Isn't Everyone Entitled to a Do Over?

From Failed State Update:

Daniel Muessig, the "real-life Saul Goodman" on going to prison and America's unjust legal system  
Daniel Muessig is a Pittsburgh folk hero, mostly for this ad that he put together when he was kicking off his law practice:

But the legal field is a tough racket. Tough enough, in fact, that Muessig eventually turned to some law-breaking of his own. Any day now he will go to prison for five years for conspiring to distribute 100 kilograms or more of marijuana and possession of marijuana. He was busted by an FBI task force who ID'd him through a wiretap.

Of course, he broke the law. But should we be sending anyone to jail over marijuana?

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