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So it has been a month or so in the making, but I’ve just heard back from Adam Scorgie, co-creator and executive producer of the much-hyped marijuana documentary, The Union: The Business Behind Getting High. I compiled a list of questions I wanted to know and several of you contributed your own.
Again, if you haven’t yet watched it… watch it. There are many great marijuana documentaries on the market, each bringing something unique to the table, but I truly believe The Union has gone above and beyond when it comes to cited research and copious amounts of professional logic. Don’t forget to pre-order your copy!
Some interesting highlights from the interview:
- The Union was not originally supposed to be a general “pro-marijuana” documentary. Rather, it was originally supposed to be a specific exposé piece on the B.C Bud industry.
- As Adam puts it, “I think because we didn’t have an agenda, or goal for the film going into it is why it turned out so well.”
- From start to finish, the film took four years to complete.
- According to Adam, growers are hoping against legalization for at least five years so they can build a nest-egg for retirement.
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This interview was conducted via e-mail between April 22nd, 2009 and April 26h, 2009. Only minor grammar/spelling checks have been made at the request of Adam Scorgie. Hyperlinks were added after by myself.
Q. ShowMetheFacts.org: What is your first memory of marijuana?
A. Adam Scorgie: HMMMM!!!!, I have to think way back, because growing up in B.C, we’re exposed to Marijuana at such an early age, but here’s goes: I remember the first week of high school, back when high schools went from grades 8-12, and hanging out by the smoke pit and all these older kinds were talking about smoking Bud, Reefer,Pot, Marijuana,Ganja, and I remember thinking to myself, “Wow, there sure are a lot of different drugs around school”, haha, it wasn’t until later that year I realized they were all the same thing.
Q. SMtF: Have you always been supportive of marijuana, or what caused you to change your views?
A. A.S.: No, actually, I was very against marijuana when I was younger, I was somewhat of a jock in high school and believed everything that I was told about Cannabis, that it would make you stupid, lazy, go onto harder drugs. It wasn’t until we started filming The Union that my mind was changed, because originally all we wanted to do with The Union, was just an exposé of the B.C Bud industry, we never knew it would evolve into the educational piece it has become. It was because of interviews with former Police officers like Norm Stamper and scientist and doctors like Lester Grinspoon that really turn my perception, of what “I thought I knew” around.
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