”He was a kid. He was following the Grateful Dead. I’m not condoning it, but it was a pretty harmless lifestyle Timothy was leading,” Julie Stewart, the president and founder of Families Against Mandatory Minimums, told Business Insider in 2013.
“It always seemed really absurd to me that this non-violent guy who was 24 years old, that the government could write off his life. Bingo. You’re gone,” she said.
“Life, [the sentence] says, but life means you die in prison,” Tyler once told the ACLU.
Tyler’s new sentence will end on Aug. 30, 2018, and requires enrollment in residential drug treatment. The assignment to residential drug treatment is a bit puzzling, as LSD is by its nature not physically addictive. The drug stops working if a person takes it for several days in a row.
The August round of commutations marks the most granted in a single month in United States history. The White House also points out that Obama has granted more commutations than the past 10 presidents combined.
Grateful Dead Fan Who Sold LSD Granted Clemency From Life In Prison
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