Weed Wars

Weed Wars is an American reality-documentary television series that documents a popular medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, in Oakland, California. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 1, 2011.^[1] The series has since been cancelled.^[2]

Weed Wars
Genre	Documentary
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	4
Production
Executive producers	Cameo Wallace Chuck Braverman
Running time	42 minutes (excluding commercials)
Production company	Braverman Productions
Original release
Network	Discovery Channel
Release	December 1 (2011-12-01) – December 22, 2011 (2011-12-22)

In regards to their intentions by allowing their business to be documented for television, Steve DeAngelo has said, "We wanted to be a model to other dispensaries, most of [which] have a media phobia. We wanted to tell our story and we gave Discovery complete access so that people could make up their own minds... There are a lot of stereotypes about who comes to these dispensaries, but viewers will see our customers cover a huge cross-section of the population – age, race and economic classes. They will also see how Harborside treats cannabis as a medicine, and we have a high standard of medical care."^[3]

Premise

The series is mainly focused on the employees of the marijuana dispensary and the day-to-day aspects of running the business. It also chronicles the various customers to the store, as well as both large-scale growers and smaller, patient cannabis growers who are allowed to grow a limited number of plants.^[4][5]

Episodes

No.	Title	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	"World's Largest Medical Marijuana Dispensary"	December 1, 2011 (2011-12-01)	1.359[6]
2	"Federal Crackdown"	December 8, 2011 (2011-12-08)	0.979[7]
3	"Harborside's Employee Betrayal"	December 15, 2011 (2011-12-15)	1.044[8]
4	"Harborside's Alternative 4/20 Celebration"	December 22, 2011 (2011-12-22)	1.328[9]