David Steinman
See book keywords and concepts |  BlueLinx's suppliers cite certificates widely distributed on the Indonesian black market, RAN alleged.
In more correspondence from RAN, I was given information about the BlueLinx supplier Kayu Lapis Indonesia, which "is one of the largest plywood mills in the world. According to an annual document submitted by the company to the Indonesian Department of Forestry, half the timber procured by the company in 2001, or 299,368 out of 594,901 cubic meters, originated from sources that were either legally disputed or unknown."
JP Morgan Chase has also been condemned by RAN. |
Charles Barber
See book keywords and concepts |  Welles is confronted by his former friend, played by Joseph Cotten, about his bad behavior, which in this case is selling penicillin on the black market. The dramatic, conclusive confrontation occurs on Vienna's Riesenrad, a massive Ferris wheel. With the Austrian capital's skyline behind him and the Danube River and the Vienna Woods below, Harry Lime justifies his behavior and the conflicts he has created: "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  One of the themes explored throughout the movie is the use of mind-altering prescription drugs, as well as psychiatric drugs and black market drugs. Throughout most of the movie, there's hardly a person who isn't on drugs at one time or another. In fact, the overmedication theme seems to be the foundation of reality for the characters in this film.
Speaking of reality, the film does a wonderful job exploring the nature of reality and the way our perception creates our own individual reality, as well as the realities of an entire community. |
Samuel S. Epstein, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Others he reports are turning to a Posilac "black market" to keep cows from crashing from drug withdrawal. In California, following the 50% cutback in Posilac supplies in early 2004, theft of Posilac shipments to farms became a serious problem. Hardin, no fan of Posilac, also says that many farmers are fuming at Monsanto because it was in double violation of the provisions of its annual sales contract by failing to provide guaranteed volumes of the drug and also by raising its price. "Monsanto did not come out well in anybody's eyes," according to Hardin. |
Alex Steffen
See book keywords and concepts |  Wire stolen to be sold on the black market (a problem that pops up nearly everywhere you find poor people and exposed cables). It's just never going to happen.
This is the leapfrogging gap: all of the services that our society has delivered—and continues to deliver—via industrial-age means have turned out not to travel very well into the poor world. Satellite dishes are everywhere, but hundreds of millions of households don't even have a source of clean water. We can put satellite dishes on trucks, but the water supply requires extensive infrastructure of the sort built in Victorian England. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The reality of the economics here means that even if we ban nicotine products, there would certainly be a black market for them, and we might, in fact, be much better off keeping them legal where they can be regulated and taxed. So that's the libertarian argument in a nutshell, and I don't claim to speak for the libertarians on this one -- this is just an overview of the more common viewpoints on the subject.
I have an alternative solution to all of this, one that keeps the free choice in the hands of the users, and yet reduces the financial impact on the public at large. |
Jacky Law
See book keywords and concepts |  The Observer was able to reveal a massive black market in individual vaccines imported from the US. As Observer journalist Jo Revill reported:
Ironically, attempts to bring in the vaccine by the back door are partly fuelled by the government's attempts to encourage the take-up rate for the MMR triple jab, by making it harder and harder for licensed clinics to obtain the single doses they need for their clients.23
Sarah Dean is a nurse who believes her son was damaged by MMR. |
Leslie Taylor, ND
See book keywords and concepts |  A black market for supplements has emerged in Norway as a result. Closer to home, in Canada, herbs with medicinal effects (any herb for which claims are made that it improves health) are now classified as drugs. The supplements tryptophan and L-carnitine were once available in Canadian health food stores for $14 per 100 capsules. Now they are available only by prescription for about $120-$190 per 100 capsules.
Surely not in America, you say! Think again. Some form of CODEX can and will become part of our law and order regulations here. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | All it would mean is that a huge black market of cigarettes would develop, and we would further enrich the drug dealers who are now peddling crack cocaine, marijuana, and other controlled substances by handing over a huge, multi-billion dollar industry in the sales of tobacco products.
This tactic would have a tremendous cost on society. Would we then declare war on tobacco the same way we've declared war on drugs today? |
E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts |  Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries. black market The illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a government. Black markets develop when, because of war, disaster, or public policy, a government tries to set prices for commodities instead of allowing the normal operations of supply and demand to set prices. blue chip stock A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations. fa "Blue chip" suggests a safe investment. |
James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch
See book keywords and concepts | | Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries. black market The illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a government. Black markets usually develop when, because of war, disaster, or public policy, a government tries to set prices for commodities instead of allowing the normal operations of supply and demand to set prices. blue chip stock A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations. fa "Blue chip" suggests a safe investment. |
John Lauritsen
See book keywords and concepts |  Some of the product was undoubtedly stolen, the code broken, and the AZT sold on the black market where, as one of the most expensive medications of all time, it was probably worth its weight in gold. Spitzig states:
Exhibit C-15 is a July 22, 1986 letter from [CENSORED] saying that some of the Study Drug, [CENSORED], had been purchased "on the street". Clemons asked them to be sure that the Study medications be kept under a "double-lock system". |
Leonard G. Horowitz, D.M.D., M.A., M.P.H.
See book keywords and concepts |  Or even if a million new hypodermics are sent into a country like Zaire, likely as not they'll end up on the black market rather than ending up in the hospitals that Ms. Garrett was talking about.2
Evading the question of political corruption and incompetence, Berkelman—like a well-trained media spokesperson—replied:
Berkelman: Yes, but at the same time the world has grown pretty complacent about infectious diseases. We do have some diseases that are targeted. But for the last few decades, we really have said, 'Well, we've conquered smallpox, and we're dealing with some of the others. |
Christian Ratsch
See book keywords and concepts |  Cannabis x and hybrids), and, more rarely, hash oil are available on the black market. Holland has its "coffee shops" (cf. Coffea arabica) and bars where the police tolerate the sale of small quantities of hemp preparations (cf. Haag 1995). The legal situation for hemp consumers varies greatly from one country to another, and even within countries. While much of Europe now regards hemp consumption as a minor offense (Biihrer n.d.), some Southeast Asian countries (Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines) may impose the death penalty on convicted hemp consumers. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
See book keywords and concepts | | As a result, Dutch consumers pay inflated black market prices. This is not necessarily the optimal model for marijuana price control, since the lion's share of the profits go to illicit traffickers.
In a legalized market, the easiest way to maintain marijuana prices would appear to be through some form of excise tax, as presently imposed on alcohol and tobacco. This could conveniently be assessed on licensed manufacturers or wholesalers, like the federal tax on cigarettes. Aside from a strict prohibition against sales to unlicensed distributors, cultivators need not be directly regulated. |
American Medical Publishing
See book keywords and concepts | | Individual pills can sell for as much as $25 to $50 on the black market.
The drug is so popular because it produces an extremely pleasant, euphoric feeling. It's a true, blissful escape drug. For people with high stress or emotional problems, the escape that Tylenol-3 provides is highly desirable. That'why it's so easy to get hooked. Also, another major contributor to addiction is the fact that codeine's effect is quickly resisted by the body. That is, after the first several doses of Tylenol-3, it takes a bigger and bigger dose each time to get the same high one experienced the first time. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
See book keywords and concepts | | When prohibition was eliminated, the cost of alcohol plummeted to about a third of its black market cost. When formerly contraband substances were re-introduced into the legal marketplace, their cost was reduced between 30-80%; for example, costs of abortions were reduced about 80% and prices of formerly banned books reduced about 30%.
Using a conservative estimate of 50% reduction in marijuana prices to the consumer if it were regulated, the marijuana industry based on present users would gross $22 billion a year. |
Ann Blake Tracy, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | This is in addition to millions of bootleg drugs that find their way into the black market...during the last five years, the illegal use of the billions of these pills...has reached epidemic proportions. The results of this traffic which have come to our attention, revealed the following picture:
"The illegal use of these drugs is increasing at a fantastic rate among juveniles and young adults.
"The use of these drugs has a direct causal relationship to increased crimes of violence. |
Hemp TodayEd Rosenthal
See book keywords and concepts | | The result is to create an illicit black market for cannabis that is neither regulated nor taxed, leaving many of the same basic enforcement problems as prohibition.
These problems can be avoided by legalization, under which cannabis could be legally sold, taxed and regulated like alcohol or tobacco. (It should be noted that legalization need not involve the evils of commercialization, given suitable restrictions on advertising). The world presently has no example of a completely legalized cannabis market, since this is forbidden by the Single Convention Treaty on Narcotics. |
Covert Bailey
See book keywords and concepts |  However, anabolic steroids are obtained on the black market, and there are no controls on their content, purity, or dosage. There is no telling what kind of damage they can cause, especially in a teenager who is already going through some pretty dramatic hormone changes. Of particular concern is that many athletes like to "stack" the drugs,- that is, they take three or four different kinds of steroids simultaneously to really trigger the muscle-building effect.
Research is scanty. Experimenting with anabolic steroids on human subjects is considered unethical and dangerous. |
Grace Ross Lewis
See book keywords and concepts |  In Europe these supplements are considered black market products. However, many Europeans acquire them from American friends. Even though they can be found in health food stores in the U.S., they are under-the-counter products in Canadian stores.
80. What does DHEA stand for?
It stands for dehydroepiandrosterone, which is called the mother hormone. It has been a "hot" supplement for the last couple of years.
81. What is DHEA?
DHEA is dehydroepiandrosterone. It is a plant derivative of a hormone from the Mexican wild yam. |
Carlton Fredericks, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | We talk about a population explosion to demonstrate how fertile we are, but we don't count the childless couples trying to buy babies in the black market, nor do we hear the urgent voices of the women making the rounds of the fertility clinics and gynecologists' offices. Few of us, preoccupied with the population explosion, realize that 10 percent of our marriages are involuntarily barren and 16 percent of our young men incapable of fathering children, a percentage which rises with increasing age. |
Christian Ratsch
See book keywords and concepts | | In Hawaii, poor individuals who were unwilling or unable to pay the exaggerated black market prices for Hawaiian marijuana (Cannabis indica) used and still use the seeds as an inebriant (Brown and Malone 1978, 15*; Emboden 1972*). In contrast, the plant does not appear in the traditional ethnobotany of Hawaii (cf. Krauss 1993).
Today, the seeds are used in the white Australian drug scene as psychedelic agents. It is not known whether the Aborigines ever used them. In the Californian subculture, the seeds as well as preparations made with them are used in sexual magical rituals a la Crowley. |
American Medical Publishing
See book keywords and concepts | | There is a major black market for hydrocodone for people want to take if for reasons other than pain.
Possible alternatives — There are many safe alternatives for dealing with pain, including accupunture, massage, meditation. Depending on the type of pain hydrocodone is prescribed for, there are many alternative herbal remedies. For example, feverfew is indicated for headaches. If you have pain, seek to deal with it naturally before you consider this risk of getting addicted to this very tricky medication. |
Christian Ratsch
See book keywords and concepts | | On the black market, one can occasionally find so-called khat pills (Nexus). Although the label often indicates that these pills contain extracts of Catha edulis, they actually consist of pure 2-CB, a synthetic phenethylamine with empathogenic effects (Schulgin and Schulgin 1991, 503ff.*).
Literature
See also the entry for ephedrine.
Ahmed, M. B., and A. B. El-Qirbi. 1993. Biochemical effects of Catha edulis, cathine, and cathinone on adrenocortical functions. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 39:213-16.
Beitter, A. 1900. Pharmacognostisch-chemische Untersuchung der Catha edulis. | | Psilocybe cubensis is the psilocybin mushroom that is most commonly available on the black market (Turner 1994, 27*).
Magic mushrooms are usually consumed in fresh or dried form. With time, certain specific forms of ingesting the mushrooms have been developed: Dipped in honey or powdered, the mushrooms may be drunk with cacao (cf. Theobroma cacao). From time to time, the mushrooms are also eaten with chocolate (cf. Remann 1989, 248*).
In Thailand, the mushroom is dried and then smoked or baked into cookies together with hemp {Cannabis indica) (Allen and Merlin 1992b, 213). | | As a result, the black market was flooded with poor-quality preparations containing ingredients that the users often did not know about (Ahrens 1995). Uncertainties about the purity and quality of these products, combined with the development of a tolerance toward MDMA and the need for a "natural" alternative, have led to increasing numbers of plant products (so-called natural drugs) appearing on the party scene (cf. energy drinks). |
Grace Ross Lewis
See book keywords and concepts | | Although just trace amounts would prevent this, many people buy noniodized salt on the black market to save money. Maternal iodine deficiency results in growth and brain impairment in the child.
99. I know that sodium is a chemical element. What does it mean when a label says the food has low sodium?
This term refers to food that has no more than 140 milligrams of sodium per serving. Therefore, it is more desirable for someone who is advised to be on a low sodium diet.
100. When we see "salt free" on the label, is this the same as low sodium? |
John Lauritsen
See book keywords and concepts | | One popular bath house in New York (now closed) sold black market tetracycline on the second floor, along with all kinds of street drugs.
In the early days of the epidemic, one etiological hypothesis was "immunological overload". The idea was that under repeated and multiple cases of infectious disease — hepatitis, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, etc. — the immune system was battered down until it collapsed irreversibly. There is no doubt an element of truth in the hypothesis. | | No doubt some gay men will be unable to break the habit, and will continue to consume black market poppers. Both in New York City and San Francisco there were gay men with AIDS who kept popper bottles on the table by their death bed; they continued inhaling them as long as they were able to breathe.9
But no longer can poppers be presented as harmless "room odorizers", or as an acceptable part of the gay male lifestyle. The nitrite inhalants are, for very good reasons, a "banned hazardous product". |
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