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Netflix has announced that it will bring its award-winning show\u00a0\u201c<\/i>Grace and Frankie\u201d back for a fifth season, which means legendary actresses Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda will reprise their roles as Frankie Bergstein and Grace Hanson, two older women who frequently partake in some sinsemilla on-screen.<\/p>\n
At the age of 78, Tomlin \u2014 who has long been renowned for her eccentric sense of humor \u2014 has emerged as a senior poster woman for pot. With the help of fabulous 80-year-old Fonda, \u201cGrace and Frankie<\/a>\u201d depicts two seniors with realistic relationships to cannabis, a plant that they often find helps them navigate complicated \u2014 and comedic \u2014 emotional moments.<\/p>\n Fonda and Tomlin have blazed a cannabis trail on screen before. In the breakthrough 1980 film \u201c9 to 5<\/a>,\u201d the pair played office co-workers who hatch a comical plot to improve their workplace conditions at \u201can old-fashioned ladies pot party.\u201d Tomlin played Violet, the brains of the operation, while Fonda was the innocent secretary learning how to smoke marijuana and maneuver in a man\u2019s world.<\/p>\n In their new pairing in \u201cGrace and Frankie,\u201d Fonda and Tomlin play an odd couple of sorts, who are forced to live together when their husbands announce they\u2019re in love with each other. Fonda\u2019s character is a high-powered business executive who likes her alcohol while Tomlin\u2019s character is a free-spirited hippie artist who prefers pot.<\/p>\n \u201cGrace and Frankie\u201dstarts strong in the first episode, when the women share a peyote experience on the beach. \u201cBrace yourself for some light vomiting, followed by life-altering hallucinations,\u201d Frankie tells Grace. In the second episode, Grace opens Frankie\u2019s freezer and says, \u201cOh, a bag of pot. She\u2019s going to be just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n Weed is woven into the women\u2019s lives without a fuss, while the power of pot to foster communication and transformation is explored. When Frankie is nervous about flirting with a man, he offers her a joint to help break the ice. When one of Grace\u2019s daughters, Brianna (played by comedian June Diane Raphael), gets high with Frankie, they have a nice intergenerational moment. When Grace and Frankie find themselves stuck in an elevator with their exes after signing divorce papers, the four have an emotional breakthrough, aided by some\u00a0marijuana-infused gummy bears<\/a>.<\/p>\n The casual pot use continues throughout the show\u2019s four seasons. In Season 3, when the two women get in a nearly friendship-shattering fight, Grace\u2019s daughters raid Frankie\u2019s stash and get their mother high, leading to hair braiding, laughter and ultimately, a reconciliation. A few episodes later, Grace finds Frankie reflectively smoking a joint on their porch after she learns that her boyfriend is moving away. \u201cYou gonna bogart that thing?\u201d Grace asks, using the slang word for monopolizing a\u00a0joint<\/a> before she shares the news that her ex-husband has finally apologized to her for years of neglect and deceit. The scene is just another \u201cold-fashioned ladies\u2019 pot party\u201d (this time with older ladies).<\/p>\n In Season 4, the show starts to take a more critical view of cannabis use. In one episode, Grace asks Brianna, \u201cWhy don\u2019t you take after your mother and drink, instead of smoking doobies with your burned-out Aunt Frankie?\u201d Scatterbrained Frankie is increasingly ridiculed and deemed too unreliable to babysit her granddaughter. Meanwhile, Grace pops pain pills to deal with a sore knee, while day-drinking martinis.<\/p>\n But the joy of cannabis soon returns. As the pair is breaking out of an old-folks home, they discover the \u201cNo-No Room\u201d where Frankie\u2019s bong has been hidden. \u201cTake away a man\u2019s bong, you take away his dignity,\u201d she declares. At season\u2019s end, Frankie and Grace are free and back on the beach together, ready for the next step of their odyssey.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s hope the next season of \u201cGrace and Frankie\u201d features fewer digs at Frankie\u2019s cannabis use and more celebrations of the plant.<\/p>\n TELL US,<\/b>\u00a0have you watched \u201cGrace and Frankie\u201d?<\/p>\n Originally published in Issue 32 of Cannabis Now.\u00a0LEARN MORE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n The post \u2018Grace & Frankie\u2019: Seniors Who Smoke<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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