Hit Songwriter Charged With Growing Pot In Home

Hit Songwriter Charged With Growing Pot In Home

POSTED: 7:08 pm EDT June 1, 2006
UPDATED: 7:11 pm EDT June 1, 2006

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A country music songwriter and his wife have been charged with growing marijuana inside their home and possessing hallucinogenic mushrooms.

Hal Bynum, 71, and Jan Bynum, 48, turned themselves in Wednesday and were released after posting $73,500 bail each, police said Thursday.

Bynum wrote the Kenny Rogers' hit "Lucille" as well as songs recorded by Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Patty Loveless and Jim Reeves. His song "The Old, Old House" has been recorded by George Jones, Bill Monroe and Ralph Stanley, according to his Web site.

Acting on a tip, police said they began searching the house Tuesday night and found 256 pot plants, 7.5 pounds of harvested marijuana, 14 grams of hallucinogenic mushrooms, growing lamps and other drug paraphernalia.

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DOH! I think if ya make it to 70 then in addition to Social Security you get to grow your own pot :)

Now you know why there are four hungry children, and what the crops in the field are. :hi:

Those horrible criminals should get the electric chair!

That said, anyone should be able to grow pot in their own home for personal use, it should be completely legal.

But that would bring the price down way too low, and anyway, the APA would never ever in a million years allow such a nightmarish situation (for them) to happen.

Not original. Found on the discussion board at Hal Bynum's website...

www.halbynum.com/