Super High Me

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Super High Me
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Produced by	Alex Campbell
Starring	Doug Benson
Distributed by	bside entertainment
Release date(s)	April 20, 2008
Running time	94 minutes
Language	English
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Super High Me is a documentary about the effects of smoking marijuana non-stop for 30 days. The documentary stars comedian Doug Benson. The documentary's name is a play on the documentary Super Size Me.

Super High Me documents Benson avoiding marijuana for 30 days and then smoking marijuana every day for 30 days in a row.^[1] Benson claims that Super High Me is "Super Size Me with weed instead of McDonalds".^[2] To make sure alcohol wouldn't affect the results, he didn't drink for the two months he filmed the documentary. Benson actually gained 8 pounds during the "high" month. The film also includes interviews with marijuana activists, dispensary owners, politicians and patients who comprise the medical marijuana movement. Benson claims that he tells kids "you should not smoke pot until you become a professional comedian".^[3]

1 Screenings
2 Release
3 Parody
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Screenings

While currently on the festival circuit, Super High Me will be allowing audiences to sign up for their own screenings of the film on the official website in an attempt to initiate a series of grassroots screening events across the country starting on April 20th (4/20).

[edit] Release

The official Super High Me DVD release date is June 17th, but starting May 19th you will be able to pre-order the DVD off the film's official site.

[edit] Parody

Less than a week after the release of Super High Me, Joel McHale and the staff of E!'s The Soup released a promotion of a spoofed documentary entitled "Super Hills Me" where Joel watches The Hills for 30 days. ^[4]