Who the heck is Doug Benson? Well you’ll find out if you watch “Super High Me,” a stoner movie that’s actually a documentary about how California is fast-becoming the land of legally consumed marijuana.

Benson is a dry, understated comedienne who likes to smoke pot a lot. At the behest of a young filmmaker named Michael Blieden, Benson decided to take one of his pot jokes, one based on Morgan Spurlocks’s documentary “Super Size Me” - about the impact of eating at McDonald’s three-meals-a-day for 30 days - and make a movie out of it.
Benson goes a month without smoking any marijuana and then takes the SAT and a few other tests. Then he goes a month straight smoking nothing but marijuana, and takes those same tests again. It’s intriguing.

But the most interesting thing about the documentary is how it shows first-hand the booming medical marijuana business in Los Angeles (aka Los Ganjales) and Oakland (aka Oaksterdam). Sometimes federal anti-drug agents show up and ruin the party, but overall the potheads seem to be settling down and rooting themselves in. To learn more about this doc, or buy a copy of it, visit www.superhighmemovie.com.

Takes a little while to get up to speed, but once it finds its 5th gear, the very American story lines of Doug Pray’s ‘Big Rig’ take hold.

These Big Rig truckers reveal that “freedom” means different things to different people. But they all tell the same story of the independent trucker losing to corporations as rising diesel prices slash into their take-home pay.

This two-hour documentary shows the power of a determined independent filmmaker such as Pray (the man behind “Hype,” “Scratch” and now “Surfwise”) who traveled through 45 states and rode 25,000 miles to make this movie. He directed, shot and edited the film himself.

Since the shooting for the film was completed - likely sometime in 2006 - diesel prices have doubled to nearly $5 a gallon. Still American truckers keep rolling - though I did recently hear about Big Rig drivers circling downtown Washington D.C. in protest of the high fuel prices.

For more information about the film, or to buy a copy of it, visit www.bigrigmovie.com. Posted on the Web site is a list of truck stops across the country where the documentary will be shown this summer for free.