Get ready for the first-ever New York City cannabis film festival

The organizers of the New York City Cannabis Film Festival want you to know that theirs is not an event designed for stoners looking to watch videos and get high. Instead, they're hoping to “elevate the cannabis culture” by connecting filmmakers with a budding class of leaders and entrepreneurs.

On September 26, Brooklyn will host the first New York City Cannabis Film Festival, holding screenings at 4:20 and 7:10 at Williamsburg’s Wythe Hotel. “[The film festival] basically says, ‘hey, we’re here and we’re here in New York, we’re pushing for this and you can too, and be part of this great cultural movement,’” says Tim Mattson, the festival's director and media coordinator of the cannabis meetup group High NY.

The festival will feature several short films (divided, Mattson says, into three categories: animated, trippy, or “laugh your ass off, freak you out” funny)  and a full-length international documentary about the...

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