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Willie Nelson Will Likely Go to Jail for Pot Bust, Expert Says (won't affect Thursday's concert)
Fox News ^ | 11/29/10 | Hollie McKay

Posted on 11/29/2010 7:23:29 PM PST by Libloather

Willie Nelson Will Likely Go to Jail for Pot Bust, Expert Says
By Hollie McKay
Published November 29, 2010
FoxNews.com

Willie Nelson was arrested in Sierra Blanca, Texas on Friday for possession of six ounces of pot. As a result, the country music legend faces as many as two years behind bars.

“If the Texas prosecutors do not reduce the charges, and the marijuana's weight is indeed six ounces, then he is dealing with felony and a potential minimum of 180 days in a county jail and a maximum of two years, with a $10,000 fine,” explained former California-based prosecutor, Robin Sax.

**SNIP**

Nelson, 77, was arrested with one-and-a-half pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms on his tour bus in 2006, and nine years before that, police in Waco, Texas spotted a joint in his car’s ash tray, prompting another arrest.

“Texas is more stringent than California so he could face time. One of the issues that the court and prosecutors will look at is his prior record and given the fact that he has several arrests, even recent ones, for pot related crimes," Sax said. "I would not be surprised if Texas decided to stick it to him."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chat; dopersrights; drugwar; jail; nelson; pot; scofflaw; willie; wod
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To: ßuddaßudd

Saw a thread yesterday where Colorado wants to “regulate” the growth of medicinal marijuana to yield consistant dosage strength.


101 posted on 11/30/2010 8:12:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: a fool in paradise

Willie smokes about 6 ounces a week.

LLS


102 posted on 11/30/2010 8:35:26 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: a fool in paradise

You could shoot Willie in the head... he would still smoke his doobie.

LLS


103 posted on 11/30/2010 8:37:28 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: a fool in paradise

‘Regulate’ is a bad word . . .


104 posted on 11/30/2010 9:15:41 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona.....)
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To: Mobties
All his fans can look forward to a half year to two years worth of new prison songs.

Didn't he sing some gay cowboy song just after Brokeback Mountain came out? I suspect we may be seeing more in that genre.

105 posted on 11/30/2010 9:21:26 AM PST by KevinB (We'll stop treating Obama like a dog when he stops treating us like a fire hydrant - Fred Grandy)
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To: Libloather

Thanks God this dangerous man is off the street.


106 posted on 11/30/2010 9:24:21 AM PST by GSWarrior
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To: Libloather

Man...when Willie went all outlaw country and Hippie Hollow and Luckenbach after Jerry Jeff and Waylon and Tompall and Townes and all those other guys saw there was music to sell to southern hippies and lots of young girls to pluck in cut off blue jeans with bikini tops, tans and cowboy hats...

Willie really immersed himself in the life didn’t he ...and stuck with it all these years..

sorta fried but very personable...pays special attention to whomever he is talking to like he actually cares about what you are saying

he was such a greaser before the hippies...amazing..

but i tell you what...without Gram Parsons...there woulda never been this remix of country and rock and all that blossomed from that

nosiree

so here’s to ya Gram...forever young and high hoss!


107 posted on 11/30/2010 9:29:12 AM PST by wardaddy ("Out Here" by Josh Thompson pretty much says it all to those who will never understand anyhow)
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To: I cannot think of a name

Heh! I saw Keef play with The New Barbarians in about 1980 from about 10’ away. He looked like death warmed over 30 years ago.


108 posted on 11/30/2010 9:54:25 AM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: ßuddaßudd

Those who say “legalize it and tax the hell out of it” only move the DEA under the ATF.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Decriminalization is different from legalization.

Can’t sell it over the counter. Can’t advertise it. Etc etc.

Tobacco cannot be smoked in parks, bus stops, or concert venues. Why do pot smokers think “legal pot” would be afforded protected status?

Decriminalized (but not legalized) pot would not be required to “meet certain industry standards of purity” or “medicinal standards” or other FDA-type inspection/regulation. Even those using vitamins (where purity and effective quality can vary) are wary to let the government dictate how it is manufactured or used.


109 posted on 11/30/2010 10:01:27 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The establishment clause isn't just against my OWN government establishing state religion in America)
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To: truthguy; Gay State Conservative
Then tell me a better songwriter in your opinion.


110 posted on 11/30/2010 10:01:51 AM PST by Lazamataz (Lowering Kristinn's IQ since May 21, 1999)
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To: FreedomPoster
“Heh! I saw Keef play with The New Barbarians in about 1980 from about 10’ away. He looked like death warmed over 30 years ago.”

I'm telling you, they should check both those guy's DNA, because they are not from this planet!

People also forget this fact about Willie: he took up pot to get himself off of alcohol. The guy was a drunk for about two decades before he took up weed. A body that can handle that much abuse cannot be from this world,

111 posted on 11/30/2010 11:46:38 AM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: truthguy
You are a idiot!

Replies to that exclamation practically write themselves.

112 posted on 11/30/2010 11:52:49 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: wardaddy

I’m with you on Gram Parsons... I like what he did with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. I like what the Stones did back then under his influence. Eventually he was kicked out of NellCote (where Exile was recorded) for being too stoned for Keith to tolerate

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/7725707/Rolling-Stones-at-Villa-Nellcote-la-maison-where-it-happened.html


113 posted on 11/30/2010 11:59:00 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: Libloather

Well, man, To Serve and Protect.

I’m glad they took this dire threat to public safety and law and order off the streets.

Thank God for cops like this.

I feel much safer.

Busted at 77 for pot? Wow, however did the cops figure this out. Must have taken some real top notch police work.


114 posted on 11/30/2010 12:00:54 PM PST by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

White trash is probably correct but you could not be more wrong on the other charges. I have loved Willie’s music since we both were kids. Even my cell phone ring is “On the Road Again”.


115 posted on 11/30/2010 12:07:31 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Gay State Conservative

I won’t call you an idiot because you don’t like Willie’s music, some flaw in your Mass. upbringing, I’m guessing. But announcing that you have class and suggesting others don’t....... that makes you a masshole.


116 posted on 11/30/2010 12:22:35 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Ditter
But announcing that you have class and suggesting others don’t....... that makes you a masshole.

I'll refrain from making disparaging remarks about your Texas roots because....I have more class than that.

117 posted on 11/30/2010 1:12:29 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (''I don't regret setting bombs,I feel we didn't do enough.'' ->Bill Ayers,Hussein's mentor,9/11/01)
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To: Gay State Conservative

If one must announce that they have class........ I doubt it.


118 posted on 11/30/2010 1:16:00 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Gay State Conservative

You should be so talentless...........


119 posted on 11/30/2010 1:20:03 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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To: Huck

Great song....


120 posted on 11/30/2010 1:33:07 PM PST by Osage Orange (MOLON LABE)
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