a/k/a Tommy Chong, written, produced and directed by Josh Gilbert, is a documentary film that chronicles the Drug Enforcement Administration raid on comedian Tommy Chong's house and his subsequent jail sentence for trafficking in illegal drug paraphernalia. He was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison.

The film was shown at film festivals in 2005-2006 and had its first, art-house theatrical release on June 14, 2006 at the Film Forum in New York City.

DEA agents raided Chong's Pacific Palisades, California home on the morning of February 24, 2003. The raid was part of Operation Pipe Dreams and "Operation Headhunter," which resulted in raids on 100 homes and businesses nationwide that day and indictments of 55 individuals.

The movie features cameos by Bill Maher and Jay Leno, who express support for Chong and outrage over federal handling of the incident. Eric Schlosser, author of Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market, provides historical and political perspective for the audience.

Synopsis

a/k/a Tommy Chong is a film depicting comedy legend Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong and his legal problems with The Department of Justice. Filmmaker Josh Gilbert follows the tale of Chong as he becomes a primary target in a government sting, code named "Operation Pipe Dreams". Of all the people prosecuted in the case, Tommy Chong was the only one to receive a jail sentence. The federal government explicitly stated the reason for this harsh punishment was because of the comedy movie Up In Smoke trivializing the governments anti-drug efforts and because he joked that the only Weapons of Mass Destruction that the Bush Administration has ever found were his bongs.

In May 2008 federal agents raided the owner of the distribution rights to this DVD, Spectrum Labs.

Spectrum Labs' attorney Jennifer Kinsley stated she was not surprised that the northern Kentucky business raid was orchestrated by U.S. federal agents in Pittsburgh, PA. The documentary is critical of the allegedly abusive prosecution of Chong by the U.S. federal government, spearheaded by the controversial Pittsburgh-based U.S. attorney for western Pennsylvania, Mary Beth Buchanan.