Showtime renews 'Weeds' for an 8th season

LOS ANGELES ?? Nancy Botwin will be back to sling dope for another year.

Showtime has renewed the pot comedy "Weeds" for an eighth season, the network announced Thursday.

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The 13-episode season will go into production sometime next year.

The Jenji Kohan-produced series, which stars Mary-Louise Parker as mother/pot dealer Botwin, aired its seventh-season finale in September.

The season featured guest-starring runs by Martin Short, Aidan Quinn and Lindsay Sloane.

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