Conservative US braced for drugs and the suburbs (TV show "Weeds")

[rainbow4321]

Guess it hits too close to home for the 'burb neocons?


http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1545283,00.html

A smartly-dressed young mother, the head of the healthy children's committee, stands before the parent-teacher association to demand that fizzy drinks be removed from the school vending machines.
Moments later she is negotiating a deal to buy a large quantity of marijuana to sell to teenagers and their parents.

Welcome to Weeds, the latest sitcom to delve into the dark side of American suburbia. But where Desperate Housewives deals with the fantasy of life and death in a gated community, Weeds, set in the fictional Californian town of Agrestic, sticks closer to the real world - and is likely to make conservative America seethe.

The main character is Nancy Botwin, whose husband dropped dead while out jogging with their eight-year-old son. To keep herself in the manner to which she has become accustomed Nancy turns to one of the oldest professions in the world: drug dealing.

The show's title has already brought it to the attention of the cultural watchdogs. Noting that Weeds was one of several mainstream programmes to feature marijuana, Steve Dnistrian of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America told USA Today: "These are trendsetting shows ... When glamourisation of drugs has climbed, changes in teen attitudes followed." But it is the banality and pervasiveness of marijuana smoking as depicted in Weeds that will surely cause conservative America the most headaches.

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Here is the show's webpage...it airs 3 times/week (Mon-Wed-Fri)

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

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Drug dealing in the suburbs?? Nonsense!!

:sarcasm: :sarcasm:

[rainbow4321]

7. Our suburbian school district now has a "steroid czar"....

Of course, he was only added after one of our high school students (with a high school-logo sweatshirt) was on the front cover of Newsweek a few months ago--under the banner of STEROID abuse--before then our school officials adamently denied we even had a steroid abuse problem.

Funny how national headlines can help point out these little problems to local officials.

BTW, the city is in the heart of neon red Collin County, TX...a county that went like 75% for chimpass.

[musette_sf]

2. how's that glamourization of war going?

Gee, you mean they're NOT signing up by the droves? But I thought all you had to do was "glamourize" it, and the kids would go crazy for it!

[knowbody0]

3. i watched "Weeds"

im amazed and wished it was an hour long. funny little show though. been there done that.

[MojoXN]

4. Hopefully, this show will...

Put a human face on marijuana use. All too many anti-drug zealots have their twisted ideas reinforced by their absence of contact with anyone who uses any non-legal psychoactive. Their attitudes are usually along the lines of, "Well, I've been prescribed Valium for anxiety, but that's O.K. because a DOCTOR told me that I NEED it. I suppose that I do have a couple of Fuzzy Navels now and again, but MARIJUANA?? Heavens no! That stuff'll kill you, or at the very least, make you insane and hooked on the 'hard stuff', or even worse... turn you into a lazy, no good, do nothing hippie!"

In any case, I can't wait to see this show. It sounds like a good premise!

MojoXN

[ComerPerro]

5. Sounds like it might have been a funny situation

if I weren't so certain that that is happening somewhere, right now.

These "values voters" are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the earth.

Hopefully this show goes after them it makes it painfully obvious what frauds they are.

Maybe they can do a show on Republican and active church memeber Dennis Rader, of Kansas.

I bet he was a suburban values voter.

[AX10]

6. kick