Merle Haggard Defended Tribal Rights to Grow Hemp

Country icon Merle Haggard passed away on his 79th birthday Wednesday of complications from double pneumonia at his home in Northern California.

A voice for the poor, the workingman, the outlaw, the lost and the heartbroken, Haggard's political stance shifted greatly over his six-decade musical career from the 1960s into the 2010s.

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