Okay, like we all know representation matters and it's going to sound weird what I'm about to say, but hear me out.

There are actually almost no movies about stoners. Now you're protesting

in your mind enlisting all the movies about stoners, like Catty Shack or or whatever but in fact you're thinking of movies made

for stoners and not about them? See stoners represent an enormous demographic of cultural consumers that have always been

exploited and excluded by the entertainment industry.

12% of Americans smoke pot.

But what percentage of music and movies are consumed by stoners?

Half?

More? Stoners are picking up what you were putting down global entertainment

economy. We're doing the heavy lifting of thinking that movies and music are good.

Yet stoners are always represented as like lovable losers and dopes and clowns.

Are they those things?

Sure.

And sure, like maybe the Stoner character has a heart of gold,

but is the Stoner not complicated? Does the stoner not love and feel loved?

No! I mean, yes, what I mean is, the stoner deserves better.

Stoner love fantasy, they love sci-fi,

stoners love superheroes, they love Tom Cruise, they love Tom Hanks, they love Tom Hardy,

they love Tom Arnold, they love Tom Green, you name it. Even like moody Cold War movies where gray-faced people move like

pieces of paper around in the rain and at the end someone gets arrested and you don't even

remember if they were in the rest of the movie or not and what side are we

rooting for

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