Waste of time

Please don't spend money on this.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

I can't look at Doug Benson and take him seriously. Here's a guy who looks like he's been beaten in the face with a shovel most of his life and has the personality of a zombie, and yet people pay to see his comedy act. I don't get it. Not only do I dislike Doug, but marijuana is the most boring, over-hyped drug out there, in my opinion. Pot is the Nikes brand of drugs and everyone blindly smokes it. It's marijuana that lead to the creation of the uncreatively named production company that backed this experiment, named the 420 Productions LLC. There's multiple references to 420 throughout the movie, as well, just in case you missed the last ten times it was referenced. Who are these "doctors" he's speaking to anyways? Telling Doug to complete simple memory-tasks is something you try to test a 5 year old. No wonder there's an influx of comedians or comedian wannabe's with this type of humor selling tickets; virtually anyone can become a jokey guy with a pot addiction. The movie was kind of lame, but there were some funny moments to it. There really was no message to convey because even as dispensaries continue to multiply in CA, you still have issues remembering details and get decreased lung capacity. I would only recommend the movie to stoners because the rest of us who don't care about the plight of the pot-lawyers will get bored quickly.

A semi-spoof documentary of Super Size Me, which explores a similar premise to the McDonald's movie, but exchanges burgers with 'medical' marijuana. The lead of this movie is the no2 cannabis comedian in the country - Gary Cohan. He goes through before and after tests, describes his ordeal and does stand-up in the meantime. Only three things really stand out in this movie: - the short presentation of the situation of medical marijuana in California, where federal law is raping state law and DEA is closing down and arresting legal medical marijuana stores; - the interesting observation that marijuana seems to have improved psychic abilities :); - the fact that the stand-up comic is way funnier on marijuana than off it...Apart from that the movie is rather a bore and you really feel that it is too long and unnecessary. I'll give you one thing - its absurd that McDonald's is legal, while marijuana is forbidden.

Too bad this wasn't a serious documentary arguing the case for the legalization of marijuana instead of a convoluted mess consisting mostly of stand up comedians. Who the hell wants to sit through an hour and a half watching a totally spoiled, unlikeable pot head either being on or off pot to make whatever point is trying to be made? It's all unrealistic anyway. Sure, maybe this was the effects of pot on some slacker in California who has nothing better to do than to stand up in front of a stoned audience at night and tell jokes, but conduct the same experiment on someone who has to work in a factory all day or someone who is responsible for teaching young children math or someone who has to swim in he Olympics and let's see if the results are the same. I'm not saying this as someone who is anti-pot. The one and only legitimate point that was made during this movie is that if pot was legalized and taxed it could produce billions of dollars in revenue for the United States, and I agree with that. What I am saying is this is a stupid movie. The case they seem to be making is smoke pot every hour of every day and everything will be okay and that is simply moronic.

I watched this so-called documentary in the hope that it would shed some light on the true effects of marijuana, even just on one man. However, the whole experiment was so lacking in empirical evidence, meaningful scientific controls, or detail about the exact nature of what Doug Benson was smoking, or in what quantities, as to be worthless.The fact that Doug Benson only gave up pot for a month before starting the experiment all-but invalidated the results, especially as the man spent most of his life until that point, out of his head.The ultimate misleading conclusion of this documentary seemed to be that pot only diminishes one's mathematical abilities, but otherwise, the effects are all positive. What seemed to be ironically ignored, especially by Doug Benson, was that he spent the entire movie in a droopy eyed, slightly slurred state of very mild stupor, that may feel great to him, but is very uncomfortable to those around him.It was interesting that known marijuana problems, such as paranoia were barely touched upon, and even examinations of respiratory risks were restricted to measurement of lung capacity, with no discussion of whether marijuana presents a greater or lesser risk than tobacco to lung cancer.The sad thing is, this documentary could have been a great opportunity to educate about any benefits or hazards connected to marijuana usage, but instead it was just a pathetic excuse for a self-avowed stoner to go on the ultimate bender.Self-indulgent rubbish.