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To: i-node who wrote (774095)	3/10/2014 4:01:14 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) of 1570735

I was convicted for possession of a baggie forty years ago. It actually wasn't mine, it belonged to a guy playing guitar about 20 feet away (I lived on a cooperative in Oregon at the time). It would have been a whole different (violent) scene if the narcotic officers would have approached him. People were already getting pissed by the way they swooped in, claiming to be delivering a postal package (containing Hashish). I wouldn't accept delivery, then they started getting snoopy and found the pot. I just treated it like getting a bad chance card when playing monopoly and it never got more intense than that. I didn't have to go to jail over it. When applying for jobs or for my teachers licence years later I would see that little box "have you ever been convicted of ..." Rather than lie and enter "no," I would just leave it blank. There was never a response, so I figured that was good enough. I do feel sorry for guys who've had their careers ruined over stuff like that. I think most get a good lawyer and get their records quashed or expunged or something after a few years. But that question on applications is still a stickler.

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