GREEN BUD, WHITE HOUSE

GREEN BUD, WHITE HOUSE

During the Carter admininistration, Willie Nelson was invited to perform at the White House and also sleep over. In the middle of the night, the Red Headed Stranger got out of bed, snuck onto the roof, and lit up a joint. (Could he have imagined that thirty years later, he'd still be getting busted for weed, most recently in 2006, when a pound-and-a-half of grass and more than three ounces of magic mushrooms were seized on his tour bus?) "Marijuana is like sex," Nelson wrote in his 1988 autobiography Willie, by way of explaining his White House escapade. "If I don't do it every day, I get a headache."

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