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MARIJUANA CASE
MOODY: LIVE
The constitutionality of the same penalties being for riq: ri juana _and heroin violations is4M tested in a case at Houston. Two lawyers ?re contending 4 in a federal suit that marijuana is not a "hard drug" and therefore the penalties should not be as severe as those in heroin cases. The suit stems from a 30-year prison sentence handed down 4 years ago after a Houston man was convicted of giving one marijuana cigarette to an