so this is my first post but i have a pretty interesting story.
this last december i was driving from tucson to phoenix. im a student at univ of arizona. i had just recently started on some anti-depressant medicines and quit smoking the ganja at the time. i drank a monster energy drink on the drive down and all of a sudden started feeling incredibly tingly and short of breath, and my chest felt like it was about to explode. it felt like i had no choice but to pull over to the side of the highway or i would probably get into a horrible accident.
so i pull over and to my surprise there is a cop parked right on the side of the road where i am pulling over. he gets out of his car and i immediately roll down my window and tell him im having a medical emergency and i ask him to call an ambulance. i explain that i had just recently started taking some prescribed medicine that i thought had a bad reaction with the energy drink i just had (which was exactly what happened). so the cop called an ambulance.
after the paramedics got there they checked my heart rate to find it was at 175 beats per minute. 60-100 bpm is normal. i told them exactly what i had done and for some reason they didnt believe me. they thought i was on meth or something.
the cop then arrested me and charged me with driving under the influence of drugs. they took me to the hospital and drug tested me with an at home pee test. i tested positive for thc even though i hadnt smoked in 3-4 weeks.
in arizona if you get a DUI you must spend time in tent city (jail), you have to pay a ridiculous fine, pay to have a breathalyzer installed in your car (when you can keep driving), get your license revoked for a year minimum. and thats if i pleaded guilty.
but it gets better...
right after the cop leaves i am still in the hospital to be checked out by a doctor. the doctor finally arrives about an hour and a half later and a few minutes into his checkup thing my heart just goes NUTS!
my whole body became paralyzed, i couldnt feel anything but excruciating pain. i couldnt breathe. the only thing i could do was beg for somebody to stop the pain i was in.
my heart was going 200+ beats per minute this time (thats MORE than 3 beats per second). they gave me medicine through an IV that literally stopped my heart from beating for about 20 seconds. they had to do it twice and my heart just raced back up to 200+ bpm both times.
so the doctors gave me a decision: they could shock my heart and hopefully it would return to normal rhythm or they could give me a slower acting IV medicine that should slow my heart down over the next 20 minutes. i was in no condition to make any decision so they decided to give me the slower medicine.
well after about 8 hours in the ICU i was finally stable. the doctor called up my arresting "officer" and told him that marijuana had nothing to do with this situation and that i had even tested negative for it in the HOSPITAL drug screens.
the cop didnt care and just hung up the phone.
so i got myself a lawyer and pleaded not guilty. now because im pleading not guilty to a dui, if i am actually fonud guilty i could face up to 45 days in jail but would probably end up with 10. ten days in jail for all this???
well after a few months the state finally got my "actual" urine drug test results back. it showed that i had INACTIVE thc METABOLITES in my system. this means that i had smoked mary jane previously but it wasnt psychoactive and had no affect on my driving abilities.
but... according to arizona state law it doesnt matter. any thc metabolite in your system is grounds enough for a DUI.
i kept fighting this bullshit law in court and eventually got my sentence reduced to reckless driving. i had to pay a 1,000 dollar fine (that probably just went to those motherfucking pigs paychecks or some bullshit like that), got 8 points on my drivers license causing my car insurance to go through the roof. i got off of probation or anything like that because i guess the judge realized how fucked up this situation was.
the whole thing cost me months of my time and over 5,000 dollars that i wont ever get back all because arizonas police force and justice system is completely corrupt.
i didnt do anything to harm anyone else on the road. in fact, i did the responsible thing by pulling over and asking for help. most people who get arrested are the assholes who dont give a shit about other people. i was taking them into consideration and making the safest possible decision.
they just need to legalize the herb and cut all these bullshit laws. it doesnt do any harm. alcohol is responsible for tragic deaths of countless people and it is legal and enforced way more leniently than mary jane. cant these politicians finally get something right for once and just legalize it?
this last december i was driving from tucson to phoenix. im a student at univ of arizona. i had just recently started on some anti-depressant medicines and quit smoking the ganja at the time. i drank a monster energy drink on the drive down and all of a sudden started feeling incredibly tingly and short of breath, and my chest felt like it was about to explode. it felt like i had no choice but to pull over to the side of the highway or i would probably get into a horrible accident.
so i pull over and to my surprise there is a cop parked right on the side of the road where i am pulling over. he gets out of his car and i immediately roll down my window and tell him im having a medical emergency and i ask him to call an ambulance. i explain that i had just recently started taking some prescribed medicine that i thought had a bad reaction with the energy drink i just had (which was exactly what happened). so the cop called an ambulance.
after the paramedics got there they checked my heart rate to find it was at 175 beats per minute. 60-100 bpm is normal. i told them exactly what i had done and for some reason they didnt believe me. they thought i was on meth or something.
the cop then arrested me and charged me with driving under the influence of drugs. they took me to the hospital and drug tested me with an at home pee test. i tested positive for thc even though i hadnt smoked in 3-4 weeks.
in arizona if you get a DUI you must spend time in tent city (jail), you have to pay a ridiculous fine, pay to have a breathalyzer installed in your car (when you can keep driving), get your license revoked for a year minimum. and thats if i pleaded guilty.
but it gets better...
right after the cop leaves i am still in the hospital to be checked out by a doctor. the doctor finally arrives about an hour and a half later and a few minutes into his checkup thing my heart just goes NUTS!
my whole body became paralyzed, i couldnt feel anything but excruciating pain. i couldnt breathe. the only thing i could do was beg for somebody to stop the pain i was in.
my heart was going 200+ beats per minute this time (thats MORE than 3 beats per second). they gave me medicine through an IV that literally stopped my heart from beating for about 20 seconds. they had to do it twice and my heart just raced back up to 200+ bpm both times.
so the doctors gave me a decision: they could shock my heart and hopefully it would return to normal rhythm or they could give me a slower acting IV medicine that should slow my heart down over the next 20 minutes. i was in no condition to make any decision so they decided to give me the slower medicine.
well after about 8 hours in the ICU i was finally stable. the doctor called up my arresting "officer" and told him that marijuana had nothing to do with this situation and that i had even tested negative for it in the HOSPITAL drug screens.
the cop didnt care and just hung up the phone.
so i got myself a lawyer and pleaded not guilty. now because im pleading not guilty to a dui, if i am actually fonud guilty i could face up to 45 days in jail but would probably end up with 10. ten days in jail for all this???
well after a few months the state finally got my "actual" urine drug test results back. it showed that i had INACTIVE thc METABOLITES in my system. this means that i had smoked mary jane previously but it wasnt psychoactive and had no affect on my driving abilities.
but... according to arizona state law it doesnt matter. any thc metabolite in your system is grounds enough for a DUI.
i kept fighting this bullshit law in court and eventually got my sentence reduced to reckless driving. i had to pay a 1,000 dollar fine (that probably just went to those motherfucking pigs paychecks or some bullshit like that), got 8 points on my drivers license causing my car insurance to go through the roof. i got off of probation or anything like that because i guess the judge realized how fucked up this situation was.
the whole thing cost me months of my time and over 5,000 dollars that i wont ever get back all because arizonas police force and justice system is completely corrupt.
i didnt do anything to harm anyone else on the road. in fact, i did the responsible thing by pulling over and asking for help. most people who get arrested are the assholes who dont give a shit about other people. i was taking them into consideration and making the safest possible decision.
they just need to legalize the herb and cut all these bullshit laws. it doesnt do any harm. alcohol is responsible for tragic deaths of countless people and it is legal and enforced way more leniently than mary jane. cant these politicians finally get something right for once and just legalize it?
