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In 1999, Heather Donahue was unexpectedly catapulted to stardom as a co-creator and costar of the indie horror film The Blair Witch Project<\/em> \u2013 who memorably filmed herself crying in terror in the genre-breaking flick.<\/p>\n

A few short years later, just as unexpectedly, her acting career stalled. And soon she was embarking on the most peculiar of second acts \u2013 that of marijuana grower.<\/p>\n

“I took all my stuff into the desert related to my acting career and burned it all,” Donahue, who turns 37 on Thursday, tells the Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, she did spare one thing: the blue ski cap from the Blair Witch<\/em> poster. <\/p>\n

“That’s the only thing I kept,” she says. “I figured if things got really bad, I could always sell it on eBay.”<\/p>\n

At the time of Blair Witch<\/em>‘s release, Donahue told PEOPLE that her newfound fame was “hilarious and overwhelming.”<\/a> But soon she became disillusioned. “The acting projects I was lucky enough to work on weren\u2019t always things that I felt good about putting out into the world,” she says now in a Q&A on her website.<\/a> “I didn\u2019t see that getting better as I got older. I wanted to change my life, see what else was out there for me, what else I might become.”<\/p>\n

She ended up following her then new boyfriend into a strange new life of growing marijuana, mostly for medical purposes \u2013 a journey she relates in her forthcoming memoir, GrowGirl: How My Life After The Blair Witch Project Went to Pot<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Donahue ended up living for a year in Nuggettown, Calif., with a bunch of growers and their “pot wives,” helping to build grow rooms and tending to the crops. She tells the Inquirer<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

She gave up growing pot after deciding to write about it \u2013 and after a friend got busted by the feds.<\/p>\n

Donahue, who is now on a book tour, is torn about whether marijuana should be legalized. On the one hand, she’s worried that corporations might run over the mom-and-pop growers. But at the same time, she thinks it’s foolish to outlaw it.<\/p>\n

“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, especially in retrospect.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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