This is the tenth case to be filed in the Antitrust Division’s ongoing investigation into the generic pharmaceutical industry. To date, five of the six companies charged—including Taro U.S.A.’s co-conspirator Sandoz Inc.—have admitted to their roles in antitrust conspiracies and resolved through DPAs under which they’ve collectively agreed to pay over $426 million in criminal penalties. In addition, four executives have been charged for their roles in fixing prices of generic drugs. Former Taro U.S.A. executive Ara Aprahamian was indicted in February 2020 and is awaiting trial. The other three executives have pleaded guilty, including a former senior executive at Sandoz Inc.
“At first it’s cool, and then you realize, I’m filling some drugs that are for some pretty serious health problems as well. And these are the people that are running the country,” Kim said, listing treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s.
“It makes you kind of sit back and say, ‘Wow, they’re making the highest laws of the land and they might not even remember what happened yesterday.’”
“Allegations range, of course, from smuggling in contraband to our inmates here, but also using their official capacity as officers to protect what they believe to be drug transactions and drug shipments traveling through Georgia,”
That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested.
That sound you hear is the ACLU howling in protest. Florida Governor Rick Scott, a Republican, just signed a bill that requires welfare applicants to get drug tested. The theory behind it is that if taxpayers are required to get drug tested at work, then the people supported by their tax dollars should be required to meet the same strict standards. Seems fair to us.
Congratulations, Mr. Smith. You're not a drug addict, so you can now be a leech.
CBS Miami has the pee particulars:
The bill also requires that those who apply for welfare must pay for the drug testing out of their own pockets. However, the cost would be reimbursed if the person passes the drug test.
Republicans said the measure was needed because if taxpayers are screened at their place of employment, so should welfare recipients. The drug testing bill was a priority for Scott.
“While there are certainly legitimate needs for public assistance, it is unfair for Florida taxpayers to subsidize drug addiction,” Governor Scott said. “This new law will encourage personal accountability and will help to prevent the misuse of tax dollars.”
Next stop? We say candidates for political office should also be drug tested.
Overuse of controlled substances may be the only way to explain Democrat policies.
When school officials say zero tolerance for drugs, what they really mean is zero tolerance for something that might be mistaken for drugs by someone who doesn’t really know his aspirin from a hole in the ground.
When school officials say zero tolerance for drugs, what they really mean is zero tolerance for something that might be mistaken for drugs by someone who doesn’t really know his aspirin from a hole in the ground.
AOL News has the tale of zero tolerance for intelligence:
Seventh-grader Adam Grass and three other students at Hickory Middle School in Chesapeake, Va., were suspended last week after being caught with what teachers initially thought was a bag of marijuana but turned out to be a stash of oregano, The Virginian-Pilot reports.
Unfortunately for the disciplined boys, now facing expulsion, there isn’t much of a difference between Italian herbs and Mary Jane, at least in the state’s eyes. According to school board member Christie Craig, Virginia has a zero-tolerance policy against “imitation controlled substances.”
Mary Jane? Nice use of slang that no one has used since the 60s, AOL News. This will certainly go a long way toward convincing people that you’re still bitchin’ and groovy.
Thousands of Nazi soldiers were using the drug crystal meth by the time the Soviet Union was invaded in 1941.
As our regular readers are well aware, Cops is the Editor’s favorite TV show. His normal life is lived in a peaceful, antiseptic bubble and everything he knows about the horrors of the outside world comes from that outstanding program. And if there’s one thing he’s learned from years of watching Cops, it’s that crystal meth is one bad mofo drug.
Nazi soldiers racing for the nearest pharmacy
Now it turns out that Hitler’s army was whacked out on the stuff 60 years ago.
The News Australia has the story:
The German army’s drug of choice as it overran Poland, Holland, Belgium and France was Pervitin – pills made of methamphetamine, known today as crystal meth.
Thousands of Nazi soldiers were using the drug by the time the Soviet Union was invaded in 1941.
About 200 million Pervitin pills were given to Nazi troops between 1939 and 1945, research by the German Doctors’ Association revealed.
A pharmacologist from the GDA said this week: “The blitzkrieg was fuelled by Pervitin. The idea was to turn ordinary soldiers, sailors and airmen into automatons capable of superhuman performance.”
The downside to the scheme was that many soldiers became addicted to the drug and of no use in any theatre of war.
… In January 1942, a group of 500 troops surrounded by the Red Army was attempting to escape in temperatures of -30C.
The unit’s medical officer wrote: “I decided to give them Pervitin as they began to lie down in the snow wanting to die. After half an hour the men began spontaneously reporting that they felt better.
“They began marching in orderly fashion again, their spirits improved, and they became more alert.”
So thanks to crystal meth, Nazi soldiers were completely alert as they were freezing to death, being slaughtered by the Red Army or captured and sent to Soviet slave camps.
The Editor’s wife might prefer any of those options over watching another episode of Cops. But her taste in television is as questionable as her taste in men.
ederal agents took down a large-scale Ecstasy dealer last month. And the undercover federal agent was very specific about what he wanted from that dealer: 150,000 extra thick tablets. They had to be yellow. And they had to carry the “Obama” logo.
Federal agents took down a large-scale Ecstasy dealer last month. And the undercover federal agent was very specific about what he wanted from that dealer: 150,000 extra thick tablets. They had to be yellow. And they had to carry the “Obama” logo.
Obama: Side effects include depression, anxiety, teeth clenching and high blood pressure
Yes, you read that correctly. Some Presidents get their faces on stamps, some get them on coins, some get them on mountain sides, but President Obama gets his on illegal party drugs.
The Smoking Gun reports the party drug particulars:
While law enforcement agents have previously seized Ecstasy pills bearing the president’s likeness from street level dealers, this appears to be the first time that a federal undercover operation specifically sought out Obama-branded narcotics from a suspected large-scale trafficker.
The ICE probe resulted in the arrest of several men, including Harjinder Brar, who pleaded guilty last month to a felony drug conspiracy charge. Agents seized 84 pounds of Ecstasy when they busted Brar and another man at the Starbucks in Bellingham. The pills, recovered from a van, were found in 26 heat-sealed plastic bags, according to investigators.
Now you might as yourself, as we did, what Ecstasy does and why drug dealers would choose to stamp President Obama’s face on illegal party drugs.
EcstasyEffects.com reports the side effects of the popular party drug:
Psychological Ecstasy side effects, including confusion, depression, sleep problems, drug craving, severe anxiety, and paranoia – during and sometimes weeks after taking Ecstasy.
Physical Ecstasy side effects brought on by use of the drug include muscle tension, involuntary teeth clenching, nausea, blurred vision, rapid eye movement, faintness, and chills or sweating. Increases in heart rate and blood pressure can also be experienced by Ecstasy users…
It all makes sense now. Those are exactly the same symptoms we’ve felt since January 20, 2009.
A Florida man arrested Wednesday on drug charges told cops that a bag of cocaine found hidden inside his buttocks did not belong to him.
We’re all guilty of saying some stupid things when we’re unexpectedly put on the spot. But the next time Raymond Roberts is arrested, he may want to think his alibi through a little more thoroughly than he did this time:
Is that a bag of crack in your ass or are you just happy to see me?
A Florida man arrested Wednesday on drug charges told cops that a bag of cocaine found hidden inside his buttocks did not belong to him. Though the suspect did cop to ownership of a bag of marijuana hidden alongside the coke.
The narcotics were discovered by Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies after Raymond Roberts’s Hyundai was pulled over on a Bradenton street for speeding Wednesday morning. Investigators, who reported smelling a strong odor of marijuana emanating from the vehicle, subsequently searched the 25-year-old Roberts and discovered his hidden stash.
… Roberts quickly disavowed ownership of the cocaine. “The white stuff is not mine, but the weed is,” he claimed, adding that the crack in his crack was the property of a friend who had previously borrowed the car and left the drug on the passenger seat. Roberts explained that when he was pulled over for speeding, he concealed the second bag of narcotics.
IHTM’s editor is not embarrassed to admit that Cops is his favorite TV show. And one of his all-time favorite episodes is the one where the police find drugs in a suspect’s pockets while frisking him. The suspect’s response? “These aren’t my pants.”
We didn’t think any suspect could top that line, but Mr. Roberts seems to have proven us wrong.
Our first thought when we read that the Justice Department wants to hire ebonics translators? It’s gotta be another one of Eric Holder’s wacky social justice schemes. But we were wrong.
Our first thought when we read that the Justice Department wants to hire ebonics translators? It’s gotta be another one of Eric Holder’s wacky social justice schemes. But we were wrong.
The Smoking Gun has the story:
The Department of Justice is seeking to hire linguists fluent in Ebonics to help monitor, translate, and transcribe the secretly recorded conversations of subjects of narcotics investigations, according to federal records.
A maximum of nine Ebonics experts will work with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Atlanta field division, where the linguists, after obtaining a “DEA Sensitive” security clearance, will help investigators decipher the results of “telephonic monitoring of court ordered nonconsensual intercepts, consensual listening devices, and other media”.
The DEA’s need for full-time linguists specializing in Ebonics is detailed in bid documents related to the agency’s mid-May issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) covering the provision of as many as 2100 linguists for the drug agency’s various field offices. Answers to the proposal were due from contractors on July 29.
Is the Justice Department trying to imply that blacks are drug dealers? Sounds like Eric Holder is a self-loathing black racist to us.
Nevertheless, polish up your resume and send it in, homeboy. (Damn it. Is there anything sadder than an old white guy using a term like “homeboy”?)
Gone are the days when you could call an illegal alien an illegal alien. Also gone are the days when you could call a drug dealer a drug dealer. As far as the U.S. Forest Service, that combination now earns you the dignified title of “displaced foreign traveler”.
The garden grown by displaced foreign traveler Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez
Gone are the days when you could call an illegal alien an illegal alien. Also gone are the days when you could call a drug dealer a drug dealer.
As far as the U.S. Forest Service, that combination now earns you the dignified title of “displaced foreign traveler”.
The Redding Searchlight takes a hilarious look at the neologistic news:
Just a typical foreign tourist visiting California, Gauldry Almonte-Hernandez must have spent a day at the San Diego Zoo and taken in the Venice Boardwalk, then driven up foggy, twisty and beautiful Highway 1 to take in the sights of San Francisco. After shopping in Chinatown, dining in North Beach and admiring the street theater around Pier 39, he headed north to see the world-famous coastal redwoods.
But something went horribly wrong.
On the road to the Lady Bird Johnson Grove, he must have taken a wrong turn on Highway 36. Once up in the rugged mountains of Trinity County, anyone can get lost. Cell coverage is spotty. Gas stations and supplies are scarce. The poor gentleman’s vacation went terribly wrong, and the next thing you know, he found himself camped out at a remote marijuana plantation south of Hayfork.
At least, that’s the impression a reader might get from a U.S. Forest Service news release, sent out to the media Tuesday morning, about a marijuana raid earlier this month. It describes Almonte-Hernandez as a “displaced foreign traveler from Michoacán, Mexico.”
Strangely, though, this poor displaced traveler — far from welcoming his rescue by the Forest Service, Trinity County Sheriff’s Department and Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement — instead reportedly tried to flee and hide as those agency’s officers arrived at the marijuana “garden,” which contained more than 7,000 plants.
A Forest Service law-enforcement dog team ran down Almonte-Hernandez, who, the Forest Service says, faces a federal charge of manufacturing a controlled substance that, if he is convicted, could carry a 10-year prison sentence.
Is that any way to treat a displaced foreign traveler?
Look for Eric Holder to dismiss all charges against Almonte-Hernandez. And don’t be surprised if the Forest Service transforms Smokey the Bear into Tokey the Bear.
Now that the government is done studying male Vietnamese prostitutes, drunken Chinese hookers and the sex lives of truck drivers, they’ve decided it’s time to move on to drug addicts.
Guys addicted to power spend your tax dollars studying guys addicted to cocaine
The U.S. government has spent $410,625 to study the effects of teaching Chinese meditation to cocaine addicts.
“Our clinical experience and pilot studies suggest that Integrative Meditation from Chinese medicine may help clients engage in treatment, reduce cravings/withdrawal symptoms, and increase treatment retention, which appear missed by a typical behavior therapy,” says the official description of the project published by the National Institutes of Health.
What they should really be studying is the idiotic spending in Washington, DC. That’s something that seems to be really addictive.
Now we learn that the Qatari diplomat who was arrested for lighting up in the restroom aboard a flight bound for Denver may not have been lighting up a cigarette. He was lighting up a “one hitter.” Unless you’re talking about baseball, we don’t have the foggiest idea what a one hitter is. Shep Smith doesn’t seem to know, either.
Now we learn that the Qatari diplomat who was arrested for lighting up in the restroom aboard a flight bound for Denver may not have been lighting up a cigarette. He was lighting up a “one hitter.”
Unless you’re talking about baseball, we don’t have the foggiest idea what a one hitter is. Shep Smith doesn’t seem to know, either (although his denial seems a bit nuanced to us).
So we went to the ultimate source of all knowledge, the Oracle of Wikipedia, to find out.
A one hitter is a miniature pipe designed for a single inhalation, or “hit” of a smokable product, normally marijuana.
This pipe may be marketed together with a rectangular (or sometimes cylindrical) wooden case with two compartments, the larger to store the herb and a narrower, cylindrical compartment to store the pipe. The case is sometimes called a dugout, hitter box, pinch hitter, a pinchey, a tote-a-smoke, or a pinger (because it makes a “ping” sound when opened).
Just another public service from the folks at IHateTheMedia.com.
Former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith beats around the proverbial bush, but he certainly seems to be be implying that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is, shall we say, partaking his country’s largest cash crop.
Former U.N. envoy to Afghanistan Peter Galbraith beats around the proverbial bush, but he certainly seems to be be implying that Afghan President Hamid Karzai is, shall we say, partaking his country’s largest cash crop.
Someone at Good Morning, America had the bright idea of interviewing the Beach Boys. But no one bothered to find out what kind of drugs Dennis Wilson had been taking the night before. Or maybe even that morning.
Someone at Good Morning, America had the bright idea of interviewing the Beach Boys. But no one bothered to find out what kind of drugs Dennis Wilson had been taking the night before. Or maybe even that morning.
The funniest part is how the rest of the Beach Boys attempt to complete the interview as if they don’t notice that Dennis was completely whacked out.
Law enforcement officials have confirmed that the President’s face, which has graced everything from comic books and action figures to paintings and chia pets, is now found embossed and printed on illegal street drugs, usually Ecstasy.
Before you say, “That explains a lot,” please allow us to clarify.
Law enforcement officials have confirmed that the President’s face, which has graced everything from comic books and action figures to paintings and chia pets, is now found embossed and printed on illegal street drugs.
The Obama drugs – usually Ecstasy – have been seized from drug dealers in cities across the United States. The illicit pharmaceuticals come in a range of colors and typically sell for about $20 a pop.
According to Answers.com, ecstasy (also called XTC or X), “is a derivative of the amphetamine family and a relative of the stimulant methamphetamine. Taken in pill form, it has a chemical relationship to the psychedelic drug mescaline.”
A little artificially-induced euphoria may be exactly what Democrats need as the President’s poll numbers stagger even lower.
Henry Waxman, a Democrat from California, admitted last week that he knew almost nothing about his preposterously expensive cap-and-trade bill. In this video, he admits that he knows almost nothing about illegal drugs. Or legal drugs. Or much of anything else.
But the guy does know how to get re-elected. And isn’t that the most important thing to know in Washington, DC?
CSNnews.com reports that, “The National Institutes of Health is studying the use of ecstasy, LSD and other ‘party drugs’ in Porto Alegre, Brazil, with a $117,876 investment from taxpayers. According to an NIH summary of the grant, ‘The topic is interesting and the data will be useful to understand the emerging problem of club drugs and raves in Brazil.’
Looks like college professors have figured out how to get the government to fund their kinky foreign vacations.
So we’re thinking of studying the sex habits of middle-aged men in Bora Bora. We figure it should cost about a quarter mil. Anybody know where to get the application forms?
