With sincere best wishes to you both, I well know what a human atrocity the War on Drugs is. It will end, however, all the sooner when one or another state launches the "devolution revolution" — http://www.infowars.com/the-transition-to-a-free-society — that sends the United States government into the dustbin of history, followed by its counterparts around the world, the collectivity of which represents by far the greatest evil on the surface of the planet — http://www.barefootsworld.net/nockoets0.html
Ross will not spend the rest of his life in prison. Of this I am sure.
It's not happening, not now and most likely not in our lifetime. Much less other governments, and for all evil the US one does, Russian and Chinese ones are way worse.
The paradigm is shifting, so you may just be wrong.