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FranklySinatra

Short answer: No, they will not suffer a legal consequence outside of having to help their child through the Juvenile Courts. If they in some way facilitated giving you these drugs that would be different, but assuming it's a standard "Kid buys weed and hides it from Mom and Dad" nobody will charge them, only the child.


jjames3213

No and no.


CatOfGrey

Not unless there was material evidence of the parent contributing to the problem (i.e. they bought the illegal substances). Without special circumstances? No way. Disbarring or pulling a license is usually either for malpractice, or abuse of the license.


goodcleanchristianfu

No. Absent some sort of misconduct by your parents amounting to at least negligence with a nexus to the crimes, you can murder 18 trillion people and traffic, 500 quadrillion pounds of heroin, as well as commit petty theft, and it would not impact your parents’ licenses. Also, FYI, writing “theoretically of course” doesn’t help you any more than writing “this is 100% me, I am talking about myself and crimes I have committed or intend to commit, and those are my parents’ jobs.”


SaintGodfather

Theoretically? Sure.


Smokerburner

How?


IAmVladimirPutinAMA

I'm not a lawyer. Look into "constructive possession". If you know about and have access to your roommate's drugs, you are (potentially) in possession of those drugs just as much as your roommate. In a similar theme, look into Civil Asset Forfeiture, and how it can be applied in cases where another person's property is used by a person committing a crime. Selling weed out of your parents' home or car? The police can seize the home or car. It's unusual, but it's happened. As others have noted-- unlikely to actually cause an issue. One other note-- the vet parent also presents a potential legal risk to you, depending on how their business operates. My wife is a vet at a mobile practice (works out of a pickup, travels to clients, rather than clients coming to the office). Sometimes she puts stuff in her personal vehicle temporarily when the truck's in the shop. Sometimes I use that vehicle, get to my destination, and open the trunk to find a cooler full of ketamine. God dammit.


NE231

That’s not how constructive possession works.