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( Stoner Youtube: Ljósið )
A beautiful night of smoking hookah with friends and cooking excellent food. I would recommend you watch this in full screen. It's lovely.
Good Night.
( Stoner Review: The I Chong. Meditations from the Joint )
I try to shy away from getting political here at Stoners. I usually save that for my other blog, but sometimes pot and politics intersect and, in the case of Tommy Chong, can turn a stand-up comedian into a drug lord.
I'll admit, I had no idea what I was getting into when I started reading his book. I was never a fan of Cheech and Chong. In fact, I don't really like stoner movies at all. I find it's a lot more fun to be high than it is to watch other (usually retarded) people get high.
You probably heard he'd gone to jail, which seemed kind of inevitable and not all that surprising... but once I read his account of what the fuck went down, I felt outraged by the media shit-storm and scapegoating the DEA put him and his family through. They basically said that if he didn't plead guilty to shipping bongs over state lines, then they would bring his son and his wife up on distribution charges as well. They even held the trial on the anniversary of 9/11 just to make the threat of drugs seem that much scarier.
His book is poorly written to be sure, and a little heavy on the Holy Spirit, but it's a really easy read. I would have liked him to compare his plight to the Nazi occupation a little less often. All things being equal, going to jail for 9 months is not the same as the slaughtering of an entire people. Moreover, sometimes his anecdotes felt like nothing other than page-filler, but overall, it's a really fascinating look at what an all-powerful government can do with unlimited time and money.
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