{"id":3828,"date":"2015-02-07T21:59:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-07T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/?p=2796"},"modified":"2015-02-07T21:59:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-07T21:59:04","slug":"tommy-chong-we-won-we-totally-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/tommy-chong-we-won-we-totally-won\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Chong: \u2018We Won, We Totally Won\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/tommy-chong-we-won-we-totally-won\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>Tommy Chong takes note of your day federal agents raided his glass pipe business, making busts and smashing bongs on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The 2003 raids, infamously referred to as Operation Fantasy, specific 54 other people inside a desperate attempt through the U . s . States government to strike fear into marijuana people who smoke across the nation. Chong grew to become the face area from the attack, largely because of his celebrity status from popular stoner movies, including &#038;#8220Up In Smoke&#038;#8221 with partner Cheech Marin.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;#8220They wanted [to arrest] a high profile that wasn&#038;#8217t whitened. They wanted a headline,&#038;#8221 Chong, 76, told HuffPost in a New You are able to memorial, where he was honoring the launch of the roll-your-own smoke addition for marijuana enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>Chong was charged and sentenced to nine several weeks imprisonment &#038;#8212 also it did nothing to stop him from becoming an advocate for using marijuana. Even while he sitting and clarified questions, Chong passed a body fat joint some odd-smelling incense around a little group.<\/p>\n<p>While Chong what food was in the big event to advertise Futurola, an Amsterdam company that sells a multitude of smoking paraphernalia, also, he spoke in more detail concerning the growing marijuana movement, oil pipelines that needs to be converted into water pipelines and time travel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won, we totally won,&#038;#8221 Chong stated from the drug war. &#038;#8220And I believe [the federal government must] pay us back some cash. They required lots of money from me unlawfully, money which had nothing related to bongs. They\u2019re thieves.&#038;#8221<\/p>\n<p>Despite leisure marijuana becoming legal in Colorado and Washington, Chong stated the most important progress can come when federal laws and regulations are transformed. He implored Leader Obama to make use of a professional to reclassify marijuana from the Schedule I drug to some Schedule II.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;#8220Marijuana has not been important on [Obama&#038;#8217s] watch, just lip service,&#038;#8221 he stated. &#038;#8220Marijuana is really a dying sentence for just about any politician to obtain in support of, because then you\u2019re some crazed hippie.&#038;#8221<\/p>\n<p>Federal laws and regulations being transformed or otherwise, Chong expressed optimism in the growing support for legalisation across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;#8220The marijuana movement is really a tsunami of intelligence sweeping across the united states of lack of knowledge, and it is killing everything ignorant in the wake, and it is not gonna stop,&#038;#8221 he stated.<\/p>\n<p>When requested if he&#038;#8217s been this positive concerning the pot movement &#038;#8212 despite investing near to annually in federal prison for this &#038;#8212 he stated the easiest method to cope with anything would be to go above it and positive ideas.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;#8220You shouldn&#8217;t allow you to ultimately time travel, you need to stay in the actual present, nailed in our,&#038;#8221 he stated. &#038;#8220Then, whenever you think about the near future, you fresh paint the rosiest future you are able to fresh paint, because what goes on to all of us is we are able to write our very own script. Visualize the way you want the film to become, out on another allow almost anything to change that vision. All you need to make that vision a real possibility begins showing up. It seems from the ether.&#038;#8221<\/p>\n<p>Chong required another deep hit off some dank weed funny-smelling cigarette, breathing out huge cloud of smoke before finishing his point.<\/p>\n<p>&#038;#8220Someone can have up, simularities may happen, and all of a sudden you\u2019ll know existence is precisely as you\u2019ve planned it.&#038;#8221<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/gallery\/data\/1412\/medium\/032423-tommy-chong-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>News Moderator: Jacob Redmond <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">420 MAGAZINE \u00ae<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full Article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/23\/tommy-chong-drug-war_n_6533414.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Chong Around The Drug War: &#038;#8216We Won, We Totally Won&#038;#8217<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: Sebastian Murdock<\/p>\n<p>Contact: <a href=\"mailto:scoop@huffingtonpost.com\">scoop@huffingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: None Found<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Publish Canada &#038;#8211 Canadian News Tales, Breaking News, Opinion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Chong takes note of your day federal agents raided his glass pipe business, making busts and smashing bongs on the way.&#038;#8230 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.420magazine.com\/2015\/02\/tommy-chong-drug-war-won-totally-won\/\" class=\"read-more\">[Find Out More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1597,9,1,3],"tags":[4165],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}