Beatle's classic for today's archive...today, January 25th 1980, Sir Paul McCartney is released from a Tokyo jail after being jailed for nine days, after a customs agent finds the hippy lettuce in his luggage. He will be deported, after his first trip back since a Beatle in 1966, and not allowed to return to Japan until 1990. Before a scheduled week long concert tour with Wings, Sir Paul was visiting the fine city of New York when he came across a half pound of marijuana that apparently was really good. He claimed, "We were about to fly to Japan and I knew I wouldn't be able to get anything to smoke over there. This stuff was too good to flush down the toilet, so I'd thought I'd take it with me." Somewhere Snoop Dog is surely smiling!!
McCartney apparently hooked up with some fine New York kush and boarded the plane to Tokyo, landed, and as a Japanese customs agent pulled out the block of hooch, he sat there calmly. That is until he realized that the Japanese have a pretty strict penal code concerning drugs. The half pound was enough to warrant a drug trafficking charge, which included a seven year sentence, and Sir Paul was ushered to a Tokyo Jail and was then referred to as prisoner #22. The tour, needless to say was cancelled and he spent the next nine days in jail. He was finally released today in 1980 avoiding any court appearance.
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