High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Weeds is an American comedy-drama television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network. The show revolves around a newly widowed housewife (Mary-Louise Parker) from an affluent California suburb who becomes her neighborhood's marijuana dealer to make ends meet. The title is a play on words, referring to both the slang term for marijuana and the widow's weeds. It also plays on the tendency of American suburbs to grow quickly and pervasively, with the dwellings and their residents being almost as indistinguishable as weeds.