The man who got life sentence for marijuana

Cordelia Hebblethwaite reported for bbc.com/trending over the weekend that the office of the governor of Messouri where the campaign to free Jeff the Marijuana dealer who was jailed for life for selling marijuana, is currently “reviewing the merits of a petition for clemency submitted by Mr Mizanskey".

In the US, there are a lot of people serving life sentences for Cannabis-related convictions but what made the case of  Jeff Mizanskey different was that it got on Twitter, he was found guilty of "possession and intent to distribute" cannabis in 1994 and since then he has served 20 years out of his life sentence. It was his third offence, and under Missouri's "prior and persistent drug offender" law, he was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

At the moment over 370,000 people on twitter have signed an online petition to release Jeff Mizanskey. And now campaigners are trying to raise $21,000 (£12,000) for him - a symbolic $1,000 for each year he's been inside. They intend to raise billboards, and start up a kind of media campaign to raise awareness of his case. This is just unfair.

 life for weed...that’s a little too ‘high’. What do you guys think about this?