Willie Nelson Charged With Pot Possession in Texas

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.

Editor’s note: Here’s a flashback clip from earlier this year as Willie Nelson admits to Larry King that he used marijuana prior to the interview:

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  • alshere
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:30am

    Willie with weed —— go figure, astonishing isn’t I mean who knew?

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  • kreese
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:58am

    MRBUTCHER:

    You’re right about about some of the teachers, but where do we get our teachers?

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  • BurntHills
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:41am

    after hearing an interview with the arrogant old moron blathering on with so many anti-American sentiments especially about US “right wing” Conservative AMERICANS, we were so shocked. we never would have thought that about him. we trashed all of the CDs of his we had. we do not need his trash in our home, and he will never see a dime of ours again.

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  • wash1776
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:39am

    Well, well! WHAT ELSE IS NEW?

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  • kiwi1
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:34am

    Yeah all you guys, who cares about the law.

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  • ZaphodsPlanet
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:30am

    If you don‘t live in Texas you probably don’t know that Willie accounts for half of all the weed smoked in the State. So… Willie smoke 50%…. 25% is smoked in Austin…. and the remainder is smoked by the rest of the IDIOT STONERS throughout the state.

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  • BRAVEHEART
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:09am

    Does weed make you stupid??? I‘m just sayin if your driving toward a checkpoint shouldn’t you lay off the weed until you pass the checkpoint. I guess stoning just makes you invinceable or maybe invisible??

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    • grandmaof5
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 8:00am

      Probably they figured if it was Willie’s bus there was going to be pot on it – guaranteed.

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    • lobster
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:15am

      That checkpoint at Sierra Blanca has been there since the 60′s. Methinks he’s old enough to know that. He’s probably been through it at least 12 times, I know, I have. Didn’t get busted once, course never even took a snort on that stupid stuff. I have enough problems without clogging up my brain with THC.

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  • Steverino
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:58am

    As usual, 13thGen, your scathingly brilliant analysis leaves me breathless. You actually had some nearly coherent arguments on the FRC thread. What happened – did you go “all Willie”?

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  • buzzmann
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:57am

    Willy ,can i go for a ride on the magic bus.

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    • TennesseeConservative
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:43pm

      They should legalize pot. Remember how well prohibition worked. I don’t use it, because it is illegal. But really is it not time to forget this law. The so called liberals have made all these choices for us. Remember we are all Homer Simpson.DOH!!!

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  • kreese
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:52am

    I have an idea. Let’s legalize all drugs.
    Then:
    1. Treatment for any illness, caused by drug use, will not be funded by the taxpayers.

    2. Drug use will not be an excuse for any violation of the law.

    3. Any “high” driver who kills anyone with his/her auto, will be executed within 30 days.

    4. Anyone injured by a “high” driver, will receive compensation for life.

    5. Any drug using parent(s) who sends a child to school with drugs in their system, will be sent to jail for a minimum of one year. (Life, for repeat offenders)

    6. Any student, found with twice with drugs in their system, will be denied Special Education classes.

    7.. Any President who “jokes” about inhaling pot, will be impeached, found guilty, removed, and imprisoned.

    8. Any politician, who will not enact the necessary laws to implement these measures, shall spend one day in the classroom with a minimum of twenty-five “drug babies”.

    For those that advocate drug use, or simply don’t care, trying teaching these kids. Is it any surprise that education has gone downhill since the 60′s?

    7.
    one year.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:36am

      the decline of public education should not be attributed to drug use.

      I’d rather blame the teachers.

      But that is too simplistic.

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:40am

      As a proud pothead, I agree w/ most of those listed….especially #’s 2 & 3….I’m also a strong advocate for the death penalty, but that’s off-topic here.

      It’s very simple: TOKE RESPONSIBLY.

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    • booger71
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 11:21am

      “For those that advocate drug use, or simply don’t care, trying teaching these kids. Is it any surprise that education has gone downhill since the 60′s”

      Not because of MJ, but because of the Progressives that outlawed corporal punishment and teaching the 3 R’s along with the real history of the United States.

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:33pm

      Good thing we can give them Ritalin to get their grades up.
      maybe we should teach them about the federal reserve
      http://www.zimbio.com/David+de+Rothschild/articles/6/Wo+Owns+Federal+Reserve+Rothschilds+Bank+England

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  • 13thGenerationAmerican
    Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:14am

    Willie should know better than to travel through Fascists NAZI Texas with weed.

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    • UlyssesP
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:46am

      Stupido grande!

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    • wash1776
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:57am

      Why don’t you dry up and blow to Russia?

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    • Dearoldad
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:04pm

      13th Gen is a lying fascist and should move to Russia, Belarus or some other “enlightened” local, maybe Havana.

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    • Fudd the wabbit hunter
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:51pm

      Say, troll, momma just called all you brats to dinner, better hurry up before all the fish sticks are gone…

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  • skoz14
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:59pm

    wow is weed who the hell cares

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  • BeckFan1964
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:52pm

    @Conserving Ink

    I can’t stand his voice either but he is an excellent song writer. That’s how he made it originally.

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    • Conserving Ink
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:44am

      I guess he shares that honor with Bob Dylan, who sounds like a drowning cat, but also rights well.
      ___________________________________________________________
      New Post http://conserving-ink.blogspot.com

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:26am

      Good point.

      I guess that’s one of the worst & most traumatic effects of smoking marijuana: it causes hyperactive creativity complex.

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  • JohnnyJT
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:50pm

    Anybody in his right mind knows that he smokes Pot.

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:25am

      “Anybody in his right mind knows that he smokes Pot.”

      …& would jump at the chance of burning one with him.

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    • wrs840
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 3:06pm

      Good thing he got caught when he was about out. Willie’s touring entourage is three buses and about 50 people. From all indications, six ounces would be about a three-hour supply for that bunch.

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  • TBogle
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:49pm

    I thought it was just generally assumed that Willie Nelson has pot on his person at all times…

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:50am

      Wasn’t Willie the one that smoked a lil bud @ the White House, or am I thinking of someone else?

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    • MeteoricLimbo
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 8:31pm

      yeah Willie said he did on the Balcony if i recall. Wow that sure was a while back. Bildo was in the Whitehouse then

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:37pm

    O M G! Willie the Wandering Gypsy smokes Wacky! Remember when that golf course in Texas wouldn‘t let him on in tennis shoes so he bought the place and fired the guy who told him he couldn’t golf? Willie you tax avoiding capitalist…I gotta love ya

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  • kindling
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:35pm

    This is news why?

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:45pm

      because it is an infringement on personal freedom.

      it may be a moot point to some but our countries drugs laws are draconian, totalitarian (not to mention religous) and a waste of time.

      They need to be fought and overturned.

      these things take time and constant reminding.

      that’s why this is news.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:23am

      @BUTCHER
      You don‘t have the personal freedom to smoke marijuana IF IT’S ILLEGAL, you dunderhead!

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:39am

      are you serious, HuckGing?

      you do understand that the laws of man are often wrong, misguided and made-up for all the wrong reasons.

      Personal Freedom is not to be shackled to these bad laws. Ever.

      Arresting Willie Nelson for having pot on his private tour bus is like arresting Glenn Beck for having the book of mormom taught to his kids in private.

      Do you not see the corrilation?

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:41am

      NRBUTCHER:

      Thank you for standing up for Liberty.

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    • Huckabee Gingrich 12
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:14am

      @BUTCHER
      The pot has crippled your ability to think clearly, so I’ll type v e r y s l o w l y for you. Arresting Willie Nelson for having pot on his private tour bus would be like arresting Glenn Beck for having pot on his private tour bus if he had pot on his private tour bus.

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    • MrButcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:32am

      I will, in turn, type very slowly for you…

      t h e r e i s n o t h i n g w r o n g w i t h h a v i n g p o t o n a t o u r b u s

      besides the fact that there are very draconian laws against it, which by definition, are bogus and wrong. (sidenote: I personally dont smoke the stuff but I dont wish to make a criminal out of someone who does)

      While we’re on the topic of bad laws did you know that in Arkansas (Huckabee’s home state) teachers who bob their hair are forbidden to get raises?

      Do you want to enfore that one? it is a law after all.

      look it up.

      cheers

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:48am

      @HUCKGING:

      Get your head out. Your ever-so-beloved Drug War has FAILED. The States are beginning to stand up for their rights under the 9th & 10th Amendments to decide this issue for themselves, & there is no turning back.

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    • Bronco II
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 8:36am

      I said the same thing.What is our government up to now since their trying to make this a story?

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:50am

      It shows how we are the Slaves and the Masters can do what ever they want
      but you cannot smoke a joint. Willie looks pretty healthy for all that Pot
      he smokes. Just look at somebody who takes Prozac for years and
      then tries to quit they go on shooting spree’s. Willie gets high and makes
      great music. Which drugs should be Illegal ???

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  • jose wasabi
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:30pm

    Go Willy!

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  • Conserving Ink
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:30pm

    I like country music and I can’t stand to listen to this man sing. I have no idea how he made it.

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:04am

      I can’t stand Willie….his music, his left wing politics. But I DO sincerely appreciate his standing up for re-legalizing marijuana & continuing to toke regardless of how many times he gets arrested.

      Willie, these buds are for you! :-)

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  • salvawhoray
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:29pm

    @ kingar

    Neil Young kicks ass, so stick with your lady gaga.

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    • bringdough
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:56pm

      Young is a master songwriter. Well except for that dumbass song “Lets impeach the president for lying” Heart of Gold is a perfect song.

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  • KingArthurUp
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:25pm

    I wonder why Willie is worried about preserving his voice?…LOL

    He and possibly Neil Young sing worse than my buttocks after a strong Texas chili.

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    • Dstarr55
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:29pm

      King: that was quite funny.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 6:15am

      Although I never heard your buttocks sing (for which I am profoundly grateful to God) , I couldn’t agree more! Neil Young’s voice makes me cringe.

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    • spikebu
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 6:29am

      I think my lab sings better than Neil.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:43am

      Yep, I am sure your farts would compare to the old farts singing. To me he sounds like someone singing through their nose. Leave Texas Willie. Go somewhere they appreciate your dope smoking…

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    • ADDICTED TO TRUTH
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 6:03pm

      King wins funniest post of the day! :)

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  • Silversmith
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:24pm

    It’s a plant ….. Who cares?

    Silversmith

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:45pm

      damned if it wasn‘t Bush’s fault.

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    • ConservativeBeauty
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 5:17pm

      Yes it’s only a plant. Has anyone ever od’d on it ?? NO. I don’t think anything that alters the mind all day every day is a good thing. But honestly isn’t it better than alcohol? People who use it responsibly to relax..what’s the big deal?
      If one is driving and on it and can’t drive, they should suffer the consequences,,,,however there are people on nothing out there who drive like crap. Or people who are on prescription drugs and drive. If one is sitting in their own house and is not hurting anyone and not doing it around their kids…whatever. People demonize this too much and equate it to heroin, meth, and other harmful drugs. This is just a way to relax. And no I do NOT do it myself, but if someone else wants to I don‘t have a problem as long as they don’t make it a problem for themselves. It’s not going away.

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  • mrmikejohnson
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:18pm

    That’s obvious racial profiling. The only checked him out because he’s white.

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  • Dstarr55
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:17pm

    And we are surprised by this?

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    • wildjoker5
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:45pm

      Breaking news, Lohan is drinking and snorting coke….

      WELL? No duh.

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    • RobertCA
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:20am

      Yeah what a surprise , leave Willie alone .

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    • Tucsonan
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 4:47am

      Is his hair really that long? Does he have extensions? Really…who cares?

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 7:40am

      Wish they would lock him up with all his music. The man can’t sing a lick. Willie Nelson is just an old dope head and part of the problem we have with drugs coming over the border.

      Matter of fact i hope they ship him to California and he moves out of Texas the piece of garbage.

       
    • Insipid
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:04am

      Most good marijuana is grow state side. My bet is that Willie knew the grower who supplied him with his smoke.They should really focus more in the interdiction of cocaine, meth ,and heroin. I would like any naysayer to show me 1 piece of evidence where marijuana has been directly linked to a death.I hear all these anti pot people rant on and on yet they have no problem consuming alcohol and there are far more deaths and families detoryed by alsohol abuse. Unfortunately laws are laws and marijuana prohibition is yet another law that oversteps the bounds of liberty.

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:15am

      I stand corrested…Willie is a HORRIBLE singer and a doper and a so so songwriter. He also helped the careers of other losers like himself.

      Yep a stupid dope smoking ******* is one dumb human being… and if I did work for the IRS I would quit and get an honest job instead of stealing people’s money.

      Willie and I do have something in common, we don’t like giving OUR hard earned money to other people. I would need to be a doper to try not to pay them though…He’s an idiot!

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    • starman70
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:15pm

      Ho-hum, slow news day.

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  • mossbrain
    Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:17pm

    In 1970 Utah had the death penalty for possession of that amount. We better spend a few more billion dollars and wipe this pot problem out for good.

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    • MAULEMALL
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:28pm

      Even Tobi Kieth has said he won’t get high with Willie no more…

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    • cheezwhiz
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:41pm

      Pot in my bus,
      a joint for my horses

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    • TruthTalker
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:59pm

      Willy smokes? I am in shock

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 26, 2010 at 11:59pm

      Forget about it. There are too many of us out there who smoke & love marijuana. You can’t arrest us all.

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    • silentwatcher
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:48am

      lets worry about the big stuff before the little…..gives us a better focus.

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    • Robert W
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:06am

      Shocking.

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    • rebel
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:51am

      the libertarian in me says this is completely ridiculous. the alcoholic with the drig addiction past says we need to do more. very very torn on the drug problem. but i lean more to the libertarian side. only YOU can want to stop doing something and obviously willie hasnt killed anyone with pot smoking.

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    • Shurmus
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 8:28am

      Pot is harmless to those who use it responsibly, but there is one reason that Big Brutha will be very reluctant to legalize it: It is too easy to grow ourselves.

      Instead of policing its use, they’d have to police its growth. We’d merely trade one problem for another.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:02am

      Willie Nelson smokes pot?? I wouldn’t have believed it.. LOL.. nothing new here..

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    • Okie from Muskogee
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:19am

      If Government shouldn’t tell you not to eat “harmful” salt/sugar/caffeine then they should not on Pot as well…..I believe you can decide for yourself if you wanna get stoned and stare at the wall just like you can choose to eat like a hippo and become a McFatty..

      With Willie it’s nothing more than a family tradition!

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    • tower7femacamp
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 9:28am

      Free Willie and ARREST HANK PAULSON and TURBO TIM GEITHNER
      http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/01/22/turbo-tax-and-timothy-geithners-tax-problems/
      Paulson ran Goldman since 1998, floating it on the New York stock exchange a year later. By the time he left, its share price had almost trebled.

      His move into government was sweetened with a huge tax break. Faced with a conflict of interest that would have made his job at the treasury impossible, he sold about $500m of Goldman shares built up during his time at the bank. In return, the US tax authorities waived a requirement for him to pay capital gains tax on the sale – handing him a $200m tax break, according to some estimates.
      http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/26/wallstreet.marketturmoil

      tower7femacamp  
    • rgalunas
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:00am

      And we give you the death penalty for thinking like a stupid idiot!

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    • JKN
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:02am

      6 ounces? You’ve got to be kidding me… Let the Mexican gangs and drug cartels spread their tons of drugs under and over our wide open southern border and throughout the US while busting old Willie for a personal stash of a couple of ounces… Great.

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    • Parkeralan
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 10:06am

      The government does not like it’s slaves being stoned, they are less productive.

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    • bostonchris
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:19pm

      you gotta be kidding me…this guys a saint..non violent preaches love..this is whats wrong with todays system.

      middle class a call on you to rise up and end the era of progressive blue bloods repub and democrat…i hate to do endorsments cause im a political atheist, but we only have 2 patriots on the short list of candidates they are ron paul and sarah palin…the blue bloods have us by the b&lls with there special interests..we need to congregate and donate..they need money for our ideas to see the light of day..we need to beat them at their own game(FINANCING A CAMPAIGN)also the more people you get on board the better..RON paul said it himself that todays election are all about money. they’re gonna try anything to get us on their side, like romneys a business man and he saved companies and he can do the same…well guess what this is a country not a company and we dont need his help we can do it ourselves get out of our way we dont need you..they’re the problem and now he wants to save us..tell him to go back saving companies like dominoes that is suckking all the money from our mom and pop pizza shops..

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAaQNACwaLw&feature=fvw watch if you have time

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    • Chris G
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 12:41pm

      @MAULEMALL
      :

      …& country music fans: Here is a rockin’ tribute to Willie Nelson. It’s by CLUTCH & is called “Willie Nelson”:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j0OXcObml0

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    • chazman
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 1:02pm

      It has never been a secret that Willie smokes pot. Geez, he has such a tolerance to it that he probably has to smoke half a bag just to get a buzz! I say, FREE WILLIE!!

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    • bigbud
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:19pm

      Yall leave Willie alone.

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    • Cemoto78
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 2:43pm

      The war on drugs is LOST. It has done more damage than the decriminalization would ever have. Another idiotic Government intervention based on the false premise of trying to keep Americans safe all while taking liberties away from the individual.

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    • Big Bob
      Posted on November 27, 2010 at 4:29pm

      prohibition doesn’t work and it makes criminals where its not necessary and over taxes the jails with nonviolent criminals. Legalize it and tax it, it would be far better.

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    • CYCLONE
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 7:21am

      unless that was sarcasm… you are a flaming idiot Mossbrain…

      … actually… Willie should just move to California if he ever gets out of the pokey again for doing nothing wrong , except “BAD SINGING”…..and believe me… I’m more conservative than anyone on this board … I would make Reagan look like Jimmy Carter…and if you want to get into the heated alcohol vs. marijuana argument…. give me a jingle….

      — Marijuana Is Medicinal

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    • LVMerrily
      Posted on November 28, 2010 at 2:35pm

      They had to arrest Willie – the Feds won’t let them arrest illegal aliens. Which does more harm?

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