Weeds

Although Showtime's Weeds is dark comedy series that authentically taps on the shady dealings within the drug business, that doesn't mean that cast uses real marijuana while filming the pot-themed series. In an interview with FANCAST, Elizabeth Perkins, who presently stars as Celia Hodes on the show, clears the air on the kind of herbs they use, as well as her take on the legalization of weed.

According to Perkins, producers of the show supply the cast with fake weed that doesn't actually get you stoned.  Nevertheless, the fake marijuana obviously looks, and smells like the real thing.

“If we smoked real weed, we wouldn't get anything done over here,' Perkins told FANCAST.  “Stunt weed is sort of what you would smoke if you went out and bought rose flavored cigarettes, or cinnamon cigarettes or clove.  It is a combination of herbs that don't get you stoned.  Although if you shoot all day with it you do get sort of light-headed….It actually smells like marijuana which is kind of fun.  Which kind of it sets up the whole feeling around here that we're all stoned.  Although we really are not stoned."

While Perkins is not smoking the real stuff on set, that doesn't mean that she's not all for it.

“I think it is crazy that it is illegal, and I think it is crazy that people are in jail once they get busted with small amounts of marijuana.  I am so pro legalized marijuana because I just don't see it as that dangerous of a narcotic.  I don't think that means high school students should be able to do bong hits whenever they want to.  I do think [adults] should be able to do what they want in the privacy of their own home with an herb that grows in the backyard,” the Weeds actress explained.

Meanwhile, Weeds, currently in its fourth season, continues to thrive in the ratings.  The season opener on June 16 was a record-breaking night for Showtime, averaging more than 1.3 million viewers, a 64 percent boost over the show's third season premiere and well over the 488,000 and 578,000 viewers who tuned in for the first and second season premieres.



-Kris De Leon, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: FANCAST
(Image courtesy of Showtime)