When I was 24 -- I was arrested for "unlawful manufacture of marijuana"
This is what I looked like when I was 24:
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This was a Class A felony...and even though I was unlikely to get the book thrown at me ... If I was convicted I'd get AT LEAST 3 months in prison...that assumes they would let me out for good behavior.
So I'm thinking "wow I might actually get raped." I'm somewhere between 6'2'' and 6'3''...But I was skinny as shit and kind of a computer nerd shut in. I was at very least -- in for an ass kicking.
When I got off on home detention..the 40 year old woman helping process the money looked at me right side-wise as I was leaving and said
"I'm glade it worked out"
And I am too. Because no matter how much pot I grew...I really wasn't prison material.
So anyway you can't expunge class A felonies...Recently its now been considered class C so I'm waiting on an expungement to go through (which costed $1300).
My arrest and conviction for growing pot has had zero positive impact on me, my family or society at large. In fact, it made shit a lot worse for me and them. I did stop smoking pot temporarily...because I really didn't want my 3 years probation expanded any further.
Then I sparked up when I got the letter in the mail that I was no longer on probation.
Some of the guys I know are now millionaires because they didn't have someone rat them out and ruin their god damn business a few years before it was all god damn legal anyway.
Once you been through that...you don't like cops anymore. It's not really rational -- its just how it goes. You don't feel like you owe society a god damn thing. You don't care about normal conservative people as much anymore -- because those idiots passed the laws put in jail and did zero good for society.
I pay lot less tax now then I did I might add. Buy a lot less stuff. And have a great deal less faith in capitalism. I don't know any wealthy people that didn't:
A) come from wealth
B) try to break the rules to get ahead like I did
Maybe they are out there...good for them...whatever. Its clearly not that common or to be expected. I hear claims all the time about "this guy had nothing"...you'll find when you look into it that they had a great deal going for them even if they didn't come from an upper class family.
Which is fine...we can't all be winners. But maybe society doesn't need to treat the middle/working class like their losers. Or they might just do something stupid.