Chong's 'Marijuana-Logues' tour goes up in smoke

Parole officer nixes performances

Tommy Chong at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, after serving a nine-month sentence for selling drug paraphernalia. His parole officer wasn't amused by the appreciative audiences on Chong's new tour.

Tommy Chongâ??s play has gone up in smoke.

â??The Marijuana-Loguesâ?� has canceled its spring tour after its star, Tommy Chong, was barred from performing in it because audience members were frequently lighting up during the show.

Chong, half of the comedy team Cheech & Chong, was in danger of violating his probation, which bars him from being around people using or selling illegal substances. He served nine months in prison last year for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia.

â??The (parole) officer was compelled to revoke his ability to continue on the shows,â?� said Phil Lobel, a publicist for the play. â??The last thing he wants to do is go back to prison.â?�

â??The Marijuana-Loguesâ?� was on the second night of a North America tour. It has played for nearly a year off-Broadway. Chong had a special two-week run in New York and then went on the road with the show. Following a kickoff performance Feb. 18 in Vancouver, British Columbia, a Seattle show the following day was especially smoky.

Lobel said the large 1,000-2,000 seat theaters were much more difficult to patrol than the small Actorsâ?? Playhouse in New York.

The play expects to resume touring this summer, when Chongâ??s parole ends.

The 65-year-old comedian served nine months in prison, beginning in 2003, after pleading guilty to conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia. His home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., was raided by police looking for smoking materials made by Nice Dreams, a company named for one of the Cheech and Chong movies.

Though the police found nearly a pound of marijuana, Chong was never charged with marijuana possession because the drug was not included in the search warrant. Chong was released from prison in July.

â??The Marijuana-Logues,â?� a parody of Eve Enslerâ??s â??The Vagina Monologues,â?� is a three-man show that addresses the rites and rituals of getting stoned.

â??Iâ??m still on probation you know,â?� Chong told The Associated Press before the Vancouver performance. â??Doing a show about weed in the United States â?? when you just got out of jail for selling weed paraphernalia â?? makes me a little nervous.â?�

Tickets already purchased for canceled â??Marijuana-Loguesâ?� shows can be refunded at the point of purchase.

Man, anything can be used as marijuana paraphernalia. Even a damn potato.

dam thats fucked up :( wtfs he meant to do. its not like hes rollin the fuckin spliffs for them :(

Oh come on. What if some lady made a fortune doing shows about prostitution, and then got arrested for selling, I dunno, "prostitute paraphernalia" (condoms can be used for illegal things like prostitution and child rape, so they MUST be STOPPED), and then tried to go back to her prostitution show job? Stopping her from doing that is in clear violation of the First Amendment. No different with Chong.

the creator of aluminum foil, and glass should have been thrown in jail too

^i think there dead

lol

does anyone know where you can find a list of the tour dates for that show?

Chongs PO should be more worried about the released pedophiles he should be watching.
What happened to chong was such bullshit. Notice no one else got busted. There are 100's of bong companies, and they all ship them across state lines. Its the government punishing him because he spoke up. Ashcroft should have been looking for terrorists not bong sellers

If I was Chong I'd put it to the crowd that they are fucking up his tour. Obviously too late now, but I'd definitely bust them out. "Hey guys, my PO isn't gonna let me keep doing these shows with all this weed getting smoked here. So, like, smoke up before you get here, man. And always drive smart with a DD."

lol I'm sure the PO would equally love that speech.