Editing How High (section)

==Reception==
===Box office===
''How High'' collected $7.1 million during its opening weekend, ranking in fifth place at the box office below ''[[The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', ''[[Ocean's Eleven]]'', ''[[Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius]]'' and ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-signal-fellowship-lords-over-weeke/124524156/ |title='Fellowship' lords over weekend box-office as No. 1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230512224035/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-signal-fellowship-lords-over-weeke/124524156/ |date=December 24, 2001 |access-date=May 12, 2023 |archive-date=May 12, 2023 |page=30 |publisher=[[The Santa Clarita Valley Signal|The Signal]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref>

===Critical response===
On [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]], ''How High'' has an approval rating of 25% based on 59 reviews, with an average rating of 3.9/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "How High is a sloppily constructed stoner movie filled with lame, vulgar jokes."<ref name="tomatoes">{{cite web |title=How High (2001) |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/how_high |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=15 October 2024 }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film received a score of 29 based on 21 reviews, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.<ref name="metacritic">{{cite web |title=How High |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/how-high |website=[[Metacritic]] }}</ref>

Mike Clark of ''[[USA Today]]'' gave the film two and a half stars out of four. He concluded that it did not have enough material "to sustain its 91 minutes" but did have enough "low-grade laughs" for its target audience.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Clark |first1=Mike |title='How High': Weed it and weep, stoners |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/enter/movies/2001-12-21-how-high-review.htm |access-date=April 21, 2020 |work=USA Today |date=December 20, 2001}}</ref>

Writing for the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'', Bob Graham noted that "It looks like a movie somebody hallucinated and put up on the screen". He praised some humorous scenes such as the exhumation of John Quincy Adams, but criticized an abrupt ending.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Bob |title=FILM CLIPS / Also opening today |url=https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-CLIPS-Also-opening-today-2836395.php#high |access-date=April 21, 2020 |work=San Francisco Chronicle |date=December 21, 2001}}</ref>

{{Anchor|Awards|Accolades}}
''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' rated it third in their "Best Stoner Movie" top ten list.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pastorek |first=Whitney |title=Joint Ventures |newspaper=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=August 6, 2004 |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/08/06/ews-top-10-list-best-stoner-flicks/ |access-date=May 23, 2007 |archive-date=June 2, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602115809/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,673986,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> It also won the [[Stony Awards|Stony Award]] for Best Stoner Movie in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.indiewire.com/2002/03/daily-news-showtimes-lift-stony-winners-and-spooky-plans-80499/ |title=DAILY NEWS: Showtime's "Lift"; Stony Winners; and "Spooky" Plans |work=[[IndieWire]] |date=7 March 2002|access-date=2019-10-04 }}</ref>