Willie Nelson After His Most Recent Pot Arrest: Let’s Start A Tea Pot Party!
American music legend and NORML Advisory Board member Willie Nelson was busted, again, for possessing cannabis on Friday by a US Border Patrol outside of Sierra Blanca, Texas…about 30 miles from the nation’s border with Mexico. NORML warned cannabis consumers a few years ago about these roaming road blocks.
Willie’s tour bus had to pass through one of these ‘border’ checkpoints, and after law enforcement claimed to have smelled cannabis, Willie was busted for possessing six ounces of cannabis.
In his first public interview post arrest, Willie tells CelebStoner: “There’s the Tea Party. How about the Teapot Party? Our motto: We lean a little to the left.”
For years NORML’s founder Keith Stroup has admonished cannabis consumers—the tens of millions of cannabis consumers in America—to stop voting for politicians who support arresting cannabis consumers.
If enough cannabis consumers get politically active and organize under Willie Nelson’s ‘Tea Pot Party’, voters in future may have a choice to support bona fide office seekers who support ending Cannabis Prohibition as Willie has just started a Facebook page announcing such.**
**And thereby ending the historical harassment by law enforcement of great musicians from coast to coast.
View full post on NORML Blog, Marijuana Law Reform
Could it be that the BP agents stopped Willie’s tour bus because they knew that, while searching it, they could get a contact high from second-hand smoke and do it legally? did they giggle all the way to the jail?
It’s not necessarily a Dems vs. GOP issue! Read Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissenting opinion in Gonzales v. Raich, 545 U.S. 1.
[...] NORML founder Keith Stroup also weighed in about the Teapot Party: "Smokers should never again vote for a candidate for public office who wants to treat us like criminals. If we would all do that, pro-pot candidates would begin picking up momentum, and before long, a majority of our elected officials would agree with the majority of the American public that responsible marijuana smokers should not be treated like criminals." [...]
I signed up yesterday, before hearing of Willie’s latest bust. Its about time this issue was put to a popular vote. Alcohol and nicotine are far more unhealthy for you than pot.
I’m right with you, Willie!!!
Obama leans left and he laughs off legalization. Left and right both show authoritarian tendencies. Legalize Adulthood! Anyone signing on for that will not be for authoritarianism from either side.
I really would like to ask the Dem that wrote Micheal Moore if he really thinks that Obama is any better than the Republicans?
Congress is simple. One term, Dems will pass bills they want through, with earmarks giving a little more liberalness to the laws they want, then if and when the people get pissed, they vote Rep. The Reps will vote through more liberalness on those same laws, because the Dems will earmark onto “bipartisian” laws, thus getting voted through Congress.
Congressmen, both Senators and House, have admitted to not even reading bills before voting. WTF is that?
Its very simple. We are fucked. There is only gonna be two things that happen in my lifetime. Complete New World Order, or the exact opposite, Use second amendment rights given to us by the people that once grew weed and hemp, and take back our freedom.
I will fight and die for my beliefs, thats LIBERTY.
If u fight and die for money, thats terrorism.
I agree that the whole Republican vs. Democrat, “liberal” vs. “conservative” thing is a facade that doesn’t do any good for this country and its citizens. The problem is the “two party system”. A quick and easy solution would be to make it a federal crime to ask what your party affiliation is for purposes of voter registration.
We are never going to end the Drug War against marijuana if we do not encounter two areas of resistance. First, there is the “medical marijuana” movement who’s dealers and distributors have it just the way they want. They have black market prices and they have legal distribution. And then there are the prohibitionists who cannot or refuse to understand how criminalizing marijuana enflames distribution. So struggles for legalization have enemies on the “left” and the “right”.
I think Willie Nelson does a diservice to this ungoing struggle by once again posing decriminalization as being owned by the “left”. For people with lots of money, politics is a kind of game and you can pick and choose your sides with leisure. Most people who are busted for recreationally using marijuana do not have that luxury. End consumers under the thumb of law enforcment are the real victims of the Drug War and nobody will speak for them. “Conservatives” get busted for marijuana possession too.
HOW IS THERE MORE POSTS ON THIS PAGE THAN WILLIE FACEBOOK PAGE…?
*** THE LACK OF MOTIVATION IN THE MOVEMENT IS SICKINING !!
LEGALIZE IT. IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL
Sign me up!