Kareem and I shared a lot of weed over the years. So I knew it was healthy. Who else have you smoked with? I had the honor and the privilege of being around different, great people who smoked, like Wes Montgomery, the guitar player; he was a big pothead and he was a genius on guitar.
And then on the other side of the coin, Jimi Hendrix. He was a junkie. We had a band, and Sly had a band and we crossed paths in San Francisco, but I saw what cocaine did to him, so I stayed away from it and heroin.
But I got totally involved in the marijuana, and here I am today, 76 years old, kicking butt on Dancing With the Stars [ laughs ]. Before we move on, tell me about getting high with John Lennon. With John Lennon, that was weird. There was a guy sitting on the floor by the bed, and it was John Lennon. So I walked over and I offered him a toke, and he refused because of his immigration problems. So he was sitting there in a bit of a funk, but on the floor.
It was pretty funny. Then I turn around and Rod Stewart walks in and was looking in the mirror, fluffing his hair up, so I offered Rod Stewart a toke and he turned it down because of his throat.
What about George Harrison and Ringo Starr? Well, Ringo was always trying to get over alcohol. He was always on some kind of wagon. He was so sweet. He was kind of weird, but again, I got high with him and Keith Moon.
I think Keith Moon was there and Ringo, but Ringo turned it down because he was on the wagon. So again, I smoked in his presence. But George, George and I smoked up a bunch of times. I met George at this hippie party way out in Malibu. He was Wally. He was at the party, too. I got high with George a bunch of times. He was a real beautiful guy. Yeah, that was a good tune. It was written by a Canadian guitarist named Gaye Delorme.
He plays guitar on the tune. I wrote the lyrics and Gaye wrote the music. The Up in Smoke star spent nine months in prison in for running a company that sold bongs through the mail. They would follow me around. Chong plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia in exchange for no charges being levied against his wife and son.
However, his request for community service was denied and he was sentenced to nine months in the low-security Taft Correctional Institution in Bakersfield, Calif.
I swear to God. You get a computer. Do you really think Trump will end up jailed? One of the things he finds most offensive about Trump is his attitude to people of colour. He grew up in Calgary, a conservative Canadian city, the son of a Chinese father and a Canadian mother with Celtic roots. He still sounds shocked by the attitudes he experienced there as a child. And they had little black liquorice beans called nigger babies. By then, he was already used to being isolated.
When he was a baby, his mother contracted TB and he developed pleurisy. I never saw her for the first three or four years of my life. How is he coping? He says he is missing his five children and the grandchildren. It was in the late 60s that he teamed up with Richard Marin, a Mexican-American whose nickname was Cheech. They played music and did comedy sketches in a Vancouver strip club.
The funny stuff soon took over, and the strip club became a comedy club. He says his favourite Cheech and Chong sketch is Hey, Margaret — about a husband describing a porn film to his wife. First, an elderly woman has sex with the pizza delivery man, then she has sex with a dog, and the husband reports it all back to Margaret with relish. It was bad-taste comedy with bigotry as the butt of the joke. Why does he think they were so popular?
Simple, he says. Could they really be such dedicated stoners and still be so prolific, or was it an act? Chong sounds slightly offended by the question. We always smoked a little before we went out there.
That was part of the job. Drugs, he says, were essential to the creative process. I had one bad half hour the whole time, one bad half hour. In fact, my lawyer couldn't believe how upbeat I was after I got sentenced To me it was like I was destined to do this; this was destiny," says Chong. Tommy Chong was sentenced to nine months in a federal prison in , after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute drug paraphernalia.
I mean, that's the whole process, is to correct your attitude because that's what got you in there," says Chong. Chong says that while his attitude might not be exactly what caused him to go to prison he maintains that his arrest was politically motivated , he feels his time in prison made him a better person. I learned it because while I was in jail, I had a smart mouth; you know, I'm a comedian and I'm a celebrity, so I used to kind of take advantage of it," he says.
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