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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The same exact scenario would apply to someone who possesses even a single round of unregistered ammunition in DC. And yes, otherwise completely ordinary people who were minding their own business not harming anyone (just like your g/f you described) have been arrested for and prosecuted for that.

Do you oppose that, too? Or is that [i]different[/i]? [/quote]

Not PP. But, yes of course that's different. The only reason why you would possess ammunition is to use it to injure or kill someone. Unless it's a relic from some old war and kept as a memento. It is, by nature, a violent tool used for inflicting injury. Marijuana is not a tool for inflicting injury onto others. [/quote]

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