Not sure if you’re just too young to remember the height of the “war on drugs”, but this is nothing compared to the sentences people got for a few joints back in the day.
A $31 pot sale got her a stunning 12-year prison sentence. In the two years she has been incarcerated, she has seen her children only twice.
Paralyzed from the neck down after being hit by a drunk driver at the age of four, Magpie was charged with marijuana possession in 2004 after cops found a joint and a loaded gun in a vehicle in which he was the passenger. Though he had never been convicted of a criminal offense and required medical assistance 20 hours a day, he was given a 10-day sentence in a DC jail. With no ventilator to sustain his breathing, he died in jail four days later.
) In 1992, Mark Young received a life sentence for playing the role of middleman in a large pot sale. That same year, Larry Jackson, a man with a long rap sheet of small-time, nonviolent offenses, received a life sentence for a minuscule amount of pot — 1/100th of a gram — and a tiny bit of cocaine.
Not sure if you’re just too young to remember the height of the “war on drugs”, but this is nothing compared to the sentences people got for a few joints back in the day.
https://www.salon.com/2012/10/29/ten_worst_sentences_for_marijuana_related_crimes/
And then there was that era when 3 strikes laws that sent people to prison for LIFE for things as minor as stealing a pack of gum.
There is no justice in America. Only private prisons, profits, and vengeance.