I have caught the first episode and another a few episodes later. After the first episode I had hoped the show would focus on Nate and B.E., but it seems to be about Shotwell and Boutin, the two people who should absolutely not be representing the medical Cannabis community. While Boutin does seem to have real compassion, he is an idiot, who looks like a tweaker, with a crazy wife who will be the one to get him in trouble, and he just hires a new kid to do the heavy shit work every season. His whole situation just doesn't feel good to me, he almost seems to be setting himself up for trouble of some kind.
Shotwell, well I think this ass hole has been covered, so I don't know what I can add about that greedy, selfish, detrimental ass hole.
It was interesting to see the work Nate was attempting and the people he was trying to help. If more of the show was about those type of people, people who are terminally ill trying to ease control their ailment and the compassionate people trying to help them, it would be a good show. Those amongst us who are law abiding and truly compassionate just do not make for exciting television. They do not live dangerous, or marginally legal lives, they often have real jobs and just don't seem as exciting as the Shotwell's of the world. It just wouldn't be an exciting show, and that is what they want at Discovery, excitement not truth.
All in all I think this show sucks, and I will most certainly not follow this show. Its kind of a shame that this is how we must cultivate acceptance of medical Cannabis. However I truly feel this show will alienate as many people as it will endear to our cause.
And as for Shotwell's where abouts :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/22/matt-shotwell-vallejo_n_2932836.html