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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My ex-GF got busted smoking weed in her own apartment in Williamsburg, VA in 2013. She was a STEM grad student at William & Mary on a full scholarship (brilliant woman) who ended up getting a PhD at a STEM powerhouse on the west coast.

It cost her $5K in lawyers fees and fines to ensure she didn't have a criminal record. If she had received a felony, she would've lost her scholarship at W&M (since it's a state school). She had to do one year of probation.

She was privileged in that she had UMC parents who could afford to pay for this. But what would've happened to a poor student?

How the hell does society benefit by giving this woman a criminal record for something consumed in the privacy of her own home? Further, if she was kicked out of the program, the state of Virginia would've flushed the money down the toilet that they paid for her education up to that point.

I think it's wonderful that the state will legalize. It's the absolute height of irrationality to penalize people for life with a criminal record for consumption of a plant. The entire prohibition scheme was a jobs' program for people who couldn't hack it in life. [/quote]

Best friend from childhood was a UVA law student (W&L undergrad) who was pulled over in Texas the summer of 1996. There was less than an eighth of weed in his backpack in his trunk. He was driving home from living in CO for the summer. He was denied bail at first and spent 4 weeks in some podunk county jail. Never had a speeding ticket before. Missed the next semester of law school. Cost his family something like $25,000 to get straight. 1996 dollars. It STILL shows up on background checks. Absolutely insane.[/quote]

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