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NEW YORK — “Sweet Mary Jane,” a jukebox musical revue celebrating the marriage of music to marijuana, will light up this spring. Danny Fried, co-founder of the fabled China Club in New York City and Los Angeles, is putting a band together to launch the show at the Cutting Room on East 32nd Street. “The time is ready for this. We’ve been locked up,” Fried said. “People need to have fun.” Pot came to New Orleans, where Louis Armstrong was born, in the 1920s with sailors from Asia. “Armstrong smoked pot every day of his life,” Fried said. Armstrong’s short-term manager, clarinet player Mezz Mezzr…