“‘I’ve played ACL more times than anyone, I think,’ Willie Nelson told us on his tour bus, which sure smelled good.”
— Rolling Stone : The 10 Best Shows at Austin City Limits 2006
“Willie Nelson and four others were issued misdemeanor citations for possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after a traffic stop Monday morning on a Louisiana highway, state police said. … ‘When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana,’ the news release said.”
— CNN.com.
But maybe they weren’t smoking it. Maybe it’s just part of the Willie Nelson Biodiesel.
Which got NewMexiKen thinking. According to data from the Drug Enforcement Administration, 98% of all the marijuana plants seized by law enforcement in the U.S. are wild hemp, not cultivated cannabis. That’s a lot of bio-mass. Let’s be creative here. Suppose we used the confiscated plants to power mass transit. Then we’d have free fuel, plus ridership would increase dramatically on those “smelly” buses.