When it comes to celebrities advocating the use and legalization of marijuana, many do not look further than trusty ol' Willie Nelson. Legendary country singer Willie Nelson has always been the leader of outlaw country, in the same genre of Waylon Jennings, David Allen Coe, and Merle Haggard. Nelson, now at age 77, is still carrying the outlaw banner high...with high being the keyword.
Nelson's tour bus pulled into a routine checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas -- approximately 85 miles east of El Paso -- around 9 a.m. on Friday. When an officer noticed a suspicious odor coming from the bus, a search turned up the marijuana, police said. Police confiscated 6 ounces of grass from the tour bus. Nelson claimed that it all belonged to him.
"There's the Tea Party. How about the Teapot Party? Our motto: We lean a little to the left." Nelson wants to prompt a political party entitled the "Teapot party" in support of the legalization of marijuana.
"Tax it, regulate it and legalize it," Nelson continued in his email to CelebStoner. "And stop the border wars over drugs. Why should the drug lords make all the money? Thousands of lives will be saved."
Nelson, a staunch advocate of decriminalization of marijuana, has had his share of drug-related brushes with the law. In Louisiana in 2006, 1.5 pounds of marijuana and three ounces of hallucinogenic mushrooms were found on his bus...which is a s**t ton. Nelson pleaded guilty in that case and each was sentenced to a $1,024 fine and six months probation. In 1995 Nelson was also arrested in Waco, Texas, and police officers said they saw a joint in his car's ashtray. Nelson had pulled off the road to sleep after an all night poker game. At the time he also confessed that there was small amount of marijuana on the car's floorboard.
God Bless Renegade Willie
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