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"MARIJUANA AND THE MIND: Can Cannabis Make You Smarter?"

FROM THE DIRECTOR: “Since cannabis has had such a profound effect on my psyche, I want to analyze and understand that mental process. I’m going to ask scientists exactly what happens inside our brains while we’re tripping, listening to music, having stony sex, or being creative—all those things that pot has the potential to improve. Since marijuana tends to intensify everything, it can make you paranoid if you smoke too much, but it can also help you write a novel, create a painting, or imagine a new scientific theory. I will go back in history to see how famous writers, poets, and painters used cannabis to create their art. I also want to know why it helps so many people with their depression. There is amazing work being done by a few brave doctors who are using cannabis on children who are severely autistic. Its cannabinoid chemicals appear to have turned some of these kids lives around. Then there’s the use of cannabis for Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and OCD. All issues I’ll cover in my next film, “Marijuana and the Mind", which asks the question...

“Can cannabis make your smarter?”

As soon as we raise enough funds we will start production on our follow-up film with the same creative team: Director-writer: Len Richmond. Editor: Massimo Mazzucco.

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PLANNED INTERVIEWS FOR “MARIJUANA AND THE MIND” (SO FAR):

Dr. Andrew Weil, a graduate of Harvard Medical School, is one of the most widely known and respected alternative medicine gurus. Weil appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in 1997 and 2005. Time Magazine also named him one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997 and one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2005.

He published his first book, The Natural Mind, in 1972. Weil has since written or co-written nine books, and was a regular contributor to High Times magazine from 1975 to 1983. His early works explored altered states of consciousness, but he has since expanded his scope to encompass healthy lifestyles and health care in general.

FROM THE DIRECTOR: I’ve thought about what the world would be like if everyone smoked pot. Some of us might get less accomplished, but most of us would be far less stressed.

If the whole world smoked pot, I think there’d be fewer conflicts of ego. We’d see the other person's point of view more easily.  I believe we’d be kinder to one another, because we’d be happier within ourselves.

These are all issues which I’ll cover in “Marijuana and the Mind".

I truly believe marijuana is a spiritual drug that can help humankind survive—emotionally and physically. By accident or divine intervention, cannabis has become a partnership between man and plant. It’s not the only healing herb on Earth, but as the scientists in “Marijuana and the Mind” will explain, it’s the most powerful. Oh yeah, and it makes us laugh a lot. How cool is that?

MARIJUANA AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS - Mindfulness can be a quality of the cannabis experience.

THE INTELLIGENCE OF CANNABIS - Endocannabinoids are mood regulators.

THE IN-BETWEEN LAND - The early Sufis maintained that cannabis gave them insights into themselves.

NATURE CONCENTRATED – In the 1800’s, the Club des Hachichins met monthly in Paris, dispensing hashish to such notables as Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, and Balzac.

FREEWHEELING THOUGHTS - Marijuana enhances brain activity in the right hemisphere.

SLEEPWALKING THROUGH TIME – We’re used to judging time in terms of important events. When you’re high, everything’s important.

SOMEONE I KNEW IN EVERY FACE - 40 percent of cannabis smokers say that their memory for long-forgotten events was improved by smoking.

A TOLERANCE FOR CONTRADICTIONS - The majority of pot smokers say that when they’re high they have more insights.

ALIENATION AND INTIMACY - Cannabis is now being used as a treatment for children with autism - with surprisingly positive results.

OLD PATTERNS AND COMPULSIONS - Depression appears to respond to the anti-anxiety chemicals in the plant.

THE PURITY OF AWARENESS - Biology Professor Robert Melamede teaches that the world can be divided into two sorts of individuals –  backward looking people ("Blips") and forward looking people ("Flips").

CAPTURING SUNLIGHT - Could the unfettered, widespread consumption of marijuana revolutionize the world and change basic attitudes?

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