[BipolarBob]

The VAST majority of these violators (it is, after all, illegal most places) will be offered, and successfully complete, deferred adjudication or deferred disposition and have the charge dismissed. It doesn’t affect those people at all in the way this person asserts above.

And you know this from personal experience? Nobody has lost jobs , child custody or been evicted over a small amount of pot? I think we've located the Bravo Sierra.

[usurper]

Nobody has lost jobs , child custody or been evicted over a small amount of pot? I think we've located the Bravo Sierra.

You are right. When I worked on the southern border the US Attorneys Office would not accept any case under 200 pounds. Some would be prosecuted by the state and locals, but most just had their pot and vehicle seized and faced a fine to get their vehicle back.

[jagusafr]

I know it from having been a judge, prosecutor and defense counsel for 35 years, both in and out of the military. The civilian world is much more forgiving than the military, and in my considerable experience in all aspects of criminal justice, over 90% of people charged with a minor possession offense have the charge dismissed after successfully completing a diversion course. So no, the Bravo Sierra isn’t coming from this particular front. My response was to the writer’s horrendous overgeneralization of the ACTUAL effects on most offenders.