应用科学类纪录片，Discovery Channel 频道 2011 年出品。
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http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/weed-wars
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英文片名 ：Weed Wars
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电视台 ：Discovery Channel
地区 ：美国
语言 ：英语
时长 ：约 42 分钟/集
版本 ：TV
发行时间 ：2011
Weed Wars is an American reality-documentary television series that documents the world’s largest medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, in Oakland, California. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 1, 2011. The series has since been cancelled.
In regards to their intentions by allowing their business to be documented for television, Steve DeAngelo has said, “We wanted to be a model to other dispensaries, most of [which] have a media phobia. We wanted to tell our story and we gave Discovery complete access so that people could make up their own minds… There are a lot of stereotypes about who comes to these dispensaries, but viewers will see our customers cover a huge cross-section of the population – age, race and economic classes. They will also see how Harborside treats cannabis as a medicine, and we have a high standard of medical care.”
Steve DeAngelo and his family run Harborside Health Center: the world’s largest and most successful medical marijuana dispensary. But when Oakland voters approve a 5% tax hike on all dispensaries, they effectively slap the DeAngelo brothers with a 1.2 million dollar tax bill - due in one week. Steve dispatches his CFO Luigi to City Hall to try and fight the battle. If they lose their appeal, it could mean the end of their business. Harborside “budtender” Terryn begins growing weed to make ends meet. But when he learns the true demands of being a “patient-farmer”, he questions the direction of his life.
While in the midst of a federal tax audit, Harborside Health Center’s Steve DeAngelo learns that the IRS intends to apply 280E, an obscure tax code that will label the dispensary as a drug trafficking organization, effectively putting them out of business. As Steve and his crew prepare to fight back, The U.S. Justice Department begins shutting down neighboring dispensaries. Could these two actions possibly be unrelated, or are the feds launching a coordinated attack against medical marijuana? Steve’s brother Andrew provides a helping hand to the father of an epileptic child as he administers cannabis to his four-year old for the first time. Patient-farmer Jon struggles to save a harvest from a spider mite infestation.
Even though Harborside Health Center is the largest and most successful medical cannabis dispensary on the planet, it’s still truly a family business. So when Steve DeAngelo leaves his Oakland dispensary for a much-needed two- week vacation, he entrusts day-to-day operations to the general manager - his younger brother Andrew. But as soon as Steve’s plane lifts off, Andrew discovers an evil voodoo mask, slipping Yelp reviews, and complaints about Harborside’s “medicine”. Andrew tries everything in his power to right the ship before his brother’s return — but within hours, Andrew learns of a personal betrayal within Harborside’s ranks — one that will truly break his brother’s heart.
April 20th, known within the cannabis community simply as “4/20”, has been the unofficial international marijuana holiday for over thirty years. It’s also Harborside Health Center’s busiest sales day of the year. As much as Steve DeAngelo loves 4/20 as a day of celebration and booming business, he fears that widespread images of tie-dyed hippies smoking six-foot joints ultimately damages the credibility of their “medical movement” with the public at large. This year, only three days after 4/20, Harborside Health Center is launching “Deep Green”, a festival aimed at characterizing marijuana not as an intoxicant, but as an aid to wellness. Will their festival dramatically rebrand the public’s image of the plant, or simply attract the same old stoners?
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