This is not a police bashing question so if your here just to say the police are evil don’t bother commenting!

If a person gets caught with Marijuana misdemeanor charge and suffers from hardship in finding employment that requires background checks and pays the fine how are they any better off after that happening compared to an individual that smokes marijuana but doesn’t get caught?

Now that same analogy with a more illicit and more dangerous drug like cocaine

An individual who get’s caught with misdemeanor quantity of cocaine that ends up doing jail time and sentenced to court ordered rehab and community service and pays a huge fine..
Now comparing that to a individual who is also a cocaine addict but doesn’t get caught and continues there drug of abuse .

This makes good sense to me since the cocaine addict will eventually destroy there health and turn on there family by stealing and hurting the people who are close to them so it would be better off if they had been handcuffed and put in jail to get clean. So what is there governments reasoning?