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 "Pfizer gave up on the trials for women, but many of them still use it. A black market has been established and sales of the drug to women are flourishing. Additionally, the women get the drug from their sexual partners who have legitimate prescriptions.85
Another black market public that results in under-reporting is that involving young men and women who attend rave clubs. The men take a drug called Sextasy, which is a combination of the street drug ecstasy and Viagra."- Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "Welles is confronted by his former friend, played by Joseph Cotten, about his bad behavior, which in this case is selling penicillin on the black market. The dramatic, conclusive confrontation occurs on Vienna's Riesenrad, a massive Ferris wheel. With the Austrian capital's skyline behind him and the Danube River and the Vienna Woods below, Harry Lime justifies his behavior and the conflicts he has created: "In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed—and they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance."- Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.) |
| "Products from Russia and China are sold on the black market. More than ten billion dollars each year is profited with Epo.
However, cycling is just one example. One can find other examples in baseball, boxing, football, heavy-weight lifting, skiing, tennis, sprinting, swimming, wrestling and even golf. The most obvious is body building. Body building is contaminated
with drugs - one just has to look at all those artificial muscles, and know without further investigation. Anabolica is the talk of the day in fitness studios. Insiders talk about structures similar to the illegal drug market." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Whitaker: "There is a story of a couple in West Virginia who were no longer prescribed OxyContin213 by their doctor and so they start to take heroin, which costs much less than the black market pharmaceutical would on the street. OxyContin is actually a suitable substitute for heroin." " With your work on so many patients, are there times when natural and complementary supplements and therapies don't work as well as conventional drugs? Dr. Whitaker: "One example is Dilantin.214 This drug is an excellent therapy for anxiety, depression, and a racing mind." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Another black market public that results in under-reporting is that involving young men and women who attend rave clubs. The men take a drug called Sextasy, which is a combination of the street drug ecstasy and Viagra.86 Since the drug ecstasy acts as a un-inhibitor, the result is a widely promiscuous course of behavior with its attendant problems in risky sexual behavior. The drug is readily available although it is supposed to be sold only with a doctor's prescription, through pharmacies for $8-10 per pill. It is currently obtainable easily over the Internet." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) |
 "Nobody knows exactly how much the global fruit black market generates, but the worldwide underground trade in protected flora and fauna generates an estimated 6 to 10 billion dollars annually.
Without fruit flies, importing fruits would be easier. Even though free trade agreements have eliminated many tariffs and other trade obstacles, unfounded phytosanitary concerns are often cited as a carte blanche to bar the import of foreign products. For cases when fruits genuinely harbor pests that could endanger domestic crops, these measures are vitally important."- Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) |
 "Changing money on the black market means you exchange your U.S. dollars for the local currency at a better rate than you would get at a bank or exchange house. It's tempting, because the rates offered are often many times higher than the official exchange rate. But the black market is also usually illegal, and it can be risky, as Diana found out.
"My husband and I have been to Brazil several times, and we'd always exchanged money on the black market with no problem. Well, this last time this respectable-looking guy approached us and asked if we'd like to exchange some money."- Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.) |
 "The Observer was able to reveal a massive black market in individual vaccines imported from the US. As Observer journalist Jo Revill reported:
Ironically, attempts to bring in the vaccine by the back door are partly fuelled by the government's attempts to encourage the take-up rate for the MMR triple jab, by making it harder and harder for licensed clinics to obtain the single doses they need for their clients.23
Sarah Dean is a nurse who believes her son was damaged by MMR."- Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.) |
 "Human growth hormone was moderate in cost and relatively easy to obtain, either from willing doctors or on the black market. Athletes and their trainers were interested in hGH for its growth-promoting action on skeletal tissue: "It caused a significant percentage increase in fat free weight and a decrease in fat without a significant retention of extracellular fluid" (Kicman and Cowan, 1992: 504). Some believed that it was "more potent than anabolic steroids or could be used in conjunction with steroids to increase muscular size and strength" (p. 504)."- Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "BlueLinx's suppliers cite certificates widely distributed on the Indonesian black market, RAN alleged.
In more correspondence from RAN, I was given information about the BlueLinx supplier Kayu Lapis Indonesia, which "is one of the largest plywood mills in the world. According to an annual document submitted by the company to the Indonesian Department of Forestry, half the timber procured by the company in 2001, or 299,368 out of 594,901 cubic meters, originated from sources that were either legally disputed or unknown."
JP Morgan Chase has also been condemned by RAN. "- David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) |
 "Wire stolen to be sold on the black market (a problem that pops up nearly everywhere you find poor people and exposed cables). It's just never going to happen.
This is the leapfrogging gap: all of the services that our society has delivered—and continues to deliver—via industrial-age means have turned out not to travel very well into the poor world. Satellite dishes are everywhere, but hundreds of millions of households don't even have a source of clean water. We can put satellite dishes on trucks, but the water supply requires extensive infrastructure of the sort built in Victorian England."- Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) |
 "Others he reports are turning to a Posilac "black market" to keep cows from crashing from drug withdrawal. In California, following the 50% cutback in Posilac supplies in early 2004, theft of Posilac shipments to farms became a serious problem. Hardin, no fan of Posilac, also says that many farmers are fuming at Monsanto because it was in double violation of the provisions of its annual sales contract by failing to provide guaranteed volumes of the drug and also by raising its price. "Monsanto did not come out well in anybody's eyes," according to Hardin."- Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.) |
| "These include biomedical supplements like hGH that can be purchased over the Internet or on the black market for enhancing athletic performance.
The legitimacy of a biomedical enhancement depends in part on the viewpoint one adopts. Chapters in recent books point to some contentious policy issues: Allen Buchanan and his colleagues (2000) ask, "Why not the best?" while Erik Parens (1998) counters with, "Is better always good?" We can bracket the specific ethical issues these authors raise and yet appreciate that these questions capture fundamental questions raised by biomedical enhancements." - Peter Conrad, The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "Monsanto was bullied for a change, forcing it to halt sales of all Roundup-ready soya beans because the company is losing money to the black market in countries where governments won't enforce patent laws (New York Times Jan. 21, 2004).
Adding insult to injury, Swiss Re (which insures insurance companies) published a report on GMOs stating they "pose the likelihood of new types of loss patterns" and that the technology itself "represents a particularly exposed long-term risk." Meantime, in Canada, not one but two earthquakes began to rumble throughout the biotech industry." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) |
 "Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries. black market The illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a government. Black markets develop when, because of war, disaster, or public policy, a government tries to set prices for commodities instead of allowing the normal operations of supply and demand to set prices. blue chip stock A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations. fa "Blue chip" suggests a safe investment."- E. D. Hirsch, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (Get the book.) |
| "Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries. black market The illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a government. Black markets usually develop when, because of war, disaster, or public policy, a government tries to set prices for commodities instead of allowing the normal operations of supply and demand to set prices. blue chip stock A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations. fa "Blue chip" suggests a safe investment." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) "Bilateral agreements often create special terms for specific goods traded between two countries. black market The illegal buying and selling of goods above the price fixed by a government. Black markets usually develop when, because of war, disaster, or public policy, a government tries to set prices for commodities instead of allowing the normal operations of supply and demand to set prices. blue chip stock A term used to describe stocks of high-quality, financially sound corporations. fa "Blue chip" suggests a safe investment." - E. D. Hirsch, Joseph F. Kett, James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.) |
 "As a result, the black market was flooded with poor-quality preparations containing ingredients that the users often did not know about (Ahrens 1995). Uncertainties about the purity and quality of these products, combined with the development of a tolerance toward MDMA and the need for a "natural" alternative, have led to increasing numbers of plant products (so-called natural drugs) appearing on the party scene (cf. energy drinks)."- Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "In Hawaii, poor individuals who were unwilling or unable to pay the exaggerated black market prices for Hawaiian marijuana (Cannabis indica) used and still use the seeds as an inebriant (Brown and Malone 1978, 15*; Emboden 1972*). In contrast, the plant does not appear in the traditional ethnobotany of Hawaii (cf. Krauss 1993). Today, the seeds are used in the white Australian drug scene as psychedelic agents. It is not known whether the Aborigines ever used them. In the Californian subculture, the seeds as well as preparations made with them are used in sexual magical rituals a la Crowley." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
 "A black market for supplements has emerged in Norway as a result. Closer to home, in Canada, herbs with medicinal effects (any herb for which claims are made that it improves health) are now classified as drugs. The supplements tryptophan and L-carnitine were once available in Canadian health food stores for $14 per 100 capsules. Now they are available only by prescription for about $120-$190 per 100 capsules.
Surely not in America, you say! Think again. Some form of CODEX can and will become part of our law and order regulations here."- Leslie Taylor, ND, The Healing Power of Rainforest Herbs: A Guide to Understanding and Using Herbal Medicinals (Get the book.) |
| "On the black market, one can occasionally find so-called khat pills (Nexus). Although the label often indicates that these pills contain extracts of Catha edulis, they actually consist of pure 2-CB, a synthetic phenethylamine with empathogenic effects (Schulgin and Schulgin 1991, 503ff.*).
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See also the entry for ephedrine.
Ahmed, M. B., and A. B. El-Qirbi. 1993. Biochemical effects of Catha edulis, cathine, and cathinone on adrenocortical functions. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 39:213-16.
Beitter, A. 1900. Pharmacognostisch-chemische Untersuchung der Catha edulis." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
 "The whole story is told in Webster's book, now out of print and selling for black market prices: The Vertical Plane, Grafton, London 1989.10
The manifestation of an apparently ancient spirit in modern guise seems remarkably similar to another computer possession story. Reverend Jim Peasboro, from Savannah, GA not only believes in computers being possessed by evil energies - he has written a book about it entitled The Devil in the Machine. According to him, today's thinking machines have enough space on their hard drives to accommodate Satan or one of his cronies. "- Keith Scott-Mumby, Virtual Medicine: A New Dimension in Energy Healing (Get the book.) |
| "But the black market is also usually illegal, and it can be risky, as Diana found out.
"My husband and I have been to Brazil several times, and we'd always exchanged money on the black market with no problem. Well, this last time this respectable-looking guy approached us and asked if we'd like to exchange some money. We said okay and gave him $100, and he asked us to follow him a little way. Then he handed us a wad of money and took off. Once we took a look at the money, we realized we'd been taken. It was a pile of worthless money?old bills that had been devalued ?" - Debora Tkac, Kim Anderson, Everyday Health Tips: 2000 Practical Hints for Better Health and Happiness (Get the book.) |
 "An antibiotics black market, operating in tandem with the heroin trade, developed in many cities in Europe, Asia, and the United States, servicing heroin users with a variety of antimicrobials. But their use of these medicinal drugs was counterproductive, because the black market's supplies were sporadic and rarely offered consistent varieties of antibiotics.
Drug addicts, therefore, became ideal breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant organisms."- Laurie Garrett, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance (Get the book.) |
| "Psilocybe cubensis is the psilocybin mushroom that is most commonly available on the black market (Turner 1994, 27*).
Magic mushrooms are usually consumed in fresh or dried form. With time, certain specific forms of ingesting the mushrooms have been developed: Dipped in honey or powdered, the mushrooms may be drunk with cacao (cf. Theobroma cacao). From time to time, the mushrooms are also eaten with chocolate (cf. Remann 1989, 248*).
In Thailand, the mushroom is dried and then smoked or baked into cookies together with hemp {Cannabis indica) (Allen and Merlin 1992b, 213)." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) |
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