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Tommy Chong
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The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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224 |
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2006-08-08 |
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1416915540 |
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Simon Spotlight Entertainment |
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0.8 pounds |
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0.8 x 5.8 x 8.4 inches |
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Product Description
Beloved stoner comedian TOMMY CHONG is now older, wiser, and officially an EX-CON.
On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration's determination to make an example out of the "Pope of Pot;" he was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA.
Well . . . now it's Tommy Chong's turn to fight back and tell his side of the story.
Beginning with Tommy's experiences growing up in Canada in the forties and fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend, The I Chong is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society. He tells the unbelievable story of his trip down the rabbit hole of America's war on drugs and of his experiences in the federal prison system, and he offers up timely observations on combating the conservative political forces at work in this country. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, The I Chong is a unique chronicle of one man's life and how his humorous and spiritual point of view saved him during his wrongful incarceration at the hands of an administration without boundaries.
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Tracy (USA: OR) (2009/06/02):
Tommys book was pretty well written for an old stoner!It captured details of his incarceration that would make any body stop and ask, 'huh'? Also gets a person thinking about how corrupt the American government really is, and causes a person to ask again, 'WTF'? The one thing that might turn off a reader of this book is the fact that Tommy claims to have found God and a new spiritual side to himself. I am all for spiritual freedom, and gaining enlightenment, but for someone who is expecting Tommy Chong..stoner, comedian.. they will not get it here in this book.
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