Pubdate: Fri, 06 Sep 2019
Source: USA Today (US)
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Author: Eileen Rivers

AMERICA'S UNJUST WAR ON WEED

It was 2012, and Ferrell Scott was watching television inside
Pennsylvania's Allenwood federal penitentiary when he learned that the
sale of marijuana, something he was given a life sentence for just
four years earlier, was becoming legal in two states.

Colorado had approved its recreational use, the inmate learned from
the broadcast, and so had Washington.

Scott had been struggling with depression since he was incarcerated in
March 2008. But he felt a bit of hope as he watched the framework that
had put people like him away without parole begin to crumble.
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