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  Shouldn't Willie Be Left Alone?

Posted by CN Staff on September 20, 2006 at 10:46:56 PT
By Jackson Simpson 
Source: National Ledger 

Arizona -- Who was shocked when Willie Nelson was busted for marijuana possession? Go on raise your hand. So here goes Willie Nelson, ironically straight out of a rally for Texas gubernatorial candidate Kinky Friedman where Nelson called for the decriminalization of marijuana and he's popped for weed and mushrooms in Louisiana. State Police seized about 1-1/2 pounds of marijuana and two-tenths of a pound (91 grams) of mushrooms from the bus and gave everyone aboard a ticket.
It could have been worse. Basically he got a citation and was sent on his way.E! Online reports that before the bust, the Farm Aid founder and his band were in his native Texas to headline Saturday's Austin City Limits Music Festival. Nelson gave an interview there in which he urged politicians to scrap criminal penalties for pot possession. Those sentiments echoed the platform of his pal Friedman, a singer-songwriter turned politician who's mounting an independent bid for Texas governor and has called on the decriminalization of marijuana to help clear clogged state prisons of nonviolent offenders. Nelson has actively supported Friedman's candidacy, hosting a $1,000-per-plate fundraising dinner and signing a petition to get Friedman on the ballot. "The hundred times that Kinky and I have talked during his campaign--we talked about energy, health, biodiesel, immigration, war--and the pot thing has never come up. Of course, I felt always that I knew where Kinky stood on that, and he knew where I stood, but I also knew that it was very risky to bring that out politically, but what’s Kinky got to lose?" Nelson said.What do either have to lose? Certainly a good guess is that at anytime you could pull a Willie Nelson tour bus over and find marijuana on board. Country superstar Toby Keith's said in a recent interview on his fan favorite tune, "Weed with Willie," in which he sings "Don't knock it `til you tried it, I tried it my friend, and I'll never smoke weed with Willie again.""I learned that a long time ago," Keith replied with a laugh when asked if he avoided Nelson's trailer during filming "Broken Bridges" in Georgia. "But I think Burt (Reynolds) slipped over to Willie's trailer."So - it's obviously no surprise - but shouldn't we just leave Willie Nelson alone? Why should anyone care if a 73-year old wants to smoke weed? He's working during his retirement - certainly he's earned it.Source: National Ledger (AZ)Author: Jackson SimpsonPublished: September 20, 2006  Copyright: 2006 The National Ledger, LLCContact: http://tinyurl.com/kfdpeWebsite: http://www.nationalledger.com/Related Articles & Web Site: Willie Nelsonhttp://www.willienelson.com/Nelson, Others Cited for Drugshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22178.shtmlWillie Nelson Cited for Marijuana Possessionhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread22174.shtml

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Comment #30 posted by FoM on September 22, 2006 at 14:40:05 PT
Had Enough and Hope
I just saw the comments about Arlo Guthrie. He will be at Farm-Aid on the 30th and it will be a live webcast. I saw him do Alice's Restaurant last year and I always love it. I'm sure he will do it again. 
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Comment #29 posted by Hope on September 21, 2006 at 21:41:59 PT
"ALICE'S RESTAURANT" by: Arlo Guthrie
One of the most amazing...most best songs ever.
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Comment #28 posted by Had Enough on September 21, 2006 at 15:22:39 PT
"ALICE'S RESTAURANT" by: Arlo Guthrie
This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song Alice's Restaurant.You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant
Walk right in it's around the back
Just a half mile from the railroad track
You can get anything you want at Alice's RestaurantNow it all started two Thanksgivings ago, was on - two years ago on Thanksgiving, when my friend and I went up to visit Alice at the restaurant, but Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And livin' in the bell-tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Havin' all that room, seein' as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.more…http://www.oldielyrics.com/request/read.php?f=1&i=2759&t=2759
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Comment #27 posted by Had Enough on September 21, 2006 at 15:15:43 PT
and this one
Posted by: Ben Huie | September 21, 2006 at 02:56 PM 
And I, I walked over to the, to the bench there, and there is, Group W's where they put you if you may not be moral enough to join the army after committing your special crime, and there was all kinds of mean nasty ugly looking people on the bench there. Mother rapers. Father stabbers. Father rapers! Father rapers sitting right there on the bench next to me! And they was mean and nasty and ugly and horrible crime-type guys sitting on the bench next to me. And the meanest, ugliest, nastiest one, the meanest father raper of them all, was coming over to me and he was mean 'n' ugly 'n' nasty 'n' horrible and all kind of things and he sat down next to me and said, "Kid, whad'ya get?" I said, "I didn't get nothing, I had to pay $50 and dump out my sack." He said, "What were you arrested for, kid?" And I said, "Just pot." And they all moved away from me on the bench there, and the hairy eyeball and all kinds of mean nasty things, till I said, "And creating a nuisance." And they all came back, shook my hand, and we had a great time on the bench, talkin about crime, mother stabbing, father raping, all kinds of groovy things that we was talking about on the bench. And everything was fine, we was smoking cigarettes and all kinds of things, until the Sargeant came over, had some paper in his hand, held it up and said. "Kids, this-piece-of-paper's-got-47-words-37-sentences-58-words-we-wanna- know-details-of-the-crime-time-of-the-crime-and-any-other-kind-of-thing- you-gotta-say-pertaining-to-and-about-the-crime-I-want-to-know-arresting- officer's-name-and-any-other-kind-of-thing-you-gotta-say", and talked for forty-five minutes and nobody understood a word that he said, but we had fun filling out the forms and playing with the pencils on the bench there, and I filled out the massacre with the four part harmony, and wrote it down there, just like it was, and everything was fine and I put down the pencil, and I turned over the piece of paper, and there, there on the other side, in the middle of the other side, away from everything else on the other side, in parentheses, capital letters, quotated, read the following words: ("KID, HAVE YOU REHABILITATED YOURSELF?") I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages after bein' a pothead." He looked at me and said, "Kid, we don't like your kind, and we're gonna send you fingerprints off to Washington."http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/09/making_america_.html
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Comment #26 posted by Had Enough on September 21, 2006 at 15:12:48 PT
Wichita Eagle
Just a few comments on the Wichita EagleWillie is so damned American that they oughta be ashamed of themselves.
In fact they should outlaw booze and legalize pot in his honor.*****Posted by: Todd | September 21, 2006 at 01:32 PM 
If we remove the pot smokers from todays society, what would we do without all the cops, lawyers, judges, jailers, therapists, managers, congressmen, presidents, and damn good musicians that would dissapear?Who would be left?A bunch of boring stick-in-the-muds, and even more obnoxious drunks.*****Posted by: TRACY | September 21, 2006 at 01:32 PM 
Support a real patriot.*******Posted by: Heckler | September 21, 2006 at 02:46 PM 
Perhaps this more about revenue coming in from the arrests than the actual sin of marijuana.Besides, it makes us look like we are tough on crime.http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/09/making_america_.html
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Comment #25 posted by FoM on September 21, 2006 at 11:21:19 PT
Wichita Eagle: More About Willie
Making America Safe from . . . Willie Nelson?By Randy ScholfieldSeptember 21, 2006  Texas troubadour Willie Nelson this week got busted again for pot possession. If you thought that arrests for marijuana were on the decrease in this country, you’d be wrong. Last year, some 786,000 Americans were arrested for marijuana violations -- a record number and twice the number of pot arrests made in 1990, according to NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws.  “This effort is a tremendous waste of criminal justice resources that diverts law enforcement personnel away from focusing on serious and violent crime, including the war on terrorism,” said NORML executive director Allen St. Pierre.  He’s right, isn’t he? Is it worth spending $10 billion to $12 billion a year on enforcement of marijuana laws to bust casual (OK, maybe not so casual) tokers like Nelson? Aren’t there more important priorities for law enforcement? What do you think?http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2006/09/making_america_.html
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Comment #24 posted by FoM on September 21, 2006 at 09:57:43 PT
Thanks Hope
A very pretty song on this link.http://www.myspace.com/WILLIENELSON
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Comment #23 posted by Hope on September 21, 2006 at 09:08:31 PT
Comment 4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnEBAzMI7-kAnyone else notice how this "old" pothead shroomer sang that whole complicated song without ever missing a beat or hesitating?It's beautiful. The man is precious for so many of us in so many ways.
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Comment #22 posted by Hope on September 21, 2006 at 08:54:19 PT
Page 1
http://www.willienelson.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001651;p=1
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Comment #21 posted by Hope on September 21, 2006 at 08:52:01 PT
Must see
http://www.willienelson.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=001651;p=2#000046
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Comment #20 posted by whig on September 21, 2006 at 03:05:28 PT
Post about Willie Nelson on cannablog now
http://cannablog.wordpress.com/2006/09/21/support-a-real-patriot/
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 20:46:53 PT
Dankhank
You're right. We could default but then our ability to borrow would slow up and that would make some people in government very unhappy I think.
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Comment #18 posted by Dankhank on September 20, 2006 at 20:30:30 PT
interest
If the interest gets too unmanageable, I guess we could emulate a few of our debted nations from the recent past ...default ...
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Comment #17 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 18:35:48 PT
Mayan
I wonder if it's just too late. It's like if you see a Tsunami coming you're probably going to die. I don't know how we can recover as a country from where we are now.
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Comment #16 posted by mayan on September 20, 2006 at 18:21:17 PT
FoM
This whole system is bound to collapse as the rest of the world will abandon the dollar for the euro, which is partially backed by gold. That's one reason why our gov't did 9/11. They know it's going to go to sh*t so they have to build their police state in a hurry. Either we can expose them and start over or become slaves. THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...Ground Zero - 9/11/06:
http://www.truthmove.org/groundzero.htmlSome still can't,or won't, believe - What really happened on 9/11?
http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/some_still_cant_believe_911_official_story.htmOperation Gladio Expert Studies 9/11:
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2006/09/346111.shtml1 In 3 Americans Now Suspect US Government Involvement In 9/11:
http://rense.com/general73/1in3.htm9/11 Was a Conspiracy:
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer144.html
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 16:02:30 PT
IMF's Fears of U.S. Borrowing Must Be Heeded
I was wrong on the amount. It's 2.2 billion a day.***Excerpt: Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist of the IMF, warns that the U.S. "is now soaking up roughly two-thirds of all global net saving, a situation without historical precedent." This year, the U.S. is expected to borrow $800 billion (US), or about $2.2 billion a day. http://www.embassymag.ca/html/index.php?display=story&full_path=/2006/september/20/crane/
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Comment #14 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 15:54:30 PT
Dankhank
Another thing that really bothers me is we are borrowing as a country about one billion dollars a day. The interest will break us. What about the children? I do worry about the future for people's children and how will they make a living and afford a home, car and life of their own? That upsets me.
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Comment #13 posted by Dankhank on September 20, 2006 at 15:41:42 PT
yessssss
Has to do with a law that would immunize leadership from being subject to the war-crimes laws ...it never ends with these people ...they can all go to hell
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Comment #12 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 14:21:22 PT
Dankhank
I read something the other day that bothered me and I don't know if it is well circulated news. They want to make it not a crime for Bush with some of the things he's done. Now that really bothers me. Someday he should be held accountable.
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Comment #11 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on September 20, 2006 at 14:11:01 PT
"Weed With Willie" lyrics
I thought the line from Toby Keith's song sounded very anti-cannabis, but when you read the whole song's lyrics it comes across a bit better:I always heard that his herb was top shelfI just could not wait to find out for myselfDon't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friendAnd I'll never smoke weed with Willie againI learned a hard lesson in a small Texas townHe fired up a fat boy and passed him aroundThe last words that I spoke before they tucked me inWas I'll never smoke weed with Willie againI'll never smoke weed with Willie againMy parties all over before it beginsYou can pour me some old whiskey river my friendBut I'll never smoke weed with Willie againI hopped on his old bus, the Honey Suckle RoseThe party was Vegas it was after the show.Alone in the front lounge with just me and him,With one parting puff grim creeper set in.I'll never smoke weed with Willie againMy parties all over before it beginsYou can pour me some old whiskey river my friendBut I'll never smoke weed with Willie againNow we're passing the guitar and telling good jokesI know ones a-comin' cause I'm smelling smokeNo I do not partake, I just let it pass byWith a smile on my face and a great contact highI'll never smoke weed with Willie againMy parties all over before it beginsYou can pour me some old whiskey river my friendBut I'll never smoke weed with Willie againIn the fetal position with drool on my chinI messed up and smoked weed with Willie again
Weed With Willie lyrics
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Comment #10 posted by Dankhank on September 20, 2006 at 14:03:52 PT
and besides ...
They are sneaking the bill to a vote, most parents haven't a clue about what's happening, no one I have talked to around here has heard it because the media is not covering it
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Comment #9 posted by Dankhank on September 20, 2006 at 14:01:53 PT
doesn't matter
This is monstrous no matter WHO we are.pass the info to someone you love that DOES have children in a public school
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Comment #8 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 13:53:01 PT
Dankhank
I read about that earlier and since I don't have any children all I could think is I hope parents stand up if they don't want that to happen to their own child someday.
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Comment #7 posted by Dankhank on September 20, 2006 at 13:49:09 PT
Congress wants to strip search students
sorry if this has been posted, but we need large billboards for this one, alas, no time as the bill is to be voted on this week.Call your rep and tell them what you thinkhttp://thebluestate.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/rep_davis_bill_.htmlhttp://geoffdavis.house.gov/Contact.aspx
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Comment #6 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 13:00:00 PT
Wayne
You're very welcome. The video helped me too. God Bless Willie Nelson.
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Comment #5 posted by Wayne on September 20, 2006 at 12:51:52 PT
Re: FoM
Thank you dear. I was kind of having a bad afternoon, but watching that video made me feel a little better. Willie certainly has that effect on people. The federal gub'ment needs to get out of our lives, and they need to start with HIM.
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Comment #4 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 12:12:40 PT
Never Forget: Thank You Willie
Willie Nelson - America The BeautifulFrom "America: A Tribute To Heroes" (Sep From "America: A Tribute To Heroes" (September 21, 2001). http://youtube.com/watch?v=RnEBAzMI7-k
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Comment #3 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 11:15:15 PT

Goneposthole 
I agree. Leave Willie alone and the other folks on the bus too. The war on Cannabis is totally insane to me.
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Comment #2 posted by goneposthole on September 20, 2006 at 11:12:35 PT

What more can be done to Willie Nelson?
The US government, the benevolent institution that it has become, has taken sixteen million dollars from him; the State has busted him a couple of times or more for cannabis possession and use, and yet, he keeps on keepin' on.The State can imprison him, beat him, try to make him a pariah; just plain old make his life miserable until the day he dies. Hells Bells, they can kill him too.The State does it all of the time. Waco, Rainbow Farm, Ruby Ridge and the list goes on. Now, the State is in Iraq making life miserable for citizens in a foreign country. It does not know when to stop.You can bet that it is careening out of control.The unstoppable object must be stopped.The irrepressible force can do it.It's time. Free Willie. Free us all.Whatever the State has planned for Willie, he doesn't really care anymore. They've done it all to him time and again.The State doesn't have what it takes to govern people, all it has is money and power. That's not enough.Enough
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on September 20, 2006 at 11:01:03 PT

Willie
Leave Willie and all Cannabis people alone. 
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