Legal Question in Criminal Law in California

Re: Marijuana Possesion and Trafficking

Like many legal questions, the answer to yours depends on a number of factors: 1) Local attitudes towards MJ (my best guess is Imperial Co is a conservative county, but on the other hand they are on the border and have lots of cases with lots more weight) 2) whether or not you are charged w/ a felony (intent to distribute) 3) whether you can afford a private attorney as opposed to the public defender (big difference) 4) whether you gave a statement to the cop or gave permission to search (if you did either of these, you are too stupid to be carrying QPs around) 5) your ability to take the time and to travel to CA for court hearings and 6) whether you have a medical excuse. The penalty includes the loss of your buds, plus If you are convicted you face probation, f�nes, and jail time, up to 5 yrs prob/$10000/1 yr jail, probably much less, and you might have future problems, especially if you are a noncitizen or you have aspirations to be an FBI agent someday.