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OoO6Y TIL having shot a man in the head, Andrew Lyons's lawyer argued for manslaughter. The victim died when a surgeon transplanted the heart from the brain-dead victim: Andrew's bullet wasn't fatal. Following the case California issued a law allowing surgeons to transplant organs from brain-dead patients
P5we TIL: MARIJUANA wasn’t supposed to stay a Schedule 1 substance when it was temporarily put there while while the government waited on a Commission report studying marijuana abuse. The report said to remove it from Schedule 1. This was in the 70’s.
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