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THE MARIJUANA CONSPIRACY Interview!

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CinemaSins | Chris Atkinson & Jeremy Scott

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The SinCast crew are high on life this week as they sit down with two of the people behind the new film The Marijuana Conspiracy. Director Craig Pryce and Doreen Brown discuss the film and the details of the VERY controversial real-life incident on which it's based. Learn all about it on a brand new SinCast! The Marijuana Conspiracy will be available On Demand and Digital on April 20th. Get it? Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

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at $3 a month and you can sign up now at patreon.com slash cinemaSense.

0:16.8

For lack of better word ignorance or just an awareness, you know, I just I love some of the shots

0:22.3

the girls give them, you know, when every time they leave the room he's like, what did I say wrong?

0:30.0

Welcome to Sincast, presented by CinemaSense.

0:50.0

All right everybody, welcome to the Sincast. This is Chris Atkinson from CinemaSense,

0:53.6

joined by Jonathan Watkins. Hello, hello. And Barrett Share.

0:57.9

Hi there. And today we have two very special guests. It is writer, director Craig Price and

1:05.1

Doreen Brown, on which this movie is I guess pretty much based on it's the marijuana conspiracy coming

1:13.5

out on demand in digital on April 20th. Doreen and Craig, welcome. Thank you. Glad to be here.

1:22.9

Yeah. Doreen, tell us your story, which probably for the 40th time today,

1:33.5

about only three times today. Only three times, okay, good, good. Tell us your story as it relates

1:40.9

to this film. Okay, in 1972, I went into a marijuana experiment run by the Canadian government.

1:53.4

And I was one of 20 women. And I got on the smoking side. So I had to smoke marijuana for 98 days.

2:06.9

I couldn't go out anywhere. Couldn't see anyone I knew couldn't phone anyone. No phone calls at all.

2:13.4

Basically, we were locked down for 98 days in a hospital corridor.

2:19.7

And it was all sort of there was a financial aspect to it where you were making macrame and things

2:27.4

like that, right? Yes. We were the motor production was weaving belts. And we received two dollars and

2:35.2

50 cents for each belt. And I had to go through quality control. So you had to know what you were

2:41.0

doing. It had to look good. And with that money, we had to pay for basically room and board.

2:48.7

We had to pay for food. Every time we wanted to listen to an album, we had to pay for the stereo.

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