In what state do you get 11 years in prison for a small amount of pot for personal use? You don’t!
If he got 11 years he was doing more than just smoking pot pot.
Because of the crappy reporting, we don’t know why he got 11 years. But you make quite a leap when you say, because he lived next door to a dealer, he was, therefore, another dealer. I disagree with you.
By your reasoning, as another FReeper mentioned, you’d be justified in simply carpet-bombing the entire neighborhood, killing everybody, because there is a drug dealer living there.
Beside the point. It doesn't matter what he was doing.