Big Surprise: Willy Nelson Caught In Posession

From our "Doh!" Department of easiest probable cause stops, we learn that Willie Nelson has been hit with drug charges outside Lafayette, LA, after his tour bus was stopped by police, searched, and contraband pot and mushrooms were confiscated.

We all laughed last week when Toby Keith was on the Colbert Report (Comedy Central) joking about how its the cultural thing to do if you are on Willie's tour bus. "Ah," said Stephen Colbert, "you mean that his tour bus is like a foreign embassy and Willie is the Ambassador from Weedville?"

But the truth is, of course, quite true.

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson and several fellow musicians were charged with misdemeanor drug possession by Louisiana police after a search of their tour bus on Monday turned up marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.

State police spokesman Willie Williams said the bus was stopped early on Monday morning about 7 miles east of Lafayette, Louisiana, for a routine commercial inspection, and a state trooper smelled marijuana inside the bus.

State Police seized about 1-1/2 pounds (0.7 kg) of marijuana and two-tenths of a pound (91 grams) of mushrooms from the bus, Williams said.

Nelson and four other passengers on the bus were cited for possession and released, while the driver had his commercial driving privileges suspended in addition to being cited for possession. Nelson faces possible jail time of up to six months and an unspecified fine, police said.

"There was no trouble whatsoever," Williams said. "They were all cooperative."

Hey, when you've toked that much good weed and shrooms, you can't do much more than be cooperative, right?

When you are Willie Nelson, you don't get all that worked up when the cops take your stash (you know half of them are gonna get high on it by the end of the day anyways) since you'll have a busload more good dope by the time you come down to reality.

But I really think that as the Ambassador, he should lodge a diplomatic protest, maybe get the Secretary of State of Weedistan to make a conference call between himself and the Chief Consul of Cocainia, who would get on the phone to his old friend, George Bush, to settle the whole thing like gentlemen...