Urged on by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, seventeen states and the territory of Alaska copied the federal Boggs Act penalties by 1953, and eleven more states raised theirs by 1956. Ohio set twenty to forty years for selling narcotics in 1955, and Louisiana in 1956 five to ninety-nine years without parole, probation or suspension for selling, possessing or administering a narcotic drug.[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. 215 · ISBN 1891385062
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