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