Got my house raided 2 years ago. 3lbs, 20 hits of acid, $17k cash, .5 gram of DMT. Started out trying to make ends meet, moved up rather quickly.
When the cops came to bust me I was respectful, cracked jokes about firemen being the real heroes (which they thought were fucking hilarious), and chain smoked cigarettes on my front porch while they searched (and took) everything including my computer and phone. After they finished up, I was expecting to be taken to jail, but they just kinda left and said they would be in contact. No paperwork or anything was given to me.
Over the next several months I had my lawyer constantly check the court records to see if anything had my name on it, but nothing ever manifested. Fast forward to about 5 months ago (1.5 years since the incident) and I get called down to the police station and am sat down with a detective who tells me that they had been keeping tabs on me and texting my phone number with fake requests for weed (which I didn't respond to). Tells me that the officers vouched for me just being a broke, nice kid paying through college and that all the charges would be dropped so long as I didn't mind a probation officer coming by my place randomly for a few months. I agreed (who wouldn't) and they returned my computer, old phone, and (get this) a clean bong that I had on a shelf in my room. Never heard a word about it again.
If you really are a disabled vet who was doing it to keep yourself afloat and were respectful towards the officers (even better if you made them laugh), go to the court house, sit down with the DA and explain your situation to him or her. They'll work with you and I would bet my cock that you could get it knocked down from a felony with huge fines to a misdemeanor, small fines, and community service.
Things like this aren't part of the "police state", it's usually just the local police force doing the bidding of stay-at-home-mom local bureaucrats while also trying to make some cash off the offenders in the process. You have to understand that looks are everything in the eyes of local police. If they had busted down my door and found a stereotypical trap house inhabited by a stereotypical burnt out dickhead instead of an unassuming Korean kid with a bunch of homework and textbooks everywhere, I would probably be telling a very different story.
Bottom line: Local police is not the police state, its a bunch of guys trying to keep the community looking like the squeaky clean BS that concerned mothers want. Go speak with the DA and get sorted. +10 if you are white and seem like an upstanding citizen. Good luck.