troublecall
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I have lived in Texas a long time. I am new to this forum and always tried to stay below the radar on this thing. I have smoked for over 38 years, yes everyday until.... yep busted. As I always was wary of the younger set I would warn them, it is like speeding, your eventually gonna get caught. Yes I knew all the rules. But do the police know and obey the rules or do they just push it enough to get ya? And sometimes the thing that burns you the most you brought into this world like mine.
I live in Texas, Austin the most politically driven City I have ever lived in. Now here for over 25 years, my home almost paid for and owner of a good business. However almost 2 years ago a situation came up that I thought (dumb me, there ya go thinkin) I needed to call the cops to help with. My son then 22 decided he no longer needed to obey me in my house and attacked me. So I started to go back on him, and stopped. Realizing I had PTSD, and various other issues, this was not good for a veteran of war or for the kid. Of course I would have killed him or beaten him half to death. Instead stupid me decide's, oh yeah, we'll tell it to the cops. What's he do? He allows them into my home and oh yes there was pot... 4 beautiful oz. of premium, and I do mean premium swag, the kind thats cheap but tastes like it came from the right places. As I said I have many types of diseases to include arthritis, lupus, reynauds, bone and tissue degeneration, chronic pain, PTSD and the list continues to grow.
The cops did not mind telling me that they smelled and saw plenty of things to get a search warrant and could not pass up the opportunity to bust my buns. With that and the situation I had plum forgot about the stash and said go right ahead I got rights... oooops. Williamson County Texas is about as bad as it gets with your rights. In they came and yes there it was in a big bag and yes I saved twigs and seed that totaled over 7 oz., I use to make great oil extract and turned into the best brownies in Texas, as far as I know. I got to spend some time in jail as did my son. I am still serving probation. I got two years probation and it has cost me over 10k in fees and fines not to mention business loss, but I can see daylight.
I want to get away from the storm troopers now that this old paranoid vet has been put through the mill and I am just barely able to make using the stupid meds that I have been given to replace what pot could do for me (I now take over 14 pills for just pain). I have gained 60 plus pounds, I am so dizzy from junk pills from the VA I can not finish a sentence without searching for the words. In the 38 years I smoked, I was a very successful business owner (depends on your def of success). I made over 300k a year. Now with the bust and all that I have gone through and getting old with many ailments I make 50-60k a year and only work 50-60hours a month, partially retired I call it (if I smoked I could do more). So, the question becomes this to me.
Where do you move that you can either get it or grow it without the troopers coming down on you?
I know it is a long way around to ask a simple question. Sorry I wanted to kind of give my background and situation. The house will be paid off in 7 years, I would really like to have it paid for so I can say I reached the American dream of owning my own home, and show the cops and the ex. that I really did not need all the crap they and she gave me about smokin and that I could not be productive without being off pot or would have been nothing without her. Yeah right, I raised the kids, kept the house, feed, clothed and schooled them. And still gave her a car, 1.8k per month and over 360k in cash (she spent it all and got nothing now), I feel I bought everything in life twice. But I want to leave my kid behind, that still lives free, in my home, and will not move (he is 24 soon to be 25 and pays nothing). I am tired of some of the uhhh, fair weather friends (you learn who the good ones are when you get busted), and need to find a place to move to that I can relax and do a few spliffs a day without the man getting his part of me. I got 8.5 months of probation left on the 2 years I will have gone 2.5 years without smokin and I really would like another day without pain before I die, and maybe even a little head peace would be nice too.
Got any suggestion? I have had plenty of advise in my life so please keep it to a minmum I did screw up. Calling the cops??? What was I thinking.
Maybe I should also mention, my older sister was murdered when I got back from asia, my father has passed away as has my mother in the past 3 years and this bust. I divorced over 16 years ago. My sisters murderer was never prosecuted by the law, not enough evidence to get a conviction. 25 years ago, like only 12 years after playing soldier in Asia. I have had a great life do not think it has been bad and I am still kick'n it. I will fight till the end. Sorry I did not join the war for making drugs legal before, but I am giving it everything I got now. My PO hates me. I tell everyone that yes I will smoke again. Even the AA folks that I get to see 4 times a month and I never was a drinker, I like the herb.
Short story, right?
I live in Texas, Austin the most politically driven City I have ever lived in. Now here for over 25 years, my home almost paid for and owner of a good business. However almost 2 years ago a situation came up that I thought (dumb me, there ya go thinkin) I needed to call the cops to help with. My son then 22 decided he no longer needed to obey me in my house and attacked me. So I started to go back on him, and stopped. Realizing I had PTSD, and various other issues, this was not good for a veteran of war or for the kid. Of course I would have killed him or beaten him half to death. Instead stupid me decide's, oh yeah, we'll tell it to the cops. What's he do? He allows them into my home and oh yes there was pot... 4 beautiful oz. of premium, and I do mean premium swag, the kind thats cheap but tastes like it came from the right places. As I said I have many types of diseases to include arthritis, lupus, reynauds, bone and tissue degeneration, chronic pain, PTSD and the list continues to grow.
The cops did not mind telling me that they smelled and saw plenty of things to get a search warrant and could not pass up the opportunity to bust my buns. With that and the situation I had plum forgot about the stash and said go right ahead I got rights... oooops. Williamson County Texas is about as bad as it gets with your rights. In they came and yes there it was in a big bag and yes I saved twigs and seed that totaled over 7 oz., I use to make great oil extract and turned into the best brownies in Texas, as far as I know. I got to spend some time in jail as did my son. I am still serving probation. I got two years probation and it has cost me over 10k in fees and fines not to mention business loss, but I can see daylight.
I want to get away from the storm troopers now that this old paranoid vet has been put through the mill and I am just barely able to make using the stupid meds that I have been given to replace what pot could do for me (I now take over 14 pills for just pain). I have gained 60 plus pounds, I am so dizzy from junk pills from the VA I can not finish a sentence without searching for the words. In the 38 years I smoked, I was a very successful business owner (depends on your def of success). I made over 300k a year. Now with the bust and all that I have gone through and getting old with many ailments I make 50-60k a year and only work 50-60hours a month, partially retired I call it (if I smoked I could do more). So, the question becomes this to me.
Where do you move that you can either get it or grow it without the troopers coming down on you?
I know it is a long way around to ask a simple question. Sorry I wanted to kind of give my background and situation. The house will be paid off in 7 years, I would really like to have it paid for so I can say I reached the American dream of owning my own home, and show the cops and the ex. that I really did not need all the crap they and she gave me about smokin and that I could not be productive without being off pot or would have been nothing without her. Yeah right, I raised the kids, kept the house, feed, clothed and schooled them. And still gave her a car, 1.8k per month and over 360k in cash (she spent it all and got nothing now), I feel I bought everything in life twice. But I want to leave my kid behind, that still lives free, in my home, and will not move (he is 24 soon to be 25 and pays nothing). I am tired of some of the uhhh, fair weather friends (you learn who the good ones are when you get busted), and need to find a place to move to that I can relax and do a few spliffs a day without the man getting his part of me. I got 8.5 months of probation left on the 2 years I will have gone 2.5 years without smokin and I really would like another day without pain before I die, and maybe even a little head peace would be nice too.
Got any suggestion? I have had plenty of advise in my life so please keep it to a minmum I did screw up. Calling the cops??? What was I thinking.
Maybe I should also mention, my older sister was murdered when I got back from asia, my father has passed away as has my mother in the past 3 years and this bust. I divorced over 16 years ago. My sisters murderer was never prosecuted by the law, not enough evidence to get a conviction. 25 years ago, like only 12 years after playing soldier in Asia. I have had a great life do not think it has been bad and I am still kick'n it. I will fight till the end. Sorry I did not join the war for making drugs legal before, but I am giving it everything I got now. My PO hates me. I tell everyone that yes I will smoke again. Even the AA folks that I get to see 4 times a month and I never was a drinker, I like the herb.
Short story, right?
