On October 5, 1937, Samuel Caldwell went into the history trivia books as the first marijuana seller convicted under U.S. federal law. Caldwell was arrested with two marijuana cigarettes. The fifty-eight year old unemployed laborer was sentenced to four years of hard labor in Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine.
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