o audiences around the world, Cheech Marin is best known as one half of the iconic comedy duo Cheech and Chong, who rose to fame in the 1970s and 1980s on a cloud of smoke-infused, absurdist routines about weed, hippies, and the counterculture. Marin is also an activist and art collector. Next year, he plans to open the Cheech Marin Culture of the Riverside Art Museum—also to be called simply, and affectionately, The Cheech.
