This is disturbing because 1) They arrested him under what I would consider trumped up charges to begin with and 2) they want to curtail his free speech as a condition of his probation.
It just blows me away that child molestors are let out of prison early because of prison overcrowding and they put someone like Chong in prison for selling water pipes over the internet. What the hell kind of logic is that?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7672769/site/newsweek/
For those that want a brief:
April 28 - Tommy Chong is in a tight spot, man. To hear him discuss it, you’d almost think he’s describing the plot of one of the skits he used to do with his partner, Cheech Marin.
But for a comedian who manages to find humor even in the nine-month prison term he recently served for selling bongs, his new legal woes aren’t exactly cracking him up.
Forced, he says, by the terms of his parole to quit a stage production called “The Marijuana-Logues,” and uncomfortable with rejoining the cast even after his parole is over in July, Chong is now being sued by the show’s producers for breach of contract
On parole now, he tells NEWSWEEK that he can’t do “The Marijuana-Logues” legally until he gets off probation. Still, even after his probation expires, he says, “I don’t feel comfortable because I’m trying to get my record expunged. I’d still be thumbing my nose at the government [that] just finished putting me in jail.”
Chong served nine months because he was a principal investor in his son’s business, which sold glass-blown bongs over the Web with no explicit reference at any time to marijuana use. (His son was not convicted of any crime in the case.)
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LOL, the topic confuses me -- for a second I looked at Icon's avatar on here and... LOL... Imperial Stormtroopers! Yeeks. I like Cheech & Chong a lot but I can understand Chong wanting to stay out of the law's way. He sounds like he's trying to show respect and be out of trouble as much as he wants to get back to his bongs.
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