Article: Homegrown truths: Ron Mann's Grass lights a torch for reefer sanity.

Some filmmakers stumble on their subjects! others get them handed to them.

For Ron Mann, his latest film Grass was something else entirely--fate. "Back in 1979, I made my first film--a short called The Only Game in Town. Later on it won an award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema, and it went out to theatres played in front of Cheech and Chong's Up In Smoke," laughs Mann. "So in a lot of ways this was a film I was destined to do."

A seven-year labour of love and dedication, Mann's fifth feature-length documentary, Grass, is an appealing (and often appalling) expose about America's war on drugs: marijuana division. "My real aim was to do an Atomic Cafe ...

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