Super High Me

We got one patient ready to come up.

Just step that way to the

dispense room.

How's it going?

Good, how you doing?

Welcome to the health center.

Thanks.

Nice to be here.

So, like, how would I even begin

to decide which kind to choose?

It depends on your level of

tolerance.

If you're a first-time patient,

you've never tried it before,

you might want to go with

something a little bit lighter.

It'll give you more of a body high.

Just a little something to give

you the feel of how it's gonna be.

The purples are more, like, if

you have problems sleeping and

back pains at night, you're real

uncomfortable -the purples

will put you to sleep.

The real strong, more potent ones.

They're the more potent ones.

So the 45 automates -those are

the ones that you know you're

gonna get the feeling of it.

I feel high just thinking

about all this.

I'm gonna bring out your next

comic now.

He's very funny.

He's been on VH1.

Let's give it up for

Mr. Doug Benson.

[Cheers and applause]

I saw that movie

"Super Size Me" when I was high.

Mistake!

That is f***ed up, you know?

'Cause the premise of that movie

is that it's bad to eat a lot of

McDonald's, and I'm sitting

there all high, like, thinking,

"oh, I could go for a hot apple

or a frenchie at this point.

Hook me up, man."

And he's just gorging it all on

himself, and then throwing up,

and -ugh, it's disgusting,

that movie.

If that's a movie -if eating

McDonald's for 30 days is a

movie and people are willing to

pay to see it, I've got a movie.

I'm gonna smoke pot every day

for 30 days, try to remember to

film it, and my movie's gonna be

called "Super High Me" -or

"Business As Usual," I haven't

decided yet on the title.

So that started out as a joke in

my act, and then a filmmaker --

I'm using the term loosely --

saw me say that, and we had a

discussion, and we're really

f***ing doing it.

Doug Benson -stand-up

comedian, noted pot smoker.

In fact, high times magazine

recently named Doug the

number-two pot comic in the

country, but that doesn't put

Doug Benson above the law.

So how can this be possible?

In 1996, the citizens of

California passed

proposition 215, which allows

patients to use cannabis for

medical purposes if they get a

recommendation from their doctor.

Common uses for medical cannabis

include chronic pain, HIV/AIDS,

depression, nausea, or a medical

condition your doctor thinks is

appropriate.

Keep in mind the effects of

marijuana vary with every user.

This is the story of just one

patient, and despite years of

marijuana use, even the

number-two pot comic in the

country has no idea what's going

to happen when he gets super high.

I'm not getting high every

day for 30 days yet because

there's a catch.

I have to not get high for 30

days before getting high for 30

days to show how awful it is

when I can't get high at all to

contrast with how awesome the

next 30 days are gonna be, so I

have to not smoke for 30 days,

and that's gonna start at the

beginning of August.

# Yeah #

[bell dings]

# Yo #

# I should be sleeping all the

way still #

# rolling with the beat and

this, that, them, there #

# couldn't help but stay up

and jot down some stuff #

so how do you feel first day?

So far, so good.

Boy, that hat made me want to

smoke pot.

Everything reminds me of pot now

that I can't have it.

Traffic lights...

[chuckles]

...when they're green.

[Bell dings]

I may be hospitalized, I think.

Really?

I think so.

Are you saying that to be

funny, or do you really believe that?

I really believe that.

Why do you believe you'll be

hospitalized?

It's gonna be nasty, smoking

all day, every day, for 30 days.

I've never smoked --

lot of pot, but I've never,

like, day and night for every

day for 30 days.

So I'm a little scared.

But how awesome would it be if

it f***ing killed me?

[Audience laughs]

That Spurlock movie would be the

best movie ever made if he just

died at one point during it.

F***ing grizzly-man style.

Supposedly, your depression

is going to kick in today, if

it's going to kick in, so they

said take this test.

Right, but the only answer I

can give is "rarely."

No, but you would examine --

'cause it's only been one day.

That's okay.

It's how you felt over the past

week, even though you were smoking.

Now we're gonna go, and we're

gonna take the same test in

another week, and that'll be

when you're not smoking.

I just don't -I'm bored

with this one.

'Cause I spent the last week

some days smoking, some days

not, and I barely remember what happened.

So this is day two, and I'm doing great.

So far, it's f***ing not a problem.

I can totally not smoke pot for

two days.

I'm just writing "rarely" on

every one of these.

That's taking it real seriously.

Well, I can't even begin -I

spent the weekend getting

f***ing crazy high all weekend.

I can't remember --

Well, did you feel fearful at

all during the last seven days?

I don't remember!

Maybe, like if I saw a cop

coming or something.

I don't know.

Did you have any crying spells.

No.

Okay.

Did you feel hopeful about the future?

I might have.

These are mostly feelings that I

don't have ever.

Over the course of the two

30-day periods, we're gonna do

lots of tests, like IQ Tests

and lung capacity and just a

bunch of tests, and one of them

is gonna be -they're gonna

check my sperm count, and by

"they," I mean I'm hoping it's a

doctor, and...

[laughs]

I hope it's just not a guy with

a lot of plastic cups that he's

not using.

They're gonna check my sperm

count, and so my first sperm

check is coming up in three

days, on Thursday, and the thing

about getting your sperm checked

is you can't masturbate or

ejaculate into a lady for -or

whatever your thing is -for

three days.

Three days, and it started

today, so I'm, like, so much

more upset that I can't

masturbate for three days than I

can't smoke pot for 30, because

I'm not looking at pot on the

internet every day.

It was almost as funny as

when you're high.

I could tell, but they couldn't.

Untrained eye couldn't tell, but

I could tell.

It was still good, though.

Well, I'm glad you still

liked it.

The prohibition against

marijuana began in 1937.

Since then, in order to obtain

your medicine, you had to visit

"a guy," but with the passing of

Proposition 215, California

citizens are allowed to open up

retail shops known as

dispensaries to legally sell

cannabis to qualified patients.

To repeat that for the stoners

showing up late, in California,

you can legally buy pot in a

store like you're buying beer or cookies.

# Da da da da da da da dum

dum dum #

right now, it's just a

free-for-all.

It's the wild west?

Wild, wild west.

And I'm Jesse James, I guess,

right now.

It's really stressful, me being

in this for about a year now.

Man, when I started, there was,

like, four of us.

First-time patient?

Come on in.

Yeah, come on in.

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