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Dope update: Rudd, Nelson, Blow
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 7 December 2010
AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd has been convicted of marijuana possession in a New Zealand court after police found 25 grams of the drug on his boat back in October. Rudd pleaded guilty to the charge and requested that, in return, the court not give him a criminal record in relation to the drugs incident. It was an ambitious plea really, and the judge was having none of it. He convicted the drumming man of the crime, and ordered him to pay a $250 fine.
Elsewhere in dope news, country star Willie Nelson has been charged with a misdemeanour in relation to the cannabis found on his tour bus by a Texas state border patrol last month. He had faced a felony charge which meant that, if found guilty, he could have been facing a jail sentence. But he got off with a misdemeanour, possibly because his lawyer reportedly questioned the legality of the tour bus search undertaken by border officials, given the bus was someway from any border at the time and no warrant was issued.
And finally, rap legend Kurtis Blow has denied those reports from last week on TMZ.com that he was busted for carrying a small amount of dope through security at LAX airport recently. Well, it wasn’t clear if he was denying being caught with the drug completely, or whether he was stressing – as we reported – that he was only cautioned and not arrested because it was such a small amount of marijuana. We hope some of the story was true only because it contained one of the quotes of the year, a statement from an airport official that they had found the drugs after a body scanner detected “an anomaly in the rapper’s pants”.
