Successful prison breaks happen only in movies. So I am a little bit skeptical. But at the current rate of drug legalization (just look at Portugal and Uruguay) around the world, I hope that within 10-15 years, the United States will start legalizing the soft drugs such as weed and shrooms. Still, that doesn't guarentee his release, as he is accused of other crimes as well.
The drug thing is just a part of his impressive charges.
According to this http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/01/02/no-relief-convicted
The US is one of the few places that doesn't tend to take future law changes into account with convicts. The law at the time remains the law for them.
If he was convicted at state level there might be more wiggle room.
That's right, the United States is the one of the only countries in the world without retroactive ameliorative relief. The U.S. is also the only country in the world that in practice sentences juveniles to life. You better be a perfect model citizen and very lucky or you will be punished by one of the most harsh criminal justice systems in the world. What I mean by lucky is, if you walk into a party and there's a pile of marijuana on a table and people are snorting something - run as fast as possible. If they raid that party you could be convicted along with everyone else even if you're not high. If they make the drugs legal in that state later too bad for you. You still aren't getting out of prison.
