Kid Cannabis

Kid Cannabis is a 2014 American film about an eighteen-year-old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money. The story is based on the life of Nate Norman, an overweight high-school dropout and pizza delivery man in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho.

He builds a multimillion-dollar marijuana ring by trafficking drugs through the woods across the Canadian border. But his pursuit of the high life - complete with girls, guns, and vicious rival drug lords.

It starts of when Nate Norman was hanging out with his buddy Topher Clark when he came up with The Idea. The two friends were sitting around Nate's house, a dumpy little place near the cemetery, and both of them were extremely stoned. And yet The Idea had more legs than your typical pot-inspired idea. It did not involve a second Twinkie inside the first one.

At the time, Nate was a nineteen-year-old high school dropout who worked at a Pizza Hut in Coeur D'Alene - a gorgeous but dull resort town in Idaho - and sold the occasional dime bag on the side. Chubby and baby-faced. Nate had never been the type to come up with a million-dollar brainstorm.

Nate had been getting his stash from a dealer in Spokane, Washington. But he had heard about how easy it was to cross the Canadian border  – only an hour north of Coeur D'Alene  – and bring back the popular, extremely potent marijuana growing in abundance in British Columbia and known, generically, as "B.C. Bud." Rumor had it that the town of Nelson had become  a place where if it took you more than ten minutes to find someone to sell you a dime bag, there was a good chance you were already high.

Once Nate hatched his smuggling plan, he and Topher realized that their first order of business would be to scrape together enough cash to make a buy. Luckily, Topher had salvaged a sunken jet boat from the lake in Coeur D'Alene and had spent the summer restoring it. To kick-start their enterprise, he dragged it to the side of the highway and sold it within minutes for $1,500

The Idea turned out to be a textbook case of business economics: Buy low, sell high and eliminate the middleman. Things happened quickly after that. Suddenly, Nate and Topher and all of their friends had more cash than they'd ever dreamed of, along with expensive cars, hot girlfriends and fancy lakefront homes. And then, just as quickly, they began to lose control. Harder drugs, guns, paranoia, eventually violence.

The group sooner or later got caught up the cops, and the rest of Nathan’s friends decided to snitch on them to the cops in exchange for a lower jail sentence. Nathan got a 12 year sentence in Jail since he refused to tell the cops who he’s supplier was. And he plans to get back into the drug business once he gets out of prison in the second movie.

Rating: 5/5