History of Weed

Nick Gillespie | May 21, 2009

A short history of marijuana, brought to you by the folks at Showtime, in anticipation of the new season of the excellent Weeds, which starts a new season on June 8.

I look forward to the day (coming soon, I swears it!) when kids ask their parents, "What did you do during the drug war?"

Reason.tv's open letter to the president on the matter of legalizing marijuana:

Comments

|5.21.09 @ 4:18PM|#

"I look forward to the day (coming soon, I swears it!) when kids ask their parents, "What did you do during the drug war?""

I was on the front lines smoking my brains out. But I don't like to talk about it.

|5.21.09 @ 4:20PM|#

Might as well post this too, Nick:

http://blog.mpp.org/tax-and-regulate/congressman-steve-cohen-on-marijuana-policy/05212009/

|5.21.09 @ 4:31PM|#

A short history of marijuana, brought to you by the folks at Showtime, in anticipation of the new season of the excellent Weeds, which starts a new season on June 8.

I can't agree. Like every show, Weeds has deteriorated season by season. From the start it was nothing but Desperate Housewives with Pot.

|5.21.09 @ 4:37PM|#

One thing we learned from the Drug War is that waterbonging is torture.

Stephen S|5.21.09 @ 4:43PM|#

Two problems with Weeds.

1) The milk has been expired for at least a decade.
2) The concept has entropied. There is no reason Nancy couldn't have kept making money just selling weed, but for the sake of end-of-season cliffhangers, she has gotten involved in progressively wackier situations.

Bonus reason: the precocious youngster is cloyingly annoying (clonnoying!)

IceTrey|5.21.09 @ 4:55PM|#

Ya the first season was awesome, since then, not so much.

|5.21.09 @ 5:21PM|#

1) The milk has been expired for at least a decade.

Is that urchin speak for Mary-Louise Parker is too old to be hot? Only if you still have a fake ID. She's not hot because she's anorexic.

|5.21.09 @ 8:14PM|#

Finally, a pro-weed video with great production values that I can send to my friends without wincing. Thanks Showtime!

Sadly, the same can't be said for the Reason thing. Geez, where'd you get that footage? Off of a VHS tape from 1997 that you found under your bed?

|5.22.09 @ 11:40AM|#

Yeah I wish Weeds had stuck to the, err, weed too. Something about a tunnel to Mexico in the back of a maternity store, and an affair with a drug lord/politician seems kinda far-fetched.

The plotlines with Doug and Andy have remained pretty enjoyable though.

Oh and Mari, the "no stranger to the bong" thing is a bit of a joke, so don't get too worked up about its production value. I personally like the little quip about college football playoffs at the end.

|5.22.09 @ 11:43AM|#

"What did you do during the drug war?"

Uhhh, drugs.

|5.25.09 @ 1:31AM|#

And noone noticed the video said Reagan started the War on Drugs in the 80s?
I was born in '77, and did alot of drugs...so I can be excused from not remembering that bit o history..only, asking my parents, reading recorded history and a simple search of Wikipedia proves that that ain't really true.

Other than the fact that I actually paid attention in American History class in school, even tho I hated it. I knew Nixon started the War on Drugs...I just had to lookup the year.

Which makes me wonder..why? It's Showtime, so I assume they're Liberal and hate Conservatives, so there is plenty of reason for them to hate Nixon. Hell, yer average Republican hates Nixon, gave yall a bad reputation. So why bash on Reagan?

Reagan was pretty libertarian..for a Republican. He did his best on gay rights, for his time, he wasn't uber-social-conservative(Religious Right).

So....I ask Why? Nixon is a perfect target, and also historically accurate. Why distort history to mention Reagan?