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"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;" he 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. Well… now it"s Tommy Chong"s turn to fight back and tell his side of the story. Beginning with Tommy"s experiences growing up in Canada in the forties and fifties as a mixed-race kid and going on to become a comedy legend, "The I Chong: Meditations from the Joint" is at once a memoir, a spiritual exploration of his time in prison, and a political indictment of the eroding civil liberties in post-9/11 American society. He tells...