Life in prison for selling marijuana: Meet the people new pot laws forgot | MSNBC

Life in prison for selling marijuana: Meet the people new pot laws forgot | MSNBC

At least 67 people are in prison right now, sentenced to die there for selling marijuana, according to the best available data. Until last week, Jeff Mizanskey was one of them. “Man, I feel great,” the great-grandfather told MSNBC, as he contemplated his first weekend as a free man in more than 20 years. His sentence was commuted in May from life without parole to simple life, and on Tuesday he walked out of a maximum security Missouri prison.

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