Kraft v. State

Whatever the fate of the directly marihuana-related charges themselves, collateral effects are nonetheless evident in other sustainable convictions arising out of the bizarre behavior most certainly induced by marihuana’s poisonous fumes. Bruce Kraft, the appellant at bar, 23 years of age, was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for St. Mary’s County, Judge Joseph D. Weiner presiding, of indecent exposure, possession of controlled paraphernalia and resisting arrest.

The entire course of conduct of the appellant and his liberated young companions on the early evening of May 31, 1972, was…