Well, I started out as a musician, so when I was about 10 years old, I was already in a band.

You got a bag of pot, there's someone who wants to buy it from you. So in a weird way, marijuana has [become] and is becoming the new currency of the world.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

People didn't relate to me as being Chinese or white, just being a hippie, a long-haired hippie.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.

We see the corrupt prison system, we see the corrupt police system, we see the corruption in the government, from the top on down. You know, it's built based on lies. However, the marijuana industry itself, because it was an underground industry, showed us the way we could exist on this planet.

Once you're a felon you're a target.