Tommy Chong: 'Pot Will Cure My Prostate Cancer'

Tommy Chong, stoner part of the original duo Cheech and Chong, the answer to his newly discovered prostate cancer.

Chong diagnosed with cancer about a month ago he told CNN, and the "slow phase one." He said he first noticed the symptoms almost eight years nine months sentences Taft Correctional Institution in California, saying that he was convinced the prison caused by the disease.

Tommy was sentenced to prison and ordered to pay $ 20,000 fine and pass the $ 120,000 sale of assets mail order bongs.

"The prison built on toxic waste. I also got the gout in the food there," he told CNN's Don Lemon.

"You have prostate cancer, and I am the treatment of cannabis oil, cannabis," Chong said.

The actor-comedian, 74, a supporter of marijuana legalization at the national level.

Chong explained to him to quit smoking marijuana for about a year ago, so the cancer can also draw the hemp oil, but only "at night, so I will not be drunk every day."

Cannabis does not cause cancer, he, Chong said: "Cannabis is the cure."