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'Disjointed' on high road: Kathy Bates portrays a pot dispensary owner surrounded by classic sitcom trappings

Humans have been laughing at jokes about inebriation at least since Romans wrote comedy. Once it was drunks who were funny _ Otis on "The Andy Griffith Show," Foster Brooks, Dean Martin _ but drunks just seem like alcoholics now. Marijuana, meanwhile, has moved in _ pot jokes long ago entered the mainstream _ and with "Disjointed," it now has a whole sitcom of its own.

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