| I've been reading the site for a few days now, and although this is about domestic (U.S.) politics specificaly, it is a world issue and I'd like to hear everyone's opinion.
I'm 17 year's old, I graduated my high school 2 years early, went to Arizona State University for 6 months, came to the conclusion academia wasn't for me so I moved to Malawi, Africa for 7 months. I had tried pot on several occasionans before I moved to Africa, but I never really liked it, and have always been pro legalising. I have never seen anything wrong with it, it has never hurt anyone - it's never killed anyone, you don't go to jail for smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. And we are supposed to be a free country.
Anyways (I'll skip most of the Africa part), I came back a stoner.
I also came back from Africa in love with the world and travelling, and in love with the lifestyle of backpacking and tourism. I ran a lodge in Africa, and left my heart there when I left last November.
Now you have my background. If you are still reading, this is where it gets intresting. I am supposed to start at the Canadian Tourism College in downtown Vancouver, BC, on sept. 22nd. studying Adventure Tourism. It's a year long intense study degree on outdoor's tourism. I've been planning to go to this school, that my parents have so graciously offered to pay for, for the good part of 5 months now.
I was supposed to leave tommorow to start my life's ambition in Vancouver, yet tonight, my last night in Orange County, California, United States of America, I got pulled over, harrased and patronized by 2 cops who decided it would be a good idea to literally ruin my life by giving me a ticket. Which insue's a court date, which means I cannot leave the country until I go to court and serve whatever punishment they deam neccesary (which, according the laws I've been reading up on for the past hour, could range anywhere from drug rehab until I pass a drug test - which would take at least a month and half for the pot to clear out - to spending the next 3 months in juvenille hall.)
If im not IN Vancouver by the 10th of september, less than a week, my school drops me. This means I don't move to Vancouver, go to school, get on with my life. It's probably the most likely thing that's going to happen.
This is a specific case of the laws that harness marijuana use ruining someone's life. I'm fucked, completely, uterally, in every possible way just for literally, a joint of marijuana.
How is this right? What did I do to deserve this? What does anyone do to deserve this? Why is marijuana still illegal? It's ruining people's live's every day, not because of the actual drug and it's effects after you smoke it, but the laws put in place, the families and futures being ruined by prison and misunderstanding, by superficial cultural boundries that are based on completely wrong facts literally fabricated 80 years ago.
Sorry if this post was long and boring, but my life was ruined tonight, and it wasn't my fault in any way shape or form, and I swear with my life that if vancouver doesn't work out I'm going to spend the rest of my energies on legalising marijuana and every aspect of it's use.
Thanks for your time, and I'll appreciate feedback. |