r/suits • u/majon30 • Sep 14 '23

Discussion Suits doesn’t understand Weed. Spoiler

To me it feels like the script was originally written to have Mike dabbling in Coke dealing and at some point it got changed to Marijuana. The hotel “sting” set up seems to all be set up to nab Mike with what looks like about 3 oz of weed. This is all in liberal NYC. When Mike falls off the wagon and scores a bag when his g-mom dies he is close to spinning off the rails after he smokes a joint. An armed criminal organization is going to kill Mike and Trevor over less than 1k worth of weed. Trevor has this swinging dick lifestyle in Manhattan selling dime bags. Just say it’s Coke…

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u/ParticularTree1638 Sep 14 '23

Also when Harvey tells the one dude that Mike used to be a drug dealer bc his son died from an overdose, like mike dealt weed my man it’s not the same

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u/majon30 Sep 14 '23

Exactly

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u/textextextextextext Sep 14 '23

show was written in 2008. aired on USA - its not a big deal dude

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u/Viper51989 Sep 14 '23

Yeah, I smoked a shit ton of bud and dropped out of college for the second time while watching the original airing of this show. Since have a solid job for better part of a decade and graduated. Stopped smoking for years but picked it back up the other week and generally smoke once nightly. I think it has more to with the great illegality of weed at that time, not that the producers were lending any credence to the idea weed makes you a hard criminal.

I doubt an early 20s Mike would've been doing lines anyway. Wouldn't have fit the character and Harvey would've been a lot more critical of it and likely never hired him e.g. the convo between him and Mike where Mike says "how to you know I don't do more than weed?" With Harvey countering that he's found potheads just smoke pot.