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Michael Thompson never imagined that selling marijuana would have landed him in prison for decades.

But that’s what happened after he was caught selling three pounds of weed to a confidential informant in Genesee County in 1994.

While he languished behind bars, his parents and only son died. His daughters grew up without him.

Michigan’s longest serving non-violent offender, Thompson is an example of how the war on drugs went too far.

Now Thompson, who was finally released after his sentence was commuted by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2021, is the focus of an award-winning short documentary, The Sentence of Michael Thompson, appeared on MSNBC on Sunday, with the Documentary+ debut Nov. 1.

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