California legalized medical marijuana in 1996, and a Finnish film crew travels to Oakland to see what that actually looks like on the ground. They base themselves around Oaksterdam University, the trade school and self-declared cannabis capital of the country, and sit down with the entrepreneurs and patients running dispensaries, grow operations, and ancillary businesses that pay city taxes like any other company. The film treats Oakland's cannabis economy as a case study in what happens when a drug moves from the underground into storefronts and payrolls, tracking how that tax revenue feeds back into the city. Alongside the business tour, the crew asks a blunter question: why marijuana ended up criminalized while alcohol and tobacco stayed legal, and it borrows footage from the 1936 propaganda film Reefer Madness to show how that criminalization was sold to the public. The result is a plain, interview-driven look at one American city's experiment, seen through the people whose livelihoods depend on it.