Comedian Aries Spears on Isolation, 420, and Cannabis by Patricia Miller
For the first time since 1920, it’s 4/20 all month long! How are you celebrating this year? If you’re like millions of Americans, you’re likely celebrating from the comfort of your own home.
Thankfully, cannabis is considered an essential resource in many communities, so perhaps your favorite edible, THC tea, or concentrate will soothe your rattled nerves.
If you’re looking for a little laughter and distraction, perhaps the aptly titled The 420 Movie: Mary & Jane will pique your interest. It’s now streaming on all your favorite platforms.
We spoke with actor and comedian Aries Spears to hear his take on the film and learn more about his outlook on the intersection between comedy and cannabis.
Aries Spears: You know, I try to take it in stride, but it sucks.
Aries Spears: Yeah. But you know, it feels like a Thanksgiving that won’t end.
Aries Spears: I guess everything’s on hold. I don’t know the impact in terms of money, but I would imagine no real money is being made. Everything’s being chalked up as a loss, so it’s devastating.
Aries Spears: I play a crooked, dirty, cop who does everything he’s not supposed to do. The lead characters, two young ladies, invent a smoking device, to help their dad save his town from bankruptcy.
Aries Spears: Well, everything is funnier.
Aries Spears: No, I think it’d be better if it were in the mainstream. It’s probably, from what everybody who knows about it and who has ever done it, it’s the least harmful vice on the planet. And, more or less, it brings people together. So I don’t see why it wouldn’t be more mainstream.
Aries Spears: No, not really. I just totally use it for recreational purposes. I try not to mix business with pleasure.
Aries Spears: Our smell was called struggle [laughs]. You know, it’s always funny to me when they give marijuana all these names… at the end of the day, it all just gets you high. It’s like, you could have all the different kinds of vodka you want. But when it’s all said and done, they all do the same thing, which is to get you drunk.
Aries Spears: I think it allows you to just totally be who you are. There aren’t any real rules or restrictions or regulations. Whereas now, it seems like everything is so defined by political correctness and sensitivity.
Aries Spears: I think it’s changed for some people. I think it only changes you if you let it change you. I’m pretty stuck in my ways, so I’m going to do what I do in a way that makes me most comfortable. And if people adapt to it, great. If they don’t, you know, that’s what the exit sign is for.
Aries Spears: I don’t know that it has that much of an effect on people. I think, at this point, we all know what it does and we all know what it is. I mean, the only people telling you not to smoke cannabis are either your parents, who at one point did it, or politicians, who probably need to do it.
Aries Spears: I think they’ll still do it. Which, if you get high enough, that’s its own celebration. But you know, I think once this thing is over, people are going to go into overdrive and celebrate harder than they’ve ever celebrated before.
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