The Playboy Forum

September, 1971

Marijuana VictoryI am pleased to inform you that Commonwealth vs. Johnson, one of the marijuana cases handled by the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia and supported by the Playboy Foundation, resulted in a significant victory in the Virginia supreme court of appeals.Jimmy Johnson, 17 at the time of the offense, was charged with selling marijuana to an undercover agent in Prince George County, Virginia. Although the police had no firm grounds to suspect the high school student of crimina...