Imagine you are driving back from your friend’s house in Washington DC, as you cross the fourteenth street bridge, you think “Oh crap, my friend left his weed in my car!” You decide to drive carefully back home but end up getting pulled over anyway. They find the marijuana and arrest you on the spot. It’s a story you have heard before but never thought it would happen to you. Marijuana laws throughout the country have been changing rapidly. Unfortunately, it is still illegal under federal law and Virginia is one of 20 states that still criminalizes both recreational and medicinal use of marijuana. Therefore, if you have marijuana and a police officer pulls you over, you could be arrested and charged with possession of marijuana in Virginia.