Cheech & Chong star tries to travel to Canada for cannabis legalisation day but can't find passport

[Scurrilous]

Pot-loving Tommy Chong is due to return to his homeland to usher in the new era

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"Canada’s most famous stoner, comedian and actor Tommy Chong, is unsure if he can make it back home for the day cannabis is legalised because he has lost his passport.

The 80-year-old, who starred in the famous reefer comedy Up In Smoke in 1972 and now lives in California, was supposed to appear at an event in British Columbia on Wednesday but discovered while packing that he has mislaid his travel documents.

“We’re trying. Right now, I’m stuck here. I lost my passport, so we’re going through the dance of a celebrity trying to get a passport fast,” he told the Toronto Star.

Chong became one of the most well-known marijuana advocates along with his comedy partner, Cheech Marin, during the heydey of the stoner era in the 1970s."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tommy-chong-canada-cannabis-legal-cheech-legalisation-drugs-passport-marijuana-a8587691.html



Cheech and Chong Big Bambu Record and Rolling paper.

[SunSeeker]

1. I have that album....and most of the rolling paper!

[Scurrilous]

2. I had the album too...but somehow lost it.

[Cha]

3. Where in the hell did the time go!? Chong is

80!

Wow.. did we ever laugh so hard at his and Cheech's movies.

Good Luck finding your passport, Tommy.. you have to get back to Canada.. land of the heavenly pot aroma!

Scurrilous Imagine all the money legal pot growers are going to make$$$$$$$$

[Scurrilous]

4. It's a beautiful thing. LOL

[Cha]

7. It's surreal.. Who knew!

With Legal Pot in Canada and trump dictating .. Watch out Canada!

[yuiyoshida]

5. I wonder with all the crap going on at the border

If once he goes, will he have trouble getting back into this country??

[Scurrilous]

6. This is a bad portent:

US threatens to stop Canadian pot businessmen at border

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"Canada may have legalised recreational marijuana but executives of the country's booming cannabis industry need to be aware they are not exactly welcome south of the border in the United States.

As the world's first major economy fully legalised cannabis, officials of US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) warned they won't admit anyone arriving with the intent "to aid in the proliferation of the marijuana business".

Even if some US states and localities, including the capital Washington, DC, permit medical or recreational cannabis use, the CBP warned the drug remains illegal under US federal law, giving them the responsibility to fight its use and promotion.

"If... a Canadian is coming to the United States and it has nothing to do with the marijuana industry or the proliferation of the industry, that person would generally be deemed admissible," CBP officer Christopher Perry said in a press conference in Detroit, Michigan, near the Canadian border.

But "if they're coming to the United States … with the express interest to facilitate or develop the marijuana industry, they would generally be deemed inadmissible."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/10/threatens-stop-canadian-pot-businessmen-border-181018025931188.html

[yuiyoshida]

8. Cheech and Chong have always been Advocates for Cannabis

Tommy Chong even has his own special strain of Marijuana, called Chongs Choice. I could easily see Jeff Sessions telling boarder agents to prevent him from returning. One of the reasons I would not want to leave the country now, is because I might have problems getting back in... simply because someone might assume I am a foreigner, and despite having a passport, might be challenged at the border, because "She doesn't look like an American" .

[Cha]

9. Not Welcome, because we have a bunch of Fucking Fascists

with their collective head up their ass in charge.

I would think that would turn off a bunch of repub pot heads and those who actually need medical marijuana.

[Scurrilous]

12. Oh, Canada...

...universal healthcare, legal marijuana, and a leader with a wicked sense of humor.



Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau trolls Trump with framed photo of his grandfather's brothel

Lucky them...

[Cha]

14. Yes, I have country envy, too. Remember

when they had Stephen Harper and we had President Obama?

What a damn Switch!

[TexasTowelie]

10. If Tommy gets high, then maybe he'll remember where he left his passport.

Oops, I was thinking about Towelie remembering the pass code to the Tynacorp facility so the boys from South Park can get back their Okama Gamesphere.

[JimGinPA]

11. I Saw Cheech & Chong Before They Were Really Famous...

At the Troubadour in Hollywood in 1971. They opened for the singer David Clayton-Thomas the night I saw them. They did a pretty long set with only a couple of stools for props, just pantomiming. They did a bunch of bits from the album and a bunch of bits that ended up later in their movies. They were hilarious!

[Scurrilous]

13. The amazing thing is that many years later they're both still working regularly.

[watoos]

15. OMG, never laughed so hard in my life,

at their movies.

[oberliner]

16. Why would he need a passport to enter Canada?

[jmowreader]

17. After 9/11 you need a passport to enter Canada or Mexico

[ProudLib72]

18. This is how you cross the border Cheech and Chong style