Willie Nelson Busted!

lmao.. i just saw on the news (and read up online) that good ol' willie nelson was stopped in his tourbus along with his entourage, and were caught with a pound and a half of pot and two tenths of a pound of mushrooms..
no arrests or anything but im not sure of the details..
just thought youd all take interest =]]

 

"Shocking! Willie Nelson Busted for Pot
[size=-1]by Josh Grossberg[/size]
[size=-1]Sep 18, 2006, 12:30 PM PT[/size] [size=-1]
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[size=-1]This just in: Willie Nelson likes his herb.

The country outlaw is back on the road again after a pot-powered pitstop early Monday.

Nelson and several of his band mates received misdemeanor citations for marijuana possession after their tour bus was pulled over in Louisiana. The bust came just two days after Nelson called for the decriminalization of marijuana while stumping for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman.

According to Willie Williams of the Louisiana Highway Patrol, Nelson and crew were traveling along Highway 10 in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, when they were stopped for a routine commercial inspection. Officers on the scene caught a whiff of something suspicious emanating from the vehicle as soon as the driver opened the door. And BioWillie be damned, a search of the bus turned up about one-and-a-half pounds of marijuana and a small bag of psychedelic mushrooms estimated at two-tenths of a pound.

"No one aboard the bus gave any of our troopers any problems," Williams told E! Online. "When the search was conducted , they were very cordial and...subsequently admitted to being the owners of the narcotics."

Williams stressed that the group did not receive any preferential treatment from troopers. The reason Nelson and his band members were not taken into custody and issued the citations, Williams said, was because the St. Martin Parish jail was "filled to capacity." It will be up to the county district attorney to decide whether the musicians will be called to court.

Aside from the 73-year-old ringleader, citations were issued to his sister, Bobbie Nelson, 75, of Briarcliff, Texas;Tony Sizemore, 59, of St. Cloud, Florida;Gates Moore, 54, from Austin; and David Anderson, 50, of Dallas.

If convicted, they could each face up to six months in jail--most likely they'd get off with probation and fines.

Nelson's publicist, Elaine Shock, declined to comment.

Before the bust, the Farm Aid founder and his band were in his native Texas to headline Saturday's Austin City Limits Music Festival. During the stop there, Nelson gave an interview in which he urged politicians to scrap criminal penalties for pot possession.

Those sentiments echoed the platform of his pal Friedman, a singer-songwriter turned politician who's mounting an independent bid for Texas governor and has called on the decriminalization of marijuana to help clear clogged state prisons of nonviolent offenders. Nelson has actively supported Friedman's candidacy, hosting a $1,000-per-plate fundraising dinner and signing a petition to get Friedman on the ballot.

"The hundred times that Kinky and I have talked during his campaign--we talked about energy, health, biodiesel, immigration, war--and the pot thing has never come up. Of course, I felt always that I knew where Kinky stood on that, and he knew where I stood, but I also knew that it was very risky to bring that out politically, but what’s Kinky got to lose?" Nelson said.

Aside from fighting for his write to toke, Nelson has been pushing for greener fuel (and has opened a chain of BioWillie diesel stations) and petitioning Congress to pass a bill banning the industrial slaughter of wild horses to sell as meat to consumers abroad."

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^^^thanks.. thats the full story

 

2/10 a pound of shrooms is what? like a little less than 4ozs?

 

^^^I think so.....around a bout anyways....

 

4oz is 1/4lb, so close enough. It's actually 3.2g

 

that isnt much to laugh about, willie nelson is a great guy, why would anyone laugh if he was busted...........................................

 

I don't like it when any respectable stoner is busted, but it's cool to know that he still likes to get fukt up like that, if you ask me. I have just eaten 4 xanax's and am quite fukt up, so if I make any retarded posts.....disregard

 

Arithmatic time:

2/10 lb= .2*16 oz = 3.2 oz = 28 *3.2 gm = 89.6 gm

 

It was for personal use.


It's absolutely ludicrous to picture a bunch of clean cut boys who are probably young enough to be Willie's kids (if not grandkids) telling him that he can't have some pot and mushrooms because they might be bad for him. Willie has seen three times as much as them time-wise, and ten times as much experience-wise. And yet, it's for his protection that he needs to be ticketed in order to stop himself from damaging his health and corrupting his thoughts.

Absolute bullshit if you ask me.

 

I Didint Know He Smoked Pot Lol

 

^ You didn't know the red headed stranger smoked pot? Have you seen Half Baked? That almost makes me want to say lol, but I hate that so I won't. He gets busted every few years it seems. Sometimes for tax evasion.

 

Yeah, he's on the board of Norml too.

If there was one person who should be allowed to do it, it'd be Willie Nelson.

 

one of Willie's greatest moments is smoking weed on top the White House

 

honestly i dont find this even almost 'shocking!'
willies been tokin the herb since the 50's...

 

Mistomendor for a pund and a hlaf?

 

it was for a bunsh of guys personal use... not for distribution, and come on its willie nelson... of cousre hes not gonna get much

 

naw girl.. i was just laughing cuz i know the guys still tokin, thats all..
all respect to willie and i hope nothing more comes out of this bust =]]

 

its called sarcasim m8