Exclusive: Pal: Chace Crawford's Mom "Called Him Crying" After Pot Bust
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Chace Crawford could spend up to six months in jail if he's convicted on his misdemeanor charge of pot possession -- but he's already in the dog house with Mom and Dad.
After his June 4 arrest in a parking lot outside a Plano, Tex. bar, "his mom called him crying," an insider close to Crawford, 24, tells UsMagazine.com.
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"He comes from a very good family, and his parents were so upset that his mugshot was everywhere," the insider says of mother Dana and father Chris.
Cops busted Crawford and a pal inside a parked car after they discovered an unlit marijuana joint. Following the incident, another pal insisted the actor was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time: "He wasn't smoking, the pot was in the car, and it was his friend's."
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"Ultimately [his parents] did believe him when he explained the joint 'wasn't his,'" the insider adds. "But they were still unhappy to have their son's name associated with drugs."
A third Crawford source explains the family is "upper middle class." Dana and father Chris "weren't strict parents -- just always had high expectations."
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Accordingly, Crawford's summer party plans will be extra subdued, the insider says. "Don't expect to see Chace out clubbing anytime soon. He's going to be laying low for awhile after that." See the top 10 habits that improve your appearance.
Plus, the TV star will have a prestigious new big-screen project to keep him busy. Crawford has signed on to star alongside Jane Fonda and Catherine Keener in the indie drama Peace, Love and Misunderstanding, Variety reports.
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The only people that believe prohibition is working are the ones making a living by enforcing laws in it's name, and those amassing huge fortunes on the black market profits. This situation is wholly unsustainable, and as history has shown us, conditions will continue to deteriorate until we finally, just like our forefathers, see sense and revert back to tried and tested methods of regulation. None of these substances, legal or illegal, are ever going to go away, but we CAN decide to implement policies that do far more good than harm. During alcohol prohibition in the 1920s, all profits went to enrich thugs and criminals. Young men died every day on inner-city streets while battling over turf. A fortune was wasted on enforcement that could have gone on treatment. On top of the budget-busting prosecution and incarceration costs, billions in taxes were lost. Finally the economy collapsed. Sound familiar? In an underground drug market, criminals and terrorists, needing an incentive to risk their own lives and liberty, grossly inflate prices which are further driven higher to pay those who 'take a cut' like corrupt law enforcement officials who are paid many times their wages to look the other way. This forces many users to become dealers themselves in order to afford their own consumption. This whole vicious circle turns ad infinitum. You literally couldn't dream up a worse scenario even if your life depended on it. For the second time within a century, we've carelessly lost "love's labour," and, "with the hue of dungeons and the scowl of night," have wantonly created our own worst nightmare.
There is nothing conservative about the drug war which enlists the most centralized state power in displacement of domestic and community roles. There is everything authoritarian and subversive about these policies which have incinerated American traditions such as Freedom and Federalism with its puritanical flames. Any person seeking to insure and not further compromise the safety of their family and of their neighbors must not only repudiate the War on Drugs but help spearhead its abolition.
SOMEBODY'S PUT THEIR CAREER DOWN THE TOILET!!!!!! TSK, TSK, TSK!!!!
How does someone go clubbing in Plano, Texas?
well if he'd been in California, he'd never have even been put into the back of a cop car, maybe just cited and fined....for a rolled up unlit joint? puhleeeze, that is NO crime.
@Micheal MacDonald you are beyond dilusional & hilarious..hahahahahaha
the reason his parents were/are so upset is because Chase went to church his whole life and he went to a Christian private school too, they raised him so much better than that!
Lets get past the bullcrap in this story. lol This is all PR. Someone is blowing smoke here. If he was charged the goods are his period. Just because he comes from this so called church going family & they want to save face. This artical makes US weekly looked as silly as the Crawfords.. It had just died down.. Sounds like Chace still wants to be relevant in some capacity.. Mrs Crawford needs to stop & smell the roses & probably her son's weed.. Her children are not without fault & US weekly has always had there noses up there butts. Check the procedures of this story & chances are he had more weed then he was charged with & thats the break he got. US weekly do you have anyone there that knows the law before you right OH HE IS JUST A GOOD BOY & IT WAS SOMEONE ELSE"S.. lol PLEASE..
Not only is Texas one of the most conservative states but the City of Plano is even more so. Plus the Plano Cops are pretty ruthless and will do about anything to make an arrest!
anyone who's opposing the legalization of marijuana on here, needs to learn a little empathy and sensitivity towards other groups. These tired old laws destroy innocent peoples lives every day, and you should be ashamed of yourself for supporting them. marijuana users, are normal people just like you, you need to stop hating them Some of us are really nice people you know. we just want equal rights and freedoms like any other group. but it's still socially acceptable to be totally prejudice towards us. No one who just smokes marijuana deserves to be charged because of it. "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -martin luther king
The fact that some people may drive under the influence of marijuana, doesn't mean it should stay illegal. There are way more fatalities due to drunk driving. I don't condone driving under the influence of marijuana or alcohol and if it were legalized, it would still be illegal to drive under the influence. Your point has no merit what-so-ever
I hope you ignorant people making these mean comments know that people's lives get destroyed over these tired old laws every day. how would you like it if you got arrested for having an 8 pack of beer it's the same thing You are cowards for condemning people who just want equal rights and freedoms you should be really ashamed of yourselves. While people like me are trying to make the world a better place, so that people who smoke a substance that's weaker than beer won't get oppressed anymore, you have nothing better to do with your time, but make our lives a living hell don't you. the fact is, you all just hate us pot heads don't you and we don't hurt anyone I don't even hate you back I just wish that you could have a little bit of empathy and sensitivity for a group other than yourselves even if it doesn't effect you Just let us be, we're normal people not criminals "One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws" -Martin Luther King
It's still an illegal drug!! He broke the law in one of the most conservative states. And I believe that is wasn't his joint like I believe Linsay Lohan's pants with cocain in it wasn't hers.
Goodness people, get over it. It's only pot! It is more likely to overdose and die on alcohol, crack, abusing prescription drugs than with pot. Pot was used for alot back in the day to cure alot of medical problems. It's a natural plant for heaven's sake! Get over yourselves!
U people r a bunch of pothead druggie slackers. Where I live, there was a fatal car accident involving someone high only on pot, not alcohol. It's a drug, idiots.
Marijuana should be legal. I get that his parents are upset. They are parents. Mine would be too, but srsly people. You can go down to any head shop and buy salvia and it is entirely legal and much worse than pot.
Agree with 11:37 He could move to Canada. It's not such a big deal here.
Maybe Pappa would be patting him of the back if he had a half a bottle of Jameson and a half naked girl in the back sit with him....seriously, people need to get a clue when it comes to what is really a "DRUG" and what people really do when they drink, smoke or swallow it. GET educated!!!!