Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stuff comes from Turkey, Communist China and Thailand, moves through processing plants in France, then is passed by racketeers to dope pushers on street corners, in barrooms and pool halls. Last year the Bureau of Customs seized nearly 1,500 oz. of heroin, 48,000 oz. of marijuana at U.S. ports and borders. That is a big haul, but not nearly big enough. The smuggling trade is still profitable enough to satisfy the needs of the nation's 48,000 narcotic addicts, 23,000 of whom live in New York City alone...
...judge. This is the loneliest responsibility you face on the bench - the moment when you must sentence a convicted man. The defendant now standing before you is Negro, 53 years old, a first offender who has been found guilty on 14 counts involving sales of marijuana and heroin. During his trial, you saw that he was adamant in denying guilt, but not antagonistic. The medical report says that he is in good health, mentally and physically. The investigator's report reveals that he was born in poverty, one of seven children; he quit school after fourth grade, rose from...
...Monkish ground that he had done nothing to deserve their attention. Even though the baroness shrieked to watch out for his hands, the furious cops gave his knuckles such a beating that he bears the lumps to this day. The baroness took the rap for "some loose marijuana" found in the trunk, but after three years' legal maneuvering she was acquitted. No narcotics charges were placed against Monk, but because of the scandal the police again picked up his card...
...Billie Sol Estes was tried in Tyler, his lawyers protested TV in vain; the first program opened with a biography of Judge Otis Dunagan. Sponsors included Campbell Soup, Simoniz, Reader's Digest, and the Dallas Morning News. When Stripper Candy Barr got 15 years for possession of one marijuana cigarette, the judge was none other than Deer Hunter Brown; the question in Dallas was how any juror could vote for acquittal when his wife had watched the curvesome defendant...
...Brandeis University undergraduates arrested Nov. 1 for illegal possession of marijuana received a "simple continuance" of their case until Nov. 27 in Waltham District Court Wednesday. The students have not yet entered pleas in their behalf. If they are found guilty, the six face a minimum penalty of $1000 or 2 1/2 years imprisonment under Massachusetts narootics laws...