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I live in Chapel Hill NC 27515

I met with student legal today, and they told me that I should apply for a 90-96 which is a first offender's plea... but that means I'll have to pay a $300 fine, and take court sanctioned classes, and be on random drug tests for 6 months to a year. Afterwards it can be expunged from my record. 

This seems like a major hassle and even more complicated than simply pleading guilty. Is this 90-96 a better deal than if I simply spoke to a judge, payed the fine and waited two years? 

I self-incriminated, and I'm pretty much boned either way, so which would be a better course of action: pleading guilty to my first smoke of marijuana that wasn't mine, or applying for this crazy first offender's list? 

I honestly do not see the benefit of this first offender's program. Will expungement be easier? because from what I was told, expungement still seems like a crazy long process anyway, so why would I want to spend extra money and more time in classes about my "problem" for a dumb mistake I made with my friends?

Can you condense the text into three sentences or less?
<bot>: Chapel Hill first offender's program seems really ridiculous and not at all helpful. Hopefully one of you can shed some light on this issue.