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Ross's story is heartbreaking honestly. Yes the guy basically built the Amazon of drugs, yes he should have done prison time for it. But FFS 2X life without possibility of parole.

This guys has maybe one chance left and that's if a sympathetic President gets elected and pardons him.

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Probably not the best idea to run this kind of business from the US

The US has a long history of extraditing people through legal or extra legal means wherever they might be.

Sure, but that's not a great reason to make it easier for them.

If I were running the Amazon of drugs, I'd brush up on which countries don't extradite to the USA.

He paid to have several people murdered. No murdering took place allegedly but the attempts are well documented.

Pardoning someone that was found guilty of running a massive drug operation doesn't seem like an optic that is popular for a lot of presidential candidates.

Maybe if the Libertarian Party manages to win the presidency?

I think overturning "life without parole" as a punishment is a better angle. The US punitive justice system really is awful.

Idk I would rather have murderers and child molesters in jail for life without parole.

Even if that means people who aren’t guilty inevitably experience those sentences due to inevitable flaws in the courts?

I think decriminalizing drugs and offering extensive health care as a basic human right sounds like a better choice. I don't see Walmart execs going to jail when people conduct drug exchanges in Walmart parking lots.

It's not unpopular though. Only about 28% of Americans think that prison sentences are too long, whereas 32% think they are too short and 37% think that they're about right.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/06/u-s-public-...

Eh....

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