1.0 link 44313 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tony-newman/18yearold-gets-two-years-_b_44313.html Thursday, March 22, marked the one-year anniversary of 18-year-old Mitchell Lawrence's imprisonment on a two-year jail sentence for selling about one joint's worth of marijuana to an undercover cop. Mitchell received two years of hard time because a heartless Great Barrington district attorney, David Capless, chose to prosecute the teen under the draconian drug-free school zone laws of Massachusetts, which carries a two-year mandatory minimum sentence.

The community of Great Barrington formed a grassroots organization, Concerned Citizens...

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