4/15/16 A 75-year-old disabled Vet in Alabama was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a personal marijuana possession conviction, because he had previous (twenty years old) felony convictions for armed robbery.
This New York Times editorial piece examines the injustices of mandatory life sentence requirements in personal-use marijuana cases; see the article below for more details:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/opinion/outrageous-sentences-for-marijuana.html?_r=0
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