Life after marijuana arrest?

[paulywalnuts]

i was arrested a year ago for having seedlings in a med state but the prosecuting office declined to file any charges against me. every time i go on a domestic flight now i get taken aside to go through the whole body scanner. "waitll u see my dick..."

moved back to the bay area recently and i can't find a job, live with my parents and i'm noticing that overall with mj here people seem more scared than i remember from a few years back and are in hiding or something. so no i haven't been doing well since i got arrested. ifeel that community is so important nowadays even more so than before. especially with all this heat recently. what a clusterfuck the world has become.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

It would be serving the remainder of my sentence(~8 months) in a small county jail(thankfully not harris or travis county or anything). But with budget constraints it would most likely end up being 4 months maximum. I know several people jailed for theft and probation violations that maybe served 15-20 days for their charge out of a year of probation sentenced

I grew for ten years in that part of Texas. I came so close to getting busted so many times. It was scary as shit. I finally moved to a med state and I'm still paranoid to a point. Texas knows how to fuck people up. My grow would have landed me a solid 20 years, but I have been lucky and I thank the universe everyday!

I am very sorry for your troubles and I wish you the best of luck. I hope you can get to a med state asap after your 8 months is up. Let me know if I can offer any advice regarding moving from Texas to a med state. I know it is harder than it seems because cost of living is higher out west.

 

[BrnCow]

First off. if you have a lawyer then make an appointment and talk to him ASAP. You don't know what the hell you are doing to yourself. An adjudicated sentence may require you to do the whole sentence with no good time. You might try to just start going to NA or AA on your own or seek some out patient counseling on your own or with your lawyers help. You must have answered the damn questions truthfully. Most know to answer the way a sunday school kid would answer. In Austin, you would have gotten a ticket. Maybe you need to move there until your probation is over. Moving might save your ass. After you do 1/3 of your time you can have your lawyer apply to get the rest of the probation dismissed IF your community service and drug class is finished AND you fines paid in full and your probation fees paid up to date. You are fixing to get fucked over. Might put a fire under your lawyers ass to hurry up or hire one if you don't have a personal lawyer yet. Maybe you could just get some advice for a few dollars...you better wake the fuck up...they are gonna fuck you for some reason. Do not stay out later than 8/9pm or so, stay away from any shady people, go to work every day until you make a break. Someone may be snitching on you still. How did you get busted? Someone snitch you off? They still are then! Fuck off all your old crowd and all stoners until you get off probation. No drinking. Pay all bills on time. Don't be buying shit or showing any money. No smoking weed at all. Did I say move to a city? Austin might be best. Get some job on the internet before they put this on your record. It may not be on there yet but day labor is better than that high dollar counseling shit. Some counseling places have a sliding scale fee when they charge according to your ability to pay. Hope it works for you dude....and the counseling is not a bad thing but the $600 shit is real bad...might move in with a relative somewhere but no one with a bad rep or criminal history...get all of the classes and other bs they require you to do done ASAP....he who hesitates gets fucked...community service can be bought for $2 an hour. Check with the ASPCA and if they go for it don't tell ANYONE. If the po asks, tell them you cleaned cages...not that you paid it off...later

 

[longearedfriend]

good luck brother

 

[ckingknowledge]

I got busted for a gram..Did the differed probation...lost out on a few really good jobs because of the arrest that's on my record...system is so fucked up...they want everyone to fail.... I wouldn't violate cuz then they win..they'll make more money off u...fuck that I wouldn't give them the satisfaction...I make it my goal to be a better person than any Leo I meet..(not hard cuz they are douches for the most)

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

^after living there so long I fucking hate texas. if they fucked me like that I would ditch the whole fucking country. I am so fed up with the US at this point the only thing holding me here is my family, and just barely. I dont have kids or wife.

 

[curiousmycoguy]

My PO didn't say anything about her recommendations and he doesn't seem the type to send me through the counseling/outpatient stuff. This is my 4th officer in as many months and I believe he will be the one I have during the rest of the period. It seems like he wants to end it early because he was urging me not to drag out things and to finish the drug classes asap so I can get it all done with and move on with my life

 

[HempKat]

My PO didn't say anything about her recommendations and he doesn't seem the type to send me through the counseling/outpatient stuff. This is my 4th officer in as many months and I believe he will be the one I have during the rest of the period. It seems like he wants to end it early because he was urging me not to drag out things and to finish the drug classes asap so I can get it all done with and move on with my life

Cool sounds like you can relax a little? You may be right about the PO, in most states their caseloads are pretty heavy and so they often look to end things early whenever they can.

 

[MrGreenWeed]

I'm not trying to become a doctor, lawyer or accountant. I simply need a job that I can provide for myself and a family in the future adequately

I'm just curious how a misdemeanor conviction affects employability/renting housing

A misdemeanor drug charge will not affect your employablitiy after some years have gone by.

If you live in a senicible state, one can get a misdemeanor, gross misdemeanor or felony drug charge expunged after parole or probation ends depending on the judge. One can file for an expungement Gratis versus libre "free of charge" if you are considered in poverty which many are here. You need to do this at the courthouse in the county you were convicted in. I know many people who got drug felonies in the early 90s when the drug bust sweeps happened in the area I lived in, many of them got their records expunged within 5 years and have had no issues with employment or schooling. The only instances where some have issues are government jobs and employers who work through government contracts that require a full background check by the DOJ, which is the only entity that can even see an expunged record.

Don't worry. I'd be more worried about the coming economic and unemployment crisis then your misdemeanor.

 

[Hash Zeppelin]

^be a waiter. you can make 40 grand a year and they dont drug test and most dont give two shits about weed, cause the managers do coke.

 

[MrGreenWeed]

It would be serving the remainder of my sentence(~8 months) in a small county jail(thankfully not harris or travis county or anything). But with budget constraints it would most likely end up being 4 months maximum. I know several people jailed for theft and probation violations that maybe served 15-20 days for their charge out of a year of probation sentenced

So you got a Class A misdemeanor?

That is another option. One can just "execute" their sentence rather then have to violate probation. If you wish to execute so you can just sit the time and not have to go on probation for however how many years, go to your PO and request a hearing. They will violate you but when in court your PO and yourself can explain the reasons to the judge and they will most likely just execute your sentence and it's done.

I can't tell you which route is better. 4-5 months in county or 2-3 years of probation.

 

[MrGreenWeed]

^be a waiter. you can make 40 grand a year and they dont drug test and most dont give two shits about weed, cause the managers do coke.

My ex was a waitress at a popular bar/restaurant in the Twin Cities when I was working at a foundry making 20+ an hour some years ago. She made MORE then me! With tips she took home an average of 900 a week. But, when she was a waitress at some dump, she was lucky if she took home 250 a week.

As for no drug testing that's not true at many places now. At Hooters, TGIF, HardRock Cafe and many other places where one can make good money waiting they all drug test now.

Who the hell does coke anymore? lol

 

[RetroGrow]

After serving Fed time, I had 4 years of supervised release. I hated it, and would rather have done another year and have no probation. But that's just me, and it was a felony, so different circumstances totally. Felonies stay on your record forever and have prevented me from getting good jobs on several occasions. It depends on how far back they look when they check you out. Normally it is 7 years, but it goes back forever on any kind of government or security related job. I lost out on a $60,000 a year job a few years back because the company had government contracts with homeland security, and they found my 25 year old conviction. The punishment really never ends unless you get your record expunged, which is more difficult and expensive for federal offenses. With a misdemeanor, I wouldn't worry too much. In a few years, it will be "forgotten", and you probably can get it expunged, especially if we get legalization anytime in our life time.
But it's really a decision only you can make. I did not like the feds breathing down my neck 24/7 for 4 years.

 

[DrugleyDoRite]

It didn't bother this guy:

http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Jail+behind+pioneer+back+business/6853050/story.html