Drugs ignored
The California police have almost given up arresting people found carrying marijuana, state narcotics officers have admitted. A new law, in effect since January, has reduced the penalty for being caught with one ounce or less or marijuana to a SUSIOO fine. Possession of any amount had previously meant a possible prison term. In Los Angeles, where the monthly average of arrests for possessing the drug had been 1100, there were 197 such arrests in January. — Los Angeles.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34138, 27 April 1976, Page 15
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80Drugs ignored Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34138, 27 April 1976, Page 15
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