According to the scientists recently sacked for embarrassing G Brown by telling the truth when he had been lying, the drug she was convicted of trafficking is not harmful - in contrast to tobacco which causes over 100,000 deaths a year in the UK, 4.9million worldwide according to the WHO.Skeelsie":3lsjgmho said:Christ that's quite a conviction.
I'm surprised the sentencing in the US can be as little as five years!
If she had been trafficking a drug that kills its users, that would be sinful. Her real crime was that, unlike the tobacco industry, she wasn't propping up the economy by paying massive amounts of taxes and she wasn't putting money in politicians' back pockets to buy protection.
Still a shame though. She could have made more than that by being a chat show host.