When his Ma becomes ill, a lovable stoner secretly decides to make the illegal Rick Simpson oil. As Ma begins to feel better, she tells her friends, her friends tell their friends, and before you know it the whole town wants the oil. When the town snoop calls in the DEA, she is found dead… and the finger is pointing at our Hero.

SYNOPSIS:

Through the lens of an antic binocular, Blanche Brodie spies on Alice, Sarah and Thelma as they plant flowers around the town sign of Achilles, Wyoming. However, Blanche’s true mission is to document local stoner, Howie “Maui” De Rosa’s every move in her confidential journal. She knows Howie has been growing pot for years in a shed behind the home of LEON SMYTH, an aging resident in the early stages of dementia. All Leon knows is Howie has been taking care of his ten acres. When RAYNE SMYTH, Leon’s granddaughter, arrives to stay and care for Leon, Howie and his buddy JOHNNY do everything they can to keep Rayne at a distance from the shed.

Howie’s MA receives a phone call from her Oncologists with devastating news: all they can do is keep her comfortable. This is crippling news to Howie, who becomes determined to help his Ma.

While talking with Johnny, Howie recalls an article he read in a marijuana magazine about a guy, Rick Simpson, who rediscovered the healing properties of cannabis, making a Hemp oil (RSO) that has been known to help with cancer and other illnesses. The downside: the DEA classifies RSO (high -THC oil) as a Schedule 1 controlled substance. With caution, Howie and Johnny secretly turn the shed into producing RSO in hopes of giving MA some quality of life.

When MA experiences miraculous results from ingesting the oil, she shares this illegal cure with a few close friends, and soon most of the town is wanting the miracle oil. Even the MAYOR read up on it and wants it for his wife who suffers with psoriasis. So, MA sets up a meeting between the Mayor and Howie.

This infuriates Howie due to the attention MA has now put on Howie’s illegal venture. But he cannot say “no” to the pleading town. A group of women volunteer to work with Howie in making and distributing the oil for those in town looking for relief from their ailments.

When Blanche discovers what Howie is up to NOW, she threatens to call in the DEA.

Howie, with so much to lose – not only in the healing of his mother, but facing prison for making the illegal substance - decides to sneak into Blanche’s house late at night and steal her journal of secrets.

As Howie runs from the house with the damning journal clutched under his arm, he collides into Rayne, who is out trying to find her wandering grandfather, Leon. Dropping the journal, Howie madly searches for it in the darkness. Scared Rayne will recognize him, he runs away without the journal, which Rayne finds. A few minutes later, she locates Leon near Blanche’s house and takes him home.

Rayne’s favorite customer at the bar where she works is Sheriff BRADY SHAW, a crossdresser with a flair for accessorizing and a heart as big as his size 16 pumps. Rayne turns the journal over to the Sheriff as he sips on his drink of choice – a Shady Dame from Seville.

When the Sheriff goes to question Blanche about the entries in her journal, he finds her dead in her bed. The coroner’s report reveals she was killed - six different ways over six nights. Sheriff Brady breaks into the shed behind Leon’s house and finds the hemp oil operation. Being a stickler for the law, he is honor bound to bring in the authorities, but being a soft-hearted and unusually-evolved human, he wants to discover whether the oil does have healing properties. He gives Rayne a bottle of the oil – and tells her to try using it on Leon for his dementia. When Leon quickly shows improvement, Rayne begs Brady not to shut down the healing hemp business.

Soon after, as Leon’s memory starts to clear, he confesses to Rayne that he killed Blanche. Rayne panics.

Though so many people are being helped and healed, there is little Brady can do. As the authorities arrive at Leon’s house to arrest Howie for his distribution of the oil, Leon ties a bedroll to an old Indian motorcycle and escapes down the back alley. As the town waves goodbye to Howie (and Leon), Brady pulls up in his squad car and announces that Leon did not murder Blanche - she was already dead from something else.

Six months later, the Wyoming Governor pardons Howie, partly because it is his first offense, but mostly because of his mysterious past with Ma. Howie, Ma, and the residents of Achilles assemble on the front steps of the federal building to support Howie as he begins his fight to make the hemp oil legal for all who need it. After all, it IS the obvious cure!