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Posted On: 01/16/2014 12:05:33 AM
Post# of 36729
Posted By: bellsandwhistles
Re: Budd Kind #17985
Budd: How about a "Samuel R. Caldwell Day" celebrated annually on October 2nd by the MMJ community after the D E A finally reschedules cannabis? The feds arrested Samuel R. Caldwell on Oct. 2. 1937, the day a mandated federal tax of $100 per oz. ($1620 in 2014) on cannabis became law. He spent four years of hard labor for not paying that tax and died a year after release.


Oct. 2, 1937 - First Marijuana Seller Convicted under US Federal Law Is Arrested


"On the day the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was enacted -- Oct. 2, 1937 -- the FBI and Denver, Colo., police raided the Lexington Hotel and arrested Samuel R. Caldwell, 58, an unemployed labourer and Moses Baca, 26. On Oct. 5, Caldwell went into the history trivia books as the first marijuana seller convicted under U.S. federal law. His customer, Baca, was found guilty of possession. Caldwell was sentenced to four years of hard labour in Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine. Baca received 18 months incarceration. Both men served every day of their sentence. A year after Caldwell was released from prison, he died."















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