Reply #23: He appealed and sentence was reduced to 50 years but there are many others that were not reduced.

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Here's a 99-year sentence from Texas for ten pounds of pot: (many other examples at the site)

http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=6098

btw - You don't get out in nine years on a 50-year sentence unless the governor intervenes. The guy from Kansas was in his 40s and will probably die in prison. I'd rather get my head chopped off.

Here's a case with a life sentence for a pound of pot.

http://www.november.org/thewall/cases/gray-d/gray-d.html

Here's a court that gave a guy 55 years for selling small amounts of pot, then the same day gave a 22 year sentence for beating a woman to death.

http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/363/angelos.shtml

They have appeals in Iran, too. The sensationalist headlines are nice for ginning up the hate though. No doubt, they are backwards, but we have little room to preach when we lock up more people (proportionally and absolutely) than any country in the world. We need to establish freedom and justice in this country before we take our crusade on the road.


Educate yourself with google. It's amazing someone at DU is ignorant of the injustice done in this country due to the "war on drugs."