20 Mind-Blowing Facts You Didn't Know About South Park
2. The KFC Weed Dispensary Is Based On A Real Place
In Medicinal Fried Chicken, Randy Marsh is excited to learn that KFC has been totally replaced by a medicinal marijuana dispensary, so he desperately tries to give himself cancer so he can get some weed. Believe it or not, this is based on an actual place in California.
Parker and Stone based this storyline on a medical marijuana store in Los Angeles, California. The place goes by the name Kind for Cures, which they abbreviate as KFC, and the store itself intentionally looks a whole lot like the outside of a KFC restaurant. Parker and Stone saw this and the media attention the restaurant was getting, and they drew from it both the plot of Randy trying to get weed and Cartman selling fried chicken on the black market.
After the episode aired, Kind for Cures took full advantage of their "appearance" on South Park, putting up a South Park mural on their front window. They also have cutouts of the characters inside the shop itself, they sell some South Park merchandize, and they even sell marijuana strains named after characters from the show: Kenny's Cat Piss, Stan's Wet Dream and South Park Kush.