Tommy Chong

Top Paparazzi Haunts in L.A.

We watch TMZ, so we're an expert on where to avoid the Paparazzi. Celebs should hire us just so we can show them how to lay low. We kid, of course, on so many levels. It would appear to us that celebs and their handlers often tip off outlets regarding their whereabouts so they can get press. And th ... More >>

Trail Blazing: Eight Great Pioneers of Pot

Tommy ChongBy Michael Goldstein Tommy Chong is perhaps the biggest celebrity on this list, as a longtime comedian, movie star and half of the still-working duo Cheech & Chong. He is both a hero, as a longtime marijuana advocate, and a martyr, as a veteran of nine months in federal prison for ru ... More >>

Cheech and Chong Tell Us About Their New Animated Movie, the Duo's First Feature in 29 Years

The Pot Smoker's Guide to Marijuana Delivery Systems

By Michael Goldstein From papers to pipes, bongs to bowls, filter tips to vaporizers, what are the latest in smoking accessories? Undoubtedly the most iconic way to consume marijuana is by smoking a marijuana cigarette. But no one ever says that. They say, "smoking a joint." Or a blunt. Or a fatty. ... More >>

Henry Rollins Doesn't Smoke Marijuana. But He Has No Problem With It

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If the spread of marriage equality wasn't enough good news for you, recreational use of marijua ... More >>

Tommy Chong's Prostate Cancer Getting The Marijuana Treatment

America's stoner-in-chief, Tommy Chong, announced over the weekend that he has prostate cancer -- and that he believes the disease took hold when he was in federal prison 8 years ago for distributing his namesake bongs to a conservative state. The longtime Angeleno and father of actress Rae Dawn Ch ... More >>

TV's Greatest [Bong] Hits

Cypress Hill Rallies Medical Marijuana Advocates for SmokeOut at City Hall (With Photos)

SmokeOut for Safe Access Rally Los Angeles City Hall 3-1-12 See also our rally slideshow Around 4:20 yesterday afternoon about 150 people marched in protest to recent federal threats to medicinal marijuana. The event was organized by Americans for Safe Access, the Music & Medicine Project and B-Re ... More >>

Marijuana Supporters, Cypress Hill, Tommy Chong to Hit Downtown Streets for 'SmokeOut' Protest Today

Downtown L.A. will be smelling quite skunky this afternoon. That's because the "Smokeout For Safe Access Rally" featuring Cypress Hill, Tommy Chong, Kottonmouth Kings and more is set to hit the area (and we do mean "hit") starting at 4 p.m. The event aims to protest both a proposed L.A. city ban o ... More >>

Marijuana Market Targeted by Scotts Miracle-Gro Fertilizers And Pesticides

DEAIt's a miracle.​Marijuana might still be a federal outlaw. But it's so mainstream that one of the country's biggest gardening concerns, Scotts Miracle-Gro, wants in on the action. Scotts CEO Jim Hagedorn told the Wall Street Journal that he wants a piece of the medical marijuana cultivatio ... More >>

Older Californians 'Arrested For Felonies in Droves' Largely Due to Drugs

Tommy Chong: Gray-haired convict.​What's wrong with adults these days? While young people are busy overachieving and pioneering the over-4 grade point average, people over 40 are "being arrested for felonies in droves" in California, largely the result of alleged drug abuse. This according t ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL!

CITYWALK MAY GET SMOKY

'LULAC,' Huge Latino Group, Endorses Prop. 19, California's Marijuana Legalization Initiative

A big Latino group on Friday endorsed the legalization of marijuana: Surprised?​Updated again after the jump with some debate about whether the endorsement is official. First posted Friday at 1:17 p.m. Surprise surprise. Latinos are getting behind the California ballot initiative to legalize ... More >>

Shocker: Snoop Dogg Comes Out For Prop. 19

​Breaking! Snoop Dogg came out Monday in favor of Proposition 19, the marijuana legalization initiative on the November California ballot. This news is roughly as shocking as Tommy Chong's endorsement. As noted by Celebstoner, Snoop told George Lopez on his TV show last night that "I real ... More >>

Shocking. Tommy Chong Is A Yes On Prop. 19 Pot Legalization

That's a microphone, not a smoking device.​In a bit of news about as surprising as a bag of coke allegedly falling out of Paris Hilton's bag -- it wasn't hers, she swears -- Tommy Chong has come out in favor of Proposition 19, California's marijuana legalization initiative on the ballot this f ... More >>

Nightranger's Wild Ride

Margaret Cho Sings! New Foul-Video from Album "Cho Dependant"

Margaret Cho's sassy humor often veers on the nasty, even the scandalous, but what's really shocking about her new CD, Cho Dependent, out next week, isn't the explicitness of tunes like "Your Dick," "My Puss," and "Gimme Your Seed," or even the super-stellar list of musicians who join her on each tr ... More >>

IT'S NOT JUST FOR FREAKS ANYMORE

All Your Bong Are Belong To U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border ProtectionLet me see that bong ba-bong bong bong.​The man cannot be fooled: U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach announced Thursday they seized a bong-load of paraphernalia that was shipped to the U.S. from China disgui ... More >>

County Names Buzz Aldrin Consul General To The Moon; Chong Headed To Mars

As the county deals with an outbreak of swine flu, a lack of emergency rooms and a battered property tax base, the Board of Supervisors has been busy naming astronaut Buzz Aldrin Los Angeles' "consul general to the Moon."​Good work. If ever Roman Polanski escapes to the lunar republic we have some ... More >>

After a Fashion

Best Pit Stop in Purgatory

Cha Cha Lounge

Art Tarts and Label Whores Unite

Local shops become once-a-month art galleries

Who's Resurrecting the Electric Car?

Forget those poky little golf cars — the battery-powered muscle car is just around the corner

The Pleasant Probation of Tommy Chong

Conversations with the creator of “Man”

Have You Noticed That . . .

Chong Family Values

Sober Justice

The long list of problems with Bush’s nominee for DEA chief