One of my best guy friends was driving home from work and stopped at a gas station to smoke (okay, not smart but whatever) and further on down the road got pulled over. The cop asked if he had drugs on him or in the car, he said no (he already smoked it). Then the cop asked if he had any paraphanilia on him and he said yes i have a pipe. The officer asked for it, he gave it to him, and the officer said, "you just saved yourself from going to jail."

The cop also asked if he had been smoking and he said yes. The officer thanked him for being honest, and said stuff like "Why are you doing this stuff?" My friend said he just started because he was stressed out.

In the end, the officer only wrote him 2 tickets: 1 for possesion of marijuana (resin in the pipe) and the other for possesion of paraphanilia (the pipe).

Luckally he was cool and didn't get him for DUI. I was so relieved when I heard this, however, I was looking up penalties for Marijuana in Missouri and it said less than 35 grams is up to a year in jail and ,000 fine!

So now I'm freaking out and he's freaking out and I was just wondering if anyone had ever been in this situation before (even in another state) and what punishment they got.

Also, he has a clean record, only been pulled over once for a traffic ticket! AND if they didn't arrest him that night, they're probably not going to, right?!