Fiona Apple Arrest Shows Why No One Should Ever Leave California

By Ian S. Port Thu., Sep. 20 2012 at 12:56 PM

Categories: News

Fiona at the Warfield in the happier days of last week.

Update, 5:09 p.m.: Apple spent the night in jail but is now out on a $10,000 bond, according to TMZ. The site says she "freely admitted" that the hash and weed were hers.

Original post: In a shocking reminder of the existence of anti-marijuana laws, famed singer Fiona Apple was arrested in Texas yesterday after police say they found a small amount of hashish (a concentrated form of pot, but you knew that) on her tour bus.

The singer -- who performed at the Warfield in front of red-eyed and hungry San Franciscans only last week -- is currently sitting in the jail of some Texas town that isn't famous for oil, a big music/tech/film festival, or having hosted a cult.

Which just goes to show that no one should ever leave California.

Because we -- ooh, those chips look goo -- oops, sorry: We (cough) are baffled that, in 2012, hardworking Americans are held captive and treated like criminals for enjoying a little tetrahydrocannabinol every once in a while. But as TMZ (which first reported Apple's arrest) notes, authorities in the town of Sierra Blanca, Tex., have previously busted Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg for packing vegetables.

Still -- what the fuck? Everyone knows that Texas is a few years (okay, decades) behind our times, but is it actually 1952 down there? Would Dennis Hopper still not survive a motorcycle trip through the backwoods? Considering her arrest, pot might turn out be one of Fiona's lesser problems: If those hillbilly cops start reading her lyrics, they'll probably try to put her on trial for witchcraft.

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Barakis

I guess Fiona had no clue that Willie and Snoop had troubles in the same community or was it something else? Did she plan on getting busted with a small misdemenor charge to get a little bad press is good press because honestly I thought this chick was retired but whalla her she is again on the scene busted for some hash. Stay in California, thanks!

Heavy_Eyedd_ABN

@WeedFeed http://t.co/tKYG8W2t

highway721

@WeedFeed I know ... I live in Texas

Loski_Jane

@WeedFeed http://t.co/yKOvuAaa

snoopblair

@SFAllShookDown 1952? Really guys? At least give us '94. And have you ever been to Birmingham, AL? There's your '52.

Lunachick00

I have a friend in SF battling drug charges. So much for your idiot fantasy that California is a wonderland of cognitive freedom. Try leaving the state now and then so you don't have to be so massively ignorant about what other places in the US are like, oh obnoxious hipster blogger of sfweakly. NORML has many active and vocal supporters in this state.