Tommy Chong on Being One of the First Famous Stoners | Joe Rogan

I don't even try. I'm a lightweight man. When I spoke with Arnold, with all the Dave Draper, all these muscle heads would come around and they'd get a big bong. And the thing was they'd put like an ounce in the bowl and then they'd fire it up and then they'd suck on it so hard, whoever exploded the bowl into the water made it explode. Well then you were the hero. All the muscle heads, they're taking their hit, Arnold takes a big hit, the thing explodes. Then they handed it to me, it was like, and they looked at me like, I wasn't Chong at the time. So they just looked at me like, yeah, okay, go sell it over there. Back then you were just a guy. Yeah, I was just, almost faceless. What was it like being famous for being a pothead back in the 70s? Because that had to be weird. You and Cheech were famous potheads. Where I don't think there was anybody else. Who else was a famous pothead? No. On your level? No. No one. Maybe no one ever. You guys were the trail bearers. The actor, oh Christ, I can't think of his name. He did time, he did a year in jail in county for one joint, Robert Mitchum. Oh yeah. Robert Mitchum. But he was like a straight-laced guy. Yeah. The image. Big cowboy. Yeah. He was a tough guy. That was the image. Well you know what the big draw for pot was? The sex. See, it was before, what do you call it? Soapers or? Soapers? Quaaludes. You know, the Quaalude thing. The Quaalude was a big sex thing. People would have sex on Quaaludes. Oh yeah. Why? I've never taken a Quaalude. What does it do for you? Oh, just, they're called spreaders. When a girl gets high on a Quaalude, it's like, take me. Do you think that's why Bill Cosby was told those girls of Quaaludes? Totally. Totally. So that was the thing that just relaxes you into some... It makes you horny. Really? Oh yeah. And that's what pot does for me now, but it does for women. Yeah. Women love to sleep with it and they love to have sex. You know, after smoking a joint, what was it, Annie Hall was it, Annie Hall? With Woody? Was that? Do you have to get high every time you make love with me? Yeah. Well, that's right. Was that Annie Hall? I think it was Annie Hall. And I think everybody in the movie else said, yeah, I can dig it. Yeah, it definitely changes the way things feel. Yeah, it relaxes. Yeah. Relaxes. You hear music better. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.