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There are thousands of stories like this one, but this one is really sad. How many otherwise productive lives have been and will be ruined by our insane fixation on the war on drugs?
In the spring of 2000, a bicycle cop in Arlington, Virginia stopped 19-year-old Lundy Khoy and asked her if she was carrying any drugs. "Having been taught to trust the police," Khoy writes of the experience, "I answered honestly." She told the cop that she had seven tabs of ecstasy, and that she planned to sell them to pay back some money she took from her mom.
In Virginia, possesion with intent to sell is an aggrevated felony.
"On the advice of my lawyer and feeling that a trial would increase my family's suffering and embarrassment," Khoy writes, "I pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in jail."
Khoy served three months and was released for good behavior. She moved back in with her parents, got a job, and enrolled in community college. "I began to accept, forgive, and believe in myself," writes Khoy, who is now 31. She also completed four years of supervised probation without missing appointments or failing drug tests.
A confessed drug dealer is a victim? To pay back money she (took) as in stole from her mom?
Lord have mercy this one tops the cake. Like you say we got drug dealing thieves who are now just po widdle victims who also aren't even smart enought to not trust cops and admit to selling to begin with. Must be a liberal drug dealer there.
Sorry Roadking, I can't even hang with you on this one
Even though I'm dead set against the war on Marijuana, I've seen to much evidence of the damage Ecstasy can do. And if she was dumb enough to actually tell the cop she was getting ready to sell it, it may be best to leave her in jail for her own protection...
There are thousands of stories like this one, but this one is really sad. How many otherwise productive lives have been and will be ruined by our insane fixation on the war on drugs?
In the spring of 2000, a bicycle cop in Arlington, Virginia stopped 19-year-old Lundy Khoy and asked her if she was carrying any drugs. "Having been taught to trust the police," Khoy writes of the experience, "I answered honestly." She told the cop that she had seven tabs of ecstasy, and that she planned to sell them to pay back some money she took from her mom.
In Virginia, possesion with intent to sell is an aggrevated felony.
"On the advice of my lawyer and feeling that a trial would increase my family's suffering and embarrassment," Khoy writes, "I pled guilty and was sentenced to five years in jail."
Khoy served three months and was released for good behavior. She moved back in with her parents, got a job, and enrolled in community college. "I began to accept, forgive, and believe in myself," writes Khoy, who is now 31. She also completed four years of supervised probation without missing appointments or failing drug tests.
If they are peddling narcotics and then on top of that are dumb enough to tell a cop, then yeah, they should be.
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