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Officially Licensed Johnny Cash T-Shirts
Johnny Cash Giving The Finger T-Shirt
Johnny Cash shirt featuring the a popular image of Johnny giving the middle finger on a black cotton shirt.
As his career was taking off in the early 1960s, Johnny Cash started drinking heavily and became addicted to amphetamines and barbiturates.
For a brief time, he shared an apartment in Nashville with Waylon Jennings, who was heavily addicted to amphetamines.
Cash used the uppers to stay awake during tours. Friends joked about his "nervousness" and erratic behavior, many ignoring the warning signs of his worsening drug addiction.
In a behind the scenes look at The Johnny Cash Show, Cash claims to have "tried every drug there was to try."
Although Cash carefully cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence.
Despite landing in jail seven times for misdemeanors, each stay lasted only a single night.
His most infamous run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by a narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas.
The officers suspected that he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, but it was prescription narcotics and amphetamines that the singer had hidden inside his guitar case.
Because they were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a suspended sentence.
