Tag: the war on (some) drugs

As People Rot in Jail for Weed, Man With 64 Child Sex Abuse Charges Gets No Jail

Nothing highlights the sheer lunacy of the United States justice system like the imprisonment of pot smokers while child abusers get slaps on the wrist. William Edward Miller Jr., 51, reportedly raped a 14-year-old girl and later forced an 11-year-old boy to have sex with her as he watched, and he is a free man. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are rotting in jail for weed.

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Disabled Veteran Sentenced to 5 Years for Using Legal Medical Marijuana to Treat War Injury

Due to the archaic cannabis laws in the Land of the Free, a disabled veteran was sentenced to 5 years in prison for possessing medical marijuana that he had a prescription for in one state but got caught with in another state.

Sean Worsley, 33, who is a disabled veteran who has PTSD and a traumatic brain injury from his time in Iraq, will now spend the next five years in a cage for using a plant to heal himself.

While Sean was traveling with his wife Eboni to visit family in Mississippi and North Carolina, they stopped for gas in Alabama when they were in between their destinations. While they were parked at the gas station, a police officer spotted them and decided that the music coming from the Worsley’s car was too loud. He also seemed upset that Sean was playing “air guitar.”

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