What do you know about Willie Nelson? Chances are, only two things. The first is that he’s a singer and the second is that he smokes more weed than all the audience members of a Cypress Hill tour, combined.
So, if you can’t arrest Willie for his music, you can arrest him for being responsible for those great plumes of smoke that exit his lungs every two seconds that stink like a makeshift bong.
And that’s exactly what’s happened as Nelson was busted over the weekend in Texas for possession of six ounces of marijuana. He could get 6 months minimum and 2 years max in prison. As it is Texas, they’ll probably weigh up giving him the chair.
Nelson’s tour bus pulled into a routine checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas and, of course, having a fully functioning nose, an officer noted a rather familiar herby smell. It wasn’t ever going to be the waft of thyme was it? Nope, following his nostrils, the found the marijuana and Nelson held up his hands and said it was his.
Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West said:
“It’s kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else.
Surprising? Really?
“He could get 180 days in county jail, which if he does, I’m going to make him cook and clean. He can wear the stripy uniforms just like the other ones do.”
Sadly for Nelson, even though he might only get 6 months in the clink, when you’re stoned, hours turn into days so it could well feel like an entire lifetime passes while he cracks stones in the sun.
Of course, this isn’t the first time Willie has had his collar felt by the law about his penchant for weed. In 2006, he got nicked with an impressive 1.5 pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms on his bus.
In ’95 Nelson was also arrested in Waco after police officers found half a joint in the ashtray of his car. The Waco police were probably quite lenient on ol’ Willie as they were probably playing nice after that whole Waco siege business that went down a couple of years earlier.
Anyway, Nelson is going to try and get off with this by pleading that he forgot his California-grown pot (lets not forget that California is okay with medical marijuana) was on-board. Typical stoner eh?
Of course, Nelson once said:
“Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”
Let’s hope no-one tries that about mass-murderers, eh? ‘God put ’em on Earth… so…’. What do you mean that the two aren’t comparable?
Shut up. We’re taking the piss out of a stinking hippie here! Cut us some slack!
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