FDA Moves Forward With Marijuana-Based Drug To Fight Childhood Epilepsy. The Food and Drug Administration has granted orphan drug designation for a cannabis-based drug developed to treat childhood-onset epilepsy, GW Pharmaceuticals announced last week.
The Sherman Antitrust makes monopoly power illegal. Under the Sherman Act monopoly power is considered the ability of a business to control a price within its relevant product market or its geographic market or to exclude a competitor from doing business within its relevant product market or geographic market.he FTC is one of the enforcement arms of the Sherman Antitrust Act. The FTC has administrative rule making and enforcement authority. Administrative law judges frequent issue opinions, similar to court opinions, regarding what is considered monopoly power under the Sherman Act.
Itâs worse than that, though, because Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution actually bans foreign payola for U.S. officials. The constitutional ban on foreign cash payments to U.S. officials is known as the Emoluments Clause and originated from Article VI of the Articles of Confederation. The purpose of the clause was to prevent foreign governments from buying influence in the U.S. by paying off U.S. government officials.