Quote Originally Posted by iamapatient
You started the thread, I just replied to what you and others wrote. Sure probation sucks but you made your choices, you're not a victim. Would you rather have been sentenced to jail time instead? You're 18, still in high school and by your own words "im a felon now so i can't get a job, and i can't get into any colleges." so what I want to know, is was it worth it? Do you now wish you had just finished school and went to college and worried about smoking dope, liquor, dxm, and popping pills later or was it worth it? If you had spent all of the time (or even half) and effort you've spent on drugs and booze on school, wouldn't you be better off?

You're right that sometimes probation doesn't work, that's why there are penalties for violation of probation. If you blow your "second chance" that's on you...man. Well, what are you going to do? It's your choice and you have nobody to blame for the outcome but you. That's what personal responsibility is all about.
well, actually i rather would have went to jail then be on probation, but I'm trying to get this stuff off my record (for the most part) so I can move on with my life. So yeah, in my case, probation is helping me out in that aspect. But it is ridiculous that a job im applying to 10 years down the road will most likely decline me because of something i did when I was 17. So what would be the harm in taking my weed and giving me a ticket? I'd be heading off to college and not have to go to rehab classes for fucking marijuana. I wouldn't have to call a hotline everyday to see if I have to make a 30 minute drive to have some guy watch me pee in a cup. I wouldn't be so stressed out, and I could sit back and smoke some weed.
And you have no room saying that just because of drugs I don't do good in school. I'm at the top of my class, and a lot of colleges would accept me if I didn't have a felony on my record. I know i have gotten a "second chance", and I won't fuck it up because I won't give the court the satisfaction of thinking that they did a good thing by sending a terrible drug user behind bars.