For one thing, he arrived essentially at the same conclusion as d'Alembert and Euler: both mv and mv² are legitimate, determinable quantities.
Drug users say the main source is likely to be smugglers importing bulk quantities of legitimate supplies from France, Spain and Portugal.
For governments trying to walk the fine line between access and censorship, this reluctance to block large quantities of legitimate content in the hope of also blocking prohibited content can be crucial.
The tobacco firms also pledged to prevent their products from falling into the hands of criminals, by supplying only quantities required by the legitimate market, taking care to sell only to legitimate clients and implementing a tracking system to help law enforcement authorities if cigarettes are traded illegally.
"The notion that the government has a legitimate interest in restricting the quantity of speech to equalize the relative influence of speakers on elections," Justice Kennedy wrote in the passage cited by Justice Alito, is "antithetical to the First Amendment".
Similar-sized quantities turned up in legitimate consignments shipped to Felixstowe.
Ricin, a substance derived from castor beans that has been used in bioterror attacks, "has legitimate lab uses in very small quantities," but was not in use in this lab, the memo says.
It is therefore legitimate to raise the question regarding: "quantity without quality?
The convention does, however, make exceptions for certain controlled substances to be used as weapons or in the manufacture of weapons, based largely on the quantity that's considered commercially legitimate.
At the same time, there are a number of legitimate Chinese producers of branded products, that sell surplus quantities illegally.
We will continue to work with NIDA to ensure that there is a sufficient supply of marijuana and its derivatives (in terms of quantity and the variety of chemical constituents) to support legitimate research needs.
