Willie Nelson Runs Into Drug Charges

Country singer-songwriter Willie Nelson and several fellow musicians were charged with misdemeanor drug possession by state police after a search of their tour bus turned up marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms.

State police spokesman Willie Williams said the bus was pulled over about seven miles east of Lafayette for a routine commercial inspection, and a state trooper smelled marijuana inside the bus.

Officers seized about 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana and about a quarter-pound of mushrooms from the bus, Williams said. Nelson and four other passengers were cited for possession and released; the driver had his commercial driving privileges suspended in addition to being cited for possession. “There was no trouble whatsoever,” Williams said. “They were all cooperative.”