Not sure if you’re just too young to remember the height of the “war on drugs”, but this is nothing compared to the sentences people got for a few joints back in the day.

A $31 pot sale got her a stunning 12-year prison sentence. In the two years she has been incarcerated, she has seen her children only twice.

Paralyzed from the neck down after being hit by a drunk driver at the age of four, Magpie was charged with marijuana possession in 2004 after cops found a joint and a loaded gun in a vehicle in which he was the passenger. Though he had never been convicted of a criminal offense and required medical assistance 20 hours a day, he was given a 10-day sentence in a DC jail. With no ventilator to sustain his breathing, he died in jail four days later.

) In 1992, Mark Young received a life sentence for playing the role of middleman in a large pot sale. That same year, Larry Jackson, a man with a long rap sheet of small-time, nonviolent offenses, received a life sentence for a minuscule amount of pot — 1/100th of a gram — and a tiny bit of cocaine.

https://www.salon.com/2012/10/29/ten_worst_sentences_for_marijuana_related_crimes/

And then there was that era when 3 strikes laws that sent people to prison for LIFE for things as minor as stealing a pack of gum.

There is no justice in America. Only private prisons, profits, and vengeance.