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John Sinclair receives a lengthy sentence for two cannabis cigarettes

John Sinclair receives nine and a half to ten years for possession of two marijuana cigarettes. The sale count had been dismissed on entrapment grounds. His case becomes the focus of a campaign later joined by John Lennon and Yoko Ono.[1]

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References

  1. Michigan Supreme Court — People v. Sinclair, 387 Mich. 91 (9 March 1972), reproduced by Justiaarchived

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