from the perspective of someone who did time for cannabis its real simple. crimes are and always have been for the poors. rich people do profound esoteric actions with unfortunate outcomes that merit long study and rumination with post mortem analytics and an academic conclusion. unless you did a sex crime like weinstein or took a lot of rich people money like madoff.

this whole article is just the rich people version of ' yeah my cousin beat up a mascot once but in his defense that mascot was awful too'