The war on drugs claims another casualty...
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Suppose you were confined to a wheelchair due to a crippling spinal
injury that left you in chronic pain. Suppose you asked your
doctor to prescribe painkillers to help you deal with the pain, and he
did so. Suppose that the government then threatened to charge him
with drug-related offenses, and he denied that he had written you the
prescription. As a result, you are charged and convicted of drug
trafficking, resulting in a mandatory minimum sentence of 25
years. Not because anyone thinks you intended to sell the drugs
that you desperately needed for yourself, but because the prescriptions
allowed you to obtain enough painkilling medicine to cross the absurd
legal threshold for "dealing" drugs. Why should we send a man to prison for 25 years because he didn't want to live his life in constant agony? Free Richard Paey. |
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