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Barack Obama is able to tell the world via YouTube, he smoked pot and he experimented with a line or two of cocaine, and now he looks set to run the United States and in doing so become the most powerful man in the world.
On Dec. 13, 1982, around the the same time as Obama was experimenting, Gary Hapenny was convicted of one count of possession of marijuana. A schedule 1 substance in the same class as heroin and crack cocaine according to US federal law.
It was a misdemeanor offence with a $62 fine, but 25 years later he's still paying for it.
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Hapenny, now 46, has been banned for life from coaching youth sports after selectmen implemented a new policy in July 07, mandating all youth sports volunteers go through a Criminal Offense Record Investigation (CORI) check.
Under the policy, anyone convicted of any narcotics charges automatically earns a lifetime ban.
That puts Hapenny — a father of six — in the same category as murderers, rapists, armed robbers and child molesters, according to the "Town of Bourne CORI Policy for Use of Town Facilities."
"You wouldn't believe what a joke this is in town, that if you smoked marijuana 25 years ago you're gonna get kicked out," Hapenny said.
But Hapenny said he's not laughing, and is contemplating legal action against the town.
Its plain to see. If you are a politician, civil servant etc, it seems you can negate all sorts of "youthful exhuberances" by blaming your age, your university, your peer group, anything in fact, that makes it not your fault.
But for the rest of us in society a drug conviction 25 years ago, is going to haunt you until the day you die.
Its unjust, and it needs to be changed.
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