Laws against

Rotenoids. The use of rotenone-bearing roots as insecticides in the United States was developed as a result of federal laws against residues of lead, arsenic, and fluorine upon edible produce. Rotenone [83-79-4] (5) is harmless to plants, highly toxic to many insects, and relatively innocuous to... 

The Territory (not yet a state) of Idaho had a law against carrying a deadly weapon within the limits of a city. The defendant was convicted and imprisoned in county jail for having carried a loaded revolver in violation of the law. (The gun had been carried openly it was not concealed.) He filed a writ of habeas corpus with the Idaho Supreme Court, arguing that the law was unconstitutional. 

LaPierre, Wayne. Standing Guard. American Rifleman, vol. 146, Novem-ber-December, 1998 p. 10. Describes Project Exile, the NRA-promoted program first adopted in Richmond, Virginia, to strictly enforce gun laws against felons. LaPierre claims this approach has deterred many criminals from obtaining guns. 

The cooperative had also argued that even if the necessity defense is not allowed, the Controlled Substances Act exceeds the power of Congress under the constitution s Commerce Clause, and that enforcing this law against medical marijuana patients would deprive them of the right to due process and infringe on liberties guaranteed by the Fifth, Ninth, and Tenth Amendments. However, because these constitutional issues were not raised earlier in the appeals process, the Court declined to consider them. 

NORML is one of the nation s oldest drug policy reform organizations. Its focus is to change public opinion so as to achieve the repeal of laws against marijuana use. It believes that responsible use rather than prohibition is the proper way to deal with the drug. NORML has played an important role in decriminalizing minor marijuana offenses in 11 states and in lowering penalties elsewhere. 

States retain, from the authoritarian backgrounds of their religions or national origins, an utterly naive faith in law as some sort of supernatural and paternalistic power. "There ought to be a law against it " Our law-enforcement officers... 

Newsweek "Indeed, the prohibitive laws against marijuana in America today, like those against alcohol in the 1920s, have not significantly diminished its use and, in fact, may have increased it."... 

New Republic "The worst thing about marijuana is the laws against it, which should be repealed."... 

Laws vary by state, but many have specific laws against the trafficking, possession, and use of drugs that are controlled substances, such as benzodiazepines. In addition, many other states have recently included laws against doctor shopping in attempts to stop prescription drug fraud. 

Since these initial cases, laws against GHB have been tightened and the government has increased efforts to prosecute illegal distributors and users of GHB and its precursors. 

Consequently, he could defend himself at law against any civil disadvantages that resulted from the presentation of a possibly politically incorrect expert report because a witness—here an expert witness—may not be made to suffer for having testified in good conscience and to his best understanding. 

The new visionary chemicals and the pre-mortem-death-rebirth experience may be pushed once again into the shadows of history. Looking back, we remember that every middle-eastern and European administrator (with the exception of certain periods in Greece and Persia) has, during the last three thousand years, rushed to pass laws against any emerging transcendental process, the pre-mortem-death-rebirth session, its adepts, and any new method of consciousness-expansion. 

Laws for everything, laws against nature, laws from another country. Holmes wondered how his great-grandfather had come to surf. Whether he was a conscious outlaw or just a man whose passion happened to be illicit. Where had the passion come from, the greatgrandfather a son of poor Welsh farmers who came to Australia in the 1850s. Where did he get the idea to surf, who had taught him. Deeper... 

Advocates of laws against drug use say that there was less drinking during that period. Others blame Prohibition for disrespect of the law as well as huge growth in criminal activity. 

Contraindications The FDA frowns upon the sale and use of calamus and has issued directives to certain herb dealers not to sell it to the public. An FDA directive is simply a polite word for a threat of hassling without a law to back it. At present there are no laws against calamus. Some experiments have indicated that excessive amounts of calamus oil can increase the tumor rate in rats. Many of the Cree Indians of Northern Alberta chew calamus root for oral hygiene and as a stimulating tonic. They apparently suffer no unpleasant side effects. In fact, those who use it seem to be in better general health than those who do not. 

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