Disjointed

I recently watched the first few episodes of a new Netflix original called Disjointed. Disjointed is about Ruth Whitefeather Feldman the owner of Ruth’s Alternative Caring (a legal pot dispensary). She is a longtime activist for legalization and is pretty much always stoned. This show is based around the lives of Ruth and the employees at her shop, including an on-site grower, a few “budtenders,” plus her son Travis. 

I had heard this show being talked about as a few different things so I decided to watch it myself. I am someone who is all for legalization of marijuana and I am fully aware you are strongly against it. During this day in age whether or not pot should be legalized is a big discussion and I think that Disjointed opens up a door for people who are against it or don’t know how they feel to see some inside facts, with that being said this show is not entirely accurate.

First I’ll tell you why I think it is something you should watch. This show is based around the lives of people who work in a dispensary, which gives you some insight into how weed is grown, distributed and smoked. Along with that you get to see what is involved in their life and see that ordinary people from all kinds of different backgrounds and cultures can smoke marijuana. Another part that is focused on in this show is the medical side to smoking and the different things that marijuana can help with showing you insight on how medical marijuana can be helpful. All of these are great aspects of the show and it shows you this information while keeping it funny and entertaining.

Now the downsides of this show, the people are sometimes portrayed in an offensive way. It tends to show the people that are high decently accurate and not offensive but in some cases they have someone be the “typical stoner” which isn’t really something that exists anymore considering a wide variety of people consume marijuana products for a wide variety of reasons. There is also a couple in the movie that basically is a couple of idiots which could make you think all people that consume these products are stupid, but I do not think they are there because of this. This couple was included to make the show seem a little more funny and humorous but kind of makes it seem like they are stupid because they are high which is not the case.

Overall this show has its ups and downs but I think for someone like you who opposes weed it would be a good opportunity for you to get to know a little more about it and maybe open your mind up to the idea a little more. I hope that you’ll give it a try and learn a little bit more about it.