19-year-old got 12 years for selling $5 of pot in 1975

I came across a September 1976 piece in High Times headlined "Missouri — 12 Years for 11 Grams."

Jerry Mitchell, a 19-year-old from West Plains, Missouri, had sold about a third of an ounce of marijuana to an undercover Highway Patrol agent for five dollars. — Read the rest

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