Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.Documentary about Tommy Chong's federal prosecution under the Bush administration for selling bongs over the Internet.
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Steven Hager
- Self
- (as Steve Hager)
Cheech Marin
- Self
- (as Richard 'Cheech' Marin)
Paul Moyer
- Self
- (archive footage)
Red Skelton
- Self
- (archive footage)
Tom Snyder
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jesse Ventura
- Self
- (archive footage)
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- All cast & crew
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Tommy Chong: I wanna make a difference now. That's why life has been so perfect up to now. You know, really! Perfect. Can you imagine? I made a living for ... years, thirty years, talking about a culture; and now I'm finally going to have to stand up and be counted for it. It's just only right.
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Basic Snapshot of the Current Legal Perspective on Recreational Drugs
A politically-conscious documentary that steps in to cover the months after world-famous doper Tommy Chong's arrest (for the illegal cross-state sale of glass pipes) but before his nine-month prison sentence. Along the way, we get a quick-and-dirty look at the polarizing comedian's life and times, the roots of his legendary partnership with Cheech Marin, and the state's over-ambitious case against him. Judging by the facts we're presented, there's little question Tommy was entrapped and railroaded by a media-hungry federal watchdog group, but to his credit Chong takes it all in stride, serves his time and emerges ready to take up the cause as a rejuvenated activist. Pro-legalisation viewers will be nodding their heads like a bobble-head from start to finish, while the peek into our government's priorities, practices and punishments might give fence-sitters a few new things to consider. Moral crusaders, on the other hand, will see an entirely different story. At just shy of 80 minutes, it only scratches the surface of an intrinsically deep, complicated political debate. Light viewing with a few mild laughs, it reports the facts and offers a take but isn't equipped to do any really heavy digging.
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- AKA Tommy Chong
- Filming locations
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA(street scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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