New Series On Showtime: Weeds

[MoesToking]

The media is finally starting to show Marijuana in an everday sense, not just a criminal and evil way. Check this new show out coming to Showtime called Weeds about a suburban mom who sells pot to support her family, this is so true. I live in a suburb of Austin and I know a lot these white middle class folks who toke up regularly.

http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do

WEEDS looks at "typical" family life in the suburban neighborhood of Agrestic, California, where recently-widowed Nancy Botwin (MARY LOUISE PARKER) plays referee to a circle of dysfunctional suburbanites who assemble at weekend soccer matches, PTA meetings, and many other domestic rituals of everyday life. Left with more family debt than she expected, Nancy finds it hard making ends meet while raising her two sons, so she's recently become a very successful neighborhood door-to-door salesman. But not for Mary Kay cosmetics or Tupperware. No, Nancy is selling pot -- and it's a business that is booming.

Included in the array of quirky and confused souls in Agrestic is Nancy's friend, Celia Hodes (ELIZABETH PERKINS), the uptight, superficial PTA president and fellow super mom. At times she seems to be the only sane one in the bunch - until she becomes preoccupied with her chubby nine-year-old daughter's weight or hides a nanny-cam to spy on her promiscuous 15-year-old daughter. She's both Nancy's friend and nemesis, as well as the self-appointed supervisor of the neighborhood's moral values. Befuddled city councilman Doug Wilson (KEVIN NEALON) is one of Nancy's regular clients. Not only does he enjoy a primo dime bag every now and then, but he's also the father of a cocky teenager who is himself a pot dealer -- and gay -- all unbeknownst to Doug.

As an escape from her "Stepfordian" cul-de-sac, Nancy regularly visits her pot supplier's house in a shady neighborhood in Los Angeles. Somehow she feels most at home with this close-knit family, which speaks frankly and lives a completely different life than she would ever have experienced had she not entered this line of work.

Nancy Botwin has a strict code about selling only to adults, and pot is something she would never do herself, but she realizes there's a demand out there and somebody's got to fill it. An uber-parent to her kids, a counselor to anyone who needs it, and a confused widow trying to get on with her life, she's ready for anything that could come up in this cookie-cutter neighborhood. And what goes on behind closed doors is usually better left that way.

Another pat on the back to showtime for doing this episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit about the bullshit war on drugs in the USA. http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=war

MoesToking Reviewed by MoesToking on 05-13-2005. New Series On Showtime: Weeds The media is finally starting to show Marijuana in an everday sense, not just a criminal and evil way. Check this new show out coming to Showtime called Weeds about a suburban mom who sells pot to support her family, this is so true. I live in a suburb of Austin and I know a lot these white middle class folks who toke up regularly. http://www.sho.com/site/weeds/home.do Another pat on the back to showtime for doing this episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit about the bullshit war on Rating: 5

[TheLion]

Sounds interesting, when does it start?

[OrangeHaze.4466.]

it says August 10 at 10:30

[naturalmystic]

Nice to see Marijuana making it into the mainstream public. They also re-made the musical 'reefer madness'. On showtime i believe.

[supersonicchronic]

I'm there, thanks. Cheers to all you over 40 tokers keepin it real

[sublimnial]

They shouldn't have made Reffer Maddnes into a musical it should have been more of a comedey! still funny as hell!

[dopy420]

i tried watching reefer madness when i was stoned one time and it seemed really fuckin stupid and confusing

[sharpezor]

im in canada and i cant view the page....

--weak

[Gumby]

i've noticed a lot more pot being included on regular tv as well... or at least refences to it... we're on the way to legalization, i can feel it... ha ha ha... oops forgot what country i was in... atleast it'll be on tv now though ... i just hope they don't make it to where by the end of the series she's arrested, her kids all have mental disorders and weed killed the rest of the population. That's what's spose to happen with weed right??

[amsterdam]

i've noticed a lot more pot being included on regular tv as well... or at least refences to it... we're on the way to legalization, i can feel it... ha ha ha... oops forgot what country i was in... atleast it'll be on tv now though ... i just hope they don't make it to where by the end of the series she's arrested, her kids all have mental disorders and weed killed the rest of the population. That's what's spose to happen with weed right??

you arent imagining it,people are seeing the light regarding marijuana laws.i know alot of people hate bill o'reilly but he did a show on medical marijuana about a month ago and was all for it!!he was upest however that alot of doctors are giving perscriptions for $$ in california.that hurts the cause.medicinal is the best place to start.

o'reilly is watched by millions and millions of people around the world.he is someone you want on your side in this battle guys.regardless of wether you agree with his politics,he is on our side regarding weed laws.,