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How High

2001 film by Jesse Dylan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

How High is a 2001 American stoner comedy film directed by Jesse Dylan in his feature directorial debut and written by Dustin Lee Abraham. The film stars Method Man and Redman as two cannabis users who gain admission to Harvard University with the supernatural help of a deceased friend whose ashes were used to fertilize a marijuana plant. Obba Babatundé, Mike Epps, Jeffrey Jones, and Fred Willard also appear in supporting roles.

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“How High” enters the record as 2001 film by Jesse Dylan. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what High, film and Jesse can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around High, film and Jesse.
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“How High” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, High, film and Jesse provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “How High” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.