A paralyzed, wheelchair-bound Richard Paey, crippled by chronic pain and multiple sclerosis, was raided by masked, gun-wielding agents and sentenced to 25 years in prison — for possessing a one-month supply of his own doctor-prescribed painkillers!
Because Paey's unrelenting pain required him to be on large doses of drugs like Percocet and Vicodin, he got sentenced to 25 years in prison as a "drug trafficker" based solely on the quantity of drugs in his possession.
FLORIDA GOVERNOR AND LEGISLATURE: Relax mandatory minimum drug sentencing laws!
Why is this important?
This sounds like the plot of an Orwell novel, but it's exactly what happened to Richard Paey — and it's the fate of any Florida citizen under the state's draconian mandatory minimum drug laws.
