United States v. LeBlanc

Opinion of the Court

A general court-martial convicted the accused of two offenses involving marihuana. The first offense was for smuggling marihuana into the United States in violation of 21 USC § 176a. In United States v Beeker, 18 USCMA 563, 565, 40 CMR 275 (1969), we held that the prohibition against the importation of marihuana “entails the exercise of governmental powers different from regulation of the armed forces” and is not specially related to the military services as to make the act triable by court-martial within the limitation on court-martial jurisdiction propounded by the…