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John Cho and Kal Penn On The Cover Of Our Green Issue

Who other than the stars of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay would make a better cover duo for our first ever Green Issue? John Cho and Kal Penn don’t partake in their characters’ favorite vice. They’ve never even seen a Cheech and Chong flick. But that hasn’t stopped them from becoming icons for the members of ultimate frisbee teams and er…hemp enthusiasts across the nation. Pick up the issue, with custom cover lettering by Grateful Dead type O.G. Wes Wilson when it hits stands April 10th. Inside you’ll find 420 ways to live the green life, the future of sneakers, and, of course, our photo shoot with our cover girl Mila Kunis. Read a few pearls of wisdom from Cho and Penn’s interview as well as a video with the directors of Harold & Kumar after the jump.

On the popularity of the Harold and Kumar characters:
John Cho: “For years Asian-American people would come up to me and say that they enjoyed my stuff. But there was a moment when an Asian person came up to me and said, “It’s good to see you guys representing stoners.” And for me, that was a great twist, that an Asian person would come up to me and draw the comparison between us not in terms of ethnicity but in terms of recreational activity.

On fans offering up to share a little from their personal stash:
Kal Penn: “People do offer you weed, but to me that’s not as odd as them offering you things like rides to places. You’re in some town visiting a friend–’Hey, do you need a place to crash?’ I’m like, I don’t know you.”

On filming the bottomless party scene for the movie:
John Cho: “The first shot that night was us knocking on the door to enter the bottomless party. And I told Kal, ‘Remember this night, because you ‘ll be asked about it for the rest of your life.’”

Check out the video interview with Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, the directors of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay:

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