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Northwest Trees
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Northwest Trees

2016 · 45 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Filmmaker Ben Grayzel spent six weeks of a university break shooting this look at marijuana culture after legalization swept through Oregon and Washington. He moves between the University of Washington and University of Oregon campuses, rural Oregon towns, and inner-city Portland, talking to people for whom weed is either newly everywhere or barely changed at all. The film walks through dabbing rigs, mole bowls, driving under the influence, and the gateway drug theory, treating each as an open question rather than a settled verdict. Grayzel's real argument is about culture rather than chemistry: he suggests marijuana itself may be comparatively harmless, but the all-day, every-day social acceptance built around it is the part worth worrying about, especially next to drugs that carry no such acceptance. He also flags how thin the actual research base still is, and argues that whatever comes next in cannabis policy should follow the science rather than lead it. It plays like a student's field report from inside the first states to legalize.