I'm in favor also and the right did scream when obama did the same damn thing. I didn't really care if trump released her, 20 years a long time for 70 kilo's of cocaine. 70 Kilos? 2.5 lbs per kilo, wtf she was a big time dealer.
My thinking is influenced by the
nature of an offense. And so long as open sale of beverage alcohol is legal, as it certainly should be in a free society, the Draconian drug laws are not only hypocritical but counterproductive and unnecessarily cruel -- as they are in this example. This person did nothing more than sell something that a lot of people want to buy, which is the same thing the folks at
Schenley Distilleries do, along with many others who market beverage alcohol -- which happens to be the most destructive
drug of all.
This woman's sentence was obviously predicated on the amount of money she made, which could be regarded as
fool's gold in that it was much too much to be safely enjoyed. The bottom line being that for doing something which objectively is the moral equivalent of wholesaling a few gallons of vodka, twenty years already have been chopped out of her life. That is considerably more punishment than usually is administered for the crimes of forcible rape or armed robbery.