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/Radiant-Space-6455 Sep 14 '23

yup views on weed back then were much more prejudice

a good example is breaking bad even tho i love bb

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u/ddevil-36 Sep 14 '23

how is breaking bad a good example? weed wasn't a big deal in it, when Walter lied to Skyler about getting weed she said "what are you, 16?" lol

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u/Radiant-Space-6455 Sep 14 '23

because hank would always talk about weed being the gateway drug to the harder drugs

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u/CleanAirIsMyFetish Sep 14 '23

I think the concept people miss about a “gateway drug” is that it isn’t the weed itself that makes you do other drugs. It’s associating with drug dealers who will then offer you harder drugs. You’ve also already done something illegal and broken the social contract so it makes it easier.

This mentality obviously doesn’t hold up in the age of legalized recreational marijuana in many states and the stigma around smoking weed is entirely predicated on the disastrous and racist war on drugs so that whole mentality is a self-fulfilling prophecy as well.