This was over a decade ago, but I idiotically drove from my "weed legal" home state into a much-less-friendly state... ultimately arrested for flakes found beneath passenger seat (was absolutely sober), in a state where 0.009oz == same "up to 2oz" misdemeanor charges. The police in this tiny Texas town acted like they had caught Pablo Escobar, and not an impoverished college dropout...
For my defense attorney, I chose a well-recommended private attorney (futureMe: I would use the public defender because it would have been the same outcome). His services cost me around a pound of "top shelf" kush. I was broke.
Ultimately I "served my time" [2mo. probation + community service]. Just a few years ago this attorney said to me, in private: "but if we didn't have this legislation [prohibiting marijuana] then I would be out of the job!"
I guess I was supposed to feel bad for his archaic legal practice/funding?
For my defense attorney, I chose a well-recommended private attorney (futureMe: I would use the public defender because it would have been the same outcome). His services cost me around a pound of "top shelf" kush. I was broke.
Ultimately I "served my time" [2mo. probation + community service]. Just a few years ago this attorney said to me, in private: "but if we didn't have this legislation [prohibiting marijuana] then I would be out of the job!"
I guess I was supposed to feel bad for his archaic legal practice/funding?