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| | U.S. Govt. Drug History and Med. MJ - Medical Marijuana ProCon.org |
 | | On July 10, 1995 a legal challenge to marijuana's schedule I prohibited status was filed by Jon Gettman (and High Times Magazine), former National Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), 1986-1989. |
 | | The Act did, with respect to criminal penalty, select out 'marijuana from other drugs and lowered the maximum penalty for possession of an ounce of marijuana to one year in jail and a $5,000 fine, with the option of probation or a conditional discharge at the judge's discretion' (Slaughter, 1988, p. |
 | | This act (with a multitude of regulations, court decisions, Supreme Court decisions and amendments) was to become the standard and the basis of narcotic regulation in the United States for the next 50 years. |
| www.medicalmarijuanaprocon.org /pop/GovDrugHist.htm (4005 words) |
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