but what i dont understand is that its not a felony charge.
Neither is 'domestic violence.'
Because of the incremental system of taking our rights away, you can lose your right to own a firearm forever if you get in a shouting match with your wife or girlfriend and someone calls the police- no physical conflict is even necessary to get you railroaded into pleading guilty to a misdeameanor so that you don't have to spend a weekend in jail for it. To make it worse, no judge is going to sympathize with a person labelled as a 'wife-beater' regardless of the circumstances surrounding the arrest.
also wanted to say that the STET converts to a "no guilty" in a year and in 3 years i can have it totally expunged from my record.
I'm not a lawyer, but you should be ok, if you get a 'not guilty' verdict. As far as being a drug user, stay clean, give up the dope- its not one of those hobbies that's going to get you ahead in life and you have a lot of good life ahead of you. If you have the charge changed to a 'not guilty' I would think its the burden of the Feds toprove if you are a drug user or not.
I'm pretty much getting sick of our crap system where people lose rights over meaningless laws that don't do anything to protect anyone from anything. If things keep heading the way they are, everyone will be a criminal in one way or another and a person can be shipped off to a detention center at the whim of the government.
*steps off the soapbox*