{"id":47742,"date":"2019-09-26T17:36:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/south-park-trashes-medmen-again-in-the-new-season-premiere\/"},"modified":"2019-09-26T17:36:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T17:36:24","slug":"south-park-trashes-medmen-again-in-the-new-season-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merryjane.com\/culture\/south-park-trashes-medmen-again-in-the-new-season-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park Trashes MedMen (Again) in the New Season Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comedy Central\u2019s South Park <\/em>often hits below the belt, and as it\u2019s entering its latest season, the Emmy-award winning cartoon isn’t pulling any punches. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday night, the 23rd season of South Park <\/em>premiered with the return of Randy Marsh and his fictional weed company, Tegridy Farms. Last season<\/u><\/a>, Tegridy made its debut as the small pot operation that values, well, values over profits \u2014 ad nauseum<\/em>. But this time around, Randy gets seduced by the greedy corporate execs from MedMen, a real-life California-based dispensary chain that\u2019s made headlines for employing non-woke bros<\/u><\/a>, hemorrhaging millions of dollars <\/u><\/a>, and lobbying to get legal weed home grows banned<\/u><\/a> in New York state.<\/p>\n

By the start of the season premiere, titled \u201cMexican Joker,\u201d Randy has already fallen under the sway of legal weed\u2019s wild financial success. Randy no longer just sells no-frills weed, he also provides guided tours of his farms \u2014 fully staffed by Latin American immigrants \u2014 and Tegridy\u2019s weed processing facility. His tiny farmhouse operation has expanded to cover the entire \u201c420 Valley<\/u><\/a>,\u201d a real area in Colorado that hosts a massive weed growing complex.<\/p>\n

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Then, a South Park local tells Randy that he hasn\u2019t been buying Tegridy\u2019s weed because he\u2019s now growing his own.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat do you think?,\u201d said Steven, Randy\u2019s toking neighbor. \u201cI started growing my own plants a couple of weeks ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re stealing my idea, Steven!\u201d Randy shot back.<\/p>\n

\u201cCome on! Growing marijuana is not your idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah-huh! While you assholes were out screwing around, I went out and made a living! When you grow your own pot, you\u2019re taking weed <\/em>out of my children\u2019s mouths!\u201d<\/p>\n

Then another local tells Randy the same thing, that he\u2019s growing his own these days, too. Then another. And before we know it, Randy Marsh\u2019s \u2018tegrity gets called into question: He sees home grows as a threat to his swelling profits, and he\u2019ll be damned if some amateur gardeners are going to carve a chunk out of his business.<\/p>\n

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While Randy goes on rampage against home grows, he\u2019s approached by the executives of \u201ca billion-dollar marijuana company,\u201d MedMen. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou seem to be fighting the same fight we are,\u201d says one of the suits before hitting a joint and passing it. \u201cWe just want to help you. We have a common problem: Homegrown weed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re just worried about safety, you know,\u201d the other MedMen rep says while puffing the j. \u201cBabies drowning in irrigation and such.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I hate watching babies drown,\u201d Randy replies during his turn to toke. \u201cSeems like a waste of a good baby.\u201d<\/p>\n

After ripping the joint harder than Snoop did in <\/u>Half Baked<\/em><\/u><\/a>, Randy adds, \u201cSo, you guys wanna put our money together, and fuck this town up so nobody can ever grow their weed again? I\u2019m totally in.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In real life, MedMen took part in a lobbying effort to ban legal home grows in New York. Since then, MedMen has claimed that it does not oppose home grows, but simply offered the ban as an idea and was willing to revise its position, according to Marijuana Moment<\/em><\/u>.<\/u><\/a> The company has criticized legal home grows as a cover for black marketeers, yet cannabis activists have fought \u2014 and continue to fight \u2014 for adults\u2019 right to grow their own. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s because some patients are incredibly sensitive to pesticide residues that often linger on legal buds. And while every dispensary claims they\u2019ve got genuine genetics for every strain they carry, the only way for patients to ensure they\u2019re consuming the strain that works best for them is to grow it themselves. At home. And the same goes for patients without easy access to local dispensaries or cannabis delivery services.<\/p>\n

Of course, South Park <\/em>rarely tackles just one hot-button political issue in an episode. \u201cMexican Joker\u201d contains three paralleling plotlines, of which the Tegridy Farms\/MedMen arc is just one. While Randy\u2019s wrangling the home growers, Kyle, who\u2019s Jewish, gets sent to an ICE concentration camp for kids. And somewhere along the line, Kyle\u2019s metaphorical speech warning that the feds will inspire a \u201cMexican Joker\u201d \u2014 a play on the homicidal clown villain from the Batman franchise, whose upcoming film is already riling both mass-shooting-glorifying incels and die-hard gun-control advocates<\/u><\/a> \u2014 gets twisted by ICE and Border Patrol agents as a real conspiracy that \u201cthreatens our national borders, and security… of our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Will Kyle escape from the clutches of the ICE detention center? Is Mexican Joker real? And will Randy and his newfound allies at MedMen stop South Park\u2019s denizens from growing their own weed? To find out, catch the full episode at Comedy Central\u2019s <\/u>South Park <\/em><\/u>website<\/u><\/a>. And get some fuckin\u2019 Tegridy, already!<\/p>\n

Follow Randy Robinson on <\/em>Twitter<\/em><\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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