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Tommy Chong Sentenced to 9 Months for Selling Bongs
AP vis Yahoo ^ | Thu, Sep 11, 2003 | DAN NEPHIN

Posted on 09/11/2003 9:50:17 AM PDT by monkeyshine

Comedian Chong Sentenced on Drug Charges

By DAN NEPHIN, Associated Press Writer

PITTSBURGH - Tommy Chong (news), who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in the Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 Thursday for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet.

The 65-year-old was allowed to remain free until federal prison officials tell him in a few weeks where he must report to prison.

Chong also forfeited about $100,000 for his arrest on federal drug paraphernalia charges. He'll spend a year on probation after he's released from prison.

His Nice Dreams Enterprises, which made a line of marijuana bongs and pipes, was to be sentenced later Thursday. Under federal law, the business itself can be placed on probation or face other sanctions.

(more at the link}


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: bong; chong; paraphernalia; pipe; prison; wod; wodlist
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To: Kozak; clamboat
In Wisconsin there is a State Park known as Bong State Recreation Area. Look it up on reserveamerica.com...just type in "bong" in step 2 of the search function. I wonder what grows there....
121 posted on 09/12/2003 9:04:19 PM PDT by eldoradude (Recall them all!)
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To: hasegawasama

Here is an archived site with his old page. Click on the picture.

122 posted on 09/12/2003 9:17:12 PM PDT by bicycle thug (Fortia facere et pati Americanum est.)
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To: bicycle thug
I knew of the site, he shouldn't be in prison while the street drug dealers and child rapists run free. It's only because of his fame he is in prison.
123 posted on 09/12/2003 9:42:23 PM PDT by hasegawasama
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To: eldoradude
I pass it every time I drive south on my way to Chicago, "Behind the Cheddar Curtain". I'm pretty sure it's named after the fighter pilot Richard Bong of WW II fame.
124 posted on 09/12/2003 10:01:06 PM PDT by Kozak ("There is no Allah, and Mohammed is his False Prophet")
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To: hasegawasama
I like his little portraits he embedded into the 'glass drops' on his work. You can just barely make it out in the picture I posted.

I lived next to a 'Higher Source' glass blower who was made unemployed by our incomprehensible AG. He is sitting back enjoying unemployment for now, and then he will have no problem finding work as the production of this product goes on undaunted by the AG's window dressing of a crusade against this sort of glassware.

Our area lost a healthy company employing many and drawing in much needed capital into our economically hurting area. He didn't hurt production, but what has moved into the underground economy here is not paying the taxes 'Higher Source' was.

I don't toke, but I see on logic in the injustice of picking on cannabis smokers and regulating legal tobacco and alcohol. Where they are disfunctional and vendictive, we need to get the government out of people's lives. This war on the people who smoke weed only throws gasiline on the fire of this issue.

125 posted on 09/12/2003 10:13:33 PM PDT by bicycle thug (Fortia facere et pati Americanum est.)
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To: JoeSchem
GONG!

126 posted on 09/12/2003 11:19:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (as in "the gong show")
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To: hasegawasama
It's lame. Ashcroft is lame. He picked the easiest mark you could pick. Busting Tommy Chong for selling bongs? It's a joke, right? I smell a movie script.
127 posted on 09/12/2003 11:20:40 PM PDT by monkeyshine (as in "the gong show")
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To: bvw
I keep thinking I've seen that collar mechanism before. In that size or so. Materials handling stuff.

It looks somehow familiar to me too. The FBI has said several times that the collar appears homemade. It doesn't to me. The flanges look machine stamped. No one would set up such a complicated and expensive method of production to make one or even a dozen pieces. Certainly not when a functionally equivalent piece could be cut from some steel stock or scrap metal with an $80 sawzall.

I keep expecting someone to identify its normal use anytime now. It occurred to me that it is a very dated piece of equipment that was replaced by something that looks quite different now. Maybe decades old. Therefore no one in the industry today recognizes it. Many have wondered if it came from a scrapyard. That fits with what I'm thinking here.

128 posted on 09/13/2003 4:47:06 AM PDT by TigersEye (Regime change in the Courts. - Impeach Activist Judges!)
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To: monkeyshine
I thought he invented the bong. His picture should be next to "stoner" in the dictionary.
129 posted on 09/13/2003 4:54:24 AM PDT by KSCITYBOY
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To: LowOiL; Dane; Pahuanui
Set and Matchpoint go to Dane !!

And of course the point you are helping Dane make is that justice is an earned privilege dependent on voicing a politically correct opinion.

Now that you guys have won the game you can claim your prize. The one and only, original Bill of Rights!!! Rahhhhhhhhh!

Would the two of you like some privacy while you wipe each other's butts with it? Or do you need some help with that?

130 posted on 09/13/2003 4:58:29 AM PDT by TigersEye (Regime change in the Courts. - Impeach Activist Judges!)
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To: .30Carbine
Perhaps a call to MRS. Williams would be helpful in my growth as your perfect counterpart...she's had something like 50 years of practice at buffing paint and replacing bearings!

Maybe she could help you move my barbells up to the attic! ; )

131 posted on 09/13/2003 5:08:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (Alright, who blocked all the exits?)
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To: LowOiL
Dane isn't even in the game...he is just ranting against folks different from himself... if you are like him, give up any hopes of a happy life now!...
The WOD is all about money and power, not about marijuana!
A person from the left isn't worthless, just wrong!
They have a right to their opinions! We have the right to be RIGHT!
132 posted on 09/13/2003 5:15:27 AM PDT by pageonetoo (In God I trust, not the G'umt!)
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