The FDA is trying to limit illegal sales to minors.
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The panel also recommended maintaining stiff penalties against illegal sales.
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One promise of legalization was that regulated cannabis would lure consumers away from illegal sales.
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With the government underestimating illegal sales, it's unlikely there will be stricter enforcement, Levinson added.
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With few ways of buying the overseas music that was so popular here, illegal sales flourished.
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Illegal sales made up 87 percent of the North American weed market, according to the company's analysis.
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In 2017, ZTE was fined by the Commerce Department for making illegal sales to those two countries.
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Florida is suing CVS and Walgreens for allegedly overselling painkillers and not taking precautions to prevent illegal sales.
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Some dealers continued their illegal sales even after receiving warnings from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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"These illegal sales must stop," then-Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wrote in a letter to Walgreens President of Operations Richard Ashworth.
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If the estimates of the French press are correct, the illegal sales amount to €68 million ($76 million) in total.
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The Federal Trade Commission says the number of illegal sales calls, particularly using automated systems, has increased dramatically since 2009.
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Inspectors found illegal sales rates of between 25 and 34 percent at Shell, Chevron, Casey's General Stores and 7-Eleven.
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Liquor stores, supermarkets and pharmacies were significantly more likely to check for ID and less likely to make the illegal sales.
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The regulator, China Insurance Regulatory Commission, launched a drive late last year to curb illegal sales of Hong Kong insurance products.
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She does hope, however, to convince social media companies to become more vigilant when it comes to shutting down illegal sales.
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" Juul spokeswoman Victoria Davis said the company "agrees with the FDA that illegal sales of our product to minors are unacceptable.
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Facebook also shared for the first time its efforts to crack down on illegal sales of firearms and drugs on its platform.
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" A 2019 study conducted by Applied Development Economics estimated that California has about $6.2 billion in cannabis demand from "presumably illegal sales.
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Regulators fined Wells Fargo $185 million for the accounts and other illegal sales practices they found were rampant in the bank's culture.
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At the same time, Wells Fargo's illegal sales practices have stirred memories of big banks duping unwitting customers during the subprime mortgage boom.
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CPFB, the watchdog agency set up to protect consumers after the recession, last year fined Wells Fargo $100 million for illegal sales processes.
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This public health crisis has left officials scrambling for ways to cut down on illegal sales of these controlled substances, including online sales.
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Why are illegal sales of exotic pets having a massive impact on ecosystems and populations of lesser-known animals, according to the article?
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But it's clear from smaller-scale legalizations that heavy users drive pot-market economics - an obstacle in converting illegal sales to legal ones.
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Some police and council members fear the existence of these clubs creates an environment that makes illegal sales, transport, and diversion of marijuana easier.
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In September, the FDA ordered Juul and other e-cigarette manufacturers to find a way to halt illegal sales of their product to minors.
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The FDA will also impose new rules to curb illegal sales of e-cigarettes products to minors, including age-verification requirements on online sales.
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Serr didn't give details on how police would disrupt the black market, but noted that the government should invest in fighting illegal sales online.
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The lawsuit seeks to require Juul to stop targeting minors, as well as pay fines associated with the deceptive marketing and illegal sales allegations.
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A break came when the US seized a laptop belonging to a ZTE lawyer that contained a trove of documents outlining the company's illegal sales.
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She notes for example that the software helps brands track sellers to highlight adjacent issues related to illegal sales, such as underpricing in specific geographies.
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Indeed, the study team also found that illegal sales of the more potent opioids, oxycodone and fentanyl, increased by the greatest amounts in these cryptomarkets.
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Similar technology is already being used to catch illegal sales of opioids online and has even helped track the initial outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
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Branstad also stressed the importance of opening markets to agricultural goods, protecting intellectual property and addressing China's "unfair and illegal" sales of low-priced steel.
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He said the company trains its pharmacists and their assistants about their responsibilities when dispensing controlled substances and gives them tools to detect potentially illegal sales.
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Kuk officials have urged the government to give low-interest loans to indigenous villagers to help them purchase land to halt illegal sales of "ding" rights.
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Trade headwinds remain a risk, with U.S. President Donald Trump's administration keen to tackle what it regards as China's "unfair and illegal" sales of underpriced steel.
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WASHINGTON — As they inspect the nation's gun stores, federal investigators regularly find violations of the law, ranging from minor record-keeping errors to illegal sales of firearms.
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb wants social media companies and internet service providers to crack down on illegal sales of opioids on their platforms.
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The uptick in teen usage can be attributed to several factors, FDA says, including: flavored cartriges, marketing practices that appear targeted to youth, and illegal sales to minors.
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When bitcoin entered public awareness it was chiefly as a facilitator of anonymous, illegal sales on the "dark web" and as the currency of choice for online ransoms.
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The Wells Fargo case came to light late last week when the bank agreed to pay a $185 million fine for what regulators called "widespread illegal" sales practices.
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New Frontier Data, a Denver-based company that studies cannabis trends, estimates there are $22018 billion in illegal sales nationally — seven times the size of the legal market.
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The bank has been in damage control mode since news broke in September that it agreed to pay a $185 million fine in conjunction with illegal sales practices.
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Fast and Furious has its roots in the George W. Bush administration, when career ATF agents sought to arrest drug cartel bosses by tracking illegal sales of firearms.
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Wells Fargo's image has taken a beating over the past several days, and the scandal over its illegal sales practices are causing concern that the damage could spread.
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The agency will also impose new rules to curb illegal sales of e-cigarettes products to minors, including age-verification requirements on online sales, according to the Post.
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The agency will also impose new rules to curb illegal sales of e-cigarettes products to minors, including age-verification requirements on online sales, according to the Post.
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Solar has joined several other analysts recently in issuing warnings about Wells Fargo's standing, most citing not balance sheet issues but rather "reputational risk" from the illegal sales scandal.
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Mackey said he's only been in limited talks with Facebook and Twitter, which were spurred by an FDA summit in 2018 focused on cracking down on illegal sales online.
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According to the FTC, the best defense against unwanted robocalls is to sign up on the Do Not Call Registry, hang up on illegal sales calls and file a complaint.
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Hickey, a 71-year-old Irishman, is in a maximum-security Rio prison following a police raid last week at his hotel on suspicion he participated the illegal sales plot.
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Brazilian police arrested Hickey, Europe's top Olympic official, in a dawn raid of his Rio beachfront hotel on Wednesday, in connection with an investigation into illegal sales of Olympics tickets.
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Walgreens, CVS Health – Walgreens and CVS were sued by the state of Florida, which accuses the nation's two biggest drugstore chains of not taking precautions to stop illegal sales of opioids.
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In the letters, dated April 5, the FDA asked the companies to submit a plan of action within 30 days, describing how they will address and mitigate illegal sales to minors.
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"Illegal sales mean that there's always a risk of buying spurious seeds and we buy such smuggled seeds as there is no alternative," said Vijay Niwal, another cotton farmer in Maharashtra.
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Among all of the indignities Wells Fargo has sustained in the wake of its illegal sales scandal, the bank is now out of good standing with a leading consumer watchdog group.
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In Central African Republic, diamond smuggling gangs are plundering the country's resources and funding conflict by making illegal sales via WhatsApp and Facebook, said a recent report by NGO Global Witness.
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The sanctions, imposed as punishment for illegal sales made by ZTE in Iran and North Korea, were later lifted to help defuse tensions between President Trump and China's leader, Xi Jinping.
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Go deeper: Trump worries ban on flavored vape products could boost illegal sales Apple to remove vaping apps from its App Store Massachusetts tees up sweeping flavored tobacco and vape ban
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And we can actually make arrests and get those guys off the street who are selling guns illegally — well, they're not illegal sales, but they're selling them on guys who probably illegal.
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Juul is offering retailers $100 million in incentives to "install a new electronic age-verification system" that the vaping giant hopes will restrict illegal sales to minors, reports the Wall Street Journal.
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Florida is suing the nation's two largest drugstore chains, Walgreens and CVS, alleging they added to the state and national opioid crisis by overselling painkillers and not taking precautions to stop illegal sales.
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The agency did not delay other aspects of its tobacco control work, including requirements for mandatory age and photo-ID checks to prevent illegal sales to minors and the banning of free samples.
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"Despite knowledge of the illegal sales practices, Community Bank senior leadership failed to take sufficient action to prevent and reduce the incidence of such practices," the Department of Justice said in a Feb.
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The FDA last year sent a warning letter over illegal sales of Juul, Logic, Blu, Vuse, and MarkTen, which together owned 97% of the e-cigarette market, in a crackdown on vaping shops.
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Then there's hefty taxes, which include a 15 percent excise tax in addition to sales tax and local fees that some say discourage customer spending and encourage illegal sales, where profit margins are wider.
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Portantino said the measures were aimed at preventing weapons from falling into the hands of those who might want to harm themselves or others, both through purchases and through illegal sales on secondary markets.
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The suit argues that CVS and Walgreens contributed to the opioid epidemic by overselling painkillers and not being diligent enough with stopping illegal sales, according to a statement on the Florida Attorney General's website.
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Illegal sales of cigarettes and e-cigarettes to young people were even higher at other national gas station and convenience store chains, the agency found, but it singled out Walgreens for its harshest criticism.
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Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal wrote about how gun sellers continue to skirt Facebook's restrictions three years after it implemented a ban in response to illegal sales being negotiated on the platform.
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Some of the plans include better systems to stop the illegal sales of e-cigarettes to people under 18, limiting the availability of flavored smoke pods and raising the overall tobacco-buying age to 21.
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Requests for new credit cards saw a 4 percent monthly decline and a 55-percent drop on a yearly basis, its highest rate since illegal sales practices at its retail branches surfaced in September 2016.
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Fast and Furious: Beginning during the George W. Bush administration, career agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives tracked illegal sales of firearms, with the ultimate goal of arresting drug cartel bosses.
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The announcement comes as Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has urged social media companies and internet service providers to do more to crack down on illegal sales of opioids on their platforms.
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Wells Fargo has come under increased pressure since a scandal over illegal sales practices erupted there, and shares are off 17.3 percent year-to-date, worst in the group among banks in the S&P 500.
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According to the government, "several thousand drug dealers" used Silk Road to sell drugs and other illegal products to over 100,000 anonymous buyers and to launder hundreds of millions of dollars earned from those illegal sales.
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Internet firms have been reluctant to police illegal narcotics sales because of concern it will "open the floodgates" to having to police everything on their platforms, Mackey added, and to liability lawsuits for illegal sales they miss.
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The statement revealed long-standing differences within the GNA's leadership, which had issued a separate statement also on Tuesday condemning the LNA move and calling on the United Nations to prevent any resulting "illegal sales" of oil.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's nominee to be the U.S. ambassador to China said on Tuesday he would do everything possible to address what he called China's "unfair and illegal" sales of underpriced steel in the world market.
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In addition to Hickey, at least three other members of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) are suspected of involvement in the illegal sales, police said: executive director Stephen Martin, secretary-general Dermot Henihan and treasurer Kevin Kilty.
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The advertising campaign, to begin in mid-April, will be published across different media channels and focus on the changes the bank has implemented since it was rocked by revelations over illegal sales practices in September last year.
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Last week, a Hong Kong bookseller said he had been held in solitary confinement on the Chinese mainland and forced to give a televised confession this year admitting to illegal sales of gossipy books about Communist Party leaders.
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The agency's announcement said that the companies with the highest rate of illegal sales to youths were Marathon, Exxon, Sunoco, BP, Citgo and Mobil, where violations were found at between 35 and 44 percent of all inspected stores.
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As part of the FDA's largest-ever coordinated action against illegal sales, the agency has sent warning letters to more than 1,723 retailers that are selling e-cigarettes to teens despite a federal ban on sales to minors.
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According to Sanchez, the measure recently enacted in California is going to put the brakes on illegal sales from Mexico—Americans, she said, will prefer to buy marijuana legally (and at a lower price) in their own country.
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The visit provided a rare moment of bipartisan consensus as elected officials from both sides of the aisle took turns pummeling the executive for what regulators have called "widespread illegal" sales practices at one of America's largest banks.
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On the law-and-order side, however, witnesses such as Emmanuel Tyndall, inspector general of Tennessee, described cases of Medicaid patients selling pain pills for $5 to $10 a pill, collecting more than $5,000 a year from illegal sales.
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Three members of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI) whose passports were seized by police on Sunday - Executive Director Stephen Martin, Secretary-General Dermot Henihan and Treasurer Kevin Kilty - are suspected of involvement in the illegal sales, police said.
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Recreational marijuana sales in Canada are expected to generate $4.3 billion in revenue in 2019, or slightly more than 60 percent of the country's total $7.1 billion marijuana market, which includes medical and illegal sales, consulting firm Deloitte noted.
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The justices declined to take up appeals by the abortion opponents and left in place a lower court's ruling blocking the release of videos that had the aim of exposing alleged illegal sales of aborted fetal tissue for profit.
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Wells Fargo, the fourth-largest U.S. lender by assets, has leaned on cost cuts to stabilize its bottom line amid sluggish revenue growth and a raft of fines and costs relating to illegal sales practices first uncovered in 2016.
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The move — which some have interpreted as Facebook taking a stance in favor of gun control — comes after President Obama and other gun safety advocates put pressure to halt illegal sales and trades on the site, the New York Times reported.
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The FDA said its inspectors found nearly 1,800 cases since 2010 in which Walgreens stores violated the law and illegally sold tobacco products to minors; 22% of the more than 6,000 inspected stores had made illegal sales, the FDA said.
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BEIJING, June 16 (Reuters) - China's insurance regulator said on Friday it will continue its months-long crackdown on illegal sales of Hong Kong insurance products by mainland agencies which it said have led to asset outflows and even money laundering.
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The Deutsche issues merely compound an image problem heightened during the financial crisis but exacerbated most recently by revelations of illegal sales practices at Wells Fargo and a general feeling in Washington that it's time to go after big banks.
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Both Holland, which "tolerates" illegal sales in regulated coffee shops and Portugal, which decriminalizes possession of all drugs—but didn't legalize sales of any—report generally positive or unremarkable results from policies that have been in place for years now.
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The announcement is another potential blow to KPMG's reputation after questions have been raised in recent years about why it failed to uncover illegal sales practices at Wells Fargo or potential corruption at FIFA, the governing international body of soccer.
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People are abusing home grow laws to grow large amounts of marijuana on their property for the purpose of out-of-state-diversion or other illegal sales; in some cases this has led to violence, property destruction, and environmental hazards.
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Walgreens did not issue a response since the lawsuit is still pending, but CVS spokesperson Mike DeAngelis told the Associated Press that the suit is unfounded since the company trains its pharmacists and their assistants to detect potentially illegal sales.
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Sloan, named Wednesday to head the troubled bank following a brutal scandal over illegal sales practices to customers, is an insider who was part of the problem and unlikely to lead Wells Fargo back, said Bove, vice president of equity research at Rafferty Capital Markets.
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"Policy makers need to understand that the way they are monitoring illegal sales from retail stores is pretty seriously flawed," said the study's lead author, Arnold Levinson, an associate professor of community and behavioral health at the Colorado School of Public Health in Aurora.
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Each province is implementing different aspects of the bill in the next 8 to 12 weeks — while the federal government has jurisdiction over parts like illegal sales to minors and assigning licenses to growers, it's up to the provinces to manage retail sales and distribution laws.
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A day after news broke that the second-largest bank in the U.S. by assets paid a $185 million fine for what regulators called "widespread illegal" sales practices, Bove ripped the company and gave it the only sell rating in his entire 35-bank coverage universe.
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On Tuesday, Mr. Stumpf is expected to face questions from the Senate Banking Committee over what the top managers at Wells Fargo knew about the widespread illegal sales activity and what they had done to stop it since it was first made public almost three years ago.
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Since then, the federal government has published the first national guidelines for prescription painkillers, required new warning labels for certain kinds of opioid painkillers, and requested an additional $1.1 billion to expand treatment facilities and finance programs to prevent overdoses and crack down on illegal sales of drugs.
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Last week, the state's top cannabis regulator, Lori Ajax, told an industry conference that the legal marketplace can expect more strain and turbulence for at least a couple of years as it deals with sustained competition from illegal sales, industry layoffs and fallout from a national vaping crisis.
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According to TechCrunch, the company's systems for handling investigations involving the sale or distribution of Juul products to minors could involve secret shoppers—Juul has active undercover shopper programs in both Canada and the U.S.—or speaking directly with the management of a retailer suspected of engaging in the illegal sales.
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An effort to ramp up prosecution of federal marijuana offenses would reinvigorate the black market in cannabis and limit the states' ability to regulate both legal and illegal sales, said Andrew Freedman, who last month left a job as Colorado's top marijuana regulator to become a consultant in the industry.
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As Senators Ben Cardin, Patrick Leahy, and Dianne Feinstein wrote in a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in opposing the new rules, the civil wars and rebellions currently taking place are being fueled by the illegal sales of what many Americans would categorize as sports rifles or hunting equipment.
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" Juul said in a statement that it agrees with the FDA that "illegal sales of our product to minors is unacceptable" and that it has programs in place to prevent and "identify and act upon these violations at retail and online marketplaces, and will announce additional measures in the coming days.
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It has recently taken steps to keep its products away from teenagers, including stopping sales of most of its flavors; halting all broadcast, print and digital advertising; and offering $100 million in incentives for retailers to adopt a new electronic age-verification system intended to curb illegal sales to minors.
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Negotiators in the Senate and the House of Representatives removed language from a must-pass defense bill that would have banned United States companies from selling parts or providing services to ZTE, which the Commerce Department says made illegal sales to Iran and North Korea in defiance of US sanctions.
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Yet ZTE resumed illegal sales to Iran even after outside counsel had been retained in connection with an ongoing grand jury investigation, and the criminal charges against ZTE were predicated in part on efforts to deceive the forensic accounting firm and defense counsel representing the company during the course of that investigation.
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Cai was charged with taking up to 53.6 million yuan ($7.8 million) in bribes to manipulate contracts and facilitate illegal sales and purchases of refined products between 1997 and 2016 during his time at Sinopec including as the head of Sinopec's trading arm Unipec and as vice president of Sinopec Group, state media said.
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Now the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which is part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, is investing in an artificial intelligence-based tool to track how "digital drug dealers" and illegal internet pharmacies market and sell opioids (though online transactions are likely not a large share of overall illegal sales).
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Trump drew criticism earlier this month when he tweeted that he was working with Chinese President Xi Jinping to try save ZTE after the Commerce Department banned it from doing business with American companies for seven years because it had violated the terms of a $1.19 billion penalty related to illegal sales to Iran and North Korea.
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Several Lodha Group projects are mired in lawsuits and police complaints alleging fraud, illegal construction, illegal sales, and violations of city planning regulations, some of which were publicly acknowledged as potential risks by the company in the bond offering and in a 2009 preliminary prospectus in advance of the firm's planned initial public offering (yet to take place), which listed dozens of civil and criminal lawsuits against the firm and its directors.
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Le Roux's alleged exploits seemingly defy belief, but several reports, including one published by VICE News in April, have detailed his apparent role as the head of a sprawling international criminal network that was involved in drug smuggling, arms shipments, illicit gold mining, several murders, and a lucrative online pharmacy scheme that federal prosecutors say facilitated illegal sales of prescription pills in the US. Many documents in Hunter's case and others linked to Le Roux have been filed under seal, leaving questions about the full extent of Le Roux's role in the investigations unanswered.
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