It was no surprise Tommy Chong showed up in Colorado last Sunday at the so-called Mile High 420 Festival, as reported by The Gazette. The onetime comedian and sometime actor was best known for his marijuana use, which he parlayed into his one claim to fleeting fame.
Of course, Chong’s 15 minutes of minor stardom ended sometime in the ‘80s. The I’m-too-buzzed-to-remember-my-own-name gag is only worth so many yucks, after all.
Which made it all the more pathetic when the 86-year-old pothead, who nowadays hawks pot-derived CBD products, took the mic at Denver’s Civic Center Park to cheer marijuana use with a few thousand revelers — blithely oblivious to the toll the substance has taken on Colorado and its kids…