Willie Nelson Busted For Being Stuffed With Drugs
Then buzz it up
September 19th, 2006 at 16:50 by Stuart Heritage
Ah, Willie Nelson. Just that name alone conjures up a timeless image of, well, a dirty-looking hippie singing songs about pointless rednecks. But there is a darker side to Willie Nelson - the side of Willie Nelson that takes recreational drugs.
Willie Nelson faces up to six months in jail after police in Louisiana apparently found a bunch of marijuana and magic mushrooms on his tour bus. Of course, looking back it seems so obvious - how could drugs not have had a hand in Willie Nelson hits like Stardust, Crazy and Mr McFee's Enchanted Clogs Can See Through Time.
Drugs are evil. We know this because on a recent ice-skating trip we played a crude 1994 ice-hockey arcade game that told us 'Winners Don't Do Drugs'. In fact, we'd go so far as to say that all drugs are evil. Even the ones that stop old ladies dying. And from this, we can gather that harmless old friendly country and western hippy Willie Nelson is an evil loser - he's just been charged with possession of drugs in Louisiana.
Now, drugs affect people in different ways. Let Pete Doherty near some drugs, for example, and he'll squirt you with a syringe filled with blood and then try to marry a supermodel, but Willie Nelson is different. The height of Willie Nelson's drug behaviour seems to include releasing an opportunistic bandwagon-jumping single about gay cowboys and putting a marijuana leaf on the front of one of his albums - an act that's roughly as rebellious these days as cocking a snook behind the major's back on carnival day when nobody's looking. But, despite Willie Nelson's lack of threatening behaviour, he has been busted and charged with drug possession, as BBC News reports:
Musician Willie Nelson has been charged with drug possession after marijuana and magic mushrooms were allegedly found by police on his tour bus. The country singer and four others were charged with drug possession offences after a routine police stop near Lafayette, Louisiana. Nelson could face up to six months in jail and an unspecified fine, Reuters news agency reported police as saying.
Police apparently seized marijuana weighing 700g and magic mushrooms weighing 91g in Willie Nelson's tourbus, and Willie Nelson was "cooperative" with the police during his arrest. Obviously as the only singer ever to have taken drugs, Willie Nelson can expect to have the book thrown at him in court, although if he's lucky he'll reach a plea deal and his only punishment will be to lash out at photographers with a broom in New York for three days.
Read more:
Singer Nelson charged over drugs - BBC
[story by Stuart Heritage]
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September 19th, 2006 at 6:43 pm
Meanwhile…..the asssault and murder rates soar in parts of Louisiana. Good collar. I’m sure we all feel safer now that Wille and his “magic mushrooms” have been apprehended.
September 19th, 2006 at 8:30 pm
Aren’t America’s laws out of hand!?! Marijuana in moderation is not evil. This legal system is failing and the tax payers are footing the bill.
September 19th, 2006 at 9:24 pm
Actually I hope they throw the book at Willie. Maybe it will inspire some outrage and action to decriminalize pot and shrooms, both of which are virtually impossible to overdose and have been demonstrated to be less harmful than alcohol or tobacco.
September 19th, 2006 at 11:04 pm
Time to join NORML !
September 19th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
Don’t we have more pressing issues at hand? Willie’s recreational drug usage shouldn’t even be on our radar screen.
September 20th, 2006 at 3:35 am
So this blue giraffe with an eye patch was kicking back under the cap of the neighborhood giant-ass mushroom with its head horns scraping the overhead
gills. As the millions of spores cascaded down into our tequila sunrises, a poof of smoke appeared from my 1932 Timex Rolex wannabe, and out pops the
image of—you guessed it—Cousin Willie. But, Good Lord, Willie Nelson was shaved clean, his ear hairs had been plucked by a benevolent Kiskadee, and he smelled of Palmolive soap rather than of stale beer puke. We knew the world was about to end because Willie had finally learned his lesson as he exclaimed he had forever sworn off Pol Pot. Crazy Willie!
September 20th, 2006 at 4:55 am
This is typical..make a show of force that gets press…but let the real criminals continue to bring this country’s backbone down. Since some are being paid to look the other way, this cycle is self-perpetuating. Wille has done a lot more GOOD than harm, and what harm can a 73-year old singer who supports our farmers be–compared to the real drug pushers of the hard drugs?
September 20th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
What the hell does “cocking a snook” mean?
September 2nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Marijuana is not evil, this is insanity its a plant that can unify humanity. Willie Nelson’s not a criminal, he was busted with some shrooms and with some weed. Willie Nelson’s not a criminal, so wont you let ol’ Willie be free. Hes not a threat, and he minds his own buisiness and keeps to himself and has fun with his life. We should be focused on more stuff then Willie. He should not be judged, let him go, only god can juge him.
September 3rd, 2007 at 9:16 am
Off site warning.
Hi Confused American.
Cocking a snook means to put a thumb on ones’ nose and waggle the remaining digits in a derisory fashion.
(see http://cockingasnook.wordpress.com/cock-a-snook-you-say/ for more info.)
September 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
let willie be free asholes its just a plant free country my ass
September 9th, 2007 at 3:07 am
Willie Nelson facing jailtime for some weed? He’s been doin it for what like 50+years? Insanity!! Polititions say there’s no such thing as “medical marijuana”, what ailment is alcohol used to treat, have you ever heard of “medical alcohol” or maybe “medical tobacco”??!? Millions of americans use alcohol DAILY and cigarettes CONSTANTLY both which cause 1000 times more harm than a god given plant that grows in the ground. Marijuana stands for peace, stop the war.
April 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am
okay first willie is not a fucking dirty hippie.
second weed is not a drug fucking ignorant fucks if it werent for weed,
i dont think idd be as intelligent as i am today.
third drugs are evil, thats why you dont do them.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:16 pm
“second weed is not a drug fucking ignorant fucks if it werent for weed,
i dont think idd be as intelligent as i am today.”
And we’d all be the worse for it, I’m sure.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
Your mother is pretty evil, Leda, but I’d still do her.