"Jenji Leslie Kohan" is an American television writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator of the Showtime (TV network)/Showtime comedy-drama series Weeds (TV series)/Weeds and the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black. She has received nine Emmy Award nominations, winning one as supervising producer of the comedy series Tracey Takes On....

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We're throwing everything in ... I think Showtime's mandate is to make some noise. And this is a pretty noisy show.

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We don't vilify. We present them as is, and I'm really proud to have remained neutral.

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Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

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We're presenting this as something that's everywhere and cuts across political, ethnic and religious lines.

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She's trying to maintain the trappings of what a happy family and happy lifestyle looks like and taking big risks for it. But we're living in the most material time ever. Things tend to take on a lot greater importance these days. Can't be happy without your stuff.

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