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Willie Nelson arrested for drug possession

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Willie Nelson was detained and arrested for marijuana possession on Friday, on his way back to Austin, after spending Thanksgiving in California, officials said.

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128 comments // Willie Nelson arrested for drug possession

  • tomshow
  • ras_menelik
  • ras_menelik
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      ras_menelik  

    • Leaving Ca for Ethiopia with out weed was a hard choice while in transit in Vancouver it paid off they went thru my stuff like rabid dogs! It took me 3 days to find some seedless @5$1/8

    • 1 year ago
  • juicie
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  
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    • http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/68404/237477

      ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE...

      Willie Nelson Arrested for Pot Possession
      'He said he feels great,' Nelson's harmonica player tells Rolling Stone. 'He lost six ounces.'

      Darren Hauck/Getty
      By Patrick Doyle
      Nov 27, 2010 12:10 PM EST

      Willie Nelson was arrested yesterday at a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas after agents reportedly found 6 ounces of marijuana on his tour bus. Mickey Raphael, Nelson’s longtime harmonica player, tells Rolling Stone that the singer, who posted a $2,500 bond was freed by 1:30 p.m. yesterday, is in good spirits. "He said he feels great — he lost six ounces."

      Raphael says Nelson, 77, was traveling without his band from California, where he spent the Thanksgiving holiday, to Austin, TX, where he owns a ranch. The El Paso Times reports that agents at a checkpoint searched his bus, called the Honeysuckle Rose III, at 9 a.m. Nelson admitted the pot was his and was taken to the local Hudspeth County jail.

      "It's kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else," Hudspeth County Sherriff Arvin West told the newspaper. "He could get 180 days in county jail," the sheriff added. "If he does, I'm going to make him cook and clean."

      Nelson’s publicist had no comment.

      The singer has long advocated for the legalization of marijuana. "It’s a matter of time, a matter of education, a matter of people finding out what cannabis, marijuana is for, why it grows out of the ground and why it’s prescribed as one of the greatest stress medicines on the planet," he said in 2008.

      Willie Nelson Celebrates the Art of the Cover in New York City

      In January, six of Nelson’s band members were issued citations in North Carolina for reportedly possessing moonshine and marijuana. In 2006, Nelson and four others on his bus were issued citations at a traffic stop in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana after authorities seized nearly 1.5 pounds of marijuana and 3 ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms. Nelson and tour manager David Anderson both paid a $1,024 fine and served six months of probation. "Both bus drivers were over fifty years old," Nelson said at the time. "The other guys were 60 years old. My sister is 75, I’m 73, so it’s like they busted an old folks home."

    • 1 year ago
  • good_stuff
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      good_stuff  

    • Don't worry, he has enough money to hire a good lawyer and won't get jail time. That is the way the system works in case you don't know...

      It would be ideal for his lawyer to push for Jury Nullification as a way to win, but I suspect that will be too risky of a defense. If I were willy, I would take to the witness stand with guitar in hand.

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • Paratus
  • TasteHi
  • cclark_productions
  • RocknRollgurl21
  • juicie
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      juicie  
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    • http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map

      Normally under the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the American people are not generally subject to random and arbitrary stops and searches.
      The border, however, has always been an exception. There, the longstanding view is that the normal rules do not apply. For example the authorities do not need a warrant or probable cause to conduct a “routine search.”

      But what is “the border”? According to the government, it is a 100-mile wide strip that wraps around the “external boundary” of the United States.
      As a result of this claimed authority, individuals who are far away from the border, American citizens traveling from one place in America to another, are being stopped and harassed in ways that our Constitution does not permit.

      Border Patrol has been setting up checkpoints inland — on highways in states such as California, Texas and Arizona, and at ferry terminals in Washington State. Typically, the agents ask drivers and passengers about their citizenship.

      Unfortunately, our courts so far have permitted these kinds of checkpoints – legally speaking, they are “administrative” stops that are permitted only for the specific purpose of protecting the nation’s borders. They cannot become general drug-search or other law enforcement efforts.

      However, these stops by Border Patrol agents are not remaining confined to that border security purpose. On the roads of California and elsewhere in the nation – places far removed from the actual border – agents are stopping, interrogating, and searching Americans on an everyday basis with absolutely no suspicion of wrongdoing.

      The bottom line is that the extraordinary authorities that the government possesses at the border are spilling into regular American streets.

    • 1 year ago
  • NiceN
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      NiceN  

    • How many people has cannabis killed? How many people has Wilie enriched with his music? Austin should keep their heads down for this terrible impasse. How dare you call cannabis possession a crime, and how dare you arrest a cultural icon, shame on you Austin law enforcement. I bet Texas Walker Ranger is on his way to that department to dish out some real justice.

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
  • Progresshiv
  • remanns
  • Progresshiv
  • remanns
  • mr_tibbles
  • bluemoonlady
  • lordsbassman
  • bluemoonlady
  • dreamsenvoy
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  

    • Oh, for fuck's sake! Really?! There is no other more constructive activity for law enforcement to concern themselves with.

      There is no hope if this stupid marijuana prohibition continues because it is a waste of legal resources, an infringement of individual rights and makes absolutely no sense.

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • EdJoyProductions:

      It makes no sense, but it means billions to the corporations, which are threatened by the plant. Lack of sense, means billions and billions of cents to them. Money talks in America. Just look at the last election, money sure talked then. Money went to tea partiers, who wouldn't have had a shot in hell, if outside money hadn't poured into their campaigns. Sad, sad, sad.

    • 1 year ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • Conniepae
  • remanns
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      remanns  
    • EdJoyProductions:

      It is also SO senseless that it leads to an overall reduced respect for the societies legal agents and agencies in general, simply because individual agents upholding it have the personal misfortune of enforcing a farcical degree of coercive abstinence in the name of this comic prohibition inquisition !
      ( Hmmm,....I SHOULD rewrite that . . . .drags on ,....just a bit,...clumsy,...but you get the point. )

    • 1 year ago
  • EdJoyProductions
  • remanns
  • toastyguy11
  • randallr01
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • randallr01:

      Don't feel bad for Willie. Back in the 90's after he rode across Kentucky in a hemp powered vehicle, the IRS took away all his possessions and his friends bought them back for him. Willie is a friend to the end and his friends know it.

    • 1 year ago
  • feefer2010
  • Conniepae
  • TasteHi
  • MotherForTruth
  • rodstradamus
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • JohnA
  • ankab
  • remanns
  • CalgarC
  • GLOBALPOLITICAL
  • JohnA
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      JohnA  

    • Come on Willie, got to be more careful with your stash. It's not like everyone in the world already knows you smoke.

    • 1 year ago
  • madjik68
  • CalgarC
  • remanns
  • remanns
  • chrischance
  • TriggerJ
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      TriggerJ  

    • why, why, why, are we still persuing antiquated laws that were made in the 1930's?
      Have any of you people still for the prohibition of marijuana actually smoked the stuff?
      Why are you against pot?
      What are you afraid of?
      Did you know that legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco kill a butt-load of people every year, but no one, not one person has EVER died from smoking too much pot?

      Will you do your research and wake the hell up?

    • 1 year ago
  • remanns
  • keithponder
  • samantha420
  • keithponder
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    • samantha420:

      Or just maybe, they'll tie him to the whipping post, and use him as an example to teach the rest of us a lesson in authority ,...maybe this or maybe that.

      The bottom line is that Willie Nelson is too old to be going to jail so much.

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
  • TriggerJ
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • keithponder:

      I appreciate your comments and I appreciate Willie Nelson. Willie Nelson has never been a threat to America and he is an excellent example of the injustice of their unjust war.

      Throughout my life, people have said, "if you don't agree with the law, change it". It's time to change the classification of cannabis.

      Hemp is a casualty in the 'war on cannabis'. Hemp could be used as an environmentally friendly industry in America. We need environmentally friendly industry and the jobs it would produce.

      They are not going after cannabis because they fear the plant's affects on people. That's propaganda. They are protecting industry from the competition of a plant that grows like a weed and could cut into the profit margins of 'large' corporations, who pay for our political campaigns. Large corporations are buying politicians to keep their competition out of the American market. Shame, shame, shame!

      If given the opportunity and the facts, people would choose environmentally friendly hemp over synthetic polluting products. They know it! They can't afford the competition, so it's easier to spin the war on cannabis and keep hemp off the market!

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • keithponder:

      Sorry keithponder, I voted your comment down. I think you are wrong. We can't all afford to wait for change. some of us are getting older by the day. I personally have waited over 38 years for change. I thought during President Carter's presidency, things would change, but alas it didn't happen.

      Even the declaration of war has not lessened the consumption of cannabis. We have more people in prison, draining resources, which could be used for something which benefit's society. It's time to stop throwing money into our prisons and use it for something useful, like education.

    • 1 year ago
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  
    • keithponder:

      Have a little respect for your elders. Older people have insight that can not be gained by anything other than experience and if Willie indeed thinks that this is worth going to jail for, respect him for that. Saying someone is too old for anything is agist.

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • keithponder
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • Conniepae:

      You missed my point completely. I love Willie Nelson. I do not think that he's a threat to the American public. I do, however, honestly believe that it does not serve him any sort of purpose of good to continue getting locked up. He's too old. I also believe that it's selfish for people to think otherwise. Imagine someone trying to martyr your grandparents. It sounds like your saying that you don't care who dies along the way, as long as marijuana becomes legal one day.

      Me saying that he needs to wise up could mean a number of things. I never said that he should quit smoking. What are you going to say if and when he dies in jail ?

      You don't place your elders on the front lines of any kind of battles.

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • EdJoyProductions:

      Well, if that's the case, why don't you let em' come and lock your grandparents up for a while. Come back and tell me how that feels. Age well always be a factor in everything.After 75, most adults start reserving emotionally back to a childlike state of mind. Their decision making process is no longer reliable but........It's OK for Willie Nelson to go to jail because it's for a cause that I support. THAT IS EXTREMELY SELFISH.

      Some people are too old to live alone or drive, but they're not to old to go to jail ? Also Willie Nelson never said that it was worth going to jail for. You said that for him. Sounds like you need a martyr or some kind of sacrificial lamb.He just keeps getting locked up, and I'm sure that he's not volunteering for the job..

      Please......give me a break.

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • keithponder:

      BS, Willie Nelson made his choice long before I ever started posting anywhere. Willie Nelson doesn't make his choices based on what others think. If you agree with his opinions fine, if not, that's fine also.

      Willie Nelson won't die in jail. Don't be so mellow-dramatic. I didn't say I don't care who dies along the way. That's just crazy talk. Cannabis should become legal, due to facts, not spun BS. Or mellow-dramatic, what if's.

      Willie Nelson is just a good person who chooses to consume cannabis. Have you ever heard his opinion about cannabis prohibition? He puts me to shame. I can't hold a candle to his voice for change. He doesn't need me to make his case.

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
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      keithponder  
    • Conniepae:

      Willie never made his choice to go to jail. He made a decision to smoke pot, and obviously accept the consequences that come with being caught. Willie Nelson just got caught with pot again. He did not go to jail for your cause.

      He wasn't out protesting.

    • 1 year ago
  • eden49
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      eden49  
    • keithponder:

      ...with all due respect, KP, I have no idea how old you are, but you seem "too old" before your time...Jail won't bother Willie in the slightest...he is timeless, and his songs and messages are ageless...he never loses touch with people of all persuasions...he knows he's going to be constanly used as a scapegoat, because of who he is...

    • 1 year ago
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • keithponder:

      Yes, yes, yes. I didn't think he went to jail for 'my' cause. That was an assumption on your part. 'my cause'? You're too funny.

      I'm too old for a cause. I just wanna talk about the injustice happening in America. I think conversation and education is the only way things will change. People should not be going to jail for cannabis possession. Hemp should be available for environmentally friendly industry.

      Just sayin .......

    • 1 year ago
  • keithponder
  • keithponder
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  
    • eden49:

      Another thing about Willie Nelson is just how respected and loved he is, throughout the world. He's used to getting busted -- he's not going to change. And because he is who he is, his jail-time will be minimal, and he'll have the respect and attention of both the prisoners and the guards. He'll undoubtedly be allowed to have his guitar, so he won't be lonely. Some people just practically "thrive" on getting arrested for something that they (and most of us) know is harmless and which should be legalized. Willie gets to "make a statement," if he wishes to.

      This is nothing new. He knows it. You know it. I know it. His band and crew know it. His friends know it.

    • 1 year ago
  • Dmerza1989
  • EthicalVegan
  • pissedoffinarkansas
  • floydyboy
  • KHZProductions
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      KHZProductions  

    • We have better things to do with our money other than arresting and jailing pot smokers. Wake up America...the war on drugs is just money grab for the growing corporate prison system. The drug companies are also behind this war so they can sell you their far more harmful drugs.

    • 1 year ago
  • ConservativismFTW
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      ConservativismFTW  

    • Toss this degenerate in jail and throw away the key. If the founding fathers were in favor of weed they would of mentioned they wanted us to be a country of lazy dope fiends in the constitution.

    • 1 year ago
  • TomTucker
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  
    • ConservativismFTW:

      "LAZY dope fiends"?!?!???!?!?

      Have you ever gone on tour? Nationwide? Worldwide?
      Have you ever recorded an album?
      Have you ever spent weeks in 'round-the-clock rehearsals?
      Have you ever composed gold and platinum record-winning songs?
      Have you ever gone out as an activist to try to help better our world?

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
  • CarlosIsDown
  • timetide
  • TriggerJ
  • Conniepae
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      Conniepae  
    • ConservativismFTW:

      Hell, they made a documentary to promote the cultivation of hemp. They even titled it "Hemp for Victory". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY

      http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robbie-gennet/on-role-models-and-their_b_164387.ht...

      Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica." - Abraham Lincoln (from a letter written by Lincoln during his presidency to the head of the Hohner Harmonica Company in Germany)

      "Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country."
      - Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President

      "Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere."
      - George Washington, U.S. President

      "We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption."
      - John Adams, U.S. President

      "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce of marihuana." - Jimmy Carter, U.S. President

      "I inhaled frequently. That was the point." - Barack Obama, U.S. President

      "The war on drugs has been an utter failure. We need to rethink and decriminalize our nation's marijuana laws." -Barack Obama, January 2004

      "The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." - Carl Sagan, renown scientist, astronomer, astrochemist, author and TV host

      "Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?" - Henry Ford, whose first Model-T was constructed from hemp fibers and built to run on hemp gasoline

      "Prohibition... goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -Abraham Lincoln

      "The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this." - Albert Einstein quote on Hemp

      "That is not a drug. It's a leaf." - Arnold Schwarzenegger, Governor of California

      Let's end with a quote from one of the most clueless U.S. Presidents, who evidently thought of himself as an authority on cannabis:

      "I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast" - Ronald Reagan

      Perhaps with all the evidence coming out that marijuana may help prevent Alzheimer's, it is possible that Reagan's affliction could have been halted or prevented by the herb he so vilified. The powers that maintain the illogical status quo for marijuana's illegality are feeling a seismic shift beneath their skewed logic and paranoid rhetoric. When scientific research is unambiguously and evenly applied to marijuana, the current laws and prohibition cannot and will not stand.

      On a side note, sales of the bong that Phelps used are through the roof so in case you're in the market for a Roor Little Sista Ice Masta 3.2, you may have a hard time finding one. However, with marijuana being one of the biggest cash crops in our country, you surely won't have a hard time finding something to smoke in it....

      "If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."
      - Terence McKenna

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • ConservativismFTW:

      yup, that makes sense.
      they should have taken the constitution wich speaks of the most exastential matters, and specified in it agricultural regulations.

      what do ya think, after the first amendment, or the second amendment is where we preserve our right to coffee, or chocolate, or corn.
      where would that be appropriate exactly?
      should it be government has noo right to fuck with religion and coffee?

      ya really should look into the difference between works of paramount importance, and those of cultural nuance.

    • 1 year ago
  • freecrack
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      freecrack  
    • EthicalVegan:

      i dont think anyone who smokes pot, cant recognize the ideas of liberty outlined in the constitution are identical to the mood weed fosters.
      i mean really, it is a stoners manifesto.

    • 1 year ago
  • eden49
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      eden49  
    • ConservativismFTW:

      LOL...and here, guys and gals, is a prime example of why marijuana should be legalised...I watched my mother die an agonising death with cancer; so drugged up on morphine, and STILL in pain...wish I could have spent those last fews days with her having a chill out...maybe she would actually have heard me say, I love you...

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  
    • eden49:

      Dearest, that's heartbreaking, and I know what you're saying... and FEELING, as well.

      I tried so hard, with both my parents, to get them marijuana to ease their pains.

      Maybe -- just maybe -- your mother DID hear your words of love.

    • 1 year ago
  • eden49
  • juicie
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      juicie  
    • ConservativismFTW:

      They didn't think about it because the laws that mentioned cannabis at the time actually required its cultivation in Virginia. They called it Indian Hemp. You could pay your taxes with it for pete's sake. Maybe they still know that it actually is a better form of currency than fiat paper.

    • 1 year ago
  • dreamsenvoy
  • NatasRedrumDog
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      NatasRedrumDog  

    • Ohhh willie nelsons not a criminal
      He was busted with some shrooms and with some weed
      Ohhh willie nelsons not a criminal
      So wont you let old willie be free-KMK

    • 1 year ago
  • EthicalVegan
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      EthicalVegan  

    • My word... I worked on the road for many long (and wonderful) years, and am therefore SO shocked to learn that some dreaded marijuana (GASP!) was discovered on a musician's tour bus. What IS this world COMING to, I ask you?!

      And Willie Nelson?!?!? How could that POSSIBLY be true????

    • 1 year ago
  • Sparky2U
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      Sparky2U  

    • He sure gets busted for weed allot. What the hell is the driver of that bus smoking a joint driving down the road or what? I don't recall any border patrol stops in Arizona, just a Produce Port of entry. Yeah you can't take fruit into Arizona or California...they have more fruits then they can handle...pun intended.

    • 1 year ago
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  • dreamsenvoy
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