Oh my god, the first part of this documentary annoyed me so much, they cut that damn hemp long before it had any flowers on it and the 'marijuana' they stuffed in that uhaul was just leaf, so hard to understand how people back then didn't know it was the flowers you wanted, I bet you could have smoked all of those bags of leaf and not got any buzz just a headache.
The second part in Kentucky was much more interesting, but the only flowers we saw were a couple of males. It didn't make clear if he dude actually left the plants long enough to flower as that brick he pressed was just leaf, I doubt that would have got you high either. The way the guy described how hard moonshining was and how weed was so much easier is telling, still to this day, there are people all over that part of the US who are growing weed like that, modern day moonshiners.
The Mexican part was fascinating, the packets he bought were the only female flowers we saw in the whole piece, it looked like it had been cleaned pretty well when he was handling it, I bet it was pretty good smoke, but it was the only thing smokeable in the whole film apart from the bricks in Tijuana.
With the way the film focused on the leaves and the only female flower to be seen was an animated one, it gives the impression people were smoking laves back then, which I doubt is correct. The film left me pretty frustrated cos it was wonderfully shot and 16mm film looks so beautiful and dreamy compared to video but the content just left me feeling jobbed, like they had promised to show me weed and it turned out to be fake.
