Franco: MTV gave us the bag of 'fake weed' - Yahoo! News

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While You Were Powdering Your Donuts with Fake Cocaine
Published 6/2/2008 by Michelle Collins at Best Week Ever
... James Franco insists that his "Fake Weed" sketch with Seth Rogen at last night's MTV Movie Awards was fully encouraged and actually written by MTV writers. We really wish folks would give fake James Dean a little more credit. ...

Weed Like to Have Seen It
Published 6/2/2008 at WOW Report
... that only potheads like them were willing to present such a category and proceeded to light up a "fake fatty joint" with a "fake lighter," the camera suddenly pulled away to the back of the amphitheater and stayed there until the actors left the stage. But Franco said that MTV put them up to the joke, writing the script, and supplying the weed and the joint — but changed their minds at the last minute. Was it really fake weed? "I don't know," Franco said. "MTV gave it to us." (AP) ...