1) Marijuana is an infraction today in California. You can't go to jail for possession.
2) I'd be amazed to find someone in California who's life is actively being ruined due to a possession offense. Any conviction older than 2 years cannot be asked about for employment purposes.
1. Not true. If you're possessing too much, you're considered a dealer.
2. If you get caught with weed you'll lose your college grant and loans, essentially making it impossible for a lot of great, hard working people, to get a college degree just because they're caught with some weed. Taking away the right to higher education just because of a small possession case is downright inhumane. Not even rapers and murders lose their college grants and loans.
Correct, but I clearly did not say for possession. I personally know a grower who had his house rated, and was sent to jail for 6 years. Reason: he had too many plants.
Good people should not go to jail for this, aftermath: he lost his house in a sheriff's sale, his kid was taken away. I'm sure you can find 100 of cases where peoples lives were ruined in their own way, not necessarily yours.
The 'war on drugs' has had a lot of bad side effects. Look up the stories sometime of people who were stopped by the police and happen to have a decent amount of cash on them that gets confiscated because clearly it's drug money.
2) I'd be amazed to find someone in California who's life is actively being ruined due to a possession offense. Any conviction older than 2 years cannot be asked about for employment purposes.