While in the midst of a Federal Tax Audit, Harborside Health Center's, Steve DeAngelo learns that the IRS intends to apply 280E, an obscure tax code that will label the dispensary as a Drug Trafficking organization,effectively put them out of business. As Steve and his crew prepare to fight back, The U.S. Justice department begins shutting down neighboring dispensaries. Could these two actions possibly be unrelated, or are the Feds launching a coordinated attack against Medical Marijuana? All the while, Steve's brother Andrew provides a helping hand to the father of an epileptic child as he administers Cannabis to his four-year old for the first time; and Jon, a patient-farmer struggles to save a harvest from a spider mite infestation.
Weed Wars is an American reality-documentary television series that documents the world's largest medical marijuana dispensary, Harborside Health Center, in Oakland, California. The series premiered on the Discovery Channel on December 1, 2011. The series has since been cancelled.
In regards to their intentions by allowing their business to be documented for television, Steve DeAngelo has said, "We wanted to be a model to other dispensaries, most of [which] have a media phobia. We wanted to tell our story and we gave Discovery complete access so that people could make up their own minds... There are a lot of stereotypes about who comes to these dispensaries, but viewers will see our customers cover a huge cross-section of the population – age, race and economic classes. They will also see how Harborside treats cannabis as a medicine, and we have a high standard of medical care."
