{"id":8243,"date":"2019-09-27T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.weedmaps.com\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:44:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T22:44:50","slug":"thanks-to-weed-every-cool-movie-in-the-90s-was-a-stoner-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wmnews.wpengine.com\/2019\/09\/thanks-to-weed-every-cool-movie-in-the-90s-was-a-stoner-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to Weed, Every Cool Movie in the '90s was a Stoner Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the '90s, weed became cool again. And so did the movies.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As the 1980s gave way to the final decade of the 20th century, a generation that came of age under the thumb of Nixon's war on drugs and the Just Say No era of the Reagans became <\/span>activists and advocates for cannabis<\/span><\/a>. They also started making dope movies \u2014 creating a new pop culture canon and expanding the language of cinema, making major contributions to the rise of weed in mainstream American culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As <\/span>new coalitions of pro-pot activists<\/span><\/a> such as Dennis Peron and Mary Jane Rathburn were building momentum in the San Francisco Bay Area by founding the first U.S. cannabis dispensary and making brownies for HIV and AIDS patients; hot new filmmakers including Richard Linklater, Quentin Tarantino, and F. Gary Gray were infusing their movies with some sneaky, but highly influential on-screen representation of the contemporary weed culture \u2014 while pioneering a collective technical dankness that would define the aesthetic of \u201c'90s cool.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, just about every cool movie (and, honestly, most great movies) from the decade was, whether intentionally or not, playing to the stoners in the back corner. From the golden-age '90s stoner comedies to the ston<\/span>ey <\/span><\/i>films of the decade's young rockstar directors, let's drop in on a brief timeline of the decade's raddest movies to see just how much we owe to weed for inciting a stoner cinema explosion that still resonates two decades later.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

1993 \u2014 'True Romance' and 'Dazed and Confused'\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n