Tommy Chong to Raise Money to Help 'Guru of Ganja' Defend Himself at Federal Trial

Ganga girl here, Don't get me wrong, I'd rather be in the USA than Pakistan LOL.. But this hippocricy makes me vomit. Drug companies put shit in your medicine cabinet that can kill a freakin horse, and because a drug dealing doctor signs a piece of paper its ok,, yet a natural plant, that you couldn't kill yourself with if you tried.. is illegal and causes countless doors to be kicked in every day across this country. They should take the "black market" out of this senario, all they are doing is making us smokers pay top dollar for a weed that grows like a weed. Thanks for making us rich bitch, meaning the US Government. If the politicians smoked a bowl and got high instead of drinking a high-ball, this would be a different country. Pickled Politicians suck, good luck to you big Ed, my dad spent 5 yrs for 100 plants.. I hope you walk out free....

... For His Family!! The business was his son Paris' idea.

EXCERPT:
“I got the distinct impression that Tommy Chong was to be an example,” says Pittsburgh attorney Stanton Levenson, who represented Chong at his hearing. “I believe when this is over he will be the only defendant of the 55 without previous convictions who will do jail time.”

Levenson is a veteran criminal lawyer who considers himself on good terms with Pittsburgh’s federal prosecutors, but he sensed something different about them the moment he stepped into the courtroom to represent Chong.

“They were all rigid,” he says, “because Ashcroft has pretty much tied their hands and made the attorneys’ offices homogenous, inflexible. [Prosecutor] Mary Houghton definitely seemed more aggressive and forceful in this case.”

Levenson, in a phone interview, said he had been surprised by the government’s indictment of Chong. “We never see this kind of case on a federal level.”

According to Levenson, the deal he struck with the prosecutors allowed them to prosecute Tommy Chong and Chong Glass (effectively shutting it down), in exchange for leaving wife Shelby, who had signed the family’s loan checks, and Paris (His Son) alone. Tommy cooperated with the government and was the first of Operation Pipe Dreams’ defendants to plead guilty. But while the feds told Levenson they were not necessarily seeking jail time, their legal body language said otherwise.

The whole story:

http://cannabisnews.com/news/17/thread17916.shtml

Tha federal government WASTED valuable and scarce resources arresting and prosecuting Tommy Chong! They are giving us all an encore performance with their case against Ed Rosenthal. They NEED to focus on homicidal terrorists because they are actively working towards harming all of us. Just try to imagine all tha hours and federal funds that were misused on cannabis related crimes in tha past 5 and a half years.

Ed Rosenthal did nothing more than provide sick people medicine. Tha feds are only bitching because no pharmaceutical companies are providing tha medicine, thus none are profiting from it. Tha war on cannabis will never be won by tha feds because they know they're wrong and we're right! They are just DELAYING tha inevitable. They're protecting their financial interests rather than tha American populace. In 2008, vote for tha people who are first of all QUALIFIED, as well as willing to support cannabis decriminalization. Peace.
LEGALIZE IT!!!!

Tommy Chong and Ed Rosenthal are both awesome guys and I would love to be there. I'm so damn sick of people acting like ganja is a bad thing and trying to lock up all of us kind stoners. Without Cannabis there would have been no sails and ropes to bring people here in the first place, and these idiots talk about it like it's the devil. They need to be slapped awake apparently.

Oh no! Isn't this the weedcow thread? What happened? Am I flashing back again?

This Country needs to legalize marijuana and realize that us cannibus users, growers will not bow down to them.

this shows alot for tommy chong. when he was sentenced to prison no one came to his aid or helped his family so for him to do this is a class act.

Re: burlington

It's not different at all - my mistake. A co-worker posted the previous article and I overlooked it before I posted this one - my bad.

this is a sad comment on our societies values the powers that be are letting child molesters go on house arrest and proscuting people who grow medicine

How is this article any different from your "Tommy Chong to help 'Ganja Guru'" written two days ago??