Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
The iconic cannabis magazine?? High Times??just announced its nominations for its annual Stony Awards. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the High Times Stony Awards and will be held on September 30, 2010 at the Music Box in Los Angeles. And How Weed Won the West has been nominated for best documentary of 2010.
In addition to How Weed Won the West, 3 other documentaries have been nominated in this category including Strainhunters India Expedition, When You're Strange, and Dirty Pictures.
How Weed Won the West (HWWW) is the sequel to Showtime??s award-winning documentary American Drug War and in the movie Filmmaker Kevin Booth traces the fight against Federal drug regulation in the State of California.
While users herald the freedom of legally-licensed "weed," powerful forces at the DEA and law enforcement haven't given up their federal enforcement power yet. A public majority has approved the use of medicinal marijuana which has opened up a new front in controversial topic 'dispensaries.'
Many dispensaries have been raided. Law enforcement targets their distribution of marijuana and challenges their ability to grow into legitimate business. Just like the prohibition of alcohol, drugs have thrived on their illicit appeal, and doomed millions of non-violent offenders to incarceration
Now, those swearing by the healing power of medicinal marijuana dare to stand up and declare that the violence, corruption and uncontrolled flow of drugs is due to the prohibition of the substance, not the substance itself.
The State of California, in a key position to assert its 10th Amendment rights under the Constitution, has pushed the issue to a tipping point. The bankrupt government hopes to capitalize on taxation of a legal and prosperous marijuana trade that could, ironically, fight off big government and offer free humanity new hope.
Whether or not you love or loathe marijuana or the drug culture, everyone needs to fight for a more peaceful solution to the drug dilemma. How can we best manage the reality of drug use and minimize the harm to individuals and society at large?
In How Weed Won the West, filmmaker Kevin Booth tackles these difficult questions. He infiltrates psuedo-legal California growers, investigates DEA raids on licensed dispensaries and even undertakes to sample the disputed 'medicine' for himself.
Booth interviews radio host Alex Jones, former drug dealers, real-life gang members, legal-weed pitch men, activists and advocates to find the truth.
High Times believes this movie deserves to be nominated as the best marijuana documentary of 2010. What do you think? Have you seen any of the other documentaries nominated? Will you be attending the Stony Awards in LA?
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
If you haven't seen this movie yet you can watch a Screening of How Weed Won the West at LA's Dowtown Film Festival
Saturday, September 11, 2010 at 11:00pm
Downtown Independent Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
251 South Main Street
Los Angeles, CA
From the multi-award-winning filmmaker of American Drug War comes its long anticipated sequel: How Weed Won The West. This excoriating, incisive and highly entertaining documentary delves deeply into the culture and commerce of cannabis, its ganja growers, medicinal marijuana patients and dispensaries, and features such law reform advocates such as Texas conspiracy ...guru Alex Jones, Ethan Nadelmann (head of Drug Policy Alliance), and a host of amazing characters, including a former LAPD narcotics officer who now thinks all drugs should be legal. ??Kevin Booth??s vivid document from behind the front lines of the ??war on pot?? blows the lid off a multi-billion dollar industry on the verge.? ?? Danny Danko, High Times magazine.
About the Film
Director: Kevin Booth
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Run Time: 103 min.
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
I think that Grass: The History of Marijuana is the best potdoc out there. Woody fuckin Harrelson guys come on!
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ
I think that Grass: The History of Marijuana is the best potdoc out there. Woody fuckin Harrelson guys come on!
I have not seen How Weed Won the West and I don't live in California, but I finally got a chance to watch Grass and I agree that it is a very well put together documentary and clearly shows how one man turned a nation against cannabis. For my money though, The Union is the best.
Folks should watch 'em both! :thumbsup:
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
Have seen How Weed Won The West. Its pretty good.
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
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Originally Posted by BlueBlazer
I have not seen How Weed Won the West and I don't live in California, but I finally got a chance to watch Grass and I agree that it is a very well put together documentary and clearly shows how one man turned a nation against cannabis. For my money though, The Union is the best.
Folks should watch 'em both! :thumbsup:
Man you italicized the shit out of that post. MLA format? Very proper. I dig.
Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
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Originally Posted by JohnnyZ
Man you italicized the shit out of that post. MLA format? Very proper. I dig.
Yes I did, but I had to laugh because when you quoted my post, the whole thing was italicized. So who is really italicizing the shit out of my post . . . ? [attachment=o254244]
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Have you seen HOW WEED WON THE WEST? Is it worth a High Times Stony Award?
Here's an avi copy of the movie.
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M04K245H
