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What do you think about the way recreational weed has become legal in Canada?

The authorities — they don’t know what to do. They’re trying to get a handle on it and you can’t because it’s a weed that can grow anywhere for anybody. You can put all these restrictions on it if you want, but the minute the demand becomes so big, all that stuff will go out the window. And it’s happening now. Like they’ve got restrictions against celebrity endorsements. What does that mean? That is so stupid. I can see that with cigarettes because you don’t want kids smoking cigarettes and getting cancer, but marijuana is a medicine. It helps you sleep and if you do too much, you’ll just pass out or you’ll throw up, but you won’t die. Canada’s just coming to grips with reality and it takes them a while but it’ll all work out in the end.

Does the legalization affect your act on this tour?

Oh no, not at all, because pot’s still pot whether you go to jail for it or not. There’s still a million things that you can laugh at.

Anything happening for you in the worlds of TV and film?

There’s a docu-drama movie coming out on (Cheech & Chong). It’s been in the making for a couple of years now. There’s no name for it. It might be Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie. And we’ve got a television show that my wife, Shelby and I, have been working on, we’re just finalizing the deal. It’s going to be on one of the cable networks. We don’t have a title yet. We were going to call it Father’s Grows Best. It’s about our life together. It’s going to be like a sitcom.

You appeared in disguise as ‘The Pineapple’ in the first season of The Masked Singer earlier this year. What was that experience like?

I loved it because when I was on Dancing With the Stars (in 2014), I learned how to dance and so when I did The Masked Singer, I had singing lessons so I loved it. And I had to be a little more disciplined. It was fun.