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TOMMY CHONG
reading & book signing for "I Chong: Meditations from the Joint"
Wednesday, August 9th at 7 pm
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)
--- 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 Chong'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;" Chong 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.
Beloved comedian Tommy Chong is now older, wiser, and officially an ex-con. His just published memoir, the "I Chong: Meditations from the Joint", tell his side of the story. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, it is a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society.
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