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TORONTO — Tommy Chong has a pass, man.

While some Canadians who use marijuana or work in the cannabis industry have been given a hard time at the U.S.-Canada border lately, the famed Edmonton-born stoner who lives in Los Angeles isn’t worried.

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“I’ve got the Cheech and Chong pass,” the beloved comedy star of the Cheech & Chong drug-culture films, who is a marijuana advocate and has his own line of medicinal cannabis products, said during a recent visit to Toronto to shoot the upcoming Air Farce New Year’s Eve comedy special.

“They see us coming: ‘Oh my God, it’s you, come over here.’ I could be carrying a kilo, a ton of weed and they’d say, ‘Go on through, no problem.’ They know better, because I always have weed on me.”

Sentenced to 9 months in U.S. jail

Chong, who was sentenced in 2003 to nine months in a U.S. jail for selling bongs, pointed to an incident at an airport in Michigan with his son last year.