'Fake weed' sparks controversy at MTV Awards

I think by cutting away, MTV made this non news story a major headline, thus ensuring massive viewership for the endless replays this show will get throughout the week..

People still watch MTV?

Pulling away seems odd.. Maybe MTV did it on purpose so it would be taked about. I don't know if MTV has any ties to the movie that Seth Green [editor's note: "Seth Rogen"] is in but seems like a good way to promote of both, the Awards and the Movie. It's got people talking about it today.

i'm with sapere. who watches mtv anymore?

Is smoking weed controversial anymore?

Bag, fake, joint, fake, lighter, real!

If it was all real, you would find news stories of them being fined or arrested, stupid laws in america still outlaw the use of the greatest plant ever found.....

MTV realizes its audiences no longer comprise the music-loving people it once did. It figures it might be cooler if it tries to act a little more like the rockers and rappers of this era.

Yeah, I caught some of it last night and it all seemed so lame -- just like Iron Man. Pineapple Express, however, does look cool. So James Franco smokes? That makes me like him better.

this is what we all need to do...take a doobie and go to jail! Join NORML

Who cares?

Since MTV awards where on the Universal lot - which sadly caught fire Sunday morning - was this an attempt to make "light" of it

Apparently Seth didn't get the memo that smoking weed to be a "hip, dangerous rebel!" went out of fashion in 1972.

"Lookit me! I'm being a bad boy! Look at how hip and out of control am! Those stuffed suits at MTV can't stop me! Better pull those TV cameras back grandpa because this kid is firing it up!"

Riiiiigth.

Next he'll change lanes without using his turn signal!

MTV? whats so musical about it? MTV sucks!!!! Who cares if that weed was real or not. They should rename MTV PTV(pointless television).

I remember when MTV was relevant, ahhhh those were the days

Why does this matter? It's weed, fake weed at that! It's not like they were pretending to sniff coke, calm down.

This is news? Who watches MTV?

Flat out, I don't care.

This is a waste of time and a waste of space.

How did this get on Current TV? There are more important issues than this being offered.

Fake or real, this is a great stunt. The more it is used in common jokes like this ,the more people will accept it for what it is ... HARMLESS.

Aren't there regulations about portraying drug use (real or fake) on television? Perhaps it would bump the show's PG rating up a notch too high or something if they allowed it to be shown?

Chances are the weed WAS fake but according to the censors, they still can't show a joint or lighting it up on cable.

Its possible that somone (ie the director)wasnt in the loop about the bit. and decided to play it safe and avoid massive fines by taking the long shot and crowd reactions.

But you never know.

as a pothead: this made me chuckle... also, it maybe not as lame because i got to watch it on my computer, without that whole mtv mess...

i could really use some real weed right now

I think that what Rogen and Franco were trying to prove, was not that they were "hip dangerous rebel"s because they smoke pot, but exactly the opposite. That you can just be a normal person, who enjoys the herb and that it's not, and shouldn't be, this big scary controversial thing.

They took their bag (if real) on stage, took a huge hit in front of the faces of America and said, enough. WE like pot. Who cares?