Here's a nice little story. Me and my friend were on our way to a spot and when we encountered a police checkpoint. We had just come over the hill and we had almost no time to clean up properly. It was only 11pm, i didn't think they would be cracking down, especially on this road we were on. To make a long story short, i took responsibility for the pot found, 5.5 grams of some decent beasters, and got charged with Simple Possession. I tried reasoning with the cop, acted all nice..but he sent me to jail because i gave him an "attitude" because i tried explaining to him that it seemed like a joke that i have to go through with this AGAIN, for smoking a plant. Also i told him that he should look up the real facts on marijuana, but i guess arguing with an ignorant prick is like talking to a wall. I ended up sitting in jail watching commercials for 6 FUCKING hours with other people before the magistrate saw me and released me. I felt so out of place sitting with all the other folks in there. Most of them were in for DUI's. One dude had shit himself lmao. Every county cop in the building was overweight, and by god i tell u they were everything you've ever heard of about cops. Every bad story you've heard about cops is true..they treat u like shit, regardless of what you've done, no matter how petty or trivial the "crime."

The judge suggested i plead not guilty, he said in front of him i wasn't guilty..i'm not 100% on what he meant. But i know i still have to pay the 570$ ticket, and if i am found guilty, i lose my license for 6 months... So i'm going to plead not guilty, and 6 jury people or w/e will decide my fate on the court date, march 23rd.

What i want to know is, do you think if South carolina eventually moves to de-criminalize marijuana to some extent, that, i may be able to expunge the charge from my record? I work for the United Parcel Service just as a laborer for now, but had plans of driving in the future, kind of a fallout plan if college didn't go well.
Or after several years, do i get the chance to expunge it? Maybe if i move states?


Any advice, sympathy, is appreciated lol. I've been through hell. Pre-trial intervention was a joke..the state just wants my money, and i don't want to give it to them. Us weed smokers arent criminals, Prohibition is the REAL danger, Cops are not defenders of society, This system is BEYOND CORRUPT and unjust, i hope some1 above smites every fucking douche cop that has ever charged some1 for something marijuana-related. Thanks.

my son was busted w/ a possession charge he plead for a deal 40 hrs community service and 3 mounts drug testing and the charge is dropped. did you ask for a court appointed attorney

I would much rather do community service and drug testing then give money back to this government. But no.. i didn't ask for a court appointed attorney, i was really tired and out of it when he was explaining things, and i didn't know of the benifits of an attorney. Is it too late to get an attorney you think? i saw the judge only 14 hours ago. And what state do you live in ??

texas ,no its not to late call the district attorneys office,tell them who and what you are calling about

South Carolina strikes again! man that really sucks though. I've had many nights that I got stopped the the checkpoints and gotten through. I say we pack it up and fly on over to cali cause our state isn't getting any better.

No joke man, i've made it through checkpoints before when i was blitzed out of my skull, but not this time. You don't think because of how broke our state is, that maybe we'll decriminalize marijuana? I would love it. I'd be sitting on just a fine right now, instead of 570$, and a simple poss. charge. Life was going pretty good until this shit, i go to school and work..as well as stay in shape at the gym. I'm about to drive over to the district office to try my luck and see whats up as far as court attorneys go.

To make my story short, I plea bargained down to probation and was given a choice. 2 years regular, which would have stayed with me for life, or 5 years of what they called probation 710, which is expungeable. 2 years later I was moving out of state, petitioned to dismiss rather than transfer and it was granted. The whole deal cost me about $10K, but I was busted with substantially more than you were.

Hope it all works out for you.

Damn...10 grand for you?? i bet you hate the government like anything. That bong in your picture looks alot like the 1 they confiscated from me.
I am going to get a court attorney i think, i don't know how much one costs..but hopefully it will be worth it. I want to try and make a case by explaining my situation with school and my current money situation. While i'm in the court house explaining my situation do you think it would be wise to try and educate the jury( 6 people i think) on marijuana in general? That it doesn't kill braincells, and that i was not harming society in any way? he said i could be charged with DUI, but we all know there's a huge difference between driving under the influence of alchohol then with weed. When you're driving high, many people including myself, drive slower and more carefully. On alcohol one is not as aware of the influence and tend to drive faster, with over confidence. If they don't want to hear the other side of the truth, then they are ignorant, and i might kill them all in the courthouse with my bare fucking hands, cuz im a violent criminal apparently.

splinter a court appointed attorney is free ,so you have to do some research to tell him what you want to do remember you get what you pay for don't think the court appointed att.is going to do more then he has to

I got nailed with 10# of pot, an oz of coke, about 200 hits of acid and 6g of PCP. The $10K was for the attorneys. Check the Chicago Tribune from March of 1978 if you think I'm talking shit.

I got "Abdul", the bong, in 1979. I have never seen anything like it since.