"Mary + Jane" Wants To Be The Future of Marijuana—Sort Of
Regardless, the MTV series is at the forefront of a new wave of "must smoke TV."
"The future of marijuana is female," says Deborah Kaplan, co-creator of MTV’s stoner comedy Mary + Jane. "Even marijuana is a female plant. The part you smoke is female."
She pauses.
"You may have to fact-check that," she says. "But I just think the future is female in general."
Potentially historic presidential election aside, Kaplan’s statement rings true in 2016, particularly on television. According to Nielsen, five of last season’s top 10 broadcast shows—Empire, The X-Files, Grey’s Anatomy, How to Get Away with Murder, and Scandal—were female-led dramas. And not for nothing, each one dominated last year’s zeitgeist in some fashion, which is all the more impressive when considering none of them had the added buzz of being a new show.
It makes sense, then, that weed TV would go the same way. So
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