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How Weed Won the West

  • 2010
  • TV-MA
  • 1h 40m
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How Weed Won the West (2010)
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Filmmaker Kevin Booth (American Drug War) offers this documentary that chronicles the exploding popularity of medical marijuana dispensaries in California and the mixed response from law enf... Read allFilmmaker Kevin Booth (American Drug War) offers this documentary that chronicles the exploding popularity of medical marijuana dispensaries in California and the mixed response from law enforcement agencies.Filmmaker Kevin Booth (American Drug War) offers this documentary that chronicles the exploding popularity of medical marijuana dispensaries in California and the mixed response from law enforcement agencies.

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    • Kevin Booth
  • Writer
    • Kevin Booth
  • Stars
    • Alex Jones
    • Ethan Nadelmann
    • Jeff Joseph
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    • Director
      • Kevin Booth
    • Writer
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    • Stars
      • Alex Jones
      • Ethan Nadelmann
      • Jeff Joseph
    • 5User reviews
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    Alex Jones
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    Craig X. Rubin
    Ed Forchion
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    Bret Bogue
    Corey Browne
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    Don Duncan
    William Kroger
    Shelly Martinez
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    Michael Oliveri
    • Patient in wheelchair being confronted at press conference
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    'Freeway' Ricky Ross
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    Mary Taylor
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    Sid Wilson
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      Followed by American Drug War 2: Cannabis Destiny (2013)

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    A bad documentary in every conceivable way
    Since this is not the directors first piece I wonder how he can put out this disaster of a documentary. The editing, shaky camera-work use of music and storytelling is the worst I have ever seen and remind me of bad school projects. Technically everything is a mess here... even the lower thirds are irritating. I also was constantly reminded of the Family Guy Episode where Lois and Peter make music on weed and think its cool while everybody else is annoyed of the display of lack of talent. It just fits this "documentary" on many levels.

    As for the content... Its hard to concentrate with the irritating editing that seems to put random shaky pictures of bad footage in a hectic music video fashion on top of an off-speaker who is as annoying as most of the people interviews here. Its hard to feel sympathy with most of the people appearing in this documentary from the messed up stoner's to Alex Jones who delivers some painfully staged statements in his typical "He who screams loudest wins" fashion. Honestly if this movie achieves anything it makes you wonder if legalizing weed is really the right thing to do, although you were 100% sure its right before watching this. This movie screams "Drugs are bad" at you while talking about the opposite.

    There are loads of interesting and well done documentaries on this subject but this is a totally incoherent mess ... its a shame someone puts out such atrocious work after 20 years of work as a director and editor. Most of the comments here must be written by people involved in this production because this documentary fails on every level like usually only beginners do, so I can't possible think why anyone would rate this higher than 3 stars. Stay away!
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    • Release date
      • February 17, 2010 (United States)
    • Country of origin
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