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by landl0rd 267 days ago
50g is quite a lot of meth, dozens and dozens of doses even at the heavier user quantities: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.09.25327334v...

That is almost certainly distribution as well. McMillan played a lesser part in this distribution ring; the two men involved were each sentenced to twelve years: https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdla/pr/monroe-men-sentenced-mo...

McMillan was involved in a group of three purchasing around a pound of meth. Yurchik was involved in a ring of 27 people in multiple states moving kilogram quantities over the course of two years: https://www.kxxv.com/news/local-news/central-texans-among-21...

The group also actively laundered its earnings though only half a dozen or so were charged for that. The feds seized seventy-two kg of meth from them, more than one hundred fifty times what this other lady was involved with, a kg of cocaine, a bunch of money, and more than a dozen firearms. These were not cases of radically unequal charging.

I don't know why you picked these two people but I get a little tired of folks presenting such a skewed view of any and everything to come up with "prison bad, judge bad, sentence bad".