My brother is only 16-years-old and doesn't have a lot of places to go. There's no way to hide the smell from our parents in our apartment. Our father works the night shift and our mother works during the day, so there's always someone home. I guess none of his friends are comfortable having people smoke in their houses either. Most teenagers realize that smoking outside is dangerous, especially in our town where the cops are everywhere and love to bust kids for that stuff. They would love to have a safe, indoor place to smoke. For most of them, however, they have no place to do it but outside in public. He was in a relatively secluded area, but they managed to get him anyway.

It may not be that bad though, because his attorney knows the DA and is confident he can combine the seperate charges into one incident and get the whole thing reduced to a single disorderly conduct conviction, which is just a violation. He went to court for the arraignment for the MJ charge this morning, and the judge gave him a 10 minute speach on how he can tell he's really a good kid that made a mistake.