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It was to be my last joint 'ever'.

The weed wasn't even that good - it smelled like manure - but I didn't care. I was going to enjoy it. I sat in the back of that crowded car with my friend rolling a joint to my right. We'll call him Regular. Regular smoked twice a day at least. He had just picked up half an ounce that night, and was rolling a joint with it. The rest of us had split the other half ounce.

To Regular's right sat Drinker. He came to Canada from Europe a few years back, and I've been friends with him ever since. We were huge stoners in high school. Regular on the other hand I had just met through my friend Tagger. But Tagger was busy tagging the pool in the skatepark.

In the driver seat sat Driver. For some reason he had his foot on the gas. Beside him was Girlfriend. She was my friend Boyfriend's girlfriend. He was skateboarding with Skategirl.

Regular suddenly gets sketched out, and leaves the car - leaving me to roll. Great. I figured he had the ounce in his pocket. Just as I'm finishing up we see headlights behind us. The cops. Naturally.
I drop the papers and weed on the ground. The joint gets jammed into the car seat.

Drinker was in the back, drinking a beer, which he poorly hid. The cop asked for it and told him to open his bag. Drinker said 'there's nothing inside'. The cop took the bag and found another beer, an open bottle of JD and a grinder with weed in it.
He was asked to step out. He had his own adventure that involved being cuffed and eventually given a ticket for drinking in public.

So the cop peeks into the car, and finds the weed on the ground beneath my feet.
Fuck.
I just hope and pray he doesn't find the joint. There's less than a gram on the floor!
He finds papers.
I was asked to step out.

The cop reaches into the pocket on the back of the driver's seat and pulls my stomach up into my throat.
He's holding the ounce of weed.
The ounce that I only chipped a measely $20 for.
"Is this yours buddy?"
"No."
"Then why was it in the seat in front of you?"
"I don't know!"
"You're going to jail buddy."
I'm handcuffed. I'm patted down. Taken to the backseat of a cruiser.
The cop reads me my rights, eventually. He's in and out of the car, talking to the other cops and fiddling with the computer in his car.

By now there are five cruisers here, and the extra cops are joking with each other.
Probably happy about their lucky find.
I see Tagger getting cuffed and put into another squad car. Tagger eventually ends up with a Mischief charge for spraypainting and gets a court date. He also gets a date to be fingerprinted.

The cop that deals with me is a nice guy. He's just doing his job. He even seems sympathetic. He tells me that this wasn't my last chance, just my only warning.
"Do you have any questions about this whole thing?"
I'm too afraid to ask, "What's the worst-case scenario?" So instead I ask him what the chances are that I can still become a teacher when I grow up. He tells me that this might make it impossible.

Now what the fuck do I do with my life? I'm in the math teaching program at university for the SOLE reason of becoming a teacher.

He uncuffs me and tells me my courtdate. I'm not taken downtown and I'm not getting fingerprinted. This will go on my record though.

We drove back in silence.
Back in our house, not much is said. We discuss it a little. I think I have a good enough story to not get a bad penalty at all.
I just have to tell my parents tomorrow.
They probably won't take it well at all.

Back in the house, I realized that the cops never found the joint. I fish it out of the car seat, fix it up, and my roommates and I smoke it. Driver tells me that the cop only noticed us originally because he had his foot on the breaks and the cop saw the breaklights.

My last joint ever. A great thing to start a huge change in my life.

NOTE: Sorry I had to be so dramatic... I got in the creative writing mood.
This whole story is entirely true.

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imported_mtfwakeandbake

Damn man. I've been reading your posts and it seemed like you were having a good couple months up until now. I'm not sure what to say at this point. Im still pretty shocked about what happend. I think you should tell your parents like you said, and get there help with it, it may not go over well at all, but it will be the right thing to do, and then ask them for help. Good luck man!

troublemaker_42

I can sympathize with you. I myself have a bachelor's degree in criminal justice, which is more or less not worth the paper its printed on with a drug conviction on my record. I lost a major career path over not an oz, but less than a GRAM of weed. However, I adjusted to the situation, and you will to. It sucks....it happened to me 5 years ago, and it STILL sucks, but you'll get by. The way I look at it was that I wasn't meant to go into that field. It sucks when the laws prohibiting weed do much more damage than weed itself ever could. The laws ruin lives, or at least plans, every day. For people like me and you, our futures are tossed aside, and we're deemed "unworthy" of employment in our chosen fields because of a plant, and our choice to use it. It sucks, but you'll move on. Looking back, I can honestly say what happened helped turn me into who I am today.

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Jdezle21

Yea me too, thats a shitty break. My best wishes are with you.

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"Very good writing man, I really like it a lot.

That really sucks on what happened to you...

I would say your beliefs, and still try to become a teacher if it is your true dream. Although something like this may hinder you, this world is only now and we do what we must.

Marijuana isnt meant for evil, but the 'good' police and law make it evil, therefore they are the evil ones in that sense."

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ADIDAS

Wow, that is really crappy. Unfortunately I can sympathize with you completely. Why cant this shit just be legal, instead of ruining lives that probably wouldve done the community way more good than bad. I mean they just took out their kids or grandkids education all because they wanted to see you get busted and get their praise from the chief at night.

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stoneygreenbud

I don't want to rain on anyones parade......but have we forgot that we've had not only a "federal judge....but also a former president smoke pot???....I think so...


I don't think you should give up on your dream of being a teacher just yet.


just my

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Jake

Fuck dude I want to be a teacher too.

Shit man I better not get caught.

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Mishka420

That really sucks....I haven't been caught yet. I may never get caught. But,I want to go back to school and get my PhD. It really sucks to think that it may not happen if I get caught. I don't think you should give up on all of that hard work you put into that career already. You never know, you could still have a chance at becoming a teacher.

FakeBoobsRule

I don't know what the laws are in Canada but if it were the states all would not be lost. First of all in the U.S. if you are able to beat the charge you can expunge the arrest from the record. Law enforcement would see the charge whenever looking up your record during a traffic stop or future court date(and sometimes this even gets lost in the shuffle) but it would not be public record. Then since it seems like your first time a lot of lawyers would be able to negotiate a plea if they can't beat the charge. A plea that would leave you with an offense on your record that you could live with would be considered a successful plea if unable to beat the charges. Many prosecutors would be open to something like this as only a handful would want to ruin someone's career. They already see enough drop outs in court each day. A lot of states here have programs for first time drug charges or misdemeanor charges that will keep things off your record. Depending on the state it is called different things such as pre trial intervention, judicial diversion, withheld adjudication, etc. Basically, you go on probation for a set amount of time such as 1-3 years. If you complete the probation successfully, then your record is again wiped clean. During that time the charges go into a sort of "limbo." Many states will allow you to check the box that says "Have you been arrested for anything other than a traffic offense" as NO when applying for jobs or college or professional licenses with either an expunged record or successful completion of the pre trial interventions or similar programs mentioned. If something like this happened to a professional that has a board or bar to report to such as dentist, lawyer, doctor, nurse, etc. their career would still have a chance even if convicted of a drug offense. Here most states use a monitoring group that would monitor you for 3-5 years after the offense. This would include drug testing and possibly rehab. For instance, if a nurse gets convicted of possession of pot, they would get an assessment to determine if rehab was warranted, make a recommendation, and monitor the offender during this program. I am pretty sure teachers have a similar program. I know you haven't even gotten to college or gotten licensed as a teacher or what the different requirements are in the U.S. versus Canada but your lawyer should look into this. Obviously you don't have one yet but this is why you should get one. I know professionals with drug or alcohol charges on their records that still were able to pursue their careers. Some got them in college, some after they received their licenses.

I don't know what the laws are in Canada but if this happened here in the states I would say there is still hope.