CANNABIS CULTURE - Cannabis consumers past and present contribute mightily to the global motion picture industry, as the 67th annual Golden Globe awards demonstrated.
CANNABIS CULTURE - Nearly 50 years after her death, Marilyn Monroe has made a film appearance: a previously undiscovered home movie purportedly showing her smoking pot at a party in New Jersey, circa 1958.
The king of stoner moviemakers, Kevin Smith, never really smoked much marijuana until Seth Rogen talked him into it last summer, he says. Now he sparks up at least three times a day and credits pot for helping him to dig his way out of a creative slump.
Venezuelan filmmaker Jonathan Jakubowicz has pulled the plug on his latest project after being driven out of town by Mexican drug gangs. Jakubowicz was forced to abandon production of, Queen of the South, starring Eva Mendes, Sir Ben Kingsley and Josh Hartnett, after receiving death threats while attempting to film on location in Sinaloa.