Wow, just wow. I have never seen a documentary so totally explain both growers and habitual smokers like this one did.
For those who have no idea what I am talking about Michael Pollan is a plant geek who wrote a book that used 4 examples to show how plants have tricked humans into spreading them across the planet.
One of the 4 examples was our favorite plant and Pollan absolutely knocked it out of the park. He talked to 2, older, white (remember, most of America is still white and scared of anyone darker than khaki) med growers and avoided their faces.
One thing I LOVED was that he explain how some people who smoke us it to almost "selectively forget". He shows how there is so much information out there that some of us pot to "forget" things like faces on the subway so we can "file away" important information.
This sums me up well since I spend about 14 hours a day listening to or reading non-fiction. I have always loved to learn and am interested in almost everything.
Growers are also looked at more like the artist they are and to my utter shock the author said something I have been thinking for years, that Marijuana growers are the cutting edge of plant science. The breakthroughs are coming not out of the university lab but out of someone basement. They finish the segment by the med grower saying that for some people it has nothing to do with "drugs" or intoxicants, it is just something ingrained in them, they love the plant like people love cars or computers.
http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/
Seriously, if you have a computer hooked up to the TV, burn one and watch this in HD.
For those who have no idea what I am talking about Michael Pollan is a plant geek who wrote a book that used 4 examples to show how plants have tricked humans into spreading them across the planet.
One of the 4 examples was our favorite plant and Pollan absolutely knocked it out of the park. He talked to 2, older, white (remember, most of America is still white and scared of anyone darker than khaki) med growers and avoided their faces.
One thing I LOVED was that he explain how some people who smoke us it to almost "selectively forget". He shows how there is so much information out there that some of us pot to "forget" things like faces on the subway so we can "file away" important information.
This sums me up well since I spend about 14 hours a day listening to or reading non-fiction. I have always loved to learn and am interested in almost everything.
Growers are also looked at more like the artist they are and to my utter shock the author said something I have been thinking for years, that Marijuana growers are the cutting edge of plant science. The breakthroughs are coming not out of the university lab but out of someone basement. They finish the segment by the med grower saying that for some people it has nothing to do with "drugs" or intoxicants, it is just something ingrained in them, they love the plant like people love cars or computers.
http://www.pbs.org/thebotanyofdesire/
Seriously, if you have a computer hooked up to the TV, burn one and watch this in HD.
