Here's a controversial issue - snitching

[TheMorphineMan]

Okay, here's the deal. I have always been vehemently against snitching and anyone who assists in the war on drugs or chooses to betray a world they are a part of.

I have this friend, who I'll call M, who has made it through several years of seriously fucking around without managing to fuck up his future (M began doing drugs at approx 18, he is now 21). He is currently in school, working on his degree in business. However, the universe has not been kind to M this past summer, when he has managed to rack up several drug charges in a very short period of time. He is facing up to 6 months-to a year in jail and possibly thousands in fines. This would practically destroy his plans for a career (at least for five years, when the misdemeanors would be sealed). Not only this, M is very close to his family and his mom and dad have basically promised to disown him were he to get into this much trouble. He is very reliant on his family financially at this point in his life as well, and all hopes of even finishing school would be destroyed upon his getting convicted of these charges. M has a lot of potential and everyone expects better for him than to be on the streets forever (he has come close in the past), with no hopes of going anywhere.

But M has been offered a way out. Apparently on his last charge, he was contacted by the local drug task force, who made him an offer. If M were to wear a wire and make a few solid (prosecutable) drug buys, arrangements will be made with the prosecutor and judge to have his charges dismissed.

M has a little while to make his decision and he wants to know what I think. I am at a complete loss. On one hand, I have this friend M who I love like a brother and who would only be doing this horrible thing for all the right reasons, and on the other hand, if I supported him would I also be betraying the world I too am a part of.

I am posting this message because this is driving me crazy and it's all I can think about; I just want to know what some other people living a similar lifestyle as me think. What would you do? If M was your friend, would you support the decision he made? Or would you disown him as your friend and avoid him in the future because of the bad reputation it could bring you and the fact that what he would be doing would not exactly be considered honorable?

Please respond and let me know what you think.

I should note that M has made it clear that if he does decide to go through with this, he will be very select in the people he deals with, i.e. people who've wronged him or his family in the past, pieces of s---, etc...not say this at all justifies what he is doing (possibly not even in my mind), and I wholeheartedly believe that he would never do anything like this to me or anyone that is any kind of close to us or the people we hang out with on a regular basis.

I should also note that I am posting these messages on part as a request from M, who does not have Internet access. However, I suggested it to M and would like others' perspectives on this predicament myself.

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Interesting topic