Not until the 12th paragraph did I get to learn that Mizanskey was also a recidivist drug dealer who worked for the drug cartels and was caught with six pounds of dope, enough to roll over 10,000 joints.
This author of this AP article seems to have gone out of her way to confuse the larger argument about the decriminalization of marijuana possession with the actions of a gangster. It was the amount that he was trafficking and his association with organized crime that landed him in prison, and that was where he deserved to be.
Pete Smith
Houston, TX
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Regarding "Missouri man who got life sentence on pot charge freed" (Page A2, Wednesday), I learned that convict Jeff Mizanskey was a family man and a victim of America's supposedly unenlightened attitudes toward marijuana, imprisoned for 22 years for possession of pot. I got to read him complain about how unfair his incarceration was. Heck, I even got to learn that his favorite breakfast was steak and eggs.
Not until the 12th paragraph did I get to learn that Mizanskey was also a recidivist drug dealer who worked for the drug cartels and was caught with six pounds of dope, enough to roll over 10,000 joints.
The story seems to confuse the larger argument about the decriminalization of marijuana possession with the actions of a gangster. It was the amount that he was trafficking and his association with organized crime that landed him in prison and that was where he deserved to be.
Pete Smith, Houston
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letters/article/Friday-letters-Drug-dealer-voting-6483944.php
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