My friend is in jail.

Except we aren't friends anymore. Not because she's in jail. Because I stopped using, so I stopped having contact with the people I was using with.

But I learned today that she has been in jail for two months already. She's there for another month according to the DA.

I do not know how she got in jail but I know I'm glad I was no where around when it happened.

I'm thinking about her tonight wondering what that withdrawal was like.

Mine are always hard. But at least I've been free to decide to use what I wanted and stop when I needed to. I don't necessarily regret it.

I don't.

The things I learned out there help me better protect my grandkids. I needed to know what I know. It's fucked up, but it serves me well.
Every goddamn day.

She went from doing her thing, which was often drugs and drug related activities, to sitting in a jail.

I don't know what happens if a person has, say, crystal meth or something, and the authorities find a person in possession.
I do not want to know, and I'm not going to look it up.

I am wondering if she will go from jail to prison. I'm wondering how she screwed up enough to get caught. Dumb question. But no.

Still. Does it seem normal that a woman in her late forties is arrested for the first time?
Wait. How old was Philip Seymour Hoffman?
(I would rather he were in jail on drug charges than dead from drugs.)

How old am I? Seriously, it takes some of us for fucking EVER to grow up.

I had to grow up again...... and again.... 8)

My friend might decide to settle down finally after this, I guess. I don't know. Is jail good? Does it work?

I'm going to utfs. There must be a thread about it.

Before I do, thank you, Bluelight. Part of the reason I'm not in jail is because of what I have learned here.

 

I think Phillip Seymour Hoffman was 46. Pretty damn young age to die of heroin OD. In my state, they throw the book at you for simple possession. Schedule 1 is a felony and mandatory minimum of 90 days in jail. Schedule 2-5 mandatory minimum of 45 days in jail. There must be a zillion people in jail on petty drug crimes. Our tax dollars at work...