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TEENAGER BUSTED FOR MARIJUANA GETS 26-YEAR SENTENCE by Carla Crowder, News staff writer 09 Feb 2003 Birmingham News MOULTON - Webster Alexander lives in a brown trailer on the outskirts of this Lawrence County town.  The trailer, alongside a gravel road across from a seemingly boundless cow pasture, is home to Alexander's young cousins, a niece and nephew, his sister, his parents, a dachshund and a cage of fluttering cockatiels.  It is also where, last winter and early spring, Alexander sold marijuana, an ounce at a time, to someone he thought was a new kid at school.  Alexander was 18, a senior at Lawrence County High with two classes left before graduation.  The "new kid" turned out to be an undercover drug agent.  And four sales, together worth about $350, landed Alexander a 26-year prison sentence.  It was his first arrest.  [Remainder snipped]

Pubdate: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 Source: Birmingham News, The (AL) Copyright: 2003 The Birmingham News Contact: Epage@bhamnews.com Website: http://www.al.com/birminghamnews/today/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/45 Author: Carla Crowder, News staff writer Cited: NORML http://www.norml.org/ Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/states/al/ (Alabama)

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