swice1
02-27-2008, 03:27 AM
a/k/a Tommy Chong - the movie the Bush Administration didn't want you to see - is now the home video they don't want you to buy.
The film, a through-the-looking-glass documentary of a war-on-drugs gone nuts, has garnered praise and awards at film festivals and given a counter-culture hero his day in the court of public opinion.
Now, he's making house calls.
akatommychong.com-Intro (http://www.akatommychong.com/)
Promo: akatommychong.com-Promo (http://www.akatommychong.com/promo.html)
a/k/a Tommy Chong chronicles the entrapment and incarceration of comedic legend Tommy Chong. Josh Gilbert's "a/k/a Tommy Chong" offers a sometimes frightening, often hilarious account of Operation Pipe Dreams, a nationwide drug paraphernalia sting operation spearheaded by former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
After a fully armed SWAT team raided the 65 year-old comedian's home in February of 2003, Tommy Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute drug paraphernalia through Chong Glass, a family business specializing in handmade glass water pipes, or "bongs." Of the 55 defendants prosecuted, Tommy Chong was the only one with no prior convicitons to receive jail time. Justifying the 9 month sentance, the prosecutor cited the classic 1978 movie Cheech & Chong film "Up In Smoke" as evidence that he had become wealthy "trivializing law enforcement efforts to combat marijuana trafficking and use." :jointsmile::hippy:
The film, a through-the-looking-glass documentary of a war-on-drugs gone nuts, has garnered praise and awards at film festivals and given a counter-culture hero his day in the court of public opinion.
Now, he's making house calls.
akatommychong.com-Intro (http://www.akatommychong.com/)
Promo: akatommychong.com-Promo (http://www.akatommychong.com/promo.html)
a/k/a Tommy Chong chronicles the entrapment and incarceration of comedic legend Tommy Chong. Josh Gilbert's "a/k/a Tommy Chong" offers a sometimes frightening, often hilarious account of Operation Pipe Dreams, a nationwide drug paraphernalia sting operation spearheaded by former Attorney General John Ashcroft.
After a fully armed SWAT team raided the 65 year-old comedian's home in February of 2003, Tommy Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for conspiracy to manufacture and distribute drug paraphernalia through Chong Glass, a family business specializing in handmade glass water pipes, or "bongs." Of the 55 defendants prosecuted, Tommy Chong was the only one with no prior convicitons to receive jail time. Justifying the 9 month sentance, the prosecutor cited the classic 1978 movie Cheech & Chong film "Up In Smoke" as evidence that he had become wealthy "trivializing law enforcement efforts to combat marijuana trafficking and use." :jointsmile::hippy: