OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This case raises an important problem of statutory construction dealing with the "savings provision" of the new drug abuse act that reorganized the federal criminal narcotics laws.
In late 1970, Congress enacted the Comprehensive Drug Abuse and Control Act, P.L. 91-513, 84 Stat. 1242, 21 U.S.C. § 801 et seq. That statute, effective May 1, 1971, altered the substantive provisions of the federal criminal...
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