Arrested and Depressed :(

[indicagrower]

i too live in illinois and less than 2.5 is nothing to freak out about i wouldn't bother with a lawyer either(court appointed will be fine..they have to do what you want) your looking at a fine and some substance abuse counseling or community service so just chill smoke up and relax

[mikeo14]

I like your purple writting.

[WhosGotTheHerb]

Thanks for the advice/words of support guys! I don't have a job yet, and recently decided to quit smoking :'( until I have one, even though it won't be what I want to do (as a rule I'm fucked as an English major anyway..). I've been trying to get a job so I can get a background check out of the way before the arraignment, but no such luck yet. The shitty thing is that it will be on my record for the next five years, that's how long I can wait before having it expunged. That sucks.

I admit, I wasn't the most careful with carrying around shit in my purse, but I completely trusted the friends I was with, since they had way more to lose than me (one of them is attending law school in the fall) so I figured he wouldn't put me at risk like that... but it's times like these where you find out who your TRUE friends are. They were merely smoking buds, nothing more. Once I told them I quit smoking for a job I haven't heard from them since... pretty shitty considering I lived with them for the past year and they live so close now.

The worst part of this whole ordeal, besides the obvious fact of spending $2500 on a good lawyer when I don't have a job and will have a terribly difficult time getting one (can't even enjoy the graduation money..), is how disappointed my parents are. They didn't even care that I smoked, they just care that I 'threw away my future' and made my current situation very difficult.

And smelling it IS probable cause, at least here in IL. And the pig did NOT give us a choice, he said he had the right to search the entire vehicle, including my purse. We merely complied, what else could we do? He would have arrested me if I said I did not give him permission to search my purse... he suspected us of being potheads as soon as my idiot friend drove through the high school parking lot at 1am. I'm hoping my lawyer can use the fact that the pig didn't really have a reason to pull us over and searched us just for 'smelling' it on our clothes (we didn't smoke in the car) EVEN when we had just eaten White Castles in the car. Wish me luck. Fuck the fucking pigs and the fucking hypocritical laws in this fucking country.