... that message being the rocky path drug addiction can take you down and the impact it has on the family of the addict, the children in particular. But it conflates marijuana use with heroin addiction, presuming that because most people at B (hard drugs) start at A (weed), then everybody at A ends up at B. There wouldn't be a functional millennial around if that was true.
A middle aged man comes to the police station, alarmed about the welfare of his grandchild because his daughter and her husband are smoking weed (not the term he uses). Detectives Friday and Gannon investigate.
They find the child well fed, clean, and cared for and the house in good order. But the young husband has obviously never heard of "discretion is the better part of valor", especially when dealing with the police who can make your life miserable. He tells the police they should stop wasting time with small things like marijuana use and go after the real criminals, and that even if he does smoke joints now and then, the police will never catch him at it. He has just given Friday and Gannon a benchmark for achievement. The young man is prescient in the future he lays out, but not even he could imagine that in the California of 50 years later that Friday would be more likely to be arrested for smoking those cigarettes of his than the young man would be for smoking weed.
The acting and writing in this episode are pretty good in spite of the fact that it is a time capsule, or maybe that is part of its charm if you like to view history through the films and TV of the time, but today the thing you would have to be on drugs to believe is that a couple in their early 20s could afford to own their own home in Sherman Oaks on one salary and without generational wealth.
A middle aged man comes to the police station, alarmed about the welfare of his grandchild because his daughter and her husband are smoking weed (not the term he uses). Detectives Friday and Gannon investigate.
They find the child well fed, clean, and cared for and the house in good order. But the young husband has obviously never heard of "discretion is the better part of valor", especially when dealing with the police who can make your life miserable. He tells the police they should stop wasting time with small things like marijuana use and go after the real criminals, and that even if he does smoke joints now and then, the police will never catch him at it. He has just given Friday and Gannon a benchmark for achievement. The young man is prescient in the future he lays out, but not even he could imagine that in the California of 50 years later that Friday would be more likely to be arrested for smoking those cigarettes of his than the young man would be for smoking weed.
The acting and writing in this episode are pretty good in spite of the fact that it is a time capsule, or maybe that is part of its charm if you like to view history through the films and TV of the time, but today the thing you would have to be on drugs to believe is that a couple in their early 20s could afford to own their own home in Sherman Oaks on one salary and without generational wealth.