What's the real message of Weeds?

On the one hand: One could say that the overall message of the Showtime series "Weeds" is that turning to a life of crime, even the hip and attractive and victimless crime of growing a little marijuana to supply the upper-class laid-back gentry of SoCal, will inevitably lead to death and destruction and broken homes and serious jail time, will entangle you with drug gangs and Mexican drug lords and worse, because that's what happens to the erstwhile Botwin clan over the course of the six seasons of the series - crime doesn't pay. On the other hand: That message is a super-downer, and the whole point of Weeds is to get us to root for the Botwins, especially the super-cute Mary-Louise Parker, the mom who started this enterprise as a way to keep their lifestyle afloat when she was widowed (I guess anything's possible, but it always seemed to me that a woman of her obvious looks and aptitudes would have had plenty of opportunities) - that no matter how rough the going, these people are great-looking and witty and devoted to one another and fun-loving, and the message received, and presumably intended, is that some crime does pay, that this is a pretty cool life and worth the risks. I'm not a moralist or a prude, but, come on, isn't this show, entertaining as it is from time to time, a pretty low form of pandering and dishonesty? Compare it with another show about a good guy turned to the drug trade - Breaking Bad - which is by no means perfect but much more sensibly conveys the horrors and dangers and the depression that ensues for a middle-class, educated guy who thinks he can step into this world and make a quick buck and get out. One show is a serious look at contemporary life and the other is a self-serving fantasy beheath a veneer of social conscience.