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July 2004

	The Memory Hole > Tommy Chong's Deleted Paraphernalia Website
		Tommy Chong--best known for his stoner movies with Cheech Marin--was among those targeted in Operations Pipe Dreams and Headhunter.
		For reasons not explained, Chong was not mentioned in the Justice Department's press release, and his Website was allowed to remain online.
		The Websites of the other people caught up in the sweep were quickly pulled offline by the DEA (but you can still see them here).
	www.thememoryhole.org /drugs/pipe-sites/chong-glass.htm (292 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tommy Chong
		Chong is the son of Stanley (of Chinese descent) and Lorna Jean Chong (of Scots-Irish ancestry).
		Chong was a recurring character and later a regular character as the hippie "Leo" during the second, third, fourth, and eighth seasons of That '70s Show.
		Chong served his sentence from October 8, 2003 to July 7, 2004, and in December 2004 was to appear off-Broadway in a one-man show entitled "The Marijuana-Logues", a parody of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tommy-Chong (1150 words)

	Tommy Chong: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chong was a recurring character and later a regular character as the hippie "Leo" during the second, third, and fourth seasons of That '70s Show (additional info and facts about That '70s Show).
		Chong served his sentence from October 8, 2003 to July 7, 2004, and in December 2004 was to appear off-Broadway in a one-man show entitled "The Marijuana-Logues", a parody of Eve Ensler (additional info and facts about Eve Ensler) 's The Vagina Monologues (additional info and facts about The Vagina Monologues).
		Chong is the son of Stanley and Lorna Jean Chong, who are Chinese (Any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system) and Scotch-Irish (additional info and facts about Scotch-Irish) respectively.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tommy_chong.htm (441 words)

	Tommy Chong
		Instead, Chong was prosecuted for possessing "drug paraphernalia" -- water pipes made by the Chong Glass Company, an enterprise co-owned by Chong, his wife, and their son Paris.
		Chong eventually agreed to a plea bargain and spent nine months in prison, in exchange for the feds dropping charges against his wife and son.
		Buchanan's assistant prosecutor, though, seemed to admit that Chong was targeted in retaliation for his comedy, stressing in closing arguments that he had made his fortune "glamorizing the illegal use and distribution of marijuana and trivializing law-enforcement efforts to combat drug use".
	www.nndb.com /people/621/000022555 (504 words)

	Chong's freedom is up in smoke - PittsburghLIVE.com
		Chong's response was in stark contrast to his remarks to reporters after his guilty plea May 13 when he said he and the other half of his comedy team, Cheech Marin, were planning another movie and "what happened to me" would be in it.
		Chong was caught in a nationwide crackdown in which at least 55 people were charged with trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia.
		Chong said he beat his problem with marijuana by taking up salsa, the Latin dance, and through meditation, techniques he uses in teaching youths to stay away from drugs.
	www.pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/regional/s_154702.html (827 words)

	Courtroom bummer for Tommy Chong
		Chong, 64, who has spent a career extolling the virtues of smoking dope along with his pal Cheech Marin, waived indictment and pleaded guilty to distributing bongs and marijuana pipes on the Internet through his family company, Nice Dreams Enterprises, which is named for one of his goofy movies.
		Chong, in fact, was scheduled to perform his comedy routine in Florida last night and received permission from the judge to make the trip.
		Chong wasn't arrested at the time, but the family business, which employs several glass-blowers, was among those raided.
	www.post-gazette.com /localnews/20030514chong0514p4.asp (866 words)

	Tommy Chong Photos - Tommy Chong News - Tommy Chong Information
		Grammy Award-winning comedian Tommy Chong is legendary for his contribution to American counterculture as part of the comedy team Cheech & Chong.
		Tommy reported to a privately run federal prison in 2003 to serve his nine month sentence for conspiring to sell bongs and other paraphernalia over the internet, even as his attorneys prepared to argue for his release pending appeal.
		Tommy was the first choice for the part of Shenzi the hyena, in Disney's The Lion King alongside Cheech, but the part went to Whoopi Goldberg when he couldn't be reached.
	www.tv.com /tommy-chong/person/2464/summary.html (469 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Showbiz \| Cult actor admits drug charge
		Chong was facing charges in a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania court over selling marijuana pipes, known as bongs, through his company Nice Dreams Enterprises, and through website advertisements giving his "celebrity" endorsement.
		Chong's lawyers said the star admitted responsibility for selling the accessories, but was careful not to sell them to minors.
		Chong, who has recently featured in the TV series That 70s Show, said he planned to shoot a new film with comedy partner Marin.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3026645.stm (308 words)

	LA Weekly: Features: Chong Family Values
		The biggest irony, of course, is that Chong had become famous, with partner Cheech Marin, during the 1970s as half of the stoner comedy team Cheech and Chong, which began as a live club act in Chong’s native Canada and became immensely popular through American tours and record albums.
		The Chongs are a tight-knit family whose various members have appeared in Tommy’s films and whose five children have been exposed to the arts, the entertainment industry and travel abroad.
		Tommy and Shelby have been together nearly 35 years and during the last nine have hit the road together as a comedy act in their own right.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/04/02/features-mikulan.php (2561 words)

	Low Times for Tommy Chong - Oct 10, 2003 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tommy Chong, one-half of the stoner comedian duo, reported to a federal prison in Bakersfield, California, Wednesday to begin serving a nine-month sentence for hawking bongs and other drug trappings out of his online head shop, Chong Glass.
		Chong was weeded out by the feds last February as part of Operation Pipe Dreams--Attorney General John Ashcroft's crackdown on fl-market drug-paraphernalia sales on the Internet.
		Chong's pipe dreams of freedom may not be completely up in smoke--the judge has set an Oct. 16 hearing on a request by the funnyman's lawyer to have his client released while he appeals the sentence.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,12671,00.html?tnews (474 words)

	USATODAY.com - Tommy Chong pleads guilty in bong sales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chong's attorneys said he was accepting responsibility, but noted he was careful not to sell to minors.
		Chong is the first person to plead guilty in the raids, said U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan.
		Chong, 64, was released on recognizance bail, but must undergo drug testing and remain in the U.S. District Court jurisdiction of his Pacific Palisades home except to travel for work and court appearances.
	www.usatoday.com /life/2003-05-14-chong_x.htm (476 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Nine months in jail is bad trip for 'bong' seller Tommy Chong
		The glass pipes, or "bongs", that Chong has been offering for sale are the same as those that have been sold for years by thousands of "head shops" all over the US and Europe, and Chong has regularly been paying taxes on their sales.
		Chong, who has no previous convictions and has run his business in Gardena, California, alongside an acting career, was arrested after a sting operation in which federal agents in Pittsburgh ordered bongs over the internet, thus ensuring that the items were sent across state lines.
		Chong, who was born in Canada, linked up with "Cheech" Marin in the 1970s and made a number of comedy films with a cannabis-related theme.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1045876,00.html (328 words)

	Free Tommy Chong - NORML
		Tommy Chong appeared on NBC Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday, July 9, fresh from his release from prison after serving 9 months at Taft Correctional Facility in Bakersfield, California on charges of selling paraphernalia over the internet.
		When asked how prison conditions were, Chong joked, "It was hell, man, one day I had to wait two hours for a tennis court," then said more seriously that the aim of the prison experience seems to be to humiliate the inmate.
		Chong was the only one of 55 people rounded up during "Operation Pipe Dreams" who served time.
	norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=5746 (539 words)

	Tommy Chong -- Libertarian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Richard "Cheech" Martin and Tommy Chong were best known for their unconventional and controversial best-selling comedy albums and movies that poked fun at the establishment (and the counter-culture) through their portrayal of hippie characters who were perpetually stoned.
		Chong particularly took note of how I use right-wing and conservative rhetoric to argue for re-legalization.
		NOTE: It may have slipped his mind, but some time in the mid-1980's Tommy Chong, during a visit to Colorado, endorsed the Libertarian Party candidate for governor in that state, saying "That's my party." The story was reported in Libertarian Party News -- we're searching for the exact issue.
	www.self-gov.org /celebs/Chong.html (646 words)

	New York's Premier Alternative Newspaper. Arts, Music, Food, Movies and Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chong pleaded guilty to protect his wife and children from prosecution.
		Delivering the government’s colloquy in the case, prosecuting attorney Mary Houghton dramatically accused Chong of growing rich by "glamorizing the illegal use and distribution of marijuana and trivializing law-enforcement efforts to combat drug use." Obviously she hasn’t seen any Cheech and Chong movies.
		Tommy Chong is depending on us, and we are all Tommy Chong now.
	www.nypress.com /17/2/news&columns/rotation.cfm (1012 words)

	Tommy Chong Is Still Smokin'
		Cheech and Chong were only two of the notches Nancy scratched into her plastic valium bottle as she babbled "Just Say No" like a schizophrenic bag lady from the Lower East Side.
		The film stars Chong as himself, playing a suspected drug lord who is exiled to the Philippines for preaching about the benefits of marijuana under the pseudonym "Bong Chong".
		Chong is planning on opening a "Best Buds" smokeshop chain to compete with Disney and Warner Brothers merchandising.
	www.geocities.com /homecorbett/Chong98.html (1570 words)

	Tommy Chong - Friends of Cannabis - Mariijuana Smoking Celebs
		Chong's arrest and nine-month prison stint is now the focus of a documentary titled a/k/a Tommy Chong, which debuts at the Toronto International Film Festival this week.
		Chong is certainly something of an authority on marijuana, having been a friend of the weed for the past 40 years.
		Chong failed to acknowledge the psychologically addicting lure of marijuana and said the only thing he's addicted to is Salsa dancing.
	www.friendsofcannabis.com /friends/tommy_chong.htm (3111 words)

	LA Weekly: Features: The Pleasant Probation of Tommy Chong
		Tommy Chong never was much of a stoner, but one of his most popular characters (“Man”) was.
		Chong and I are lounging on a Starbucks patio at the far west end of Sunset Boulevard, just down the hill from his house in Pacific Palisades, ingesting government-approved mind-bending caffeine cocktails.
		Chong has a phone interview scheduled with someone named Debbie from something called Pollstar, so we head back up the hill, talking about high-mileage vehicles and biodiesel and the education system and being nice to people we’ve never met and other pinko commie leftist lunatic things.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/05/14/features-shulman.php (3023 words)

	Head Shop Rap For Tommy Chong, Comedian Could Get Six Months To Three Years In Jail - CBS News
		Chong is to be sentenced Sept. 11 and faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
		Chong said he and Cheech Marin were back together and working on another movie; the two have appeared together in several films, including "Up in Smoke" and "Still Smokin'." His plea, he said, would be part of the new film.
		Chong, 64, was released on recognizance bail, but must undergo drug testing and remain in the U.S. District Court jurisdiction of his Pacific Palisades home except to travel for work and court appearances.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/14/entertainment/main553784.shtml (560 words)

	Comedian Tommy Chong gets nine months on drug paraphernalia charge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in the Cheech and Chong movies, asked for leniency from a judge Thursday but was sentenced to nine months in prison for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia.
		Chong's attorneys argued for no jail time, saying the actor and comedian would use his celebrity to become a role model against drugs and would dedicate his life to public service.
		Chong was allowed to remain free until federal prison officials tell him in a few weeks where to report to prison.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/a/2003/09/11/national1545EDT0720.DTL (504 words)

	Tommy Chong @ Filmbug (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Thomas Kin Chong (born May 24, 1938) is a Canadian-born actor who is well-known for his stereotypical portrayals of hippie-era stoners.
		Chong agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia in exchange for non-prosecution of Shelby, his wife, and Paris.
		Chong is the father of actress Rae Dawn Chong.
	www.filmbug.com /db/31452 (273 words)

	Feds Smoke Out Chong? - Feb 24, 2003 - E! Online News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Chong, once one-half of the high-flying (literally) comedy team, Cheech and Chong, saw his Gardena, California, factory and Pacific Palisades home raided Monday by federal drug agents and other authorities, Los Angeles TV station NBC4 reported.
		Chong Glass, with its stock of handpipes and hammers and sidecars, is described in the comic's official bio as a family business that provides "a unique collection of high-quality, original functional art and signature merchandise."
		Chong's show-biz career started smoking in the 1970s when he and Cheech Marin played tie-dyed stoners in a series of pot-joke comedies, such as Up in Smoke.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,11326,00.html?eol.tkr (511 words)

	Tommy Chong released from prison
		Pot comedian and stoner icon Tommy Chong of the classic Cheech and Chong movies was released from the Taft Correctional Facility in California on July 7, 2004.
		As we reported back in September 2003, Tommy Chong was sent to prison for nine months, had to pay a fine of $20,000, and was forced to forfeit $120,000 in assets after being busted for selling mail order bongs (CC#47, Tommy Chong goes to jail).
		Chong then described the bizarre experience of being raided, how the police "came running in the house and they're running around with flashlights and they're running with their guns, they're running from room to room, you know, just running.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/4028.html (845 words)

	Bio for Tommy Chong on MSN Movies
		It is here that Chong met erstwhile humorist Richard "Cheech" Marin, who'd left his native Los Angeles for Canada in order to avoid the draft.
		Breaking away from City Works two years later, Cheech and Chong (as the act was now known) developed several routines built around the characters of two dim-witted dopers who aspired to nothing more than "good grass." By 1972, the team had won a Grammy award for their scatologically hilarious comedy albums.
		Subsequent Cheech and Chong films didn't do quite so well; perhaps their time had passed, or perhaps their material was just too thin for a stream of comedy hits.
	entertainment.msn.com /celebs/celeb.aspx?mp=b&c=231055 (223 words)

	Chong, Tommy of the duo, Cheech and Chong
		Chong, Tommy of the duo, Cheech and Chong
		Chong, Tommy - of the duo, Cheech and Chong
		Tommy Chong is not only famous for his Cheech and Chong movies, but lately he's famous for having been arrested and jailed for operating a website that sells drug paraphernalia.
	thecelebritycafe.com /interviews/tommy_chong_2004_11.html (767 words)

	Chong's 'Marijuana-Logues' tour goes up in smoke - THEATER - MSNBC.com
		Damian Dovarganes / AP Tommy Chong at his home in the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles, after serving a nine-month sentence for selling drug paraphernalia.
		Chong, half of the comedy team Cheech and Chong, was in danger of violating his probation, which bars him from being around people using or selling illegal substances.
		Chong had a special two-week run in New York and then went on the road with the show.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/7032806 (496 words)

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