​Thanks to our fearless Border Patrol, music legend Willie Nelson, 77, could face up to two years in prison for his marijuana possession arrest, according to a criminal defense attorney in Austin.

The attorney told website TMZ that Willie’s arrest for six ounces of weed at a Border Patrol checkpoint could get the singer six months minimum and up to two years in prison.

However, ace L.A. pot attorney Bruce Margolin — who’s also director of the Los Angeles chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws — said that Willie might dodge prison time if he could convince a jury that he just forgot the pot was on the bus.

Margolin believes Nelson should say the pot was California-grown, with California, of course, being the first of 15 states which have legalized the medicinal use of cannabis.

The bust went down at the Sierra Blanca, Texas checkpoint after Nelson’s tour bus pulled in Friday morning and a Border Patrol officer smelled marijuana through the vehicle’s open door.





​Nelson, one of three people arrested, said the pot belonged to him. He was briefly held on a $2,500 bond before being released.

“It’s kind of surprising, but I mean we treat him like anybody else,” said Hudspeth County Sheriff Arvin West. If by “surprising,” Sheriff West means “I’m a fucking moron if I didn’t already know Willie smokes weed,” then yeah, right. “Surprising.”

Two days later, in a statement to website CelebStoner.com , Nelson called on the United States to start a new political party based on the legalization of marijuana.

“There’s the Tea Party,” Nelson wrote in an email. “How about the Teapot Party? Our motto: We lean a little to the left… Tax it, regulate it and legalize it,” Nelson wrote.

When Willie speaks, he makes it so. By Sunday afternoon, a Facebook page for the Teapot Party had already been created. The page already had almost 7,000 followers Monday morning.

“Stop the border wars over drugs,” Nelson wrote. “Why should the drug lords make all the money? Thousands of lives will be saved.”