Comedy | June 22, 2011 | 5 comments

The Lord of the Smoke Rings

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Elijah Wood plays a medical cannabis patient with a bawdy, pot-smoking dog named 'Wilfred.'

By David Downs


As the medical pot debate rages across the nation, it's no surprise that this week marks the debut of another national, weed-laced TV sitcom. But what may be surprising is how, unlike Weeds, this one appears to be both funny and accurate, and capable of furthering the nation's discussion of the topic.

The Lord of the Rings' blockbuster celeb Elijah Wood stars in the new medical marijuana-friendly Wilfred, premiering on the cable network FX on Thursday, June 23 at 10 p.m. According to Cheryl Shuman, the medical cannabis consultant to the show, Wilfred marks a new milestone in the rebranding of the movement. "The big thing Wilfred does is establish credibility," Shuman said, "and show how far we've come that a studio's willing to pay to make sure that depictions of medical marijuana are authentic."

In Wilfred, written and produced by Family Guy's David Zuckerman, Elijah Wood plays Ryan, a suicidal young man and medical pot patient whose life is saved by a surprise friendship with a talking dog. To everyone else, Wilfred, played by Jason Gann, looks like a lapdog, but to Wood, Wilfred is a six-foot-tall, 200-pound dude in a dog costume who smokes weed recreationally.


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