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  August 09, 2006
 Tommy Chong

TOMMY CHONG
Wednesday, August 9th // 7 pm
- reading & booksigning
at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco)

On the morning of February 24, 2003, agents of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration launched a sting called Operation Pipe Dreams and forced themselves through the door of Tommy Chong's California home, with automatic weapons drawn. As a result of the raid on his home; the simultaneous ransacking of his son's company, Chong Glass; and the Bush administration's determination to make an example out of the "Pope of Pot;" Chong was sentenced to nine months in prison because his company shipped bongs to a head shop in Pennsylvania that was a front for the DEA.

Beloved stoner comedian Tommy Chong is now older, wiser, and officially an ex-con. His just published memoir, the I Chong: Meditations from the Joint (hardcover, $23.95), tell his side of the story. Introspective, inspiring, and incendiary, it is a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society.

Author events are free and are sponsored by The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.

More info: http://www.booksmith.com
Posted by: Booksmith



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