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Like a lot of people who support marijuana use, psychiatrist Tod Mikuriya had detractors. (His work was called "the Cheech and Chong show" by Bill Clinton's drug czar, General Barry McCaffrey.) The longtime Republican believed in the therapeutic effects of the drug on more than 200 ailments and in 1996 saw a bill he crafted, Proposition 215, pass in California, legalizing the use of pot for the seriously ill. The "grandfather" of the medicinal-marijuana movement said his fight to "restore cannabis" stemmed from a backlash against its medical use following the late-'30s film Reefer Madness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 11, 2007 | 5/31/2007 | See Source »

...3hr.11min. evening opens with a trailer for Machete - not a fake film, since Rodriguez, who wastes nothing, reportedly plans to make this movie. It stars Rodriguez's cousin Danny Trejo, whose leathery face is already rated R for menacing violence, and Cheech Marin as a priest called to arm himself against the mob. When a man on the receiving end of Marin's gun pleads for mercy, the padre replies, "God has mercy. I don't," and blasts away. (The line paraphrases the title of the first Bud Spencer-Terence Hill spaghetti Western God Forgives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grindhouse Is Girls, Guns, Cars — But No Sex | 4/6/2007 | See Source »

...Barnhill II ’08’s Brother #3 was mesmerizing in his rant on the assumption that young black men are dangerous, and equally so in the later scene in which he experiences its consequence. The women were consistently excellent, but the standout was Chiazotam (Cheech) N. Ekekezie ’08 as Lady in Red, who delivered a story of domestic abuse with a spellbinding intensity and anger. The character names (all the men are “Brother #” something, and all the women are “Lady in?...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Convincing Cast More Than 'enuf' | 4/10/2006 | See Source »

...mercados claves. Al mismo tiempo, donantes corporativos como Ford y Coca-Cola le agradecen que hable lenguaje que ellos entienden: resultados por la inversi?n. The Lilly Endowment, una fundaci?n filantr?pica privada, qued? tan impresionada que le don? un cheque de $50 millones. Celebridades como Jeff Garc?a y Cheech Marin se han unido a la junta de HSF. ?El resultado? 7,500 estudiantes tienen acceso a una parte de los casi $30 millones que la fundaci?n entrega en becas cada a?o. Pero esto, seg?n Mart?nez Tucker, es s?lo el comienzo. La profesional desea incrementar para el 2010, la proporci?n de hispanos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sara Mart?nez Tucker | 8/15/2005 | See Source »

...change-of-life thing. Instead of buying a new motorcycle, I got back with my partner." CHEECH MARIN, on why he reunited for a stage performance and co-wrote a new movie with his partner, Tommy Chong; the comedy duo had not been together on stage since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

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