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These are cases of first impression and concern Sec. 1407, Title 18, U.S.C.A. enacted July 18, 1956, c. 629, Title II, Sec. 201, 70 Stat. 574 . The cases raise questions concerning the interpretation and constitutionality of the statute.

Section 1407, 18 U.S.C.A., was part of the general revision of the narcotics laws effective July 18, 1956, known as the Narcotic Control Act of 1956.

The court takes judicial notice of the great numbers of persons intercepted upon entering the United States at points of entry and particularly at San Ysidro, within this District, carrying quantities of narcotics and marihuana; of the number of criminal cases in the courts of the United States and in the southern division of the southern district of California, concerning narcotics and marihuana; of the large number of such persons who, prior to arrest, were either addicted to the use of narcotics, or were prior users of marihuana- or had been previously convicted in state or federal courts of violation of narcotic- or marihuana laws; that such classes of persons are prone to engage in illicit traffic in drugs; that one of the most disruptive factors in the effective control of the traffic in…