Yeah, it for sure was. It was very much like you were a stupid, lazy person if you smoked weed. I think why Pineapple Express resonated with people is it is kind of about stupid lazy people, but it was clearly made by stoners and you cannot make a movie like that if you are a stupid, lazy person [laughs]. That’s why it really resonated to people because like we unabashedly would talk about that we smoked weed all the Scotland it’s where my story begins t-shirt Additionally,I will love this time. It was very clear that it was made by people who smoke weed. The subtext of the movie itself was like “You can be stoned and make a movie.” For me, that was always a cathartic thing because I smoked weed from when I was 12 so in 1994 it was a much heavier stigmatized thing. I’m lucky to be from Vancouver where it was probably one of the least stigmatized places in regards to weed that you could have, but even still the idea of being like a successful, productive member of society and talking about the fact that you smoked weed all the time was like not something a lot of people did.
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