Frank LaVarre, a twenty-year-old former University of Virginia student caught at a Danville bus station with four containers of marijuana, pleaded guilty to possession and was sentenced to twenty-five years in the state penitentiary, five suspended, and a $500 fine. After Life magazine used the case to illustrate the country's drug laws, the governor pardoned him on 2 January 1970, placing him on probation.[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 12, pp. 240–241 · ISBN 1891385062
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