What results? He got probation and an expungement. It cost him his job as a stock broker, because stock broker jobs are exquisitely sensitive to the appearance of bad judgement. He got his MBA, and is now working on his second graduate degree. He never went to prison. Like many, many, many people in this economy, after losing his preferred job, he found the next available job was pretty terrible. Welcome to the club; they have jackets; the jackets read "English Majors".

How sorry do you feel for the short order cooks with postgraduate degrees who weren't caught with Oxy?

This is simply not a story about someone who's life was ruined.

Losing your medical license and then going to prison at age 53 because your intractable pain practice was targeted by a sting operation and you were found one time to have not followed the absolute letter of the 3498739847 page law on how to prescribe vicodin to a cancer patient: that is a story about a ruined life. This isn't.

So that's your entire point? Other people are demonstrably much more innocent, and have much more severe results, and so we should be much more sympathetic to them?

Yes. Or, put differently, if we're going to use cause célèbre cases to argue against drug laws, let's pick more convincing ones.