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Enforcement 🇺🇸 United States

A Denver court hands down the first Marihuana Tax Act sentences

Samuel Caldwell, a labourer in his late fifties, was arrested at a Denver hotel on 2 October, the day after the Act took effect, while selling cannabis to Moses Baca.[1][2] Three days later Judge Foster Symes gave Caldwell four years in Leavenworth and a $1,000 fine, and Baca eighteen months for possession.[1]

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References

  1. Wikipedia — Samuel R. Caldwellarchived
  2. Wikipedia — Marihuana Tax Act of 1937archived

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