Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Siegel admits that today's drugs of choice, both legal and illegal, are too dangerous and too seductive to be used safely. But he is convinced that nontoxic, nonaddictive drugs can be devised, even though "the research may require the same effort and cost man put forth to go to the moon." The utopian intoxicants he envisions would provide pleasure or stimulation within limits but would not cause a user to lose control, nor pose any danger of overdose. Such wonder drugs may be years away, Siegel concedes, but he notes that molecular chemists have developed hundreds of new psychoactive...
...trigger the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, their sights are often set on a very different sort of defendant: a wealthy professional in designer pinstripes and Gucci loafers. In the nearly 20 years of its existence, RICO has evolved beyond its Mob-busting origins to become a powerful legal weapon against the upper reaches of white-collar crime. And because of its broad civil provisions, the statute has also become a tool for transforming common commercial and business disputes into major, expensive racketeering lawsuits...
...quickly it can come to terms with growing popular demands for more radical political and economic change -- even if the party runs the risk of angering Moscow. So far, the Baltic challenge has not erupted in ethnic violence and social anarchy; instead, it has been subtly expressed in arcane legal debate and parliamentary procedure. For President Mikhail Gorbachev, it represents both a bold affirmation of his goal of creating a society governed by law and an assault against the national union he has vowed to protect. How he responds could determine the future of perestroika...
...Boston Phoenix, Walsh has been involved in real estate transactions with Police Chief Anthony Paolillo, City Clerk Joseph E. Connarton and City Councilor Sheila T. Russell. He also loaned $15,000 to Deputy City Solicitor Donald Drisdell in 1986--after Drisdell had just been hired by the city's legal department but before he acquired his current position...
Walsh said that he contacted the state ethics commission to ensure that his actions were legal before undergoing any business transactions with government officials. He also has a private counsel who makes sure that any dealings are legal, he said...