Fact #74720
When:
Short story:
The American legalization of marijuana movement begins in San Francisco, California, USA, when a man walks
into a police station, lights a joint, and asks to be arrested. His
lawyer, James R. White III, then forms LeMar (for Legalize Marijuana), which will sponsor the first
marijuana-law-reform demonstrations in America. Ed Sanders of
The Fugs and poet Allen
Ginsberg will set up the New York City branch early in the next
year.
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