Sympathy for the devil: The Mike Huckabee-Rolling Stones connection | United States

Sympathy for the devil: The Mike Huckabee-Rolling Stones connection

Thanks to Steve Bloom, ex High Times editor, and our good friends at celebstoner.com for firing this story over to us at Canna Zine.
On July 5, 1975, Rolling Stones' guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood were taking a leisurely road trip from Memphis to Dallas through Arkansas when their rented Chevy Impala was pulled over by police in Fordyce.
The cops charged Richards with reckless driving and carrying a hunting knife, and impounded the vehicle after smelling marijuana. A search produced two grams of cocaine in the briefcase of another passenger, Fred Sessler, who was also arrested.	Rock & Roll legend Keith Richards
Richards and Sessler posted bonds (Keith's was $162.50) and, along with Wood, continued their ride south. Richards never came back as required and was convicted.

Enter Gov. Mike Huckabee - former Baptist pastor and Rolling Stones fan. "I was a college student when it happened, and I was so embarrassed," the Republican frontrunner recalls. "I thought 'Golly, we finally got the Rolling Stones in Arkansas, and what do we do?'"
Thirty years after the bust, the Stones played Little Rock on March 9, 2006. Huckabee was there and went backstage where he met Richards, who reminded the governor of the incident.	Gov Huckerbee bangs the bass
"I'm having this conversation with Keith, and he's telling me that he'd been in Arkansas before," Hucakbee says. "And I said, 'Keith, I can pardon you and get that off your record. You can have a clean start in Arkansas.'" Huckabee did just that in November 2006, pardoning Richards of the driving conviction. Which is certainly a case of the ex-preacher having sympathy for the devil. http://www.celebstoner.com