I have been thinking, even though people do stupid things, but some felonies baffle you. When you are a felon, you have no hope of getting a decent job so you will go back to hustling and committing crimes to fend for your family if you have one.
That is the problem with America, that conviction is a stigma even if you changed for the better and law abiding. Doing it at 18, you are convicted to a life just to live without making yourself better and if you are willing to go through the arduous process of being a middle class law abiding individual it is nearly impossible. I know because a few in my family are convicted drug dealers and they can't get good jobs because of that conviction at 18 years old. Twenty to thirty years of minimum wage jobs and fortunately their wives make money but you can see it that they have failure in their posture of something they did back in the 1980's.
Personally, only crimes that should be felonies is violent ones or those that fraudulent causes the misery of other people. Weed and drugs should not be felonies unless monies from a big bust is north of a set dollar amount. The nickel and dime dealers should not have something like this on their record because as soon as they get out, their ONLY recourse is to do it again because flipping burgers does not make ends meet.
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