Compare and Contrast: Rush Limbaugh and Tommy Chong

In September 2003, Actor Tommy Chong gets nine months for selling pot pipes.

"U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan, who appeared in court for the hearing yesterday, said the sentence was significant because it tells the public that 'there are consequences for violating the law, even if the violator is a well-known entertainer like Thomas Chong.'"

In 2003-2004, hatemeister Rush Limbaugh gets kid glove treatement:

"Limbaugh, 53, has not been charged with a crime and the investigation is at a standstill pending a decision on the medical records.
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Prosecutors went after Limbaugh's medical records after learning that he received about 2,000 painkillers, prescribed by four doctors in six months, at a pharmacy near his Palm Beach mansion."