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So they release the guy, but smear him as an "up-and-coming drug dealer" when he was a kid, 27 years earlier.

• frou_dh 8y ago
  Here's a quote from Dixon himself in the Golf Digest article: > I started dating a girl whose brothers were drug dealers, and before long I was in it, too. It's no excuse. It was what you did in my neighborhood if you wanted to make money. I became a mid-level cocaine dealer and pulled in enough to drive flashy cars and cover friends, but not much else. I rode with a weapon, same as everybody.
  • jMyles 8y ago
    Yeah, but that's not the point. This person sold a plant derivative to willing buyers; the state locked him in a cage for 27 years. Both are obviously illegal, but wildly different proportionally. And yet the latter, when finally made to acknowledge their mistake, pulls this "up and coming drug dealer" thing out as their excuse?