Super High Me opens with Doug Benson in the middle of one of his standup comedy acts. He looks on the audience, noting, “I saw that movie, Super Size Me, when I was high. Mistake! The premise of the movie is that it’s bad to eat a lot of McDonalds when I’m sitting there, high, thinking I could go for a hot apple pie…” From there he introduces his master plan: to play the part of a chonged-out Morgan Spurlock. By abstaining from pot and alcohol for 30 days, then using pot heavily for another month, all while undergoing a series of procedures that test his physical and mental abilities (sober and chiefed) Benson aims to find out if there are truly any negatives to getting really, really high.

Though Super High Me is billed as a documentary, calling it that would be…uh…unfair. Super High Me does for pot what Bowling for Columbine did for gun control or Sicko did for healthcare. Sure, by the end you can’t help but think pot is this wonderful, great, time-of-your-life drug that everyone should smoke every day, but a few hours later a new, different feeling starts to sink in. You see the bias. You remember that the doctor he consulted for many of his tests had a Reefer Madness screensaver on his computer. You realize that the DEA agents that raid marijuana shops are just doing their jobs. You realize how goddamn pathetic it is when the stoner chick breaks down in tears when she can’t have her pot. However funny Benson is, everything around him reeks of patchouli, desperation and fakeness.

Looking at this movie as a comedy doesn’t really do it justice either. Yes, Doug Benson is a comedian. Yes, there are plenty of clips of him doing comedy. And yeah, Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Jeffery Ross and Zach Galifianakis are all in it, but too often they come off as further propaganda for the film. Instead of a mediocre comic like Benson advocating marijuana use, he brings in his far more famous friends to show that they are, in fact, “cool with it” as the hip kids like to say. Super High Me is far too motivated to prove to the viewer that pot is fine and dandy to stop and make the clever observations necessary to make a comedy truly funny.

The most interesting part of Super High Me is Doug Benson. He may not be funny all of the time, but seeing his brief trip to sobriety and back into the world of ganj is actually pretty memorable, if not a little sad. During Benson’s 30 days without pot he bitches time and time again about how unfunny he feels when he isn’t stoned, and how he can’t wait to smoke so he can be funny again. In truth, Benson is far funnier when he’s sober, his jokes are more complex, his timing is better, and he doesn’t have to play off the fact that he’s stoned to make the audience laugh.

For all of its faults Super High Me is a damn entertaining movie. The concept behind it may be ludicrous, but the execution is well through-out, and again, Doug Benson really is a fascinating character in this film. Even if the message is missing and the laughs don’t constantly roll towards the viewer it’s worth the 90 minutes to invest in this film.