'Why I quit my Hollywood career to grow marijuana,' by Blair Witch actress Heather Donahue



In 1999, Heather Donahue was catapulted to stardom after starring in the hit indie horror film The Blair Witch Project.

But a few years later the actress, who memorably filmed herself crying in the climactic scene, had become disillusioned with Hollywood.

As her acting career stalled, she embarked on a new career as medical marijuana grower and is releasing a book called GrowGirl : How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot about the experience next month.

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Green thumbs: Heather Donahue left behind her acting career to grow pot



Donahue received her own prescription for medical marijuana in 2007 to treat PMS.



When asked in an interview in the Philidelphia Inquirer whether that meant she smoked marijuana only one week a month, she replied: 'It's a very flexible medicine.'

'I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all,' Donahue, 37, also told the newspaper.

The only thing she salvaged was the blue ski cap from the Blair Witch poster.

'That's the only thing I kept,' she says. 'I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay.'

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Donahue ended up following her boyfriend to a California town called Nuggettown and into a new life of growing marijuana, mostly for medical purposes.

She told the Inquirer that she was always an avid gardener and quickly fell into a routine, becoming a solitary country girl after her years in the fast lane in L.A.

But she gave up growing pot and decided to write about her experience after a friend got busted by the Feds.

Donahue, who is now on a book tour, is torn about whether marijuana should be legalized.



'Cannabis has been intertwined with human culture for thousands of years,' she says on her website. 'It's here to stay as medicine, as an industry, and as a component of the culture. The idea that such a hearty, useful plant could be legislated out of existence seems pretty foolish.'

Book tour: Donahue is currently on tour to publicize her new book





