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| mac_daddy |
I thought all that stuff was legal - or is that only in certain states? It sounds like he didn't even fight it...
Bummer.
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Sep 11, 11:15 AM EST
Associated Press
Tommy Chong, 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.
Chong pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia and pleaded guilty on behalf of Nice Dreams Enterprises, which did business under the name Chong Glass.
The actor's plea came after federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents bought his paraphernalia and had the items shipped to an undercover business in Beaver Falls, northwest of Pittsburgh. Agents also confiscated his company's paraphernalia during raids of "head shops" in several states and confiscated "thousands of marijuana bongs and pipes" in a raid of his Gardena, Calif., business.
His plea followed a series of DEA raids in February in which at least 55 people were charged with trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia. Federal officials said the investigation targeted the nation's biggest Internet distributors of paraphernalia.
Prosecutors said Chong was the first person to plead guilty in the raids.
Chong and Cheech Marin co-starred in several films in the late 1970s and early '80s, including "Nice Dreams" and "Up In Smoke." Chong recently had a recurring role on Fox's "That '70s Show." |
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| steel driving hammer |
Too late babe, too late now, the hand of fate is on me now, it pick you up and knock you down!
http://novogate.com/board/968/165142-1.html
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| Martha |
That sucks.......................no pun intended. |
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| mac_daddy |
doh!
that's what happens when you have sbc dsl and it goes out on you for two days.
my apologies.
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| steel driving hammer |
quote:
mac_daddy wrote:
doh!
that's what happens when you have sbc dsl and it goes out on you for two days.
my apologies.
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Thats alright now baby, thats all right w/ chou, thats all right now mama, anyway you do now thats alright. |
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| Prodigal Son |
Oh my. Does this throw plans for a new Cheech and Chong movie down the reefer? ahhh, no biggie. I can wait till he gets out of jail. Chong himself was born in Bragg Creek, Alberta; a 30 minute drive from where I live. How interesting.
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| Gazza |
When I saw the heading,I thought you meant Annabel Chong! |
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| Maxlugar |
Is Annabel Chong the chick that had sex with 300 guys in a porno once?
I'm pretty sure she assembled my Playstation.
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| mac_daddy |
yes - she was the one that made that documentary...
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| Stonesmillenium2001 |
9 months isn't bad. |
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| jb |
You can rape, murder and kill and get off..but sell some dope and you get put away....that's why you need great lawyers like me to protect your civil liberties...you lawyer bashers be warned.... |
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| gypsy |
I agree, jb. That is messed up. Who in the hell was representing him?! Clearly, he needs a new lawyer. |
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| Joey |
" Is Annabel Chong the chick that had sex with 300 guys in a porno once?
I'm pretty sure she assembled my Playstation. "
I believe that record was broken by the Porn Star " Houston " last year .
Developing ......................many times !
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| gypsy |
What about Jasmine St. Claire? Remember when she and Anabel were arguing on Howard Stern over who had the biggest gang bang? God, that was funny...and quite sad, actually.
Joey, weren't you a 'fluff boy' on the set of one of these gang bangs?
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| nankerphelge |
One of them?
Doesn't Joey hold the record for most fluffs in da bidness!! |
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| gypsy |
Yeah, but you know our Joey...he doesn't like to brag. |
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| mac_daddy |
i thought chong was selling paraphanilia(sp); I dont think he was selling weed... |
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| Maxlugar |
He'd only fluff if I fluffed first.
And we all know I don't flu...
Well...
A girls gotta have her secrets.
Hee hee giggle giggle!!!!
FLUFFY! |
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| Mother baby |
Yet another victory in the "War on Drugs."
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| mac_daddy |
talk about a bummer...
First tokers of Health Canada cannabis call it disgusting, want money back
Updated at 17:52 on September 15, 2003, EST.
Medicinal marijuana user Christine Lowe lights a pipe containing marijuana during a protest in Ottawa on July 9. (CP/Chris Wattie)
OTTAWA (CP) - Some of the first patients to smoke Health Canada's government-approved marijuana say it's "disgusting" and want their money back.
"It's totally unsuitable for human consumption," said Jim Wakeford, 58, an AIDS patient in Gibsons, B.C. "It gave me a slight buzziness for about three to five minutes, and that was it. I got no other effect from it."
Barrie Dalley, a 52-year-old Toronto man who uses marijuana to combat the nausea associated with AIDS, said the Health Canada dope actually made him sick to his stomach.
"I threw up," Dalley said Monday. "It made me nauseous because I had to use so much of it. It was so weak in potency that I really threw up."
Both men are returning their 30-gram bags, and Dalley is demanding his money back - $150 plus taxes. Wakeford is returning his unpaid bill for two of the bags with a letter of complaint.
A third AIDS patient says he's also unhappy with the product, which is supposed to contain 10.2 per cent THC, the main active ingredient.
"I'm still smoking it - I would prefer better, but it's all I've got," said Jari Dvorak, 62, in Toronto. "I think Health Canada certainly should do better with the quality."
All three are among 10 patients who have registered with Health Canada to buy dope directly from the government to alleviate their medical symptoms. Another 39 applications are pending.
The department was compelled to begin direct distribution in July, following an Ontario court order this year that said needy patients should not be forced to get their cannabis on the streets or from authorized growers, who themselves obtain seeds or cuttings illegally.
The marijuana is being grown for Health Canada deep underground in a vacant mine section in Flin Flon, Man., by Prairie Plant Systems on a $5.75-million contract. The department originally intended that the product go first to accredited researchers to demonstrate whether or not cannabis is medically effective.
Health Minister Anne McLellan has said she opposes the direct distribution of government cannabis to patients and that the program will end if the department wins its appeal of the Ontario court decision.
The government dope also came under fire Monday from Canadians for Safe Access, a patients' rights group that is pressing for supplies of safe, effective marijuana.
Laboratory tests indicate the Health Canada product has only about three per cent THC - not the 10.2 per cent advertised - and contains contaminants such as lead and arsenic, said spokesman Philippe Lucas of Victoria.
"This particular product wouldn't hold a candle to street level cannabis," he said in an interview.
But Lucas declined to identify the three labs that did the testing, other than to indicate they're in Vancouver, saying he fears the facilities might suffer repercussions from Health Canada because they were not authorized to possess the cannabis.
He also would not say how the group obtained the sample of government dope.
A spokeswoman for Health Canada said the department can't accept laboratory findings from anonymous facilities.
"We question the validity of the test results because Canadians for Safe Access has been unwilling to reveal who did the testing, and when the testing was done, and under what conditions," said Krista Apse.
She said the Flin Flon cannabis had to meet exacting production standards and was thoroughly tested for its quality.
No patients have complained directly to Health Canada so far, Apse said, and the department will not accept returns or provide refunds.
Lucas, who smokes marijuana to cope with his hepatitis C infection, said the lab results also showed that the cannabis provided at a Victoria compassion club for patients registers at more than 12 per cent and is freer from contaminants.
He said the government cannabis was too finely ground up with stems and leaves, calling it "shwag" or "bunk," street terminology for the lowest grade of marijuana. |
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| mac_daddy |
the article is here:
http://www.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=n091543A |
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| Mother baby |
Yeah..that's pretty funny. I guess Dr Van Chibaface is going to have to reconsider his prescriptions and suppliers.
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