Legal Question in Criminal Law in Pennsylvania

on October 24th, 2010 i was arrested in Montgomery county. im not sure what im being chrged with, i was read my rights, searched, cuffed and placed in a police car. the police officers searched my car and my book bag. before searching i told them that i had a bag of marijuana and pipe in my backpack. they also asked me before searching me if i had any weapons on me and i told them about the small foldable pocket knife in one of my pant pockets. when searching my bag they also found some medication ive had for quite some time, a small hatchit (axe) and a pair of work gloves and some latex gloves all of which i use for my temp job as a tree surgeon with my fathers company.

The reason i was arrested in the first place was because a friend of mine and i had split a bag of pot before walking into the woods to go and smoke. we were in the woods for about an hour or so. when we returned to our vehicles we were greeted by three officers all with guns drawn on us. 1 bryn athyn officer and 2 upper moreland officers. i cooperated with them,was honest and polite. while i was in the police car an officer asked me how much marijuana i could by and i told him what i had was the most ive ever purchased. he was talking like he wanted me to be some kind of informant, but i have no info on anything that would be of any value anyway. also while i was in the police car i continuously kept hearing the officers talking about charging me with felonies. ive never been in trouble with the law before and was caught with a quarter ounce of pot and a couple pills. i understand that breaking the law is breaking the law no matter how you look at it, but this could potentially destroy my future. well after the police talked to my friend and photographed him they let him go. they then photographed me, made me signed my maranda rights waiver, then released me. they gave me no paperwork and i have recieved no paperwork by mail. all this was done at the entrance to the woods at the hood of the bryn athyn officers car. the only info i have had so far was the bryn athyn officer contacted me at 8:20 pm October 26 to ask about my middle initial and about my car. he then said that the arresting officer would contact me in a couple of days and that was all. i thought the Bryn athyn officer was the arresting officer. so i suppose my question is what do i do?

im not some scumbag career criminal, just a guy who smokes some weed. and i understand splitting a bag of weed and recieving money for it is illegal, but im no drug dealer and i kind of feel as though thats what they were making me out to be.

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