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Sunday, November 2

This day at law - Congress sets minimum federal sentences for drug offenders  
Bernard Hibbitts at 11/2/2003 12:01:45 AM

On November 2, 1951, President Harry Truman signed the "Boggs Act" into law, setting minimum federal sentences for drug offenders. Read Richard J. Bonnie and Charles Whitebread, The Forbidden Fruit and the Tree of Knowledge: An Inquiry Into the Legal History of American Marijuana Prohibition, 56 Virginia Law Review (1970).



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