The title, “Super High Me,” sounds strikingly similar to the documentary, “Super Size Me.” We know one is a documentary about what happened when a guy ate at McDonald’s every day for 30 days. The other sounds like a pot reference. That’s because that’s exactly what it is. “Super High Me” explores what would happen if a guy abstained from marijuana for 30 days and then smoked marijuana to maintain a constant high for 30 days.

Starring comedian Doug Benson from “Comedy Central Presents” and VH1’s “Best Week Ever,” “Super High Me” is a funny and engaging documentary about Benson’s reaction to being high for 30 days straight. Benson is likeable and endearing throughout the documentary, seeming to have an unalterably carefree demeanor. He also has an innocent quality: Everything seems to strike him as new, exciting, and often funny, making him and the documentary a captivating experience.

Benson goes through a myriad of tests and observations while he’s sober and the same tests a month later – while he’s stoned. He takes an S.A.T. test, a lung capacity test, a memory test, sperm-count, he sees a psychiatrist, his weight is checked, etc., and it’s interesting to see how things change from one test-date to the next.

These tests and other events are punctuated by clips of Benson’s stand up performances, which really help set the tone. Benson is a comedian and “Super High Me,” is a funny documentary. It definitely helps the documentary’s theme that, in Benson’s stand up, he has a mountain of well-written and excellently performed pot jokes.

During his 30 days sober and 30 days high, Benson visits marijuana related places: medical marijuana dispensaries and the first medical marijuana dispensary in the U.S., pot growers, a pro-marijuana church called “Temple 420,” a pro-medicinal marijuana senator from Minnesota, and others. During his adventures we learn about various subcultures, marijuana laws, and we’re given fun facts, like: Panelists rate cannabis as the number one-selling cash crop in America, well above cotton, wheat, and tobacco, with California responsible for one-third of the country’s supply. If taxed, cannabis would generate over $1 billion in government revenue. The documentary seems so pro-marijuana that it does bring into question how objective and accurate these facts are.

The cinematography is stellar. There are so many shots with interesting composition -“composition” being a word that I usually reserve for paintings or photographs. There are scenes in this documentary that are shot in a way that make them so interesting visually that when I watch I think, “This could easily be art.”

“Super High Me” is based around an experiment though, and I won’t spoil the way the experiment turns out, but it does lead me to one of my main complaints about the documentary. The experiment seems only quasi-scientific. In the context of the completely pro-marijuana documentary, the results of the experiment likewise seem completely eschewed to favor marijuana. Maybe the results would favor marijuana anyway, but the context certainly doesn’t make the experiment look objective.

That is a small complaint though. The fact is this documentary is fun to watch. Every scene made me excited for the next scene, and it was fun to try and discern differences between Benson being high and sober. Netflix this documentary – it might be hard to find it elsewhere.

Currently, you can also go to superhighmemovie.com and sign up to host your own free private screening of the film.

Jesse Fernandez can be reached at [email protected]