MARY JANE’S LAST DANCE
Before sparking up that celebratory 4/20 bowl this evening – TCB realizes it’s probably much too late for most of you – consider heading down to the Dandelion Cafe, 1115 E. 11th, at 7pm for local attorney Charlie Roadman‘s “Marijuana Law for Musicians: Know Your Rights!” seminar. Going into criminal defense over contract-heavy entertainment law, says Roadman, “I thought I would be helping out a lot of musicians, but it turns out most of them are too busy doing their art to get in much trouble.” Roadman, who also manages San Antonio’s Buttercup and plays in local roots collective F for Fake, says most of the musician cases he gets are either DWI or pot-related, and that an overwhelming amount of marijuana busts happen at traffic stops. He’ll cover how to avoid being stopped in the first place, how to act if you are, and why getting busted is still better in Travis County than the surrounding countryside – though, for some reason, he declined to say whether brownies would be served.
This article appears in April 21 • 2006.