I got arrested with a bag of weed in college, they said they'd let me go if I l told them who the dealer was - I never did. The strange thing is the thought of ratting out my dealer seemed totally ridiculous to me - it was just something I would never be capable of doing. I'm not sure if it was the right thing to do - my dealer ended up failing out of school anyway, and I had no idea how much risk I might have been putting myself in. It didn't affect me because the law was passed after this happened, but supposedly now if you're convicted of any drug-related offense you can be denied financial aid for college, which seems kind of stupid to me - how better to make sure there are more drug addicts than denying education. Anyway, I didn't know at the time how mild the punishment for small possession was in NY, it's a max $100 fine for first offense - but they certainly tried to make me think I was going to go to jail if I didn't rat out the dealer.







