I just watched the documentary A/K/A Tommy Chong and have to enthusiastically recommend it. Often hilarious, sometimes infuriating, thoroughly poignant, A/K/A Tommy Chong is a documentary about the entrapment and imprisonment of counter-culture satirist Tommy Chong by the Federal Government for selling bongs. With hordes of militant DEA agents with helicopters storming a completely open and legit glassware shop to keep post-911 America ‘safe,’ it is a surreal story that is absurd enough to fit right into a Cheech & Chong movie plot.
Far from being a cannabis-enhanced joke, however, Tommy Chong served 9 months in prison, paid $130,000 in fines and forfeitures and lost all the merchandise stolen in the raid. To top it off, in 2008, the Federal Gov’t seized 10,000 copies of A/k/a Tommy Chong from the distributor with no cause or legality whatsoever and has yet to return them or give a reason. Although that might also be seen as pretty good advertising: The Federal Government does not want you to see this movie!
Here’s the 4 minute trailer:
Website: akatommychong.com

























