Pubdate: Fri, 16 Sep 2016
Source: USA Today (US)
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Author: Patrick Ryan
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TV IS HIGH ON POT-CENTRIC SHOWS AS WEED HITS THE MAINSTREAM

TV's reefer madness is at an all-time high.

This month, two new cannabis comedies are lighting up the small
screen: HBO's High Maintenance (premiering Friday, 11 ET/PT), about a
weed dealer (Ben Sinclair) and his New York clientele; and MTV's Mary
+ Jane (Mondays, 10 ET/PT), which follows a pair of chummy roommates
(Jessica Rothe and Scout Durwood) running a pot-delivery service in
Los Angeles.

Netflix, too, is blazing ahead with its own stoner series Disjointed,
which goes into production later this year. Co-created by The Big Bang
Theory's Chuck Lorre, the workplace comedy stars Kathy Bates as a
lifelong advocate who realizes her dream of owning a marijuana
dispensary in L.A. And Margaret Cho is developing an hour-long
dispensary dramedy for Amazon.
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