Stoner Movies Are Dead, and Weed Killed Them — Opinion

 Stoner Movies Are Dead, and Weed Killed Them — Opinion

How 420-friendly films like ‘Inherent Vice,’ ‘Pineapple Express,’ and more got their fans flattened by weed legalization and existential malaise.

Weed movies just don’t hit like they used to, huh?
It’s 4/20 in 2026, and never before has the nation’s unofficial marijuana holiday felt less potent in TV and film. That’s not because our tolerance…