Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, chief of Ireland's National Drugs Strategy, said Ireland will move towards decriminalising possession of small quantities of certain narcotics as part of a "radical cultural shift".
Such no-bail restrictions, which effectively shift the burden of proof from prosecutors to the defense in determining whether a defendant should be locked up, are already in place for certain narcotics trafficking offenses and other charges.
Greg Bishop I recently watched a news segment that discussed food being as much of a drug as alcohol and certain narcotics, and while I have yet to test this hypothesis scientifically, I couldn't agree more with that statement.
The ingestion of alcohol and certain drugs, particularly sedative-tranquilizers (e.g., chlordiazepoxide and diazepam), hypnotics (e.g., flurazepam), and certain narcotics, may reduce inhibitions.
Overdosage of certain drugs—notably barbiturates, narcotics, and tranquilizers blocks normal circulatory reflexes and causes dilation of the blood vessels, leading to a fall in blood pressure that often is accompanied by a slow, full-volume pulse.
For me, Tarantino had always been the master of a certain type of narcotic euphoria in the cinema, something exquisitely superfluous, something to do with his mastery of surface and style – an ability to make you believe in it and see through it at the same time.
That's just what happened with the Rockefeller drug laws, which provided mandatory sentencing for certain kinds of narcotics offenses, filling the prisons with low-level offenders from Black and Brown communities, and then systematically making it virtually impossible for them to get employment or training when they finally are released.
Equivalent narcotic depth (END) is a commonly used way of expressing the narcotic effect of different breathing gases.
In the Supreme Court of Justice sentence SP2940 of 2016, the possession of narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drugs is decriminalized in the amount prescribed by a doctor, or in cases where it can be proven that the person needs a certain dose as a consequence of his condition of consumer, addict or sick person.
In addition, more than half of the subjects decreased their use of narcotic pain medication.
