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Maybe you're a raving pothead who runs around going "Dude, it's 4/20 today! Let's totally bake oooout!" Or maybe you're a non-partaker who still enjoys watching stoned people act silly. Or MAYBE you hate marijuana but you just like documentary films that dole out funny and informative in equal measure.

Well good news. Tonight ALL of you can tune in to the television world premiere of Super High Me, which is a pro-weed doco that played to an appreciative (if slightly fragrant) audience at last year's SXSW Film Festival. Borrowing a leafy page from Morgan Spurlock's (clearly influential) Super Size Me, Michael Blieden's Super High Me charts the journey of one serious pot-smoker (affable comedian Doug Benson) who decides to abstain for thirty(!) full days ... before smoking like Cheech times Chong for the NEXT 30 days. Along the way we learn a lot of (baked and biased but still interesting) things about pot culture, legality, medicinal uses, and physiological effects.

Plus, of course, G4 has a whole evening packed with weed-flavored programming, so go grab some munchies and see what all the puffings about. For more on the flick, check out the official site right here, and if you're still jonesin' then go read Erik Davis' review and eat some Twinkies.

Let's see if I remember this one ...

One of the funniest stoner comedies I've seen in quite some time, Super High Me -- a new documentary starring comedian Doug Benson – takes Morgan Spurlock's successful Super Size Me format and applies it to smoking weed. Benson, who originally began this whole thing by including the Super High Me joke as part of his act, actually decided to go ahead with the ridiculous film and the result is definitely geared more toward the stoner crowd, but funny as all hell nonetheless.

Directed by Michael Blieden, Super High Me is cut into two halves: the first follows Benson around for 30 days while he doesn't get high. See, it's during this time that he puts his body through all sorts of tests -- stress tests, blood pressure, sperm counts, psychic tests and even an S.A.T. test. Once those 30 days are over, Benson spends another 30 days smoking pot morning, noon and night. All pot ... all the time. Naturally, toward the end of the final 30 days, Benson puts his body through all of the same tests to see what, if any, effect marijuana use had on him.