Willie Nelson charged with pot possession in Texas

Saturday, November 27, 2010

SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.

Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.

Brooks says the Hudspeth County sheriff was contacted and Nelson was among three people arrested.

Sheriff Arvin West didn’t immediately return a phone message left at his home Friday, but he told the El Paso Times that Nelson claimed the marijuana was his. The singer was held briefly a $2,500 bond before being released.

Nelson spokeswoman Elaine Schock declined to comment when contacted via e-mail by The Associated Press.

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HorseGlue4u 2 years, 5 months ago

OH, PLEEEZE. Not wee Willie? Guesss Tom Petty may be next! This is not news...only to the tribune.

misshoneybee 2 years, 5 months ago

Ain't Willie always smoked reefer? Shoot, that ain't nothin' new...

online_editor 2 years, 5 months ago

Well, not only us. To wit: bit.ly/e9iQAW

UNREAL 2 years, 5 months ago

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again.

sillyrabbit 2 years, 5 months ago

Great job! This needs to be a warning for all people who decide to break the law.

nunyabidness 2 years, 5 months ago

Yep. So glad they got this dangerous criminal off the streets. Money well spent by our broke country. Oh wait...not it's not. It's a silly, pointless law and a waste of time and resources. Doesn't matter that it was Willie Nelson, it would be just as much of a waste for arresting anyone for having something that grows in the ground and is as benign as pot.

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

Must have been some righteous herb to be noticed over the smell of a diesel engine and a collection of musicians the morning after a job.

sillyrabbit 2 years, 5 months ago

He should be arrested for his portrayal of Uncle Jesse in the Dukes of Hazzard movie if nothing else.

misshoneybee 2 years, 5 months ago

Now THAT'S funny! LOL

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

We're agreed on that one . . .

nunyabidness 2 years, 5 months ago

Sorry, Willie isn't supporting the carnage on the border or the deaths. You are by blindly following a law that makes no sense and is the reason that carnage takes place. Congrats!

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

If we didn't already know the sound of your 24V BasPro SuperTroll we might think you mean what you say, until the foolishness of blaming the Mexican drug war on the American War on Drugs exceeds even your most conservative nature and contradicts many of your posts. The blood rests comfortably in the hands of the tax-free, law enforcement corrupting, money laundering modern drug industry. Grow American! Buy American!

NoMoBigBro 2 years, 5 months ago

This is just prohibition revisited in another form. I'm not a smoker, but it is merely a plant that needs no refining or anything to make it. I know people that smoke and I've never seen any of them want to go a pick up a weapon and go cause violence on any border. Now a bag of chips? That's a different story.

NoMoBigBro 2 years, 5 months ago

I think you should change your username livefree, it just doesn't fit with what you post and is very misleading.

Also, this issue could be fixed very quickly and very easily. The same way they stopped the violence and carnage during prohibition in the 1800s AND 1900s...make it legal. Problem solved.

TheRickster 2 years, 5 months ago

Livefree?? Say what? Livefree must be a joke then. You are correct on one big thing, the cost. It is ridiculous to protect us from a weed that causes less harm than alcohol.FACT Look up the matter on you tube that has hundreds of police and judges that state the unreasonable and cost wasting of the war on drugs. Billions and man hours to only show that the same percentage of folks smoke it now from in 71. If we only buy local smoke would that make you a bit happier?

nunyabidness 2 years, 5 months ago

Livefree, if you cared at all about the "hundreds of lives if not thousands", you'd advocate making it legal. If it was legal there would not be one more killing over marijuana on the border. THAT's a fact my friend. You simply want to continue to legislate your outdated morality, and these peoples' deaths are on the hands of those that fight legalization. We could save those billions in enforcement and incarceration, all by repealing a ridiculous ban on a plant that significantly helps some sick people and does little if any harm to the rest that choose to use it. Until weed is legal, people will die, harmless people will continue to go to prison, and you will continue to pay for it. Why would you want that?

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

Nunya Bidness hit it perfectly " . . . these peoples' deaths are on the hands of those that fight legalization . . . " Livefree is a murderer? Logic is art. For an ardent and constant opponent of government interference in private lives, Livefree's anti-legalization seems a might liberal rather than the expected libertarian. This is gold . . . Livefree wants the Nanny State to protect us from ourselves; and no dead babies to fall back on, just pure puritanical hogwash!

TheRickster 2 years, 5 months ago

To Joe,,you see what I had stumbled onto. Once you really find out the truth from almost ALL involved with the manipulation of War on Drugs,, it is overwhelming. These folks on You-Tube are all very serious and been on the law's side all this time,,but now want the truth heard.

NoMoBigBro 2 years, 5 months ago

I will agree on the filter! Editor, this - "We have considered using software to "police" the content submitted or allowing readers to flag objectionable material. We do not feel that these two solutions compare to our editors and trained a-sistants making sure that the content is suitable for publication." is in the forum policies. No software? Sure seems that there is. What's up? Borderline hypocrisy...you can't even post part of what is in the policies! lol

TheRickster 2 years, 5 months ago

I must say you are a fickle sort! On one hand you send them to jail,,the other we should wave a flag. Way to try to ride that fence. Jail is wrong for these types of drugs. You probably speed,,do other wrongs against the MAN but choose to quote the ones you hate. Also looks like you have a problem with a Willie type, being famous should be strung up. Plus none of us are going to jail for any time with that amount,,unless in some redneck little town.

online_editor 2 years, 5 months ago

Looking back, I'm totally confused now, mainly because of the order of the threading and newness of the administrative interface. But I think I originally misread part of the comment you're referring to. So I "unremoved" it, but in doing so, I ask let's please stay focused on issues rather than drift into personal charges. Sorry for the mixup.

nunyabidness 2 years, 5 months ago

Yeah livefree, you should really pick a side. Sorry for misunderstanding, but I think anyone reading your previous posts would reasonably as sume you were anti-legalization. Thanks for clearing your position up.

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

In all fairness to Livefree, it's not a simple situation. Legality is NOT the issue, it's cultural. Even growing your own ties you to a drug trade by influencing supply dynamics. Buying American ties you to American and Mexican drug dealers. But participation in our culture doesn't make us complicit in all crimes. By extension, Livefree is saying that using gasoline supports the 9/11 terrorists, or that using any fossil fuel is destroying the planet. Or, by opposing illegal immigrants rather than the companies hiring them, one could be guilty of promoting corporate crime and encouraging the vary illegal immigration you oppose. And Livefree, any post where you say illegal users should be punished, is a statement against legalization; no matter how you cook it, it's you saying it's wrong.

TheRickster 2 years, 5 months ago

No apple,,and no orange,,I am bannana! Don't ch oke on your coc ktail as you call those that choose to relax with a doobie, instead of killing brain cells with alcohol. The real fools are the folks that pay for arrest, prosicution, and incarceration. Or any of the so called rehab for weed. The facts are there is no physical addiction period. Reefer madness is just foolish! Darn filters!

TheRickster 2 years, 5 months ago

I should have said,,physically addictive. Because it is not. If your mind likes to get high,,that is an addiction problem and you have issues that will find something to escape. Have a brownie little lady! The new way of eating food items, liquid to put into milk or coffee, is the future. Oh and those taxes will save our world!!

asb 2 years, 5 months ago

They both impare, but also enhance different human functions and experience. The impairment is why regulating their use and educating against and treating their abuse is so critical and a far better use of money the present WOD, but I think you agree with that part. Alcohol, by ANY measure, is far more impairing and destructive of human tissue, function and overall health, yet is legal. That is wrong, as is blind obedience to law.

online_editor 2 years, 5 months ago

Joe, as we've mentioned elsewhere, yes, the filter's programming is flawed, thus, it's too restrictive. You don't need to tell me it's pathetic; everyone here knows it. However, we can't seem to convince the web hosting company of that fact because they've yet to refine or reprogram the filter. I am so irritated with them that I ought to give out their phone number so we all can call them directly. But I won't; I mention it only to express my level of frustration. So I ask you to please let me do all the angry stressing about it while you all work around it for now with dashes and a chuckle. (I also just found out that the administrative interface will let me take out the extraneous dashes and save, like I did with Joe's post and this one, but I don't really have time to do that routinely.) The one good thing that came from the flawed filter, and it's the reason why we can't simply turn it off, is that it stopped the barrage of spam attacks from China. The spammers are probably scratching their heads right now, wondering why their robot software can't auto-post the phrase "titanic savings bonanza."

amosinmo 2 years, 5 months ago

Much agreed, livefree.

sharbe 2 years, 5 months ago

Well ya know, Willie has so much influence over our youth, they had to bust him and set an example.

online_editor 2 years, 5 months ago

I don't think I've posted in this thread yet, but FYI for those mentioning it, the filter does not work right but can only be fixed by the web hosting company that put it in place, which we've requested they do, more than once. It wouldn't be wise for me to go into details except to say we're not happy with the lack of satisfactory response at this time. It would be unwise to turn it off in the meantime because the spam barrage would likely start up again. Until it's reprogrammed, sorry for the inconvenience but please continue to work around it with dashes. Thanks.

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