Weediquette | |
---|---|
![]() Weediquette TV show poster | |
Genre | Documentary, Drug, Science, Technology |
Creative director | Spike Jonze |
Starring | Krishna Andavolu |
Country of origin | Canada United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 26 |
Production | |
Running time | 30 mins |
Release | |
Original network | Viceland |
Original release | February 29, 2016 – November 14, 2017 |
Weediquette is a documentary television series following Vice Media correspondent Krishna Andavolu as he chronicles the science, culture, and economics of the legalization of marijuana.
Weediquette started in 2012 as a weekly column by Abdullah Saeed, then continued as a Vice.com web series in 2013. During a 2014 interview with José Mujica, Andavolu smoked a joint with President of Uruguay. [1]
When the Viceland channel launched in February 2016, Weediquette transitioned to television, airing three seasons through 2017.
No. | Title | Original air date | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | "Introduction to Butane Hash Oil" | July 25, 2013 | |
Abdullah Saeed goes to the 2013 Cannabis Cup in Denver, Colorado, to learn more about butane hash oil, aka BHO, butane honey oil, shatter, dabs, and wax. | |||
2 | "King of Cannabis" | August 8, 2013 | |
Krishna joins Arjan and his crew of strain hunters in Colombia to look for three of the country's rarest types of weed, strains that have remained genetically pure for decades. They trudge up mountains and crisscross military checkpoints in the country's still-violent south, and then head north to the breathtaking Caribbean coast. As the dominoes of criminalization fall throughout the world, Arjan is positioned to be at the forefront of the legitimate international seed trade. | |||
3 | "Marijuana Minors" | December 11, 2013 | |
Krishna goes to the small town of Pendleton, Oregon, where medical marijuana is legal, to visit Mykayla Comstock, an eight-year-old leukemia patient who takes massive amounts of weed to treat her illness. Her family, and many people we met along the way, believe not only in the palliative aspects of the drug, but also in marijuana's curative effect—that pot can literally shrink tumors. | |||
4 | "The Cannabis Republic of Uruguay" | April 26, 2014 | |
Krishna examines cannabis in Uruguay, a country adjusting to a legally regulated marijuana market. During the visit Krishna meets President of Uruguay José Mujica to burn one down and discuss his goal of a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage, and six cannabis plants per household. | |||
5 | "The War on Kids" | July 16, 2014 | |
The story of Jesse Snodgrass, a kid with Asperger syndrome who was entrapped by an undercover cop posing as a student at Jesse's high school. | |||
6 | "Stoned Moms" | September 18, 2014 | |
Krishna travels to Denver with Jessica Roake, a mother of two from the suburbs of Washington, DC, for a mom-friendly cannabis tour. She gets blazed beyond belief in the name of market research. |
No. | Title | Original air date | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | "Stoned Kids" | February 29, 2016 | |
Many families whose children have cancer are using medical marijuana in their cancer therapy. | |||
2 | "Stoned Vets" | March 8, 2016 | |
Veterans with PTSD often use marijuana as medicine even though it is not legal at the federal level. | |||
3 | "The War on Weed" | March 15, 2016 | |
Krishna looks into the imprisonment of Bernard Noble, whose two joints led to 13 years in prison in Louisiana. [2] | |||
4 | "Marijuana Migrants" | March 22, 2016 | |
Krishna is meeting with families who've relocated to Colorado [3] to seek marijuana as a medicine, as well as entrepreneurs trying to take advantage of the financial growth. | |||
5 | "The Emerald Triangle" | March 29, 2016 | |
Krishna meets small budget growers in California whose farms are threatened by big corporations in the world's largest cannabis-producing region. | |||
6 | "Cannabis in Congo" | April 5, 2016 | |
Krishna travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo to meet the Mbuti pygmies, [4] where female dealers and farmers in rebel territories grow and sell marijuana. | |||
7 | "Mary Janes" | April 12, 2016 | |
Krishna meets women working and running the marijuana trade. | |||
8 | "Half Baked" | April 19, 2016 | |
Krishna heads to the District of Columbia and Amsterdam to see if partial marijuana legalization can work. [5] |
No. | Title | Original air date | |
---|---|---|---|
1 | "Stoned Parents" | August 31, 2016 | |
Many parents who use weed fear having their kids removed by Child Protective Services. Krishna travels to Kansas to see what it's like to be a stoned parent in a prohibition state. | |||
2 | "Gridiron Ganja" | September 7, 2016 | |
While many NFL players treat the pain from the game with weed, some believe it may also protect against deadly brain injury, yet the league is vehemently against its use. | |||
3 | "Pot Powwow" | September 14, 2016 | |
So far every Native American tribe to grow marijuana has been shut down by police. Now the Paiute Tribe of Las Vegas is looking to weed to save their tribe from extinction. | |||
4 | "Prohibition UK" | September 21, 2016 | |
In Prohibition UK Krishna follows underground medical pot patients and providers as they dodge the law to deliver back alley healthcare, in a country that considers them criminals. | |||
5 | "Going Legit" | September 28, 2016 | |
Krishna investigates why the original black market dealers and growers of Atlanta and Oakland haven't broken through into today’s legitimate weed world. | |||
6 | "Reefer Rehab" | October 5, 2016 | |
Krishna visits an unaccredited detox facility in the backwoods of Maine, where former addicts are trying to get current addicts clean by smoking and eating massive amounts of weed. | |||
7 | "Search and Seizure" | October 12, 2016 | |
Even though medical pot is legal in Michigan, weed arrests are up and cops raid mom and pop caregivers on minor technicalities in order to seize and sell their most valuable stuff. | |||
8 | "Christianity and Cannabis" | October 26, 2016 | |
Krishna investigates if Christianity and cannabis culture can coexist. |
No. | Title | Original air date |
---|---|---|
1 | "Deported for Dope" | April 19, 2017 |
2 | "Herb for Autism" | April 26, 2017 |
3 | "Pot Pipeline" | May 3, 2017 |
4 | "Stoned Driving" | May 10, 2017 |
5 | "Chronic Trauma" | May 17, 2017 |
6 | "High Risk Pregnancies" | October 17, 2017 |
7 | "Dank New World" | October 24, 2017 |
8 | "Possessed by Pot" | October 31, 2017 |
9 | "Colombian Gold" | November 7, 2017 |
10 | "Between Life and Dope" | November 14, 2017 |
The Broad Front is a left-wing political coalition from Uruguay. It was the ruling party of Uruguay from 2005 to 2020 and has produced two presidents: José Mujica (2010–2015) and Tabaré Vázquez. Since 1999, it has been the largest party in Uruguay's General Assembly.
Amanpour is a global affairs interview television program hosted by British-Iranian journalist Christiane Amanpour, airing weeknights 6pm GMT/ 1pm ET & 7PM CET on CNN International.
José Alberto "Pepe" Mujica Cordano is a Uruguayan politician, former revolutionary and farmer who served as the 40th president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015. A former guerrilla with the Tupamaros, he was tortured and imprisoned for 14 years during the military dictatorship in the 1970s and 1980s. A member of the Broad Front coalition of left-wing parties, Mujica was Minister of Livestock, Agriculture, and Fisheries from 2005 to 2008 and a Senator afterwards. As the candidate of the Broad Front, he won the 2009 presidential election and took office as president on 1 March 2010. He was the Second Gentleman of Uruguay from 13 September 2017 to 1 March 2020, when his wife Lucia Topolansky was vice president under his immediate predecessor and successor, Tabaré Vázquez.
Viceland was a Canadian pay television channel. It was owned by Vice Network Canada, Inc., which was owned by Rogers Media with minority ownership by Vice Media. It was a Canadian version of Viceland, broadcasting lifestyle-oriented documentary and reality series aimed towards a young adult demographic.
Danilo Ángel Astori Saragosa is a Uruguayan retired social democratic politician who served as the 15th vice president of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015 under President José Mujica. A member of Uruguay Assembly–Broad Front, he also served as Minister of Economy and Finance from 2005 to 2008 and from 2015 to 2020, and as Senator of the Republic from 1990 to 2005.
Lucía Topolansky Saavedra is a Uruguayan politician who served as the 17th Vice President of Uruguay from September 2017 to March 2020. She was a Senator from 2005 to 2017. She also served as the First Lady of Uruguay from 2010 to 2015.
Jorge Gestoso is a Uruguayan journalist who was born in Montevideo.
Raúl Fernando Sendic Rodríguez is a Uruguayan politician. He was the Vice President of Uruguay from 1 March 2015 to 13 September 2017.
Viceland, and Vice TV in the United States, are brands used for television channels owned and programmed by Vice Media. Viceland launched on February 29, 2016, with two branded cable channels; the American version is a joint venture majority-owned by A&E Networks, while the now defunct Canadian version operated as a Category A-licensed specialty channel majority-owned by Rogers Media.
Vice is a documentary TV series created and hosted by Shane Smith of Vice magazine. Produced by Bill Maher, it uses CNN journalist Fareed Zakaria as a consultant, and covers topics using an immersionist style of documentary filmmaking. It premiered on April 5, 2013, on HBO. The show's second season aired in 2014 and won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.
Cannabis is legal in Uruguay, and is one of the most widely used drugs in the nation.
Vice Media Group LLC is an American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company. As of June 2021, the Vice Media Group included five main business areas: VICE.com ; VICE STUDIOS VICE TV ; VICE News; and VIRTUE. It was cited as the largest independent youth media company in the world, with 35 offices.
The "Burnside Burn" was an event held on the Burnside Bridge in Portland, Oregon, starting at midnight on July 1, 2015, the day recreational marijuana became legal in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was organized by Portland NORML, the local chapter of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, having originated from its executive director, who wanted to photograph himself in front of the White Stag sign in the moments after Oregon Ballot Measure 91 took effect. The crowd, larger than anticipated, numbered in the thousands and at times blocked traffic lanes on the bridge. Some attendees wanted to commemorate the moment, while others were motivated by announcements of free marijuana and seeds. No fines were issued for consumption in public. The event was covered by cannabis publications, local and national news outlets, and the HBO television series Vice.
SBS Viceland is an Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). It began as SBS TWO on 1 June 2009, and was branded as SBS 2 between 2013 and 2016. On 8 April 2017, SBS Viceland began simulcasting in high definition. On 17 June 2019, the standard definition broadcast was closed and replaced by SBS World Movies, leaving SBS Viceland as a high definition-only channel.
Balls Deep is a documentary series airing on Viceland that follows host Thomas Morton, a journalist and contributing editor for Vice magazine.
Gaycation is a 2016 American television documentary series hosted by Elliot Page and Ian Daniel. The series premiered on 2 March 2016 on Viceland as part of its new programming launch. The series explores LGBTQ cultures around the world, as Page and Daniel meet different people during their travels and hear their stories.
Vice News Tonight is an American news program currently broadcast on Vice TV on Thursday nights at 10 p.m. It was originally broadcast on HBO as the channel's first-ever daily series, premiering October 10, 2016. HBO cancelled the series after three seasons, ending September 2019. The program was relaunched in 2020 on the Vice TV network, where it airs today.
Vice is an American basic cable television channel that launched on December 2, 2019, replacing H2 on most multichannel television providers in the United States. It is a part of the Viceland family of television channels by Vice Media, itself a joint venture controlled by A&E Networks.
The second inauguration of Dilma Rousseff as President of Brazil took place on Thursday, 1 January 2015. She was sworn in again with Vice President Michel Temer. The ceremony began at 3 pm (BDT) at the Ulysses Guimarães plenary chamber in Brasília, and was administered by the President of the Federal Senate Renan Calheiros. Just like the first inauguration, the re-elect President and Vice President read and signed the oathes of office and the national anthem was played by the Marine Corps band.