Good luck man, hopefully your probation officer gives you a recommendation for probation reinstatement, the judge will usually trust and abide by her recommendations.

I violated my probation twice the past two years, the first one landed me in jail for ten days and the second over 100, if this is your first time I really don't see them revoking your probation.

Hope it all works out well

edit: just read that all is well, sweet

UPDATE!!

I drank on my 21st birthday. I shouldn't have, but I did. I had a drug test shortly after.

I now have to spend 89 days in jail.

I am waiting for the court date. It is for sure about the jail time though.



Luckily I will have work release. Which isn't bad, but it will cost me 2225 to do it that way. I will be finally done with all of this afterwards too. I am looking forward to this and to move on with my life.

This way I will not loose my job or anything. I will be living in a tent, and I will also get 4 hours at home a week.



Yes! Bahahaha. What a joke. All for profits and keeping a tight lock on the population and their minds.

All because a bag of mushrooms!! !@$# the system!!!

hostilis

But alcohol is legal when you're 21, isn't it?

I hope somehow you get lucky and you don't have to spend that time... but in case you do, good luck, love & support.

I hope you don't get too cold in your tent!

My friend, I am very sorry that you have to face this kind of thing. It's a mad and sad world where we are prosecuted for learning about ourselves and exploring the universe. Be strong!

and yeah, isn't alcohol legal when you're 21?

I don't get the tent part. I thought you'd have to go to prison, or are there now prison tents

Well, it's no laughing matter actually and i apologize. Hope this experience won't damage you much and there will be a (virtual) party waiting for you when you get out

yes its legal, but sadly it doesn't matter. drug tests, especially probation ones, don't care if your not under age. it still violates probation

so if you're on probation you are not even allowed to drink, even though it's legal? strange world

Getting all this trouble for eating mushrooms is really unfair but getting 89 days in jail for this is a perfect example of a rotten jail system that runs on profit. Man I really feel sorry for you. Keep strong in this time of injustice!

Yes Enoon. I didn't check with her first. I am not allowed to have ANY mind altering substances. Except cigarettes of coarse. Oh, and all of the OTC drugs... Whatever. LOL.

I will be done with all of this afterwards. Yay!!

The work release center is a giant dome tent with no walls or anything. There is a TV, a microwave, and washing machines. I will bring my own hygene products and books. I will go to work and set up a day to go home for 4 hours once a week.

So, when I go home, I will be able to come say hi. I'll let everyone know how it is going.

So another update: The warrant is out. I have to go and bail myself out (1000 dollar bail) and wait for court.
My probation officer said that she will be in court recommending jail time for the remainder of my probation sentence (90 days.) Then I will be done. For good this time. I am not gonna smoke bud. I am not gonna drink in public. I am not gonna drive with any illegal substances. I am not going through this again. It sucks.

Never get on probation! Be careful everyone!!

Just do everything in private and be very careful? Why let them change you in such a drastic way? Can you really live with yourself after giving in to their stupidity ? I mean, i certainly understand how you'd want to comply, but still....

I am not letting them change me. For one, I do not use cannabis at all. I do not enjoy it. Second, I don't really even like drinking. Third, I cannot go through this again. Why put myself in the position to go through this bullshit. It is the only thing I can do to prevent this. By not carrying illegal substances.

I do not want to ever smoke cannabis anyways regardless of this. I may in the future, but not everyday like I used to. It made me unmotivated and lazy. So, if you were to know me well, you'd know that the things I stated are not a dramatic change from the way I already am.

I can't screw up the rest of my life by running from this. I thought it over a lot, and maybe this will be good for me. It will give me time to think about my life. It will give me time to learn more about mechanics (which is what i'm thinking of doing for a living.)

I want to say that I will bring mushrooms to the forest with me again, but it is really scary to think of this happening again. I don't know if you've been through anything like this, but it sucks.

90 days of my life in jail. Why should I risk this again. I know I do not deserve this and that what I do isn't wrong. It just sucks. I see where you are coming from though... I really cannot start off my life properly with situations like this hanging over my head and being attached to my name.

So, I had court today. I will have court and will be going to jail (99.9999% sure) on may 2nd. I will be in there 88 days.

Fun fun!

heads up. try to stick to your tent/work/freetime theory of before. don't let them make you afraid. fear is a liar.
be strong!

Thank you my friend.

If I'm not on tomorrow then I'm in jail.

I love all of you! Thanks for the support.

Good luck Hostilis! Thinking of you bro

Well... not quite. You could move.

Go somewhere where your lifestyle and core beliefs are accepted or at least tolerated.

I remember the days when gays and lesbians had to move to somewhere like San Francisco to avoid persecution, gay bashing and ridicule. This is by and large finished, or in its last dying throes as proven by the non-issue of the NBA star coming out and how quickly gay marriage has become accepted.

"Drug" use will eventually follow a similar course of gradual and then exponential acceptance. You are rather young, but many of us have been dealing with the Drug War for multiples of your current age. We have come a ways since the bad old days, but as long as we cower and let them oppress us, we just keep our day of freedom that much further down the road.

Believe me. There will come a day when stories such as yours will seem as unbelievable as Jim Crow seems to us today.

Hostilis,

My heart goes out to you. You have a community here that supports you and will be here for you when you get through this.

Thank you for posting your personal circumstance. It may help some other folks here avoid some of the pain that you have had.

I have known a couple people on probation who ended up in jail. In each case, a big factor was that they didn't take probation seriously enough. Since their outward exerience was mostly like before they were arrested, they mistakenly thought they had gotten past the risk of jail.

If anyone here ends up on probation, please follow your terms of probation without fail.

I will miss you Hostilis... We will all be waiting for you.