Rockefeller drug laws

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New York state police came to the church on a separate matter, and Birnbaum showed them receipts of purchase for the 20,000 peyote buttons on the premises. Remarkably, the police left without confiscating any. However, new "Rockefeller drug laws, which limited the Health Commissioner s power to grant exemptions to Schedule III drugs, soon brought the police back. They said they didn t want to arrest Birnbaum. But they did want to take the 20,000 peyote buttons, and the only way they could do that was by arresting him. 

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