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Parole denied for 68-year-old in Alabama: ‘A life sentence for growing marijuana’ (www.al.com)

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[+] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 2 years ago

Wtf. If they were growing five hundred plants, 40 years is too much. It's fucking pot. People get rich selling that shit legally now. Growers should be released.

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[–] Rooter@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

Bullshit, reported for spreading false information.

there is no record of any previous arrests or charges for Leon Bud Hotchkiss in Alabama¹²³. He was a first-time offender when he was convicted of marijuana trafficking in 2013². He has maintained a clean institutional record since then².

Fucking trump supporters are the worst, you can't get anything right.

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[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

https://www.al.com/live/2011/10/magnolia_springs_marijuana_house.html

Hotchkiss has a drug history and stated that he had been to federal prison on a drug conspiracy charge. He stated that the conspiracy case was about 20 years ago when he lived in Orange Beach, officials said.

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