Prompted by James Bennett, director of the Bureau of Prisons, who called the Boggs Act the product of hysteria, the district and circuit judges of the Fifth Circuit unanimously recommended removing its mandatory minimum sentences. Anslinger and Congressman Boggs denounced the recommendation, and narcotics agents were sent to follow Bennett from conference to conference.[1]
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References
- The Marijuana Conviction: A History of Marijuana Prohibition in the United StatesRichard J. Bonnie, Charles H. Whitebread II · The Lindesmith Center · 1999 · chapter 11, p. 211 · ISBN 1891385062
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