Quote: (03-19-2012 02:55 AM)worldwidetraveler Wrote:
Quote: (03-19-2012 02:47 AM)durangotang Wrote:
I am very close to someone who is a master plumber with his own plumbing business who forgot to renew his license a few years back, a paperwork mishap. He has been a licensed plumber in the state for 25 years without problems. An apparently new state database showed he received a felony in the early 1970's for growing marijuana in his house after he finished college (old hippy days). Three decades later, the state denied his permit to practice his profession when he re-applied for his license, even though he had not been arrested since in over 30 years.
These laws do affect people everyday. You just don't read about it in the paper.
Makes no sense. They take away his means of employment so he ends up on welfare.
Yeah, the felony conviction from his twenties somehow linked up in a computerized database somewhere and he was denied specifically for this reason. He appealed and was denied. He sold his home and has now moved out of state, where he is retired.
The point is that he grew some pot in his house, and because pot was arbitrarily voted illegal he was arrested as a young man. If everything were computerized back then he probably never would have received a plumbers license and started his own business. Somehow this affected him 30+ years later in a paperwork mishap, but since everything is regulated you need a permit to do construction on your own property, the subcontractors (plumbers, electricians, etc.) all have to have state permits so the inspector can sign off that work is done to code. In fact any lucrative job in America pretty much requires a permit or licensure (state permission) these days. As it turns out, they can decide to revoke that for almost any reason.