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Meditations from the Joint
Simon Spotlight
August 2006
On Sale: August 8, 2006
224 pages
ISBN: 1416915540
EAN: 9781416915546
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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