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TIL that Samuel Caldwell was the first person in America to be arrested for selling marijuana. Arrested in 1937 for selling two joints, he was sentenced to a $1000 fine and four years of hard labor. This happened in one of the only places in America where pot is legal today, Denver Colorado.

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