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Tommy Chong Tells all: ‘I couldn’t talk pot while ‘Dancing with the Stars’
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“I’m celebrating my first day of freedom,” is the first thing out of Tommy Chong’s mouth when we spoke via telephone on Nov. 26. “I just came from the (‘Dancing with the Stars’) Mirror Ball Competition, and now I’m going to the Cannabis Cup.”
That Chong, one of marijuana’s most notable spokesmen, can jump directly from one of ABC’s biggest television shows to one of counterculture’s most celebrated events speaks to pot’s growing global position in 2014.
That said, primetime TV isn’t quite ready for dancing pot activists.
ABC owner Disney did censor Chong, he said, during his impressive stay on “Dancing with the Stars,” which saw him cha-cha-ing his way to the show’s semi-finals before being cut on Nov. 17 — the oldest contestant in the show’s history to make it that far.
“It’s a Disney station,” Chong told The Cannabist, “ABC is owned by Disney, so they’re very family oriented. I was throwing ‘marijuana kisses’ to the audience in the beginning, and they asked me not to do that. They didn’t stop me from talking about pot every chance I got. But they did have me stop doing the after-dance talk, because I would talk dirty or steer it toward the pot angle. So they isolated me.
“But it didn’t matter because I was there.”
First up: Marijuana kisses?
“I’d look like I was taking a hit and throw them out to the audience,” Chong said. “It was a physical act of a stoner getting high and throwing the roaches to the audience. The audience and the crew loved it, but the producers told me about standards and practices, they blamed them, that they’d have to cut to the mirror ball every time I did that.”
Source: http://truthisscary.com/2014/11/tommy-chong-tells-all-i-couldnt-talk-pot-while-dancing-with-the-stars/
