Unless of course you are rich or have a rich family that will
help you. It has been almost 7 years since I was convicted of drug possession
and do not let them bullshit you, they should have just executed me.
People tell you just quit drugs and everything will get
better, you can change your life; it does not get better and you are now locked
out of the workforce. No matter how much you learn, study, and change your
life, in the end it is for naught. Being convicted of a drug felony ruined my
paramedic career so I taught myself computer programming. I have interviewed at
Spartan stadium for IBM, built 11 applications for Microsoft as an independent developer,
which has my phone ringing off the hook with jobs I will never get. I was hired
three times this year at positions that all paid more than twenty dollars an
hour plus benefits yet every time I received the email – “Unfortunately due to
your background we are unable to move further. Thank you and good luck in your
job search”. It doesn't matter that I haven’t had so much as a parking ticket
since then, once you are labeled a “felon” you are finished. I am unemployable
for possessing a drug the last two presidents have done, cocaine. I tried it
again five years ago and did not like it and don’t see why I even did it but it
does not matter I have been labeled a felon and therefore I am unemployable.
You are not only unemployable but you do not qualify for anything anymore- food
stamps or any other welfare benefit is cut off. You can’t even get college
loans anymore. You are more discriminated against than a rapist or murderers,
at least they get food benefits and qualify for federal student loans.
If not
for my family, I would be living on the streets since NOBODY is willing to give
me a chance once my background comes back. I have never hurt, stole, robbed, or
even caused another person any pain yet I am locked out of the workforce. I
have woke up every day for the last month and wondered what is the point of
living anymore?
Here is a question for all those involved with the criminal
“justice” system;
What incentive does one have to stay off drugs and not commit
another “crime”? If one is refused work, all safety nets are cut and one is
barred from any chance of becoming a productive member of society, besides
prison what incentive does one have to change. The criminal justice system not
only crushes the drug users chances of making a living they also harm everyone
from the users family to the city and state they live in by loss of taxes,
adding to the able bodied but unemployed numbers, and so on. Instead of
admitting capitalism is not working they give people who make a personal choice
labels such as “felon” so they can blame victims instead of a broken and
corrupt system. I owe child support and am threatened with jail time, that and
jail time for fines from receiving the drug possession yet because I have a
felony I am barred from employment so I am unable to pay of any of it. It does
not even make sense.
A person who does drugs usually messes up their life
enough only to have the state come in and make it infinitely worse. Companies
that refuse to employ people convicted of victim-less crimes should be ashamed
of themselves. Most people with felony drug crimes blame themselves and don’t
say anything just let the state walk all over them. I am done with that way of
thinking. 7 years ago, I took my money and bought a small amount of drugs for
me to use. Get over it! I do not use now and don’t plan on it again so stop
refusing me a way to make a living. Take your fucking boot off my neck and let
me make a living, support my child, and pay taxes to my state. I live in
Michigan, which could defiantly use the money. Tens of billions is lost each
year by states if not more because they label people felons for victim-less crimes. When Obama did cocaine it was youthful indiscretion when I do it, I am
sentenced to a life of poverty and misery.
I know I sound bitter but if you spent all the time and energy,
I have learning and studying only to be cast out of society, you would be too.
We have a two tiered justice system one for the poor and one for the rich. I
possess a small amount of cocaine and am barred from employment for life while
a rich kid gets probation for getting blind drunk then gets in his daddy’s
f-350 and kills four people plus paralyzes his friend. This is the country we
live in.
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