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My question involves criminal law for the state of: Florida.
Hello, my name is Zachary and I was pulled over shortly after finishing smoking marijuana. The officer asked if I had anything in the car, which I immediately pointed out the 3 marijuana roaches sitting on my radio, behind the screen. I was given a citation for possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.

I have a 6 month old daughter and plan on enlisting in the navy after her first birthday. I have been stressing and not getting much sleep, due to the fact I'm expecting the worse to happen. I do not want my chances of enlisting taken away and more importantly, I don't want to be taken away from my daughter, no matter how long it would be.

I used to smoke marijuana to self medicate myself, and haven't smoked since I was pulled over and won't ever again, being it's not worth being taken from my daughter.

If there is any advice you could give me or whatever you can do to help, it would be more than greatly appreciated.
If you had plans to go into the military why on Earth are you using drugs? You realize that the military isn't issuing the waivers they did during the surge right? I agree you better tell your recruiter if you're in DEP (or whatever they call it now) or you've been in contact with one. They have to know. This most likely will affect your ability to enlist in the Navy.

You need to at least find a lawyer who does free consultation and find out your options. I very highly doubt in this environment of the military that you will get a waiver. I don't know how the Navy does it but you would definitely not get one in the Army right now.

Also leaving your daughter at a year isn't going to make much difference if you had joined now.