MS Sufferer Gets 25 Years for Drug Prescription Offenses
The outrage of the day occurs in Florida where a man seeking pain relief gets 25 years for drug trafficking.
Although prosecutors admitted Paey was not a drug trafficker, on April 16 he received a mandatory minimum sentence of 25 years for drug trafficking. That jaw-dropping outcome illustrates two sadly familiar side effects of the war on drugs: the injustice caused by mandatory minimum sentences and the suffering caused by the government's interference with pain treatment.
Now that he's in jail, in his wheelchair, the authorities allow him a morphine subdermal pump.
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