High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The American comedy-drama television series Weeds was created by Jenji Kohan and airs on premium cable channel Showtime. Mary-Louise Parker stars as Nancy Botwin, a suburban widow who begins selling marijuana to support her family. Elizabeth Perkins also starred as Nancy`s neighbor, Celia Hodes, a demanding PTA mother, but Perkins departed the series at the end of the fifth season. The show follows a serialized format and details Nancy`s progressively deeper involvement in illegal activity as she takes care of her family.