To call How High a guilty pleasure explicitly and wrongly conveys that there should be any amount of shame assigned to the consumption of the film, the wider subgenre, or its ephemera and paraphernalia off-screen.
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Gary Suarez is a freelance journalist and music critic born, raised, and based in New York City. Over the past two-and-a-half decades, his writing has appeared at various outlets including Complex, Entertainment Weekly, High Times, and Vulture. He currently runs the hip-hop media brand CABBAGES, with a weekly newsletter and a podcast where he interviews rappers about movies.