“When you grow your own pot, you’re taking weed out of my children’s mouths,” Randy Marsh objects

South Park has taken another shot at Medmen, in the latest episode that aired earlier this week.

As sales start to dwindle at Randy Marsh’s “Tegridy Farms” cannabis production company, Marsh is shocked and horrified to discover that many of his former clients have turned to home cultivation.

“When you grow your own pot, you’re taking weed out of my children’s mouths,” Marsh objects.

His son Stan is drafted to testify at City Council regarding the (false) dangers of permitting citizens to grow at home. “What’s happened to our country? People are being wronged by a broken system and we must say, ‘No more! No more home grown marijuana!’” preaches Stan. “As the son of a proud American farmer, I am concerned about what home-grown can lead to; people can grow weed wrong and poison themselves,” he rants.

“Unscrupulous growers could use cheap irrigation and drown babies. The fact is simple–marijuana must be grown with Tegridy.”

Shortly after, two MedMen reps appear at Tegridy Farms. “We represent a billion-dollar marijuana company. You seem to be fighting the same fight we are,” says one. “We just want to help you. Ever heard of MedMen?,” the rep asks.

“We have a common problem: home-grown weed,” he continues, as the three men smoke a fat joint. “We’re just worried about safety, you know? Babies drowning in irrigation, and such.”

In a later scene, idealistic stoner towel Towelie gives the elder Marsh a hard time about choosing to work with MedMen. “But those guys are posers,” Towelie objects, continuing to say that “weed isn’t supposed to be some money-grabbing business model.”

The episode is based on real-life, New York-based cannabis chain MedMen, which, as part of a medical cannabis association, lobbied Governor Andrew Cuomo to prohibit home cultivation of the plant. Cuomo approved the request, and no provisions were made for home growing when the state attempted to legalize cannabis earlier this year.

The company backed a similar model in Florida that also made no provisions for home cultivation.

This is not the first time that South Park has been critical of MedMen. In an episode earlier this year, the show mocked the company’s Spike Jonze-directed Superbowl ad, “The New Normal.”

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