Sentenced to life in prison, man hopes new clemency rules will get him out
(highlights of cnn article)
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Timothy Tyler says his life ended when he was 23-years-old. That was two decades ago, when he was arrested and later sentenced to a mandatory double-life term in prison without the possibility of parole for conspiracy to possess LSD with intent to distribute. A self-described "Deadhead," Tyler was busted after mailing five grams of the hallucinogenic drug to a friend who was working as an informant for the federal government.
Though the Obama administration has been campaigning for prison reform for some time, it has recently begun to take concrete steps to alleviate overcrowded federal prisons that are flooded with non-violent offenders.
And in April, the U.S. Sentencing Commission voted unanimously to back a Justice Department proposal to change the sentencing formula for drug offenders that could shorten prison stays for as many as 70% of federal drug defendants.
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In the USA, LSD is classified as schedule 1 which is meant for drugs that have a high potential for abuse + no currently acceptable medical use + lack of acceptable safety for use. All of which is not true.
LSD has an extremely low likelihood of dependence, and their are
no known human fatalities from LSD consumption. LSD is schedule 3 in Canada and the UK.