Despite the fact that it’s still, you know, illegal, there’s an entire cottage industry devoted to celebrating and promoting marijuana and its attendant “lifestyle,” and that’s where a DVD like The 20th Anniversary Cannabis Cup comes into play — filling that void between the time spent lighting up, missing community college classes, munching on Cool Ranch Doritos, wondering where your copy of Dazed and Confused went, and waiting for your roommate to figure out how to download that pirated copy of Pineapple Express.



Presented by High Times (naturally), this disc brings the world’s biggest annual pot party to your very own living room. Running about an hour, it’s made up of just the sort of short-attention-span bits that one would expect on a compilation title like this — a musical performance from noted marijuana advocate Redman here, chuckle-laden interview tidbits there. There’s also footage of both 100-gram joints and the world’s biggest bong, a peek inside the Sacred Temple with celebrity judges as they choose the world’s greatest pot, and, as the cover promises, high-resolution photos of the winning buds. Wow. If something other than weed could be a “must-have” for habitual stoners, then I suppose it would be this DVD.

The 20th Anniversary Cannabis Cup comes housed in a regular Amray case, along with a 36-page color booklet that includes plenty of, umm, educational photographs, as well as an Amsterdam coffeeshop map (yes, seriously). It’s presented on a region-free disc with a stereo audio track, but you have to provide your own blacklight, sorry. Free hippie lettuce samples not included, either. A (Movie, if I were a stoner) B- (Disc)