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[Mandatory minimum sentences allowed] the DEA to launch a crackdown on Deadheads [in the late 80’s and early 90’s] who frequently [sold] or consume[d] trace amounts of LSD at concerts. because the LSD may be in a sugar cube or on blotter paper, sellers routinely get ten- or twenty-year mandatory prison sentences. Deadheads receive[d] longer prison sentences for selling $1,500 worth of LSD than they would receive for selling $100,000 worth of heroin. Stanley Marshall of El Paso, Texas, was arrested in 1988 for possessing less than a gram of LSD, but since the drug was on 113 grams of paper, Marshall got a twenty-year federal prison sentence.

- James Bovard, Lost Rights, pg. 210–11(1994)

(Source: letterstomycountry)