Nine months in PRISON?
A $20,000 fine?
$103,000 more from 'sales proceeds'?
1 year probation?
3 years probation on his company?
All this for a 65 year-old man with no criminal record who sold pipes on the internet.
How outrageous is that?! I wonder how much farther out the pendulum is gonna swing before a backlash is gonna grab ahold of it and swing it but hard in the direction of... sanity.
This was a gem, though, and probably true: "I have a drug problem with marijuana," Chong told the court later, saying he had overcome dependency through constructive hobbies including learning to dance the salsa."