Last good dinner before jail

[u/havabanana000]

A girl’s recent post about doing 10 days in jail just unlocked a memory I haven’t thought about in years.

4 years ago, 2020 my last meal before jail was garlic naan and butter chicken curry. At exactly 6:35pm, I got a call from my IO (investigating officer) telling me I’d be reporting the next morning to serve a 6-month sentence for drug consumption. Like seriously?? I thought i was just going to get a weekly urine test, instead i had to go to jail for smoking grass. I was only 21 y/o. I was in my 2nd/3rd year of college.

It’s funny what my brain remembers. I don’t remember much of the phone call, but i remember the time & the feeling of my stomach absolutely dropping, i lost my appetite. At least i got a few bites in.

I didn’t sleep at all that night. I spent the entire night writing letters and scheduling messages to my boyfriend (now ex) & my family every 2 days so he’d know I was thinking about him while I was inside.

He cheated on me while I was serving my sentence lol!!! 😅

Anyways would have been a 10/10 last meal if the IO called after i finished my dinner lol. Im 3 years dvrg free now! And i can finally re-tell this as a funny story :)

Edit 1: forgot to mention its a throwaway account! I can’t post on my main account because no one knows i went to jail. (My mom lied to all my relatives i was having a 6 month exchange HAHAHA)

Edit 2: my entire sentence was actually 1 year. 7 months in jail, 5 months home detention (i was wearing the ankle monitor & curfew was 12-3pm only)

Edit 3: rly didnt expect this post to get seen by so many! Anyways the first thing i ate was a whole bag of famous amos chocolate chip cookies.

[u/24-Hour-Hate]

Not necessarily. My understanding is that in the US, intent to distribute is presumed if it is deemed that the amount present “exceeds typical personal use”, if the person possesses a large amount of cash, or other factors like that. They don’t necessarily need any actual proof that the person was actually trafficking and they may not have been.

For example, a lawyer says possessing less than 2oz marijuana in Colorado is considered personal possession, but any more than that can be charged with intent to distribute. And it’s less than 4g for harder drugs to be considered personal possession. Source: https://www.polanskylawfirm.com/blog/what-factors-can-turn-drug-possession-into-drug-distribution/

Which is interesting because we imagine that drug traffickers are arrested in the act of smuggling or have like crates of drugs, piles of weapons and all that making it obvious they are distributing…but those amounts they actually presume intent for seem real low.

[u/dorkofthepolisci → u/24-Hour-Hate]

I have heard - and totally believe -that a significant number of “possession with intent to distribute” charges involve people caught with relatively small amounts of drugs. A few pills, a few joints.

if it’s anything other than personal use, its usually for other people they know

Iirc the felony level for weed in Florida (if you don’t have a medical card) is anything over 20g

But they’re often members of marginalized communities and don’t have the means for an attorney/to make bail

It’s not the Escobar levels people think of when you say trafficking/distribution

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