Three excerpts below...
In his monologue, Leno announced, "Tommy Chong is here. He flew in on the red eye."
and...
Chong said when police came to his door, they asked if he had pot. "Of course I do. I'm Tommy Chong," was the reply.
and...
Describing his experience behind bars... "Federal time was hell, man. There was like a two-hour wait for the tennis courts."
I'm glad that he perseveres. Imagine that, the only one of 55 to serve jail time.
The only one to serve federal jail time. Others were sentenced to prison.
“It’s inaccurate for him to state that he was singled out,” she says, “because what’s different about the Chong case are that his charges were by ‘information’ – which means that the matter wasn’t presented to a grand jury. Thomas Chong waived indictment to the grand jury and pleaded guilty to the charges. So he came forward and admitted his guilt.”
So much for being a nice guy. Even Chong now admits it was a mistake to plead guilty. “They really ambushed me,” says Chong. “Had I known that I was gonna get jail time, I would have fought it.