Movie Star Gets Busted with Marijuana

Willie Nelson, star of "The Dukes of Hazzard" and "Beerfest" 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.

But the news isn't that Willie Nelson got busted, or at least that's not what's intriguing to me. Two things jump immediately to mind:

a) Being an advocate for the legalization of Mary Jane, how has he not been caught before?

b) How are more "stars" not caught with, doing, or holding drugs?

and, the optional third thing that jumps to mind, c) was the search done on purpose?

It just seems suspicious that Willie Nelson would get caught now. He's 73 - well, maybe he just couldn't outrun the cops - and has not really done anything that horrific. He wasn't even driving the bus, which you could probably fault him for had that happened.

Is it just that professional users - movie stars, rock stars, executives - are smarter than the rest of us, or are they truly above the law? However untrue the first part is and scary the second is, I'd have to say it's the latter is true. I think they must have to reign in a celebrity every once in awhile so it doesn't look too ridiculous to us.

To be fair, I don't think the search was done "on purpose". Well, at least I hope not, because there's a lot more that needs to be done in this country before senior citizen drug advocates who are pushing canola oil as a gas alternative get pinched.

But hey, I could be wrong...