Talk:Tommy Chong

Marijuana section
it says:  "However, in I Chong: Meditations from the Joint, he wrote that he has been on a "pot fast" since his arrest in 2003, and will not smoke again until pot is legal in the U.S. He also says that he has never been nearly as much of a stoner as the character he portrayed in Cheech and Chong's routines and films."

can someone make sure this is correct, on the Colbert Report yesterday he said he was high, he may have been kidding but i can't imagine that he really quit smoking.

So where is 'The Dogpatch'?
I am familiar with the Calgary area and have never heard this term. Anyone know what district that was?
 * Same here (and I'm the guy who put that part in, from an interview with him). I remember a "rhubarb patch" down near the entrance to the zoo... All I can think of, and it's pure conjecture, is that back when, the poor Chinese tended to live near the smallish Chinatown, i.e. on the south bank of the river, near center st. And it was definitely a "dogpatch" type of area. Like i said, just a total guess. Gzuckier 13:53, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The Veterans Hospital (Col. Belcher) was located on the corner of 4th St. SW and 12th Ave. SW. Fishhead64 04:52, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

His multiracial/ethnic/cultural humor
Tommy Chong is a Chinese-Canadian, a British-Canadian and according to some biographers, he may have Native American (or native Canadian) ancestry by his mother. I knew in some minor western movie roles, Chong played an American Indian role, since the movie producers noticed he fits the right role to play a stereotypical, but resemblant of an American Indian. Back in the late 1950's, the young Tommy Chong was into rock and roll back then had a heavily black (African American) and southern white rhythm in the early forms of this music. In 1960, Tommy formed an amateur rock band called "The Colors", because all the five band members are "persons of color" or racial minorities: Blacks, "yellow" Chinese, "Red" or "brown" American Indians and Arabs or "olive-skinned" Europeans we associate as "white" or "tan". Chong and his rock band toured across Canada and the western US, when Chong encountered white, black, Latino, Asian and Jewish fans he came to know...he sure had great contact with "persons of color" and minorities back in the racially troubled/ethnic bigoted time like the 1960s. Before he returned to Canada, Chong developed his "counter-culture" drug-enhanced comedy routine by his impressions of a "cool, hip, black person" inside a white or Asian man, but not the same way like crude or loud Lenny Bruce but more like an easy and rebellious George Carlin was tasteful, inoffensive and hilarious to get Chong's acting career started. + 63.3.14.129 00:41, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Isn't he currently incarcerated?
 * Nope--DavidShankBone 18:28, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Legal Trouble
In the first paragraph of this section, it says that Operation Pipe Dreams (sic) took place in 2003 and that Chong was sentenced on September 11, 2003. In the penultimate paragraph, though, it says that Operation Pipe Dream occurred in 2005 and attributes his being a target of the operation to the release of the biographical film a/k/a Tommy Chong (which, in and of itself, needs clarification). Clearly, there's a problem here. Gaussgauss 02:12, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Marcus Chong?
These statements from these two articles don't make sense about Marcus Chong being adopted by the Chong family.

Tommy Chong article: "Marcus (b. Marcus Wyatt, 1967) adopted the stage name Marcus Chong and was rumored to have been adopted by Chong, but this is false."

Marcus Chong article: "Chong was born Marcus Wyatt in Seattle, Washington, and was adopted by the family of comedian Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong fame"

So which statement is true? Or is it vandalism? Examples like this is exactly why a lot of other people don't think wikipedia is a good primary source of information. --Pilot expert (talk) 04:04, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Removed statement re: "crime benefit" laws
I removed the following statement:


 * Chong has speculated that the seizure may rest with prohibitions against one benefiting financially from a crime. 

The first of the laws were passed in the wake of the murder-spree of David Horowitz ("The Son of Sam", "The .44 Caliber Killer", et al) by New York State. The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) invalidated the law on First Amendment grounds (i.e. the right to free speech), ruling that civil tort laws (e.g. a wrongful death suit against Horowitz) allow suits by victims, by which the criminal can be prevented from benefiting from his crime.

New York state changed their laws making it easier for victims to recover from criminals.

I know I need to find a source on this, i.e. the SCOTUS cite; I don't have one as I write this (past midnight!) but will look for and post one.

If I'm wrong on this, please provide the cite; always willing to learn.

PainMan (talk) 08:45, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Thomas B. Kin Chong
What's the B stand for?
 * I think it's part of the Chinese name that his dad gave him. MaghrebiFalafel (talk) 02:38, 22 October 2021 (UTC)

Meth talk
"Chong and the Shades then left for the closest metropolis, Vancouver, where Chong bought a club, the Elegant Parlour, and made meth and sang in the bathroom, a Motown meth team Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers. He co-wrote the Motown hit "red phospherouse meth" released in 1968." If this is true, someone needs to put a citation on it! Seems like bullshit to me! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.202.1.139 (talk) 12:04, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Wierd Al Song Mention
Shouldn't it be mentiond that Chong was entioned in Wierd Al's Don't Download this Song song? He was mentioned near the end. 65.30.143.155 (talk) 03:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Which high school?
Which high school did he graduate from? Article says two: "...Victoria Composite High School...He later went on to graduate from Western Canada High school in Calgary, Alberta." This is confusing. Someone who knows what's correct, pls fix.  — Rlevse • Talk  • 23:40, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw that too. --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 20:27, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * To add to the confusion, Lord Beaverbrook High School in Calgary claims him as one of their alumni. I am unsure if he had actually graduated there or not, or if he just attended school there. 96.51.220.108 (talk) 08:21, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

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