We haven't forgotten:

He's been in the slammer four months now (out of a nine month sentence). Here's an update on the dude - a story that tells you about Tommy Chong, his family, how the authorities went after him, and what's he's doing now. Excerpt:

... it is a case of the Bush administration confusing the present with the 1960s, an era whose rebellious legacy it seems obsessed with obliterating. To Ashcroft and other Puritan Republicans, Tommy Chong’s prosecution is merely another skirmish in their implacable war against the 20th century. In this climate it becomes almost pointless to talk about the drug-war hypocrisy of a White House whose mortgage is owned by pharmaceutical monopolies. Or of the reverential treatment given the Oxy-popping Rush Limbaugh by neo-McCarthyites like Bill O’Reilly, who lyingly told a Jay Leno audience that Tommy Chong had been arrested 18 times.

posted by Quiddity at 1/10/2004 11:15:00 AM