Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leary's a 18 year-old daughter, Susan, was given an indeterminate sentence in a federal correctional institution for failing to pay the tax on marijuana...
Timothy F. Leary, former a lecturer in Clinical Psychology, was convicted of transporting and failing to pay a tax on less than half an ounce of marijuana by a Federal Court jury in Laredo, Texas, yesterday...
Originally, Leary was arrested on three counts; the charge of smuggling marijuana was dropped when it was found that Leary had purchased the drug in New York. The Texas jury trial required only 45 minutes to reach a verdict on Leary. His daughter had not requested the privilege of a jury trial...
...marijuana had been confiscated on Dec. 22, 1965 when Leary and his family were returning from a vacation in Mexico. It was first reported that three ounces had been seized from Leary and his daughter, but in the trial which followed, Leary centered his defense around discrepancies in the amount of marijuana discovered. While the prosecution contended in the indictment that three ounces had been found, a government witness said that Miss Leary carried only 11 grams and the total amount found in the car was less than one-half ounce...
...final testimony for the defense came from Dr. Joseph Pert, director of the special problems unit of the El Cerrite Health Department. Pert explained that while marijuana was habit-forming, it was not harmful...