Willie Nelson spared jail time on pot charge
Good old Willie. Gotta love how the guy only gets 6 months while an average Joe like me would get 2 years of probation for such an offense if I was lucky. Especially with the shrooms hanging around the scene. I’d probably be rotting away in a cell and it would be considered I was trying to distribute the drugs.
Willie Nelson and his tour manager were spared jail time Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor count of marijuana possession.
Nelson and tour manager David Anderson, along with Nelson’s sister, Bobbie Nelson, and two drivers, were issued citations on Sept. 18 after state troopers said they found marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms on the country legend’s tour bus during a commercial-vehicle inspection on Interstate 10.
State District Judge Paul deMahy fined Nelson and Anderson $1,024 each and put both on probation for six months. As part of a plea agreement, the citation against Bobbie Nelson was dismissed. full story
