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Newsgroups: rec.drugs.cannabis
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Almost two years ago, I was involved in a car accident. A woman (who blew
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a .022) ran a stop sign and hit me. I blew a .015 so I was also arrested.
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My expensive attorney was little help: 18 months probation for my first
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offense! Anyway, in the last two years I realized that alcohol was causing
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a lot of problems for me, apart from the DUI. A girl I really liked dumped
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me over the phone and because I was drunk and upset, I punched a door and
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broke a bone in my left hand. Since I am a bass player, this prevented me
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from playing for two months. I lost a job I liked because of drinking. I
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flunked out of Syracuse University because all I did was drink. I never
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studied or went to classes. Alcohol was slowly ruining my life. As of
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Sept. 25th, 1994, I have not had one drop of alcohol. Since then my life
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has turned around 100%. My thinking my cleared up immensely, I don't get
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mad or moody like I used to, I even took some summer classes and am now
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enrolled in college full time working towards a B.A. in Psychology.
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Since I quit drinking, I have continued to smoke marijuana, partly
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because I don't want to give it up, and partly because I'd rather be
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stoned than drunk and so when I am, there isn't the slightest temptation
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to drink. I look at it as my prescription to keep me off booze.
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As far as my probation went, I have been a model probationer. No
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drinking for almost a year. No police contact. Back in school trying to
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better my life. Everything was going great, 'til the law felt it was time
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to knock me down again.
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I was playing a lunch time gig downtown with some friends of mine
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last week when between sets the band leader suggested we go for a walk,
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ie: go smoke a joint. Four of us went down an alley and hung out next to a
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dumpster. I had my bowl with me so we passed that around along with the
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jay. Not two minutes went by when a police cruiser turned the corner and
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was right there! I had the bowl in my hand so I tried to casually pitch it
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behind the dumpster but one of the cops saw me do it and got my bowl. They
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didn't arrest me, but they said they were going to write a report on me
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and one of the other guys who had a joint on him. I was going to be done
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with probation next month! Now this! Not another life ruined by drugs, but
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rather by drug laws!
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