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Willie Nelson Charged with Pot Possession
Singer is member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
Country
singer Willie Nelson has been charged with marijuana possession again
after six ounces was found on his tour bus in Texas, according to U.S.
Border Patrol Services.
Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra
Blanca checkpoint Friday morning. When the door opened, an officer
smelled pot, triggering a search and the discovery of marijuana.
Country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson was busted in 2006 for possession of marijuana and mushrooms. (Jim Ross/Associated Press) Nelson was among three people arrested by the local sheriff.
Sheriff Arvin West told the El Paso Times that Nelson acknowledged the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly until a $2,500 US bond was paid and he was released.
Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock said she has no comment on the incident.
The 77-year-old singer is an unrepentant marijuana user and he's been busted before.
Back in 2006, he was also charged with a misdemeanour after being found with marijuana and mushrooms. He paid a fine and was put on six months' probation.
Nelson, whose hits include Good Hearted Woman, Always On My Mind and On the Road Again, later posed for High Times magazine. He is also a board member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.
The Grammy winner's new album, Country Music, was released in April and he's working on a new one due out next May.
With files from The Associated Press
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Show AllIt's not 9/11, it's Joe Stack. The IRS offices.
Well the boy is dumb as a bag of Rocks. But he's a Music Idiot/Savant so I guess he gets a pass.
Any Truck Driver knows to put away the contraband before getting to the inspection station.
But you can't fix stupid!
>^^<
Also, you don't answer any questions cops ask, but exercise your right to remain silent.
Then again, some people are classist in the sense that they scorn book learning. Wonder how good Frank Lloyd Wright was at installing toilets?
I installed a new water heater in a Frank Lloyd Wright house once, he left enough room for easy access to work on the water heater, as was the case for the rest of the mechanical equipment I saw in the house...so my guess is that he'd have been very good at installing a toilet.
This pot possession nonsense is silly. Why don't these jack asses lay off Willie Nelson?
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It certinally isn't news, the story might be "Slow day in Texas""Due to no Crime we Decided to see how much pot Willey had today"
Glad it was a slow day, no one ws killed. no illegals came in. The world at peace, Let's go see what Willey had in his bus?
>^^<
I also have to take exception to your inference about mechanics or janitors. What's wrong with being a mechanic or a janitor? I am so fortunate, for example, to have an intelligent and reasonable auto mechanic - they are like gold - and a school custodian in NYC can be paid 90,000./year on average and SHOULD be. The schools cannot function without them, not to mention, a lot of other places.
And btw, did you see all those unionized women janitors in San Francisco demonstrating for citizenship?
Besides, I think Willie would agree with me.
Slugger, thank you. This was exactly my reaction ... and exactly what I wanted to post here. You beat me to it.
We are, truly, living in a society addled by self-delusion. That is the only way to explain why lying, thieving, bastard criminals like Bush and Cheney and Yoo and Rumsfeld run free, still, giving their goddamn $10,000-a-pop lectures, while we prosecute musicians for ... smoking a little dope.
It would be funny if it weren't so tragic. Real lives are being destroyed daily, still, by the tragic events set in motion by Bush-Cheney-Yoo-Rumsfeld. Why can't the average Americans wake up to the fact that these are common mobster-criminals who still run amok in our midst. This. Isn't. A. Goddamn. Game.
Get it through your thick skulls, America.
Sigh.
and without the pot in his system, it seems doubtful to me that a 77 yr old could overcome arthritis to play guitar so well
I think al Qaeda and endless wars on terror and drugs already have bankrupted the Fascist States of AmeriKKKa.