of all people in prison for drug offenses are African American or Latino.
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She was declined by the gun store because of the federal rule regarding the sale of firearms to illegal drug users; marijuana is illegal under federal law.
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At the end of the day, no matter how many people are using or even cooking with it at home, marijuana is still considered an illegal drug.
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One of his first acts was to evict prostitutes and ban illegal drug sales; tenants who refused to comply with rules were fined and threatened with eviction.
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So far, she said, no one is reporting disruptions in the illegal drug supply, but that could happen and changes in supply are linked with overdose risk.
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The FBI also said in the court filing that the men had attempted to manufacture DMT, a powerful psychedelic that is an illegal drug under federal law.
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Rarely has a country taken an illegal drug overseen by a criminal organization and tried to replace it with the same crop produced legally, sold by corporations.
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Believers could often seek exemptions from laws that regulated their own conduct, such as if they wanted to use an otherwise illegal drug in a religious ceremony.
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Residents of some upscale and middle-class Seattle neighborhoods have recently complained of "blatant lawlessness," including burglaries, thefts, and illegal drug use, linked to the homelessness problem.
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So it's not so much that the government has gone after drug use, illegal drug use, as it's gone after the populations that get tied to drug use.
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This has happened despite decades of research showing that syringe programs prevent the spread of disease and reduce health care costs without increasing illegal drug use or crime.
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The mayor was on Duterte's list of local officials branded as "narco-politicians" who allegedly have ties to the illegal drug world, according to CNN affiliate CNN Philippines.
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Our neighbor to the north has already legalized marijuana, the only currently illegal drug that is used by more than 2000 percent of Americans on a monthly basis.
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The Treasury Department targeted three members of a Japanese organized crime network for their connections to United States-based money-laundering and illegal drug sales, it announced Friday.
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These pop-ups will appear when users search for opioids, prescription drugs or illegal drug hashtags, and the company will add more hashtags to the list over time.
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About 14 million white people and 2.6 million black people report using an illegal drug, but 10 times as many black people go to prison for drug offenses.
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For illegal drug use per person, these guys were giving the Hacienda a run for its money, but Armstrong was the most severe when it came to retribution.
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On top of that, she said, state governments are undermining public health by using murky or illegal drug distribution channels to traffic in powerful narcotics and other drugs.
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In recent years, dozens of people have gone missing in a community that has been seized by the lawlessness, corruption and violence surrounding the lucrative illegal drug business.
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From Mexico down to Central and South America the daily plague is the illegal drug cartels that have destroyed cities, rural areas, lives and in some cases countries.
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He also boasted that the national police force had apprehended about 160,000 "illegal drug personalities" since he became president, and urged officers to be aggressive with drug suspects.
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Mr. Simon, a former newspaper reporter, has created and nurtured several enduring series, most notably the HBO drama "The Wire," which explored Baltimore through its illegal drug trade.
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The DEA's survey, conducted annually, includes more than 215,228 local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies and shows how America's illegal drug problem has evolved in recent years.
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The DEA's survey, conducted annually, includes more than 1,100 local, state, and tribal law enforcement agencies and shows how America's illegal drug problem has evolved in recent years.
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Mexico refused and now Trump wants U.S. taxpayers to pay for the barrier, which he sees as key to curbing illegal immigration and illegal drug flows into the country.
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When people of color make their illegal drug use known, rather than being rewarded with a book deal, they're statistically more likely than white people to face jail time.
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Ecstasy first established itself in the illegal drug market in the 1990s, but its use declined at the end of the last decade amid poor drug quality and adulteration.
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About 120 miles away, in southern Indiana, Lawrence County abandoned its syringe exchange in 2017, after only a year, when county commissioners expressed concerns about abetting illegal drug use.
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It was not clear from the executive order exactly how another body, the new National Anti-Illegal Drug Task Force, would be comprised, beyond military and law enforcement officers.
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Those suspected of involvement in the illegal drug trade have become targets of a national war on drugs that Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte launched after assuming office June 30.
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The El Chapo story is full of million-dollar deals, outrageous prison escapes and, of course, the grotesque violence and political corruption made inevitable by the illegal drug trade.
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Duterte will release the names of "police officers, politicians (and) prosecutors" who have ties to the illegal drug trade, national police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa told CNN's Ivan Watson.
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Photo: Fernando Vergara (AP)A pharmaceutical science professor in Japan allegedly taught his students how to make the illegal drug MDMA, and claimed it was important for their education.
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Yet illegal drug overdoses kill about one-third as many Americans per year as gun-related homicides, suicides, and accidents: Guns aren't the leading killer in the United States.
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"You are being suspended from Brigham Young University because of your violation of the Honor Code including continued illegal drug use and consensual sex, effective immediately," the letter read.
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At this point, he'd never tried marijuana—with all the top-shelf prescription narcotics at his disposal, he saw no reason to add an illegal drug to the mix.
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"The Parojinogs, if you would recall, are included in President Duterte's list of personalities involved in the illegal drug trade," Ernesto Abella, the president's spokesperson, said in a statement.
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The list of ways that Bitcoin has proved useful to criminals keeps growing, from the ransom payments on locked-up computer files — or even hostages — to illegal drug sales.
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Last year, Duterte gave a speech in which he "named and shamed" over 231 government officials he said were involved in the illegal drug trade — Parojinog was amongst them.
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And until Trump addresses the illegal drug epidemic as a public health issue rather than criminalizing it, the demand for drugs from Central America will only continue to grow.
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But because the site sells unapproved versions of the drugs outside of REMS, the FDA is going after it — part of a broader crackdown on online illegal drug sales.
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Illegal drug flights are also a common transport method, and the Peruvian government recently reinstated a controversial policy allowing for the shoot-down of planes suspected of carrying drugs.
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She said on VH1 that both of her parents were involved in illegal drug activity and organized crime and that her father had gone into the federal witness protection program.
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The big picture: Marijuana legalization is being increasingly debated, and now — amid the opioid crisis — the conversation is starting to turn to new ways to handle all illegal drug possession.
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Hernandez, who had been last seen climbing aboard a motorcycle taxi while reporting a story on the illegal drug trade, thanked the Catholic Church for its help with her release.
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The scale and scope of the opioid addiction crisis has startled lawmakers in recent years, even as crime tied to the illegal drug trade has fallen to all-time lows.
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Negotiators have reached partial agreements on land reform, guerrilla participation in politics, transitional justice, efforts to find missing persons and remove land mines, and an end to illegal drug trafficking.
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In May of this year, Rodrigo Duterte was elected the 85033th president of the Philippines on a platform that included combating the illegal drug trade through law and order measures.
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Bolsonaro is known for his hard-line stances on drug trafficking and promised during his presidential campaign to crack down on Brazil's organized crime and illegal drug trade, particularly cocaine.
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The illegal drug trade is fueling most of the violence that's occurring in the streets of Baltimore and in the streets of most other cities that face the same problem.
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Of course, the Taliban's actions contradict its statements: the insurgents have involved themselves in illegal logging, illegal mining, and—the linchpin of the Taliban's war economy—the illegal drug trade.
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In 2014, authorities called for a review of the club's license after eight attendees collapsed at the venue due to illegal drug use, including MDMA, within a three-year span.
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The results, which mirror those of similar, small-scale studies of the illegal drug in recent years, come as MDMA is about to enter larger, Phase 3 trials this summer.
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"The fact remains that we have dismantled so many illegal drug factories ... caused the surrender of thousands of drug addicts and pushers ... and neutralized high-value drug suspects," Panelo said.
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Acknowledging the magnitude of the problem, Jordan said global wildlife crime is worth about $150 billion annually and is fourth in value after the illegal drug trade, counterfeiting and human trafficking.
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While black and white people have similar rates of illegal drug use, black people are more likely to be arrested and convicted of such offenses than white people are, researchers found.
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In the letter, senators asked Pinterest to ban illegal drug sales on its platform and attached pages of images showing how easy it was to find a dealer on the site.
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"As such, there is no evidence so far that incidents of violence associated with the administration's campaign against the illegal drug trade have undermined investor confidence," it said in a statement.
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First time offenders, regardless of the particular illegal drug they're caught with, face steep fines, years in prison, and an almost guaranteed shunning from friends, families, and employers upon their release.
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When gifted by the right person, those always disappointingly bland sugar tablets can produce a similar effect as a mass-produced illegal drug that makes you feel, well, rose-colored ecstasy.
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U.S. prosecutors charged Ye Gon, the former owner of the now defunct Mexican pharmaceutical wholesaler Unimed Pharm Chem, with importing chemicals that cartels allegedly used to produce the illegal drug methamphetamine.
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As drug czar, Carroll would coordinate the administration's response to an epidemic of opioid overdoses that is killing tens of thousands of Americans annually and the problem of illegal drug use.
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California's forgiving mood has been in sharp contrast, however, to the plight of another class of inmates — people behind bars on federal charges that still treat marijuana as an illegal drug.
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"We believe that Safehouse's proposed activity threatens to institutionalize the scourge of illegal drug use — and all the problems that come with it — in Philadelphia neighborhoods," McSwain said in a statement.
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"What they're doing is they're mixing fentanyl with heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine so every time someone takes an illegal drug, they're literally taking their lives into their own hands," he said.
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At that point, the teenager was no longer charged with possession of an illegal drug and under the assumption of innocent until proven guilty; instead, the case became the county vs.
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In recent years, cryptocurrency investors have lost hundreds of millions of dollars through hacks, and the market has been plagued by accusations of money-laundering, illegal drug sales and terrorist financing.
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John Kasich signing a law that increased prison sentences for illicit fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that's over time replaced heroin in the illegal drug market in certain parts of the country.
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On Sunday, the Philippines president ordered the dissolution of all anti-illegal drug units within the Philippine National Police, although he said he remains committed to the controversial war on drugs campaign.
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That law prohibits certain categories of people from buying guns, including felons, illegal drug users and anyone who "has been adjudicated as a mental defective" or involuntarily committed to a mental institution.
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And from January to May of this year, the number of overall illegal drug overdose deaths in the province jumped up 75 percent from last year, a trend that's expected to continue.
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Ye Gon was the former owner of the defunct Mexican pharmaceutical wholesaler Unimed Pharm Chem, which imported chemicals that U.S. and Mexican prosecutors alleged were used to manufacture the illegal drug methamphetamine.
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While US technological assistance has helped reduce the number of illegal drug flights coming out of Colombian territory to almost zero, traffickers have an easy alternative just across the border in Venezuela.
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His son, Kerwin Espinosa, 35, is accused by Duterte of being one of the biggest illegal drug operators in the Eastern Visayas region and was arrested earlier in October in Abu Dhabi.
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In a baffling start to the 2019 Tory [Conservative Party] race, early June saw a bunch of aspiring Prime Ministers desperate to tell the world about their history of illegal drug use.
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Apparently unaware that its trademark is also a street name for the illegal drug MDMA, the store has signs saying, "Welcome to the Ecstasy World" and "The Ecstasy Family Make You Crazy."
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Cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the US, more than HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries and firearm-related incidents combined, according to the CDC.
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Budi Akmal Djafar New York City The money that can be made in the illegal drug trade in other countries drives corruption on a level that is unimaginable in the United States.
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More than a trillion dollars have been spent fighting the war on drugs since 1971 and yet, since 1990, illegal drug purity has increased, and the cost of illegal drugs has dropped.
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The Senate's opioids bill is inching closer to coming together, advancing the congressional effort to address the epidemic that is rapidly changing from being a prescription problem to an illegal drug problem.
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For example, what would the U.S. think if Mexico asked for a NAFTA pledge that the U.S. stop the illegal arms and illegal drug sale profits flowing from the U.S. into Mexico?
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Mexico and the United States, its most important trade partner, have been looking for ways to address the escalating security situation as well as clamp down on illegal drug and arms trade.
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The new categories include videos that glorify terrorism, show illegal drug use, feature violent, graphic or dangerous content or seek to peddle misinformation that's designed to deceive the public in an election.
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In Africa, Mokhtar "One Eyed" Belmokhtar, also known as Mr. Marlboro because of his role in cigarette smuggling across the Sahel region, used illegal drug smuggling as a way of buying weapons.
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Officials found five guns hidden at the site of the party, three of them reported stolen, detained a number of partygoers for questioning, and arrested one attendee on suspicion of illegal drug possession.
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Negotiators based in Cuba have reached partial agreements on land reform, guerrilla participation in politics, transitional justice, efforts to find missing persons and remove land mines, and an end to illegal drug trafficking.
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That's especially dangerous with fentanyl, a perilously potent opioid, now tainting the illegal drug market and increasingly turning up in counterfeit pain pills like the ones blamed for the 2016 death of Prince.
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Here are some of Mexico's biggest drug cartels: Sinaloa Federation The largest illegal drug franchise in Mexico supplies much of the marijuana, cocaine and heroin peddled on the streets of the United States.
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In 2014, local authorities called for a review of the club's license after eight attendees collapsed at the venue due to illegal drug use within a three-year span, four of whom died.
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Federal banking laws, which reflect the federal status of marijuana as an illegal drug, force legitimate marijuana companies nationwide to operate mainly in cash, as they are unable to access traditional financial services.
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"The regulated cannabis industry also checks IDs and removes marijuana from the criminal market, delivering a significant blow to drug cartels and illegal drug dealers," the New Federalism Fund states on its website.
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Criminal environmental cases that often deal with unlicensed big-game hunting, illegal drug running, or oil and gas theft have all dropped to an almost 2023-year low, according to the Interior data.
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It compares the number of Americans killed by guns between 2001 and 2013 to the number of Americans killed by war, AIDS, illegal drug overdoses, and terrorism combined during the same time period.
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The restaurant, on Broadway between 168th and 169th Streets, was an anchor of the neighborhood in the years when that part of Upper Manhattan was racked with violence from the illegal drug trade.
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He also remained a vocal commentator on troubles like the refugee crisis; promoted good governance, anti-corruption measures and sustainable agriculture in Africa; and pushed efforts in the fight against illegal drug trafficking.
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Insecurity, institutionalized corruption, an inefficient system of governance, lack of accountability and transparency, the limited reach of the rule of law across the country and a powerful illegal drug industry are a few.
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"Specifically, between November 2018 and June 2019, undercover officers shipped and received packages, supposedly containing illegal drugs and illegal drug proceeds, by routing them through the shipment center in Tucson," the release said.
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Melina Roberge, 24, acted as a front for the massive illegal drug trade by posting photos of her two-month vacation aboard the cruise ship loaded with over $30 million dollars' worth of blow.
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While Tor is often associated with illegal drug or weapons sales on the dark web, the browser is also a haven for political dissidents, journalists and just browsers who prefer to maintain their anonymity.
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Adding to the shock was the discovery of hundreds of illegal marijuana plants on Rhoden's property, highlighting the region's dependency on the illegal drug trade as jobs in agriculture and timber have dried up.
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University of Iowa law professor Mihailis Diamantis said the misleading marketing opens Purdue — and potentially the Sacklers, depending on how involved they were — to charges of misbranding, illegal drug distribution, and conspiracy or racketeering.
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Philippine police shot and killed a town mayor in his jail cell on Saturday, the second politician to fall victim to President Rodrigo Duterte's vicious war on the illegal drug trade in recent weeks.
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And that research—and other studies since—showed that just providing methadone reduces HIV risk, cuts crime, and even helps a significant minority stabilize their lives and cease illegal drug use, on its own.
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Two-thirds of these deaths were caused by opioids, including potent synthetic drugs such as fentanyl and tramadol, which are easier to overdo by accident and are becoming more popular among illegal drug users.
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In Israel, marijuana is an illegal drug and only 23,000 people have Health Ministry permits to purchase medical cannabis from nine licensed suppliers, creating a market of $15 million to $20 million at most.
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Alternatively, it may be that Facebook regarded SIN as taking a particular approach on a controversial subject — the best way to cope with illegal drug use — which would have run afoul of its guidelines.
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But while traditional media narratives about drugs have centered on violence, they've often ignored another pitfall of the illegal drug trade: the environmental impact of a massive, underground, unregulated industry operating around the world.
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He cited a survey from 2014 in which 85 percent of federal judges said that they should not be required to send people on supervised release back to prison for possessing an illegal drug.
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"The people dying from painkiller abuse don't fit the profile of illegal drug users," she said in the segment, which focused on a football player at the University of Oklahoma who died at 22.
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For one, banks are generally afraid of doing business with marijuana growers and shops — after all, it could put the bank in the awkward position of essentially taking part in an illegal drug industry.
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Russian police and an investigation by the BBC allege the shooter was hired on an illegal drug trading platform known as Hydra, by a Russian hacker who ran one of its online drug shops.
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Sources say that Kelly's views on immigration and border control, which have been criticized as hard-line, come from his sharp focus on staunching the illegal drug trade when he led U.S. Southern Command.
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MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is stepping up President Rodrigo Duterte's battle on drugs with incoming college freshmen set to face tests for illegal drug use from next year, an education official said on Friday.
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The Sezioni Unite ruled that the "rudimentary techniques" and "the small amount produced" in small-scale home growing makes it irrelevant to the illegal drug trade that the criminal law is intended to address.
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Clegg alleged in April that, as home secretary, May had tried to take sentences out of a Whitehall report on the link—or lack thereof—between tough drug laws and levels of illegal drug use.
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Lab tests later showed the substance in the bag was not an illegal drug and charges were eventually dropped, but Fincher spent four months in jail due to not being able to afford the bond.
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If Trump really cared about stopping the illegal drug trade, he wouldn't reportedly be plundering $2.5 billion from the Defense Department's drug interdiction program as part of his executive gambit to secure more wall funding.
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TOKYO, March 9 (Reuters) - The alleged illegal drug use by a Hino Red Dolphins player has forced Japan's Top League to suspend all matches in the rugby union competition until April, officials said on Monday.
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Whatever you think about drug use—and it's worth pointing out that there's no such thing as a risk-free illegal drug—evidence suggests that drug testing is the best way to keep people safe.
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In New Hampshire, border officers working with state officials conducted what the American Civil Liberties Union described as illegal drug searches after residents were arrested at immigration checkpoints set up on a major interstate highway.
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Such talk may play well to a nation in the grip of the deadliest crisis of illegal-drug addiction in its history, though there is little evidence to suggest that the death penalty actually deters criminality.
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Despite this broad discretion, Rae Koshetz, who oversaw such hearings from 210 to 2000, told BuzzFeed News that illegal drug use, anything related to stealing or corruption, and homicide are almost certain to result in termination.
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While deaths from prescription opioids are reaching a plateau, deaths from fentanyl—an illegal drug with 22017 times the potency of heroin—have risen 92% over the past year to 22,000 in March (see chart 1).
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Whatever you call it, it's the most popular illegal drug in the world,…Read more ReadIndeed, the DEA's decision is perplexing given just how much research is being done into marijuana and its potential health benefits.
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The bottles contained liquid methamphetamine, a highly toxic form of the illegal drug that has been on the rise because it's easier to traffic as a liquid, which is what Velazquez Acevedo was trying to do.
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Meanwhile, India's outdated narcotics law (passed under pressure from the US) and lack of training in palliative care mean that while an illegal drug trade flourishes, medical patients are unable to get the painkillers they need.
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But in August, Mr. Duterte identified a number of officials he said were involved in the illegal drug trade, including judges, police officers, military officials, mayors and members of Congress, and threatened to go after them.
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It also noted that, in 2016, there were an estimated 275 million people between the ages of 15 and 64 who had used an illegal drug in the past year, a 803 percent increase from 2011.
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But given that Canadian courts have already decided that limiting medicinal access to an illegal drug like cannabis violates our constitutional rights, Tobin is feeling optimistic about the future of psychedelic science and treatment in Canada.
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These include Nafta's final year of existence (as we know it) and the continuing opioid crisis, whose viable solution depends, in large part, on collaboration with Mexico in efforts to eliminate cross-border illegal drug networks.
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Buttigieg has said that possession of any illegal drug, including cocaine and methamphetamine, should not be punished by incarceration, but he has not called for the complete decriminalization of the possession of those drugs in particular.
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Some experts say that one reason heroin use has soared is because the illegal drug has become much cheaper than prescription opioid painkillers and due to new limits on dispensing of the addictive legal pain medicines.
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Schroepfer gave an example of a photo of weed packaging, and said that Facebook's AI is able to identify these unfamiliar images as containing a federally illegal drug because it can figure out what they most resemble.
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The widespread collateral damage of the illegal drug trade—the exploitation, environmental damage, criminalization, corruption, murderous gang feuds, addiction, and needless overdoses—are all evidence that the way it's currently being handled does not appear to work.
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The question is whether the possible reduction of potential drug use is worth the drawbacks that come in other areas, including a strained criminal justice system and the global proliferation of violence fueled by illegal drug markets.
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The inability of these giant Internet companies to keep illegal drug sellers off their sites shows that it's not just fake news, hate speech, violent videos and foreign political propaganda that are overwhelming their content-filtering systems.
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" A statement from The Vitamin C Foundation founder Owen Fonorow read, in part, "This is not the first time the FDA has attacked vitamin C trying to create the impression that vitamin C is an illegal drug.
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Tennessee's Department of Human Services recently released information finding only 43 of the 39,121 people who have been screened for the state's Families First assistance program have tested positive for illegal drug use since July 1, 2014.
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After decades of struggling to combat illegal drug use, cycling's image suffered a fresh blow on Sunday when stewards at the world cyclo-cross championships found an electric motor in Belgian teenager Femke Van den Driessche's bike.
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Differences over ethanol trade, open-skies aviation and illegal drug production, and even North Korea, could crop up during the discussion, but the top issue will be the Venezuelan crisis, Latin American and White House officials said.
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The space agency agreed to pay SpaceX $5 million in May to cover the cost of the review, which includes educating its employees and ensuring they are following strict guidelines for federal contractors barring illegal drug use.
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If the price difference allows the black market to compete, that will hamper the public benefits of legalization - legitimate investment, job creation and tax revenue - and complicate efforts to stamp out crime associated with illegal drug trafficking.
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"The Youngs knew both that Titus Young was in violation of the terms of his probation and that he had extremely violent tendencies fueled by a history of illegal drug use," the accuser states in the suit.
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"Raúl Flores Hernández has operated for decades because of his longstanding relationships with other drug cartels and his use of financial front persons to mask his investments of illegal drug proceeds," said OFAC director John E. Smith.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey seized more than $460 million worth of narcotics in the first nine months of 2018, authorities said on Wednesday, a surge from a year earlier as Turkey ramps up its fight against illegal drug trafficking.
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There was no video of the attack, yet prosecutors allowed him to strike a deal a day-and-a-half later ... he pled guilty to violent resistance, a crime of violence against an official and illegal drug possession.
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He called for limiting benefits for childless adults, screening applicants for illegal drug use and even charging some adults without children who have income as little as $200 to $1,85033 per month premiums of between $1 and $10.
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WASHINGTON, March 18 (Reuters) - Fourteen airmen who helped secure a U.S. complex that hosts inter-continental ballistic missiles have been suspended from their duties due to an investigation into "illegal drug activity," the U.S. military said on Friday.
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" He added, "Aside from indications that this is a perjured witness, one wonders at the timing of the case, when de Lima is about to face the Senate inquiry on her alleged involvement in the illegal drug case.
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As a teenager, he has a single sexual experience with his only real friend, but the two young men drift apart as their lives go on to be defined by violence, prison, and the ongoing illegal drug trade.
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Tribes worry whether they'll continue to have access to the tea if ayahuasca goes the way of cocaine, which was used by the Incas to counter altitude sickness before erupting into the global marketplace as an illegal drug.
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In the Philippines, the government's Dangerous Drugs Board has estimated that 1.3 million of the country's 100 million people are illegal drug users and that shabu is the most commonly used illegal substance, ahead of marijuana and inhalants.
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"It is beyond dispute that illegal drug users, including marijuana users, are likely ... to experience altered or impaired mental states that affect their judgment and that can lead to irrational or unpredictable behavior," Rakoff wrote in the opinion.
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We know that Lady Trieu is obsessed with the past, having created the now-illegal drug Nostalgia to help people relive their memories and even going so far as to clone her mother to live out her life.
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PCP, initially developed as a human anesthetic in 1959, is an illegal drug that can produce a dissociative mental state in users as well as delirium, confusion and other effects, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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The report claims that UN efforts to eliminate the illegal drug market by 27 through a "war on drugs" approach has had scant effect on global supply while having negative effects on health, human rights, security and development.
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These gigantic musical amusement parks closed for a number of reasons—some buildings were straight up unauthorized, others violated tax codes, safety standards, illegal drug use, or simply couldn't keep up with the changing mentality of the public.
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"While the cause of these deaths is unknown at this time, we know that illegal drug use is rampant at these events and that many young lives have been lost because of drug use at raves," she said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen airmen who helped secure a U.S. complex in Wyoming that includes nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles have been suspended from their duties due to an investigation of "illegal drug activity," the U.S. military said on Friday.
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Despite the study's conclusion that misery is spreading across the whole cohort reaching middle age, it also suggests that opioid abuse along with other prescription drug abuse and illegal drug use remain much higher amongst non-college educated whites.
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There is growing support, in the case of some drugs, to abandon a policy that revolved around locking up citizens and unintentionally fostering illegal drug markets, toward a set of regulatory and medical policies that can contain the problem.
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He went to prison in March 2004 for illegal drug sales, but was out by January 2005, when he was arrested in the Bronx for entering the subway without paying a fare, Bronx District attorney spokeswoman Patrice O'Shaughnessy said.
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Three-quarters of the 5,700 Australian participants in the survey had used illicit drugs, and marijuana is the most used illegal drug — even more prevalent than legal drugs like caffeinated drinks and tobacco, according to the Sydney Morning Herald.
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David McKinleyDavid Bennett McKinleyBipartisan former EPA chiefs say Trump administration has abandoned agency's mission Thirty-four GOP members buck Trump on disaster bill Divisions emerge over House drug price bills MORE slammed Dorsey over illegal drug sales on Twitter.
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As with the president's wall, which would do little to discourage unauthorized migration, let alone illegal drug trafficking, no one with a working knowledge of immigration policy believes that closing the border is a solution to the recent surge.
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The blunt populist political sentiments are still there too: In the second movie (spoilers ahead), the villain is Poppy (Julianne Moore), an international drug dealer who holds millions of drug users for ransom by poisoning the illegal drug supply.
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Of the 19 nations that are signatories to the treaty, 16 voted on Monday to broadly investigate and penalize people connected to Mr. Maduro's government who are accused of money laundering, illegal drug trafficking, terrorism and transnational organized crime.
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And the answer was fentanyl, a powerful painkiller the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says is 25 to 50 times more potent than heroin, packs 50 to 100 times more punch than morphine, and can be manufactured easily by illegal drug mills.
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Duterte, who won an election last year on a vow to wipe out the illegal drug trade, had raised hopes of bringing an end to a communist insurgency that has stunted development for years, especially in central parts of the Philippines.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine police commandos killed six bodyguards on Wednesday who worked for a town mayor who had turned himself in over links to the illegal drug trade, as President Rodrigo Duterte's anti-drug war shifted from street peddlers to officials.
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Li Xiqing, an environmental chemist at Peking University in Beijing aiding police in this effort, told Nature that police have begun using wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) in Zhongshan to track drug use throughout the city and arrest illegal drug manufacturers.
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MONEY-LAUNDERING PROBE Separately, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been investigating companies owned by Saab and Pulido on suspicion of laundering money from illegal drug trafficking operations, mostly cocaine from Colombia, a U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters.
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The 2013 memo from then-deputy attorney general James Cole stated that while marijuana was still an illegal drug and the Justice Department would continue enforcement of federal law, it would defer to state governments that had developed strict regulatory regimes.
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"We don't have a child welfare system, we have a parent punishment system," says Richard Wexler, executive director of the National Coalition For Child Protection Reform, explaining that prejudices about illegal drug users tend to trump rational considerations of risk.
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Duterte won the presidency in May after promising to suppress crime and wipe out the illegal drug trade in a country where the number of methamphetamine users is estimated to be at least 1.3 million in a population of 100 million.
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Baltimore is perhaps best known for its tangled politics and its ever-swelling congregation of illegal drug outfits, thanks to David Simon's mid-aughts HBO show "The Wire," the haunting urban panorama that lodged itself into the American pop consciousness.
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In both cases, it appears these companies are playing a game of "whack a mole" when it comes to illegal drug marketing, taking content down after discovering it, rather than effectively stopping that content from being posted in the first place.
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"Today's guilty plea sends a message to all drug dealers that we will not tolerate the illegal drug trafficking that is destroying our young people and our communities," said Richard Brown, the district attorney in the city borough of Queens.
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The illegal drug trade on the internet - and in particular on what's known as the Dark Web - has been growing in recent years, despite authorities shutting down major market sites, as crime gangs have diversified and sought out new clients online.
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But if we do not address the root of the problem — the easy-to-access illegal drug supply chain — the multitude of other initiatives designed to fight the epidemic, from education to harm reduction to recovery, will not be effective.
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In this way, they seem like the perfect method for shifting the perception of cannabis away from that of a scary illegal drug for slackers — and towards that of a versatile lifestyle item like supplements, geek gear, or bath products.
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US Air Force bombers, drones and surveillance planes patrolling the Southern hemisphere for operational training wound up helping law enforcement entities and identify 17 illegal drug traffickers and seize thousands of kilos of cocaine, senior service officials told Scout Warrior.
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But they illustrate how law enforcement approaches can backfire: When authorities crack down on one drug (in this case, heroin), the illegal drug market tends to shift toward a different drug, leading to violent struggle for control of new revenue streams.
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Moreover, 28503 percent of South Carolina primary voters support decriminalizing drug possession, asserting that someone caught with a small amount of any illegal drug for personal use should be offered treatment but not be arrested, let alone face jail time.
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Seungri, their fifth member, departed the group and the label amid a criminal and legal investigation into his connection to illegal gambling, sex trafficking, and illegal drug sales completed at Burning Sun, a nightclub he owned in Seoul's affluent Gangnam district.
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"Senator Hatch does not believe one flawed report should derail a nominee who has a long history of fighting illegal drug use and of helping individuals with chronic conditions obtain treatment," Hatch's spokesman, Matt Whitlock, wrote in an email on Monday.
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Government figures released in December showed that for the first time, the powerful painkiller fentanyl and its close opioid cousins played a bigger role in the deaths than any other legal or illegal drug, surpassing prescription pain pills and heroin.
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However, Mr. Downs, along with executives from legal THC companies and health officials, say that the illicit operations are using a tactic common to other illegal drug operations: cutting their product with other substances, including some that can be dangerous.
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MDMA is an illegal drug and has never been approved for any use by the F.D.A. But for about a decade before it was outlawed in 1985, it was used as an aid in psychotherapy, especially on the West Coast.
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McKinsey consultants, members of the Sackler family were told, also planned to study techniques for keeping patients on opioids longer and McKinsey urged Purdue Pharma to fight efforts taken by federal agencies to stop illegal drug sales, the lawsuit claims.
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The hackers — the same group that stole emails from the Democratic National Committee's servers and released them ahead of the 2016 election — called the athlete records proof of illegal drug use by stars such as Simone Biles and Serena Williams.
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Oyub Titiev, 61, who ran the Chechen office of the Memorial Human Rights Centre, which reports on rights abuses in the region, was granted early release after being sentenced to four years in jail for illegal drug possession, charges he denied.
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However, what events in Blackburn show is that stopping head shops from selling drugs will have little impact on the kind of people who really drive the trade, and who also happen to have easy access to existing, illegal, drug-selling networks.
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Rodrigo Duterte celebrated his recent presidential victory in the southern city of Davao on Saturday night, and, in a nationally televised speech, he warned about the dangers of the booming illegal drug trade and told regular Filipinos what they can do to help.
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That remains the EU's biggest-selling drug in money terms with an estimated annual retail value of 9.3 billion euros ($10.3 billion) — around 38 percent of the total illegal drug market — in 2013, the last year for which full figures are available.
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In his speech, Duterte said there were as many as 600,000 people connected to the drug trade in the country, including both dealers and users, and blamed the high number on the complicity of "government personnel" who are "into the (illegal drug trade)."
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Terror and drug finance Despite the occasional claims of bank deregulation during the George W. Bush years, the post-9/85033 era has seen a massive expansion of regulation and surveillance related to the potential financing of both terror and illegal drug activities.
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The Taliban's attempts at online fundraising depend on two power structures within its government in exile: the Cultural Commission, which directs propaganda and public relations, and the Economic Commission, which launders the Taliban's profits from the illegal drug trade and manages its treasury.
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"The drug traffickers are looking for revenge against the only president who's done what he's needed to do," he told a news conference, detailing his efforts to curb illegal drug sales in the small Central American country where drug gangs have prominent strongholds.
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"If the United States were to adopt this approach, people would increasingly go to free, well-vetted drug treatment centers, and the illegal drug market in this country would gradually disappear, as would profits going south to the drug lords," he continues.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Legal Pot, Free Trade" (Op-Ed, May 21): Ioan Grillo's proposal for a Nafta-style market in legal marijuana mistakes a symptom of the organized-crime epidemic in Mexico — the illegal drug trade — for an underlying cause.
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This week, the House Justice Committee held two hearings in which nine prison inmates accused her of involvement in the illegal drug trade while she served as justice secretary, the position she held before she was elected to the Senate this year.
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Data from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab system show that 21 percent of evidence that the police listed as methamphetamine after identifying it was not methamphetamine, and half of those false positives were not any kind of illegal drug at all.
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MANILA — The Philippines' new president, Rodrigo Duterte, on Sunday publicly accused scores of judges, mayors, lawmakers, military personnel and police officers of involvement with the illegal drug trade, giving them 24 hours to surrender for investigation or, he said, be "hunted" down.
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It's this transition to the illicit market that Rosenfeld says may have helped cause a rise in murders: Since illegal drug markets tend to be much more violent than legal drug markets, the greater use of illicit opioids came with more violence.
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"There was very little paved law," Sederberg said, which meant having to look toward other regulated industries as examples while also keeping in mind the unique position that cannabis has as a federally illegal drug that has legal status in certain states.
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While it is well-known for its critical role in disrupting illegal drug trafficking, it may come as a surprise to many that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) also plays an important gatekeeper role when it comes to the production of opioids.
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Some $8.2 million, much of it believed to be proceeds from illegal drug sales in the United States, entered the accounts over four years, in deposits that generally did not exceed $10,000 to evade scrutiny from banks and the Internal Revenue Service.
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What you will find is a fascinating history lesson centered on a five-year period leading up to the signing of Hollywood's Production Code, which prohibited violence, profanity, nudity, provocative dancing, illegal drug use and a host of other scandalous onscreen behaviors.
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He said other countries which impose the death penalty for illegal drug selling have fewer problems with drug abuse than the U.S. If the federal government actually does sue opioid manufacturers, it would be going significantly further than an action announced Tuesday.
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According to the International Monetary Fund's definition of a narco-state, as a state 'where all legitimate institutions become penetrated by the power and wealth of the illegal drug trade', like Venezuela, Guinea-Bissau and Afghanistan, Albania is knee-deep in drugs money.
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Image 2 of 2 BRISBANE, Australia – A leading Australian gambling researcher says he hopes the U.S. entry into live sports betting might help his push for an international anti-corruption unit to monitor athletes, similar to the World Anti-Doping Agency for illegal drug-taking.
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The cases were lodged by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), the Philippine equivalent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, against Senator Leila de Lima, two former prison officials and a dozen inmates for involvement in the illegal drug trade at a national jail.
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The presence of the illegal drug was unexpected because the sites where the researchers gathered their samples, in the eastern coastal county of Suffolk, were miles away from any large city, said the study's lead author, Thomas Miller, a researcher at King's College London.
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Federal law requires licensed firearm dealers to run a prospective buyer's name through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) to make sure they don't have something disqualifying in their history, such as a previous felony conviction or a record of illegal drug use.
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Homeland Security officials said the prototypes would be added to the existing border walls in San Diego and would allow the agency to evaluate which barriers were most effective in giving Border Patrol agents time to respond to illegal drug-smuggling and human smuggling.
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The police had recovered more than 1,000 bullet casings of different calibers, including long guns, suggesting links to the illegal drug trade, Lt. José Cruz, director of the San Juan Criminal Investigations Bureau's homicide division, told El Nuevo Día, Puerto Rico's largest daily newspaper.
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Like a handful of other states that have voted to legalize recreational marijuana, California's industry faces headwinds including a banking system that refuses to work with producers and a federal government that still considers marijuana an illegal drug on par with heroine and methamphetamines.
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The authorities in Vancouver, a bustling metropolis on the coast of British Columbia, say they turned to such programs after more traditional criminal justice approaches failed to stop rampant illegal drug use and sales on the Downtown Eastside, a poor neighborhood notorious for addiction and crime.
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Created in conjunction with the local Cambridgeshire police and council, the illegal drug testing was offered as part of a 10-minute health and safety package provided by The Loop, an organization that provides forensic testing of drugs at festivals and nightclubs and offers followup support.
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During the flight, grooms could go to the rear of the plane to check on their horses, and Garcia feared that a rival, left alone, might give Legolas an illegal drug, leading to a positive test for a banned substance that would bounce him from the competition.
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One big reason for his shift in rhetoric when it comes to the United States is clear: President Trump is a marked improvement in Mr. Duterte's eyes over Barack Obama, who urged the Philippine leader to follow the rule of law in tackling the illegal drug trade.
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" Teva said, "Teva is committed to the appropriate use of opioid medicines, and we recognize the critical public health issues impacting communities across the U.S. as a result of illegal drug use as well as the misuse and abuse of opioids that are available legally by prescription.
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Because the trial is expected to be heavily steeped in testimony about illegal drug use, addiction, crime and rehab, prospective jurors were interviewed in private in Judge Dan A. Polster's chambers, so that lawyers could determine whether they had a glancing acquaintance with any of those topics.
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At least 7,000 people, mostly urban poor, have been killed in a brutal campaign to crack down on illegal drug use in the Philippines since Mr. Duterte took office last year, Human Rights Watch said in a statement on Monday to coincide with the council session.
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"We are mindful of the zealous intention of the complainant to eliminate the illegal drug menace prevalent in our country today, and it is public knowledge that this fight has taken numerous lives," a Department of Justice panel said in a ruling seen by Reuters, dated Dec.
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The proposal, separate from a Swiss government push to allow some cities to experiment with recreational marijuana, would replace the current system, in which those seeking medical cannabis must apply for an exception from the Federal Health Office to get what is otherwise an illegal drug.
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"The once-a-year sweep of outdoor grow-ops makes little to no difference on the illegal drug trade in Canada," said Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, a Liberal member of Parliament for Toronto who has been critical of heavy-handed law enforcement tactics when it comes to drugs.
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"Raul Flores Hernandez has operated for decades because of his longstanding relationships with other drug cartels and his use of financial front persons to mask his investments of illegal drug proceeds," OFAC Director John E. Smith said in a statement, calling the move a "major joint action" with Mexico.
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"The standard we set out today is that a police officer's use of deadly force against a dog while executing a search warrant to search a home for illegal drug activity is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment when … the dog poses an imminent threat to the officer's safety."
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So although proper scientific tests have not been established—partly, as Mary tells me, due to "patient fear about disclosing their use because [cocaine] is an illegal drug"—it would seem that coke can possibly travel from sperm to egg, thereby impacting the child before it's even born.
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" But in 2003, the Nautilus Institute published a report revealing that "the North Korean regime has been involved in illegal drug production and trafficking since the 1970s" and that "these efforts increased in the 1990s as the country's economic situation worsened… [and] heroin production was supplemented by methamphetamine production.
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"School bullies become tomorrow's hate crimes defendants, while victims of bullying are more likely to drop out of school, struggle in class, engage in illegal drug use or become involved in the criminal justice system," said a 2012 blog post from the US Department of Justice Civil Rights Division.
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Experts debate whether the Taliban prohibited growing opium because it conflicted with sharia or to inflate the price of opium already on the market, but, confronted with the might of a superpower's military, the illegal drug trade became one of the more lucrative methods of sustaining the insurgency.
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He rejuvenated the War on Drugs Sessions's first major action of 226 was to issue a memo reminding federal attorneys that marijuana remains an illegal drug under federal law, no matter how many states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreation (eight) or for medical use (220).
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"The illegal drug trade in Honduras not only infected much of its civil society, including the highest levels of government and its financial sector, but also brought frightening levels of violence on its people," Joon H. Kim, the acting United States attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
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When it comes to student speech, the court has issued a series of dubious decisions permitting educators to suppress students' First Amendment rights, including a 2007 opinion that upheld a so-called viewpoint restriction by authorizing schools to censor student speech that appears to promote illegal drug use.
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Mayor Bill de Blasio is championing a plan that would make New York City a pioneer in creating supervised injection sites for illegal drug users, part of a novel but contentious strategy to combat the epidemic of fatal overdoses caused by the use of heroin and other opioids.
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He is not the first opponent of the president to be threatened with arrest -- in 2017 staunch Duterte opponent Leila De Lima was arrested after having been accused of abetting the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary from 2010 to 2015.
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While Insys executives bribed doctors to prescribe the cancer-pain drug with trips to strip clubs, fancy dinners, and shady fees for speaking at events, there wasn't enough evidence to determine beyond a reasonable doubt that those bribes were supposed to inspire doctors to act like illegal drug pushers.
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Trillanes is not the first opponent of the president to be threatened with arrest -- in 2017 staunch Duterte opponent Leila De Lima was arrested after having been accused of abetting the illegal drug trade in the New Bilibid Prison when she was justice secretary from 2010 to 2015.
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Van Drew said he can envision supporting a compromise if it includes border security beyond a wall, like combating illegal drug and child trafficking, and a fix for DACA and other undocumented workers, while also reforming how the nation handles immigration applications from every nation, not just Mexico.
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"We've seen these programs at the front lines of overdose death, bringing people to drug treatment, and addressing the risk of hepatitis C and HIV," said Daniel Raymond, policy director for the Harm Reduction Coalition, an advocacy group working to mitigate the effects of illegal drug use on people and communities.
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And according to a leaked transcript of a call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte last year, Trump told Duterte he was doing a good job fighting the country's illegal drug epidemic, despite concerns that the Filipino government has effectively sanctioned extrajudicial killings in the name of combating the drug problem.
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Despite a 2016 peace deal between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, that also sought to discourage the illegal drug trade, the amount of land used to produce coca leaf has gone up on average about 45 percent a year since 2013, the report said.
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Growing sympathy for illegal drug users among whites and conservatives, and concern regarding the expense of mass imprisonment, helped to make possible a bipartisan consensus in support of the Trump administration's First Step Act — leading to the early release of more than 3,000 people from federal prisons for drug offenses.
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A classic tale of irrational exuberanceTo Green Growth Brands CMO Jann Parish, cannabis in 2019 is a classic tale of market exuberance, pegged to the attractive story of taking what was once a demonized, illegal drug and leveraging the wheels of capitalism to turn it into an upscale consumer product.
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In early August, in a speech at a naval base, Duterte read out a list of more than a hundred and fifty politicians and police officers who he alleged were involved in the illegal drug trade, the first of a number of "narcolists" that he released in the following months.
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There are several identified ACEs, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, emotional neglect, physical neglect, mental illness of a household member, alcoholism of a household member, illegal drug use of a household member, divorce or separation of a parent, domestic violence towards a parent, and incarceration of a household member.
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The book makes Winslow's clear case for why everything we're told about Mexican drug imports is wrong: why New York is so vital to the country's illegal-drug distribution, and even production; how Wall Street money and drug money are intertwined; and how money laundering intersects with businesses like real estate.
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Drug trafficking organizations just have too much of a financial incentive — from the hundreds of billions they make in the illegal drug trade — to let a wall stand in their way, so they'll come up with solutions, from ice cream trucks to submarines, to overcome any barriers to those profits.
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"Here ends my blind obedience and loyalty to one person, Mayor Rodrigo Roa Duterte who is now president of our country," Lascanas said, at one point breaking down when he confessed that he had ordered the killing of his two own brothers, who were involved in the illegal drug trade.
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Musk, who is also the CEO of electric carmaker Tesla Inc, has refiled his SF-86 security form, which requires a federal employee or contractor seeking a clearance to acknowledge any illegal drug use over the previous seven years, according to the Bloomberg report, which said the review has not impacted SpaceX.
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Unless you're tripping on legal shrooms at Dekmantel in Amsterdam, or puffing on a pot-shop joint at Decibel in Seattle, you've probably been complicit in the illegal drug trade—an international web that everyone from small-time Latin American farmers to bereaved parents of overdose victims are also tangled up in.
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Roof, who was not legally allowed to purchase a firearm due to a pending illegal drug possession case, was able to buy a handgun because the database that was supposed to flag Roof's pending case, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System managed by the FBI, didn't include the pending case details.
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"It was determined that a long term alliance between members of the Pagan Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and former doctor, James Kauffman, was created for mutual financial gain through the use of Kauffman's medical practice for illegal drug distribution which culminated on May 10, 2012 with the 'murder for hire' of April Kauffman," prosecutors have alleged.
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"There are signs that we are getting a handle on the prescription opioid problem, but over the past few years the heroin issue has gotten worse," said Daniel Raymond, policy director for the Harm Reduction Coalition, an advocacy group working to mitigate the effects of illegal drug use, in an interview with CNN last month.
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Forty-three percent of drivers tested in fatal crashes around the country in 2015 had used a legal or illegal drug, topping the 37 percent who showed alcohol levels above a legal limit, according to the report by the Governors Highway Safety Association and the Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibility, a nonprofit funded by distillers.
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The ensuing chilling effect on the prescribing of opioids has led doctors to cut off some of their patients who are honestly in pain — and some of whom may have developed a physical dependence, but not an addiction (there is a difference), leading some of them to seek relief in the illegal drug market.
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But they may also be sending more patients, in desperation, to the illegal drug market where they obtain opioids that may be counterfeit, laced with dangerous and more powerful drugs such as fentanyl and carfentanil, and where they may opt for heroin because it is actually cheaper and easier to obtain than prescription opioids.
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" The court did not agree and concluded that "in appropriate circumstances, a judge may order a defendant who is addicted to drugs to remain drug free as a condition of probation, and that a defendant may be found to be in violation of his or her probation by subsequently testing positive for an illegal drug.
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During Mr. Scoppetta's tenure, two firefighters died at the Deutsche Bank building in a 2007 fire that exposed serious lapses in the department's building inspection procedures, as well as lapses by other agencies, and the union took a no-confidence vote in the commissioner after he imposed a zero-tolerance policy toward illegal drug use.
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The government's focus will now be on meeting the needs of marginalized communities, Lopez Obrador said, as part of a broader strategy to curb an illegal drug trade that is thriving despite the capture of high-profile kingpins like Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who is on trial in New York for drug trafficking that spanned more than two decades.
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Another politician has been killed in the Philippines' vicious drug war Another politician has been killed in the Philippines' vicious drug war Philippine police shot and killed a town mayor in his jail cell on Saturday, the second politician to fall victim to President Rodrigo Duterte's vicious war on the illegal drug trade in recent weeks.
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The government's focus will now be on meeting the needs of marginalized communities, Lopez Obrador said, as part of a broader strategy to curb an illegal drug trade that is thriving despite the capture of high-profile kingpins like Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, who is on trial in New York for drug trafficking that spanned more than two decades.
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Li Xi Wang, 49, was killed July 3 as police officers were serving a search warrant at a home in connection to an investigation of an illegal drug cultivation and trafficking operation, Chino Police Chief Wes Simmons said in a video statement posted to the department's YouTube channel, which included body cam footage of the shooting.
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Four years after passage of the Secure Fence Act of 22011, which called for building 700 miles of barrier wall along the southern US border to thwart illegal drug and human trafficking, it was clear that the unprecedented surge in border enforcement had pushed illegal immigration routes from border cities into remote wilderness areas and onto the high seas.
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"It was determined that a long term alliance between members of the Pagan Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and former doctor, James Kauffman, was created for mutual financial gain through the use of Kauffman's medical practice for illegal drug distribution which culminated on May 10, 2012 with the 'murder for hire' of April Kauffman," reads a statement from the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
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Auditors analyzed 380 polygraph exams administered from 2013-2016 and found nearly one fifth of the applicants were given lie-detector tests even though they had already admitted to disqualifying activities, including "illegal drug use, drug smuggling, human trafficking, and ... having close personal relationships with people who commit such crimes," the inspector general's office said in a statement announcing the report.
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Syringe exchange programs "reduce not only infectious disease but also create an opportunity for people to get the care and provide a transition into treatment for people in the community," said Michael Botticelli, director of the federal Office of National Drug Control Policy, at an event sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of northern Kentucky, a region hit hard by illegal drug use.
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Related: After El Chapo: The World's 10 Most Wanted Drug Lords "Typically crews are made up of an experienced sailor, the so-called "captain" who can also be the person who handles communication with the 'base' or the owners of the shipment,"Javier Guerrero, a University of Edinburgh researcher interested in technological innovations in the illegal drug trade, told Motherboard last year.
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Why: Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Juan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America MORE framed the move as a way to toughen an immigration system that "rewards bad behavior," including illegal drug smuggling and border crossings.
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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen NielsenKirstjen Michele NielsenTop immigration aide experienced 'jolt of electricity to my soul' when Trump announced campaign Trump casts uncertainty over top intelligence role Juan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America MORE framed the action as a way to toughen an immigration system that "rewards bad behavior," including illegal drug smuggling and border crossings.
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President Trump has suggested that this vast tide of narcotics could be stanched by building a wall along the southwest border, but extensive testimony at Mr. Guzmán's trial — from traffickers themselves — indicated that a wall would have little effect: Most illegal drug loads cross the border legally at official checkpoints, not in remote stretches where a barrier would stop them.
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However, implementing measures such as drug-testing booths are nearly impossible in the US due to the R.A.V.E. Act, a 2003 bill that allows promoters to be prosecuted for "knowingly opening, maintaining,... making available for use, or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance," as the presence of such services are seen as condoning illegal drug use.
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Despite the growth prospects, many financial professionals are still too leery of federal law, which considers marijuana an illegal drug, to take a job in the industry until there are clear signals from Washington or a change in the makeup of government, said Ruth Epstein, a partner at San Francisco-based BGP Advisors, a business advisory firm that focuses on companies in the cannabis sector.
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Some of the more compelling evidence included a video recording of a meeting in Honduras that included two DEA informants and Flores de Freitas, in which they could be heard planning the logistics of a flight from the presidential hangar of the Caracas airport to Roatán in a private jet full of cocaine, which prosecutors alleged would have amounted to more than 800 kilograms of the illegal drug.
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Either way, what is looking more inevitable the longer prohibition holds out is that the global illegal drug trade is moving inexorably away from plant-based substances trafficked via traditional trading routes, and onto a more high-tech platform: synthetic highs made in underground labs, ordered online, and trafficked under cover of a million brown packages—many times more lethal than the natural highs they will soon replace.
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"It's very important for me to get Hoover out because in an alternate universe I am him and I have to go and get him free because he was doing positive inside of Chicago, just like how I'm moving back to Chicago(.)" Prosecutors alleged Hoover ran a deadly Chicago gang called the the Gangster Disciples and oversaw a $100 million-a-year illegal drug business from jail, according to The New York Times.
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Whereas non-US festivals such as Canada's Shambhala provide services including drug-testing kits to its attendees as a means of harm reduction, domestic promoters have shied away from the practice due to the RAVE Act, a 2003 bill that allowed them to be prosecuted for "knowingly opening, maintaining,... making available for use, or profiting from any place for the purpose of manufacturing, distributing, or using any controlled substance"—the presence of such services was seen as condoning illegal drug use.
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"The fact that the Court has now recognized this class of veterans is further evidence of the Department of Defense's disgraceful violation of the legal rights of the men and women who have served their country," Manker said in a statement obtained by the AP. "This decision is a victory for the tens of thousands of military veterans suffering from service-connected PTSD and TBI (traumatic brain injury)," added Manker, who says he was dishonorably discharged after serving in Iraq due to a single use of an illegal drug.
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