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."