NELSON AND FRIENDS BUSTED FOR POT, SHROOMS

Farmer's friend Willie Nelson, who will sing out for Farm Aid at
Camden's Tweeter Center on Sept. 30, ran into trouble with the law in
Louisiana yesterday over some organic material, the Associated Press
reports.

Nelson and four others were on the road again, on Interstate 10 near
Lafayette, La., when they received misdemeanor citations for
possession of narcotic mushrooms and marijuana after the singer's tour
bus was stopped for a commercial vehicle inspection, according to
Louisiana state police.

"When the door was opened and the trooper began to speak to the
driver, he smelled the strong odor of marijuana," a state police news
release said.

A search of the bus yielded 1 1/2 pounds of weed and 0.2 pound of
shrooms, according to state police.

Nelson's publicist, Elaine Shock, told The Inquirer that Nelson still
would perform in Camden.

Also cited were [redacted]

Each was released after being issued a citation.

Nelson, 73, who founded the annual Farm Aid fund-raising concert in
1985, is scheduled to appear at this year's event with fellow Farm Aid
board members Neil Young, Dave Matthews and John Mellencamp.